# Would you be willing to work in a community of nudists? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 30, 2011, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-be-willing-to-work-in-a-community-of-nudists/576554 "2011-03-30T20:21:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![flatlined](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eb9ed0/32.png) [@flatlined](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flatlined)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2011, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-be-willing-to-work-in-a-community-of-nudists/576554/41 "2011-03-31T16:30:10Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > You know, I just thought of something. Wouldn’t this sort of thing be illegal inside the U.S.? Doesn’t every state have decency laws or something? I definitely would be concerned working in a place that might get shut down. > > Likewise, **flatlined** , was your experience outside the U.S.? That is an interesting question. My experience was in Southern California. It was an established community, with paid gatekeepers and gardeners and a few housekeepers, so I have to guess that it was legal. A lot of porn comes out of S. Ca… I didn’t smoke tobacco and my employer did. When people were visiting while I was working, they had to go outside to smoke because my employer was pretty sure that it was illegal to subject me to the smoke. I never checked on that either. The rules are different for self employed people working in homes and I didn’t want to have to tell him that he was wrong and that they could smoke around me. Yeah, I’m strange. The nudity thing was nothing. Not wearing high heels…pure bliss. Smoking around me would have sent me off to balance someone else’s books. ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2011, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-be-willing-to-work-in-a-community-of-nudists/576554/42 "2011-03-31T16:32:47Z")
If someone offered me a good job at my age, I’d take it in a heartbeat, house and all. If people could adapt to looking at my aged naked body, I could adapt to having it looked at. ---
**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:** [March 31, 2011, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-be-willing-to-work-in-a-community-of-nudists/576554/43 "2011-03-31T16:39:23Z")
Hell, 15% more pay than I asked for? Where’s the goddamn dotted line so I can rip my John Hancock across that motherfucker!? Oh and yes I’d probably go naked too, or I’d wear shorts and nothing else. Sounds like fun! No family to worry about so why the hell not? ---
**Author:** ![Mikkel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mikkel/32/13151_2.png) [@Mikkel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mikkel)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2011, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-be-willing-to-work-in-a-community-of-nudists/576554/44 "2011-03-31T16:42:48Z")
A good house and good wages! I’d take the job in a minute. Nudity doesn’t bother me, although, as a bicycle mechanic, I’d probably wear an apron. ---
**Author:** ![carlotta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/898d66/32.png) [@carlotta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carlotta)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2011, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-be-willing-to-work-in-a-community-of-nudists/576554/45 "2011-03-31T16:52:31Z")
I’d do it. I’ve been to nudist camps a few times. Naked people don’t bother me. I’d bring my husband and kids. My husband would LOVE it, he was the one who instigated the nudist camp visits. Don’t know how the kids would feel. I expect they’d get used to it pretty quickly, but they don’t seem to be nudists at heart. I find I don’t care much for being totally naked even at home unless I am in bed. I don’t like to be very active if I’m braless and as a chubby thighed woman I’ve got to have at least shorts on to avoid chafing if I walk around much. It sounds great in that I could wear exactly what I wanted, which is clothing, but very very light casual clothing. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2011, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-be-willing-to-work-in-a-community-of-nudists/576554/46 "2011-03-31T16:59:13Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > Am I the only person so far in this thread who has actually _been_ to a nudist event? Not anymore. 😉 > [@flatlined](#): > > You didn’t have a option for “been there, done that. didn’t get the tshirt” There’s a tshirt? Damn. I work First Aid at those festivals \*\*Sunspace \*\*is talking about. I don’t even get paid, much less well, just get in for free. Although I have to admit that I was an attendee before I worked there, so the culture is no shock for me. Honestly, the hard part is putting on jeans and a bra to go to work, since it’s not safe to work First Aid in flowing skirts or nothing at all - never know when you may have to race off and lift and carry, or squeeze into hard to reach places to help someone. What I will say, though, is that not enough nudists bring enough sunscreen, and being nude on your body is no excuse to bring shitty footwear to a camping event. Gods, I’m sick of treating sunburns and foot injuries! ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2011, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-be-willing-to-work-in-a-community-of-nudists/576554/47 "2011-03-31T17:13:31Z")
