culture - Hangzhou separates female and male nude swimmers

The China Daily signals a fierce debate on an initiative to allow nude swimming in certain areas in Hangzhou. A whole range of professors and common people discuss the issue from all sides. It started when long ago eight female students decided to have a swim, without bothering to purchase bikini's in advance. In a very advanced way of dealing with that kind of dilemma's the relevant authorities decided to rule in a positive way on the matter.
Not much of a swimmer myself, what strikes me as odd - compared to similar places in Europe and the US - is that male and female swimmers got separate places assigned. Fortunately, Chinese are not very good in reading those signs and security guards might be too embarrassed to uphold the divide anyway.