Count me in amongst the casual nudists. Around the boys at home, I am naked unless there’s an actual reason not to be. (going out soon, too cold, guests who are not comfortable with that, etc.) I go to gatherings (pagan festivals and the like) a couple or few times a year, where nudity is allowed or encouraged, and I go to parties where most everybody is trying to get most everybody else’s clothes off fairly regularly. I don’t think that last one counts as non-sexual, though.
Oh, riiiiiight.
In that case, could you turn this campfire down to medium for me?
Absolutely not. Nudity is a pleasure to be enjoyed in the privacy of my home and with no one other than my wife.
But it’s kinda…sorta…very weird!
Meh, in my apartment I’ll put on more than underwear at my leasure no matter whos around.
Okay, all you bacon frying paranoids are a buncha pikers–let me tell you the real danger! I was frying chicken for a picnic and it was late afternoon and hot as blazes so of course I’m butt naked. I was frying a pan full of thighs and apparently a couple of them hadn’t thawed completely and had some ice chunks in near the bone. So when I turned them over the oil hit the ice, caused what was basically an explosion and spattered hot oil all up my torso from just below my belly button, all across my stomach and right across both tits and up my neck. DAMN that hurt! I blistered like crazy and had discolored scars all over for about the next year before it all sloughed off and healed up.
Bacon, phhht! I scoff at frying bacon nude!
I lied, I don’t fry ANYTHING without throwing something on my precious little butterfly hide…
Sure. Preparing for a shower (spent a lot of time living in dorms – usually we had robes for walking down the hall to the bathroom, but getting the clothes off in the first place usually involved stripping down and hurling them in the general direction of the laundry basket) and getting dressed again afterwards, gym, pool parties, whatever. I did amateur theater in high school, and nothing gets you used to the idea of wandering around nekkid in front of random, unscreened passers by faster than having to do a complete costume change in three minutes or less. You pretty much tear your clothes off the moment you aren’t visible to the audience, and other people run up to you and button/zip/staple/duct tape you into something else, with or without your help. The main reason I am not more naked more often is that I am a pale redhead. This particular skin is for indoor display purposes only – if I tried to go skinny dipping outside during the day, I would look like a boiled lobster in about five minutes.
I always sort of wondered if I don’t think nudity is a big deal because I think of myself as attractive. Friends who would rather change clothes in a tiny dark closet with the door closed than let me see what color their underwear is usually give the reason as “ack, nobody wants to look at THIS!” but I don’t know if that’s really it, or just the culturally-accepted reason to give.
Fine with SO, and my friends that I have been to the public baths with…wouldn’t give it a second thought. My friend and I still change without care at home now, I guess we figure there’s no sense of caring when we saw each other naked quite a few times in Japan.
It’s strange…outside of the above, I still have the same reserves as before. Maybe everyone should just go to the public baths with me.
I will say that being naked in a pool with a lot of other naked folks you’ve not met before is a real ice-breaker. I find that it’s a lot easier to have interesting conversations with just about anybody under those circumstances. From the twenty-something aspiring actress from LA to the granny visiting from Kirkenes, Norway to Millie and Bob, the Amway sales folks from Springfield.
No personal problem with being nakers, although as my age and size have increased others may not feel the same way. I enjoy the human form in it’s many shapes and sizes.
No, it would be weird. Not my thing, not by a long shot!
And it’s not a sexual hangup either, I’m just starting nursing school, and I see people naked as a matter of course. It’s like, meh, I guess I can deal with naked people. But why I would want to do so, just for kicks, is beyond me!
Not a big deal, depending on the social situation. I’m naked, everyone else isn’t = embarrassing. Everyone’s naked, I am too = no problem. I used to be a bit shy about it, but swimming in high school and hanging out with entirely too uninhibited gay friends later cured me of that. You can’t be too uptight about being naked or not when you’re friends with a bunch of nudist hedonists. The only thing that could bother me now about hanging out with a bunch of other naked dudes is getting groped with no warning or invitation. “Hey, man, not interested in playtime. Don’t grab my ass again.”
Visiting onsen is a big thing here. Work parties will often be held at an onsen. You have a big banquet and get shitfaced that night, stay at the hotel, and get up the next day for group breakfast before heading home, or back to work depending on the day the party was held. Most people usually hit the tub at least twice; once at night, once in the morning. I’ve seen most of the men in my office naked because of that. A couple of times in the past, the outside tubs were only nominally separated with a grating or bamboo screen in between, so I saw a good number of my female coworkers naked (except for a wet towel) too.
I’ve never been to a co-ed clothing-optional event, but I’d probably be mostly fine in a couple of minutes. I don’t think I’d be blasé enough to avoid a physical reaction if I saw someone attractive, though, so I’d probably embarrass myself a few times until I adjusted.
I’m 100% comfortable with my body, but I cannot imagine being casually naked around my friends. And it would strike me as very strange if any of them suggested it.
I don’t even like seeing myself naked. I often shower fully dressed.
Also, all of you make me sick.
How does that work? Wouldn’t it be difficult to adequately wash and rinse your nether regions? And then you’ve got a bunch of soaking wet clothes to deal with.
I don’t think he meant it like “I am so appalled by the site of myself naked that I cannot function without clothes.” I think he just meant it in the way that when you get down to it, probably about 99% of people just don’t look good naked, thats about that. All those moving loose parts, and hair growing out of wherever. The smells, the fluid, bumpy or hairy nipples. Feet too large feet too small. Doesn’t mean I don’t appreciate the body of a beautiful young lady. But if you stood her up against a wall and presented her to me NAKED, meh, that’s not very attractive at all.
PM me to make plans.
A nevernude!
Most of current friends (I am 32) are ones I have known since highschool or at least college. They are quite conservative about that sort of thing though so nudity is right out. My girlfriends and their friends have tended to be a lot more open though, so I would be naked around them on occasion. Current girlfriend has body issues, so pretty much no nudity around anyone other than her or at the gym these days.
Interestingly, theatre wardrobe changes occasionally require you to do strange things… and really, you can’t be self-conscious about anything – whether it be being seen in your underpants or nothing at all. I remember one quick-changes that involved 4 dressers and took place a few steps away from the wings… it included getting out of a corset and into another.
There was no time for modesty as a sizable chunk-o-the-cast stood nearby waiting for their cue, and there were four pairs of hands just doing what they had to do while one of the tech guys held onto my cordless mic wire.
After THAT experience, let me tell you, nothing really threw me off… 
My fellow lead stood there like a gentleman, waiting for me to join him after having been stripped of HIS clothes and changed, much in the same groped-by-four-dressers fashion. Somehow, we danced back onto the stage with barely a hair out of place, looking calm and relaxed and in luuuuurve!
I have one friend whose house has a casual-nudity thing going in the hot tub on a regular basis. Unfortunately, my Thursday nights are filled up by my MCSE certification class now, so I haven’t been able to go in a while. I haven’t yet worked up the courage to hit the nude beach. (It’s been a little cold anyway.)
Nope. I’m perfectly happy to take you guys’ word for it.
Agreed.
OTOH, I think it’s really cool that several of you who really aren’t into the nudity thing were willing to give it a try anyway. I could never do that–I very pointedly steered clear of any and all public or semi-public nudity until I experienced a paradigm shift and was totally cool with it.
Muffin, your link doesn’t work for me. And I don’t mean with the DOTs in it. I fixed it and it didn’t work.
How you doin’?