> [@flatlined](#): > > That is an interesting question. My experience was in Southern California. It was an established community, with paid gatekeepers and gardeners and a few housekeepers, so I have to guess that it was legal. A lot of porn comes out of S. Ca… > > I didn’t smoke tobacco and my employer did. When people were visiting while I was working, they had to go outside to smoke because my employer was pretty sure that it was illegal to subject me to the smoke. I never checked on that either. The rules are different for self employed people working in homes and I didn’t want to have to tell him that he was wrong and that they could smoke around me. > > Yeah, I’m strange. The nudity thing was nothing. Not wearing high heels…pure bliss. Smoking around me would have sent me off to balance someone else’s books. Well, I know there is a public nudity law in California, but maybe a gated community counts as private. I looked up the law, and it is as follows (bolding mine): > [@](#): > > CALIFORNIA CODES SECTION 314-318.6 (as of 6/2000): Every person who willfully and lewdly, either: 1. Exposes his person, or the private parts thereof, in any public place, or in any place where there are present other **persons to be offended or annoyed thereby** ; or, 2. Procures, counsels, or assists any person so to expose himself or take part in any model artist exhibition, or to make any other exhibition of himself to public view, or the view of any number of persons, **such as is offensive to decency, or is adapted to excite to or thoughts or acts** , is guilty of a misdemeanor. The bolded parts could also be relevant: a private nudist community don’t have anyone who is present to be offended or annoyed, have their own standards of decency, and are vehement about not trying to incite sexual thoughts. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2011, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-be-willing-to-work-in-a-community-of-nudists/576554/48 "2011-03-31T17:20:37Z")
I’d turn it down flat. It’s too much like eating chocolate cake twice a day, every day. Before long there’s nothing special about it. My favorite desert ruined from excess. I never want to get jaded by female nudity. It should never be just another day at the job. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2011, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-be-willing-to-work-in-a-community-of-nudists/576554/49 "2011-03-31T17:28:56Z")
> [@WhyNot](#): > > I work First Aid at those festivals \*\*Sunspace \*\*is talking about. I don’t even get paid, much less well, just get in for free. Although I have to admit that I was an attendee before I worked there, so the culture is no shock for me. International Pagan Spirit Gathering? 🙂 Man, I miss it sometimes. I keep thinking about going back, but need to find something in Ontario. ---
**Author:** ![eldowan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/848f3c/32.png) [@eldowan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eldowan)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2011, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-be-willing-to-work-in-a-community-of-nudists/576554/50 "2011-03-31T17:43:31Z")
I chose both the occasion and frequent for a couple reasons: Currently, I’m usually in as few clothes as possible when at home. There, it’d be the same, thus the frequently In public, I’d be tempted and try it out now and again, thus occasion. However, depending on Just how much I liked it, it could increase to frequent. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2011, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-be-willing-to-work-in-a-community-of-nudists/576554/51 "2011-03-31T18:03:31Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > International Pagan Spirit Gathering? 🙂 Similar, with many of the same people. But oddly, I’ve been to dozens of pagan festivals in the last 10 years and never made it to PSG. It’s going to be in my neck of the woods this year, though, so maybe I’ll be able to make it this time! ---
**Author:** ![Chapulin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/898d66/32.png) [@Chapulin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chapulin)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2011, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-be-willing-to-work-in-a-community-of-nudists/576554/52 "2011-03-31T18:12:51Z")
I wouldn’t. That’s nasty. What if someone has a nasty rash or fungus somewhere on their body? Or a visible STD on their genitals? I don’t want to be a part of that. ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2011, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-be-willing-to-work-in-a-community-of-nudists/576554/53 "2011-03-31T18:22:22Z")
