How do men keep from having an erection for a good portion of the time at Nudist camps/colonys? I imagine that eventually, you’d be desensitized to people being nude, but what about the time before? I imagine that it would be more of a problem at youth camps, because the males there are just starting to notice the opposite sex and have a lot less control.
Have you ever seen real people - NOT airbrushed magazine centerfolds or surgified Hollywood stars - naked?
This is not always a pretty picture.
Haven’t been to one myself, but most folks I’ve talked to who have been say it’s not as big an issue as people think. You get used to naked people quickly, and like I said, the average person - pot belly, wrinkles, surgical scars, butt acne, etc. - is not nearly as entrancing as the near-naked crap you see on TV and in the movies.
What I’ve always wondered about nudist camps is how the issue of women and menstruation is handled. At it’s most basic, it would be just plain rude to leave little red seat prints on the furniture. Sure, tampons work, but leaks happen.
I think you’re making a logical error here. Most people, if not all, don’t get erections at the sight of comely nude people. Usually they need some sort of physical stimulation to become physically aroused.
If you are the type of person that can become erect by merely seeing a comely nude body, the least of your worries would be visiting a nudist camp.
Lots of nude beaches and sunning areas in Berlin, of all places.
For the most part, think of your Aunt Ruth and Uncle Fred, pasty white and showing their naughties. Not a pretty picture. You might have more of a problem getting it up after that image.
Yeah, there were a few hot looking folks, but if you were ever in danger of springing a woody, all you have to do is look over in another direction, watch and listen to the fat guy fart while eating a hot dog.
You younger people may not know this, but back in the fifties a man named Hugh Hefner actually tried to earn a living selling a magazine with pictures of nude women inside. Of course, as Freyr points out, people weren’t interested and Hefner’s magazine disappeared within a few months. Since then, nobody has ever tried to sell pictures of nude people.
“Lots of nude beaches and sunning areas in Berlin, of all places.”
For a lot of guys being naked for the first time on the beach with the air & ocean rubbing against them is enough to get things up.
(I used to surf at Blacks beach alot)
Your first few times, I’d think being nervous would… reduce… the problem. I’d be uncomfortable as hell, anyway. After a few times, you might get used to it and then you’re good.
According to a friend of mine who spent a day at a nudist camp a while back with her boyfriend, walking around with an erection is something of a faux pas.
Context is everything. You experience unclad women as sexually arousing to the point of inspiring an erection because the opportunity to see them that way pretty much coincides with opportunity to have sex. (Even then, once you’re in an ongoing relationship, even in the steamy early period you’ll find that you see each other unclothed going to and from the shower or changing clothes etc and it doesn’t prompt a rush of erotic interest every time it occurs).
I lived on a clothing-optional commune in California (where else?) in the early 1980s. I remember being in the sauna and one of the female members came in and took off her clothes and sat down with me. I definitely saw it as a flirting opportunity but the absence of clothes didn’t really play a role.
On the way back to my folk’s home to be present for my sister’s wedding, I passed through Las Vegas and the signs and ads promising REAL NUDE GIRLS seemed really weird and anachronistic.
Are you capable of walking down the block and seeing women in tight blue jeans on the sidewalks without getting an erection? I bet you may find them quite attractive but you hardly ever respond with physical arousal. Partially because you’re used to seeing women in blue jeans.
Well, I “can” become erect merely by seeing a comely nude body, if I stare at it and let that happen, which is easier if the beforementioned nude body is a photograph or a person who is posing or behaving in a sexually provocative manner that encourages staring, and it is also more likely to happen if it’s a person with whom I have a sexual history (the sight of her being associated with sexual things).
But I would definitely say I do not tend to become erect merely by seeing a comely nude body.
I must be a freak then, because looking at beautiful naked women gets me hard. So, dare I ask, if this is the least of my worries, what else do I have to be concerned about?
I just read (Newsweek, Time, one of those) an article on nudist camps, and they mentioned that everyone, men and women, were required to bring towels with them to sit on. No nude bits on chairs.