[Avodah] Avodah Digest, Vol 25, Issue 148

[Michael Makovi]

> but there is little basis for forbidding, for example, mixed swimming,
> and allowing walking on the boardwalk next to the beach....
> R' Meir Shinnar

Indeed, the water is irrelevant. Sitting on the pool deck, without
getting wet, would also be prohibited. Swimming is a pervasive example
of a non-tzeniut environment, but it's lav davka.

Mikha'el Makovi