I wouldn’t. I’ve never been around naked people besides the gym shower & the bedroom, so I have no idea how I’d react. I’m not willing to change jobs if I think there’s a reasonable chance I’d be unable to deal with the environment - what if I realize I’m just permanently uncomfortable with it, and now have to find another job? ---
**Author:** ![Rand\_Rover](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/db5fbb/32.png) [@Rand\_Rover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rand_Rover)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2011, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-be-willing-to-work-in-a-community-of-nudists/576554/54 "2011-03-31T19:03:17Z")
Shit, I’d work there for $50,000 a year . . . because that’s all I could afford to pay . . . (Someone’s gotta trot this one out, can’t believe I’m the first.) ---
**Author:** ![Kalypso](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/df705f/32.png) [@Kalypso](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalypso)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2011, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-be-willing-to-work-in-a-community-of-nudists/576554/55 "2011-03-31T19:10:53Z")
I would take the job in a heartbeat, along with the housing, and probably would go nude a lot. My only concern is my daughter, who’s developmentally delayed. She has a hard time understanding what things are appropriate when and where and why already. We could probably handle it though. Another concern: If it were in a conservative county like the one I live in now, my ex could likely sue for, and win, custody of my daughter if I moved her to a nudist community. ---
**Author:** ![Rysdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2011, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-be-willing-to-work-in-a-community-of-nudists/576554/56 "2011-04-01T22:21:03Z")
I said I’d have to turn it down. The nudity wouldn’t bother me… I see naked people all the time in the hospital. I wouldn’t go _au naturel_ myself, though. But I like where I live, and I ain’t driving 90 minutes for a mere 15% more than my reasonable offer for _anybody_. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2011, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-be-willing-to-work-in-a-community-of-nudists/576554/57 "2011-04-02T00:14:53Z")
> [@Rysdad](#): > > I said I’d have to turn it down. > > The nudity wouldn’t bother me.. I see naked people all the time in the hospital. I wouldn’t go _au naturel_ myself, though. > > But I like where I live, and I ain’t driving 90 minutes for a mere 15% more than my reasonable offer for _anybody_. This is off-topic, but it’s my thread, so I don’t care. I’m not quite understanding your negotiating strategy, **Rysdad**. If you’re at the stage of a moving to a new job in which it’s clear the position is yours and you’re just talking about how much you’re paid, and you’re having to make the first offer, how close to the moon are you going to go? Why would you START with a “reasonable” offer? ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2011, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-be-willing-to-work-in-a-community-of-nudists/576554/58 "2011-04-02T06:05:38Z")
I’d take the job and the housing, if my partner can come too. And neither of us has a problem with nudity. Kids too, if we had them. ---
**Author:** ![flatlined](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eb9ed0/32.png) [@flatlined](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flatlined)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2011, 7:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-be-willing-to-work-in-a-community-of-nudists/576554/59 "2011-04-02T07:14:17Z")
> [@WhyNot](#): > > Not anymore. 😉 > > There’s a tshirt? Damn. Nudest colony = no tshirts (which is why I didn’t get one) 😉 > [@](#): > > What I will say, though, is that not enough nudists bring enough sunscreen, and being nude on your body is no excuse to bring shitty footwear to a camping event. Gods, I’m sick of treating sunburns and foot injuries! That’s why I was so !!! about the elderly gentleman in the walker. I could see that he was going to have painful parts when he got home. There were vacation rentals and I could tell who was just renting because of the nice tans over most of their bodies and red parts that are usually covered in public :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2011, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-be-willing-to-work-in-a-community-of-nudists/576554/60 "2011-04-02T12:01:42Z")
I think I might have a problem with the office chairs. 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-be-willing-to-work-in-a-community-of-nudists/576554.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-be-willing-to-work-in-a-community-of-nudists/576554.md?page=4)