My Dad once told me that in the 1960’s and 1950’s there was this stupid urban myth that a woman could get pregnant from swimming in a pool, and this was used an excuse to keep black people out of pools, in case a white woman became pregnant with a mixed race child.
This was by far one of the stupidest false belief ever. He brought it up when we were watching the new version of hairspray where a character asks Tracy “would you swim in an integrated pool?”
My dad told me this was a real thing people believed, and it’s totally insane.
Then why would women swim in any pools then? Least we become pregnant with some poor swimmers child…