# Did you ever see your parents (either or both) completely naked? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 7, 2012, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-ever-see-your-parents-either-or-both-completely-naked/633985 "2012-09-07T14:21:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2012, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-ever-see-your-parents-either-or-both-completely-naked/633985/21 "2012-09-07T16:32:38Z")
> [@gaffa](#): > > Plenty, for weeks at a time. > > We had a cabin at a nudist camp when I was a kid. That’s pretty interesting! For those of you who grew up with casual/okay nudity, are you similarly open with your children? Or do you plan to be, if parenthood is still in your future? IOW, was it a good thing that you plan to continue, or a bad/questionable thing that you plan to change? ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2012, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-ever-see-your-parents-either-or-both-completely-naked/633985/22 "2012-09-07T16:32:48Z")
I guess every child has seen their mothers genitals at delivery. Not that I took any notice. Anyway, no to both. I have never seen my parents in the buff and now I have no wish to- I am late 50’s. ---
**Author:** ![Enuma\_Elish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5e9695/32.png) [@Enuma\_Elish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enuma_Elish)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2012, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-ever-see-your-parents-either-or-both-completely-naked/633985/23 "2012-09-07T16:42:20Z")
No, and I am quite grateful for that. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2012, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-ever-see-your-parents-either-or-both-completely-naked/633985/24 "2012-09-07T16:52:52Z")
Actually, I have seen my father naked pretty recently, and quite a bit. Naked and catheterized. Since it was in a medical setting and we were all praying hard for him to live, the nudity was not really a big deal. ---
**Author:** ![jem\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/2bfe46/32.png) [@jem\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jem_1)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2012, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-ever-see-your-parents-either-or-both-completely-naked/633985/25 "2012-09-07T16:54:22Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > That’s pretty interesting! For those of you who grew up with casual/okay nudity, are you similarly open with your children? Or do you plan to be, if parenthood is still in your future? > > IOW, was it a good thing that you plan to continue, or a bad/questionable thing that you plan to change? Another nudist here. Up until age 16 (mid 70’s) I went with my family to a local nudist camp every weekend. My kids are in their early 20’s and neither one has seen me naked. I am very modest! My daughter has seen me in my undies/bra/nighties, not my son. My siblings and I feel that nudism was not a great thing. For many reasons. Oh, and none of us ever took our kids to nudist camps. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2012, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-ever-see-your-parents-either-or-both-completely-naked/633985/26 "2012-09-07T17:17:29Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > Actually, I have seen my father naked pretty recently, and quite a bit. Naked and catheterized. Since it was in a medical setting and we were all praying hard for him to live, the nudity was not really a big deal. So sorry for your dad’s troubles. ☹ I hope he does okay. I did qualify in my OP: > [@](#): > > (Not asking about grown children who have become caregivers for an elderly parent and may now be assisting with personal care.) as, of course, this is a whole different situation. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2012, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-ever-see-your-parents-either-or-both-completely-naked/633985/27 "2012-09-07T17:23:58Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > So sorry for your dad’s troubles. ☹ I hope he does okay. He’s doing fantastic, thanks for asking. He’s the Energizer Bunny. And yes, you did qualify it. Sorry. ---
**Author:** ![Jman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jman/32/4416_2.png) [@Jman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jman)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2012, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-ever-see-your-parents-either-or-both-completely-naked/633985/28 "2012-09-07T17:29:40Z")
I’ve seen my dad naked, which really wasn’t a big deal. I don’t ever remember seeing my mom naked. I have a dim memory of walking in on her in the bathroom once topless when I was a kid, but don’t think I ever saw her fully nude. I’m fine with that, for sure. My daughter has seen me naked, but hopefully she won’t remember. 🙂 My wife and I didn’t really worry about it when she was really little. Once she hit about 3, though, I started demanding more privacy, though, so I make sure I shut the door when I’m in the bathroom or taking a shower…I bring in underwear to the bathroom so I don’t have to walk out naked. She’s still walked in on me while I’m going to the bathroom a few times, but I’m quick so she hasn’t seen much. I’d prefer that she not see me naked much for a couple reasons. First, since she’s 4, I don’t want her running around preschool yelling about how she saw her dad’s privates today (while easily explained if it was a bathroom walk-in, I’d prefer not to have to talk to anyone from child services about why my daughter is looking at her dad naked). Second, I personally just don’t want to be nude in front of my daughter. I’m fine with my body and nudity in general, but it’s not something I really want as a permanent image in her mind as she grows up. But, if/when she has walked in on me, I just remind her to knock when the door is shut and I don’t make a big deal out of it. