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| Nat | Aug 14 2013, 04:24 PM Post #1 |
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It's been mighty quiet here lately. Everyone must be busy enjoying summer nudie time. So lets talk about it and see if we can get some discussion going here. I assume almost everyone here is comfortable being nude in bed, but how about other times? Are you comfortable being seen nude by family members? Some? All? By friends in locker rooms or camping trips? By strangers at nude beaches and resorts? Streaking down main street so they talk about you on the TV news? So please define your nude comfort zone and elaborate why. |
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| Andrew | Aug 15 2013, 01:04 PM Post #2 |
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Finally registered here... it was almost impossible getting past the CAPTCHA! To answer the questions... I think I would be comfortable being nude in front of other people. I've been nude in front of the doctor and it didn't worry me too much. I've been reading TFF for over five years, so maybe that's changed my attitude towards nudity. However, I don't think my family would be comfortable seeing me naked.Locker rooms... it depends. In high school, everyone did the "towel dance". Anyone who didn't got ridiculed by the "cool kids". At least that was the case in my swimming class. Now that I'm out of high school, I couldn't care less. But I haven't been put in that situation since then. Besides my doctor, I don't think anyone has seen me naked for over ten years. Sad, but true. Edited by Andrew, Aug 15 2013, 01:06 PM.
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| Nat | Aug 15 2013, 02:20 PM Post #3 |
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Glad you join Andrew. I've been wondering why more TFFers haven't join here since most enjoy clothes freedom. I hate those CAPTCHA things too but I think you can click for another and they get easier. Well "cool kids" have sure changed since I was in school. Back then it was just the opposite- those acting bashful and doing the "towel dance" were the ones who got teased. |
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| Matt | Aug 15 2013, 02:59 PM Post #4 |
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I guess I'm kind of conventional in where I will go nude. My wife and I would go around the house nude if we were alone and the windows were closed. However, we always stayed clothed around the children. I would have no problem taking my clothes off around my son, but would around my daughter. Probably just a little left over prudishness from my parents. I would never go nude around my rather straight laced mother, and my father was uncomfortable around nudity, so I stayed clothed around him. I would go to nudist camps and such, but never have. Being nude in a locker room doesn't bother me at all and neither does being nude around the doctor. I would never streak because I just don't see any need to advertise myself in that way, but I always go to the sauna nude, and, yes, I will run out nude afterwards to jump in the snow. No hole cut into a frozen lake, however. . I think that, essentially, I am only uncomfortable being nude when there is some deep social stigma against it or if it makes others uncomfortable, as in the case of my parents. It hasn't been a good summer for nude beaches and the like. Summer's nearly at an end, and we have only had about one week of true hot weather. A few people have turned on their furnaces in the last couple of days! |
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| Mark | Aug 15 2013, 03:59 PM Post #5 |
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Are you comfortable being seen nude by family members? Some? All? No By friends in locker rooms or camping trips? Yes By strangers at nude beaches and resorts? Yes Streaking down main street so they talk about you on the TV news? Certainly not. I only started feeling more at ease with nudity in my late 20ies when I started sleeping nude and a friend took me to a sauna for the first time. In northern Europe when you go to a sauna, you accept to be nude because no exceptions are made. In that same period I also went to a Dutch nude beach for the first time, so I certainly don't mind strangers seeing me naked. Strangely enough I wouldn't feel at ease if my mother saw me with no clothes on, although she must have seen me like that as a kid ! |
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| Noel1835 | Aug 16 2013, 04:53 PM Post #6 |
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Are you comfortable being seen nude by family members? Some? All? No. None. As I wrote I visited my dad in the tub when I was little and bathed with brothers & cousins, and my sister, aunts & mom bathed or saw me in the tub up to about age 7 or 8, but personalities began to change mid or late teens. We weren't a very nude/shirtless family, and it isn't my great crusade to try to "reform" or "cure" anybody. By friends in locker rooms or camping trips? Whenever I've camped it was with my family or in places that wouldn't've allowed nudity. I only went to one boy scout camping trip when I was about 10-12 with a bunch of school mates and there wasn't any nudity there at all that I remember, sleeping or otherwise, but then I think it may've been too cold to swim anyway. Of course we had communal showers in jr. & sr. high and I'll admit I got a little nervous in my later teens---erection-phobia---but was okay with the nudity overall. I've started walking the few feet to the shower at the Y naked---5 to 10 seconds---and I may be nude a total of 1 to 3 minutes while I'm dressing. Doesn't bother me at all. By strangers at nude beaches and resorts? The only nude resort I've been to is Kaniksu and I'm 100%+ comfortable being nude there, because I know it's not only okay but encouraged and nobody's going to be offended or frightened by it. Streaking down main street so they talk about you on the TV news? That's something that'd worry me. I'd half want to do it, half not, again because of friends & family who wouldn't understand. But if you mean "streaking" in the sense of a joke, no, that's not my style. I'm not into "silly" nudity. I like my nudity more "understated". Edited by Noel1835, Aug 16 2013, 04:56 PM.
