[roneesh]

I suspect a part of this is due to America's losing of a Spa culture. Korea, Russia, Germany and Scandinavian countries seem to have (comparatively) thriving cultures, which make people more comfortable being naked around each other.

I do agree with the common sentiment here though, what a tired, boring trope to pillory millennials for this quirk. It's hardly ideal that they're becoming more body conscious, but it's quite a great solace to instead appreciate how much they're advocating for tolerance in our society.

[cafard]

There weren't any more spas in the US during the 1960s and 1970s, but there certainly were common showers in the locker rooms in high schools and junior high schools. For that matter, there were in the early 1980s, when a race I ran in ended at a junior high school.