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2012, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-ever-see-your-parents-either-or-both-completely-naked/633985/29 "2012-09-07T17:35:01Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > He’s doing fantastic, thanks for asking. He’s the Energizer Bunny. > > And yes, you did qualify it. Sorry. No prob. The role reversal that happens with caregiving is its own kind of trauma. Glad he’s doing well! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Girlfriend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.girlfriend/32/193_2.png) [@Dr.Girlfriend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Girlfriend)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2012, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-ever-see-your-parents-either-or-both-completely-naked/633985/30 "2012-09-07T17:59:55Z")
I don’t remember ever seeing my Dad naked. He would usually run around in his tighty-whiteys. That was bad enough! :eek: Mom would put my sister and me in the shower with her sometimes when we were kids, but that stopped about kindergarten age. ---
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2012, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-ever-see-your-parents-either-or-both-completely-naked/633985/31 "2012-09-07T18:10:46Z")
I never saw my parents nekid, although one time I walked in on them having sex. That was awkward. Also, my dad used to lounge around in tighty whities all day long, which left me with a lifelong aversion to that style of underwear. My own typical housewear is a tank top and underwear between the time I get home from work and the time I take my morning shower, but then I’m a bachelorette. If I ever have kids, I would make an effort to be clothed in at least shorts and a t-shirt ALL the time. ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2012, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-ever-see-your-parents-either-or-both-completely-naked/633985/32 "2012-09-07T18:12:34Z")
Mom- all the time. She didn’t care much about modesty. Dad - different story. He was the non-custodial parent so I didn’t see him much, and when he did, he was modest. Except when I started getting into adolescence, he and my mom decided I needed to shower with him for some reason; apparently a pubescent lad needs to see his father’s dick, or something. ---
**Author:** ![rhubarbarin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eb9ed0/32.png) [@rhubarbarin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rhubarbarin)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2012, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-ever-see-your-parents-either-or-both-completely-naked/633985/33 "2012-09-07T18:32:23Z")
Yes, many times at all ages, both my parents are very casual about nudity and body functions despite being rather conservative Christians. As am I, now, as an adult (woman), born in 1985. Nudity is not inherently sexual to me, or shocking, even when unexpected. It wasn’t something I ever considered or mentioned, as far as I remember, until I got old enough (14 or 15, maybe?) to realize that most people had a COMPLETELY different experience and are extremely hung-up and self-conscious (IMO) about their own naked body and others. I think my parents attitudes and openess about this subject, as well as seeing normal adult bodies first-hand throughout childhood and adolescence, are a large part of why my 2 sisters and I are exceptionally un-self-conscious and positive about our own bodies… something which is very rare in women our age (late teens to late 20s). Both my parents liked to take baths, and some of the best memories of both of them I have were when I went in the bathroom while they were soaking (nude- of course) to chat. Neither of them closed the bathroom door when they were peeing, either. 😃 I doubt I will think twice about changing in front of my own (future) children etc, although, of course, if they requested I did not, I would respect that. While I’m no nudist (I don’t get any particular pleasure from being naked), I’m comfortable enough with nudity that I’ve done a fair amount of art modeling - I feel no different being drawn completely naked by many strangers than I would if I was sitting up there clothed. ETA: Amusingly, none of us have ever seen them having sex. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2012, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-ever-see-your-parents-either-or-both-completely-naked/633985/34 "2012-09-07T18:33:48Z")
> [@HeyHomie](#): > > Mom- all the time. She didn’t care much about modesty. > > Dad - different story. He was the non-custodial parent so I didn’t see him much, and when he did, he was modest. Except when I started getting into adolescence, he and my mom decided I needed to shower with him for some reason; apparently a pubescent lad needs to see his father’s dick, or something. 😕 that’s…odd ---