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| Nations, regions, generations, cultures, families and individuals have all compartmentalized semi/nudity in ways that were acceptable and made sense to them, but shocked, offended or surprised other nations, regions, generations, cultures, families and individuals. In the final analysis, it may all be arbitrary. | |
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| Jenn | Aug 17 2013, 01:25 PM Post #7 |
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assume almost everyone here is comfortable being nude in bed, but how about other times? Well, this is an interesting topic, and I've been thinking about it since Nat posted it. So, I haven't exactly rushed to answer, but it was interesting to consider a pretty significant change in our family life over the past couple of years. Are you comfortable being seen nude by family members? Some? All? I was never a "hider" - my boys saw me naked from time to time and I saw them. None of us "hung out" in our birthday suits. But the boys often showered or bathed together. They started out in jammies for bed, then just their "onnies" (briefs). I usually wore a tee shirt and panties. Then came the commando phase with the boys - it was like a game. Somewhere in all that I came across the Freeballers Forum. My son asked if he could try skinny dipping in the pool. Although I wasn't shocked I didnt rush to give permission either. So, one day when his brother was a friends I let him try it and he loved it. It was "odd" (not bad) to see him naked for such an extended period. After a full day with nothing on it seemed pointless for him to put on clean underwear to go to bed so I told him if he wanted to sleep naked he could. He did. It wasn't long til little brother wanted in on the act. Nude sleeping progressed to nude breakfast. Then at night after they took a bath they stayed naked more often. Then, unless we were going somewhere they would just stay naked. I joined them in skinny dipping (at night at first - and only once in a while), then I got brave and sunbathed nude some. I sleep naked more often and sometimes they will jump into my bed on the weekends to watch tv. So, sometimes (still nothing as regularly as the boys) I will curl up in just a blanket in the front room and watch tv. When I look back I guess we all just got adjusted a little at a time. My sons are "naturals" lol - and have little modesty even around my mother. So they are comfortable, and I am fine. But I must admit, I'm still not entirely comfortable being around my mother naked. But around the boys, I am fine. My brother and I saw each other early in life. With the changes in the house, he has now been around us enough that nudity is no longer strange, but I must admit, the first time he stripped down to go skinny dipping with the boys and then stayed naked - well, it took some getting used to. Now, however, its not an issue. By friends in locker rooms or camping trips? I haven't been in too many locker rooms but I am fine being nude when I am. Camping the boys will go more than I do - although I like being nude outdoors, I guess I still am a little nervous about being arrested or accused of being some kind of pervert. I am fine with the boys if they are comfortable. Actually, I had to go to their school and insist that they be allowed to shower after gym. There are now a couple boys who join them, but that was a bit of a fight. I don't get the sense that they are nervous at all in a locker room. By strangers at nude beaches and resorts? We went to a beach in Florida - and kind of stumbled on the "nude" section. We met another family there who invited us over for dinner. We got undressed again at their house, and it was very comfortable. Well, for me. The boys were a bit shy because they had a son and a daughter, and she was a cutie. Well. What can anyone say? But after a while everyone was fine. So, I guess I am fine. we have not been to a resort yet, so I can't say about that. Streaking down main street so they talk about you on the TV news? This sound more like my boys - I am sure they would find both of these funny. I don't see myself doing that though. So please define your nude comfort zone and elaborate why. So, around the boys - totally comfortable. Around my mother, if I am at MY house I am pretty ok, but if I am at her house - not as much. I guess just the "her house, her rules" - and she is my mother! lol Around my brother, fine. Strangers and beaches - especially out of town beaches - fine. Not much chance of being seen by anyone I know. Friends? Well, I have a couple of girlfriends who have come over and sunbathed and swam. Mostly just topless. I don't often go nude around men I date because they assume that is an invitation to sex - and it usually isn't. So, I guess I am more careful and less comfortable around people outside my family who I know or live near me. I'm not so much afraid to be naked, but afraid that there will be a bad reaction. |
