>>2562397The Japanese baths were all-nude and mixed gender, and it was also okay/normal to be nude in public for both sexes during the Edo period, until the westernization of the Meiji era, when western prudishness was deliberately imported in order for Japan to be seen as equally "civilized" by the western Great Powers who had derided the Japanese lack of nudity-taboo as uncivilized and immoral.