**Author:** ![Machine\_Elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2012, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-ever-see-your-parents-either-or-both-completely-naked/633985/35 "2012-09-07T18:35:21Z")
Male here 40+ YO. Growing up, I routinely showered in my parents’ master bathroom; they had the nicest facilities in the house, including a 230-volt in-wall heater that could turn the bathroom into a jungle environ. One morning in my teens I walked into their bedroom enroute to their bathroom, and that’s when my mom walked out of their bathroom stark naked. She saw me, jumped, and ran back into the bathroom. A little awkward, but not a huge deal. Far more awkward: I was 17 when my super-handyman father finished installing a hot tub in the basement. He got it operational, but for some reason was too lazy to go all the way upstairs to get his swimsuit, so he jumped in naked. Soon after that my mom joined him, wearing only her bra and panties. Soon after that, they shouted upstairs for me to come down and join them. I did, although it was painfully awkward to be in a hot tub with my naked dad and my nearly naked mom. ---
**Author:** ![suranyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@suranyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suranyi)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2012, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-ever-see-your-parents-either-or-both-completely-naked/633985/36 "2012-09-07T18:36:43Z")
I saw my dad naked a lot when I was a kid, in locker rooms and such. We used to go swimming together quite often. My mother, never. ---
**Author:** ![Dogzilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@Dogzilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dogzilla)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2012, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-ever-see-your-parents-either-or-both-completely-naked/633985/37 "2012-09-07T18:39:02Z")
Female here, graduated high school in the late 80s. Mom was an RN, so nekkid bodies were not a big deal. All issues surrounding nudity, sex, and sexuality were completely open for discussion. Dad is not that modest, but I can recall only seeing him nekkid once, when I was maybe 4 or 5. I think he was getting into the shower and I barged into the bathroom to ask him something. He didn’t make a big deal out of it and I didn’t either. I’m sure I played show-me-yours-and-I’ll-show-you-mine with the neighbor kid, so I knew that boys had dangly bits down there and put those together with girly bits and you make a baby somehow. Meh. Later on, after Dad became a mormon, he took to wearing his holy sacred garments around the house all the time. With no other underwear or anything. They’re, um, pretty sheer. And not sexy. I really don’t understand how mormons \*ever \*make babies, having to look at each other wearing those things. Ew. Now, my stepmom would barge in on _me_ as late as the end of high school, but wouldn’t do anything like that now. Ironically, I’m far less shy and modest and wouldn’t give a flip now, but back then, I hated not having any privacy. She also had no problem being nekkid around daughters. ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2012, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-ever-see-your-parents-either-or-both-completely-naked/633985/38 "2012-09-07T18:47:27Z")
> [@HeyHomie](#): > > Mom- all the time. She didn’t care much about modesty. > > Dad - different story. He was the non-custodial parent so I didn’t see him much, and when he did, he was modest. Except when I started getting into adolescence, he and my mom decided I needed to shower with him for some reason; apparently a pubescent lad needs to see his father’s dick, or something. Are they Focus on the Family followers? Dr Dobson espouses the idea that boys should at least sometimes shower with their dad. Somehow it will make them grow up to not be gay. Maybe it’s intended as aversion therapy. ---
**Author:** ![codgerone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c37758/32.png) [@codgerone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/codgerone)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2012, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-ever-see-your-parents-either-or-both-completely-naked/633985/39 "2012-09-07T18:58:29Z")
Saw both my parents naked many times when I was growing up, usually going into or coming out of the bathroom - it was no big deal. I never had children of my own but I’d like to think that if I had I would try to engender the same attitude towards nekkid bodies. It’s nothing to be ashamed of after all. Much more difficult with step-children. My first wife had two daughters in their early teens when we got together and because they had lived in an all female household for around 6-7 years before I turned up they were used to walking around semi-naked, not locking the bathroom door etc. That caused a few moments of embarrassment on both sides until we all adjusted to it. I’m pleased to say that both girls were happy to be bridesmaids at our wedding and we got on like a house on fire after the initial trepidation had worn off. ---
**Author:** ![Troppus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a587f6/32.png) [@Troppus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troppus)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2012, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-ever-see-your-parents-either-or-both-completely-naked/633985/40 "2012-09-07T19:04:15Z")
Permission to hijack, please. Like rhubarbian said, there is nothing inherently sexual about nudity, so for those of you pressing dismay or disgust, why? I ask because casual nudity left no impression on me other than “oh, so that’s what grownups look like”. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-ever-see-your-parents-either-or-both-completely-naked/633985.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-ever-see-your-parents-either-or-both-completely-naked/633985.md?page=3)