Male Senators Banned Women From Senate Pool So They Could Swim Naked (Historical)

The U.S. Senate has long been viewed as a good ol’ boys’ club, and the men have fought to keep it that way. Perhaps the last bastion of that effort was the Senate pool.

No woman was allowed to swim in the Senate pool until 2008. It was an unwritten rule that apparently didn’t get challenged until a little over six years ago when Kay Hagan of North Carolina was elected to the Senate. She simply wanted to be able to swim in a pool that theoretically existed for all 100 senators.

The problem was that the men of the Senate liked to swim naked together, so they didn’t let women in. You read that right. They were attached to group, male-only skinny dipping.

Sen. Hagan exposed their sweet set-up by speaking at an abortion rights women’s luncheon in January, 2009. She said:

“Imagine my surprise when I tried to use the Senate members’ gym recently and found out that there is a pool, but — guess what — it’s only for the men.”

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