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| Nat | Aug 17 2013, 03:00 PM Post #8 |
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Thanks Jenn for a very thoughtful reply. I think your last sentence sums it up for most of us- we worry about how others react to it. This has probably happen to all of us at some time. The typical reaction is they turn their head while exclaiming "Oh, I'm sorry" as if they had stomp on your toe or injured you in some way. Or maybe this only happens to me because I "injured" them. In your case they probably say "Hey great looking bod!" ![]() There are so many interesting aspects to nudity that I can't understand why there has been so little discussion here in recent weeks. |
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| BlueTrain | Aug 17 2013, 06:37 PM Post #9 |
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Now and then in the newspaper there will be references to the nude statuary all over town (Washington, DC), mostly in fun, because there really is a remarkable amount of it and some of it is strange. The strangest is the statue of a boy scout leading a nude man and woman. I guess people thought differently when that was made. I hardly have any problem being nude just about anywhere. That's something you get accustomed to in the army, at least the way things were in the late '60s. But again, you didn't "hang out" naked. The windows had no curtains or blinds. However, I assume others would indeed have a problem with my nudity, especially given my age (67 this month). Besides, my married daughter is living with us at the moment, her husband having been deployed to Afganistan. So I don't "run around naked" at home. It's been probably over 15 years since I was in a locker room, which was on a cub scout outing. None of the scouts had any problem with it but most of them were on swim teams. I grew up as an only child, so there was none of that running back and forth to the bathroom naked with siblings that others seem to mention. But that didn't seem to result in any problem with the sort of nudity that was required at the time in gym classes in junior high and high school. There was no YMCA, so I missed out on that experience. My swim lessons were on weekday mornings at the (outdoor) city pool with a mixed class but all about the same age, as near as I remember. No nudity there either. I've never been to a nude beach but I would not have had a problem with it, only both my wife and I are members of the very fair skinned race and don't tan one bit. Nevertheless in our younger days we would sometimes make the effort to find "unoccupied" beaches somewhere on the Outer Banks of North Carolina. They're more vigourously patrolled these days, though, and it isn't worth it. I have visited a nudist club but they never had anything to offer me. But basically, my comfort zone regarding nudity very quickly runs into other people's discomfort zone. |
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| Mark | Aug 18 2013, 09:13 AM Post #10 |
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Hallo Jenn. I hope you don't mind my asking but how old are your sons ? I will explain my reason for asking. I have been to a French nudist resort for a couple of times and it is my experience that before puberty most kids have no problem with nudity, be it their own or that of their parents. Once they hit puberty however both genders start to cover up with towels (swimwear is not allowed of course) and you can see they feel uneasy having to loose the towel to get into the pool. The comfort zone obviously becomes a lot narrower at that age and some of them grudgingly accompany their parents to "that place". Once past puberty, say 17 or 18, that sense of shame seems to vanish again. Edited by Mark, Aug 18 2013, 09:42 AM.
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