Would any of you try out nudism?

[Crossbreed]

..., like a nude camp with a bbq that would be nice,...

(Don't stand too close to the grill...!

)

 

[AspieOtaku]

(Don't stand too close to the grill...!

)

Lol good call i might burn my junk lol.

 

[Crossbreed]

How do these venues handle incidental arousals by non-sex offenders?

Apparently, that is an on-going debate,

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/ypamej/theres-a-decades-old-boner-war-raging-inside-nudist-camps

 

[AspieOtaku]

I want to be naked in the woods have fun, me Tarzan me make a cannon ball in the lake yay!!

 

[aspieoutlaw89]

When alone in my own room, I am often naked. I'd like to try naturism full-time when I am 18 and graduated from highschool, tho.

i do too,but half naked,like i live in a jungle themed apartment or nudist compound,but only when my family (mother & brother) are not home,out of fearfully alarming them.

 

[auslan434]

I've been to a couple of nude beaches. I live inland from the coast so it's a long drive to the nearest beach. Nude bathing is nice during the winter months as the temperature doesn't fall too much.

For me the biggest problem with nude bathing was the awful sunburn afterwards!

 

[Au Naturel]

Apparently, that is an on-going debate,

There's a Decades-Old Boner War Raging Inside Nudist Camps

There's all kind of posts on many nudist forums about "What if...?" All by people who have never been socially nude, some by guys working out a little fantasy. It really is something quite rare. There are lots of ways to deal with an erection at a nudist venue. Once you participate in social nudity, you realize concern about it was silly catastrophizing.

But I can see why American male teenagers avoid social nudity. It is an exceptionally hormone-driven stage of life. Things do come up. Doesn't seem to be an issue in Europe but much of the US is still sexually constipated while much of the rest can't imagine sex and nudity as not being closely tied together. It also matters if you grew up in a nudist environment or are a nervous textile testing the water.

Sunburn not an issue. That's why God invented sunscreen.

One big advantage of simply getting remote and solo for nudity is that nobody cares if something comes up.

 

[Crossbreed]

There are lots of ways to deal with an erection at a nudist venue.

I don't like that it is vilified where nudity should be accepted.
Even if I acclimatize to surrounding female nudity, erections can happen for unrelated reasons, like petting a dog or cat, holding a baby, sleeping, etc.

I am not ashamed of them, but I don't feel that I should have to defend them if I am otherwise innocent. Clothing grants me a "don't ask, don't tell" shield of sorts.

 

[AspieOtaku]

Naked and afraid of love seems nice.

 

[Au Naturel]

I don't like that it is vilified where nudity should be accepted.
Even if I acclimatize to surrounding female nudity, erections can happen for unrelated reasons, like petting a dog or cat, holding a baby, sleeping, etc.

I am not ashamed of them, but I don't feel that I should have to defend them if I am otherwise innocent. Clothing grants me a "don't ask, don't tell" shield of sorts.

American nudism all got started back in the 1920s. Even up to the 1960s, a camp had to be absolutely squeaky clean. They were surrounded by horrified fundamentalists who simply wanted them shut down, the kids taken away, and the participants in jail. The slightest hint of impropriety is all it would take.

So, almost all camps instituted extreme rules of behavior. You couldn't even hold hands and people who were seated had to so "modestly." Only married couples need apply and spouses and their children had to attend together. Didn't let in singles. No gays, no people of color, background checks on everyone. Visibly pregnant women couldn't participate, no breastfeeding. The nudist resorts of the day were more prudish than the society that surrounded them. Nudity was anti-sexual on club grounds as a matter of simple survival.

Once rules get established it takes a long long time for them to evolve. Nobody gets to join who doesn't agree with the rules so there's no incentive to change. Many of the old rules have relaxed in most of the clubs but there's still a distinct fundamentalist vibe about them. Discrimination against singles, people of color, and gays is still a problem in the less metropolitan clubs.

One of the rules that stuck was a ban on displaying erections. Even if the nudity isn't sexual itself, an erection is seen as sexual. Parents with children -as well as many women - find a guy with one to be offensive regardless of intent. Some even think of it as frightening or a "visual sexual assault." It is impossible to rule against spontaneous erections and erection for the purpose of display or sexual arousal. A typical club will set the rules to be comfortable for families and women. They lose fewer customers that way.

Now, if you go to a nude beach, there really aren't a lot of rules, just customs and courtesy. It is considered polite to not exhibit an erection for the same reasons clubs make a rule about it. Most police will treat it as a lewd act and even where nudity itself is legal, lewdity is illegal.

That is why it is customary to roll over onto your stomach or toss a towel over it or jump in the pool or take a cold shower until an erection passes. Not a big deal for me. It has been 45 years since I had one in a socially nude setting and I was a teenager back then. (Very embarrassing at the time.) I have often wondered if the constriction and friction that come from wearing clothing make spontaneous erections more likely.

And there are clubs where nobody cares about such things, usually adult-only clubs and not family clubs. Nobody would care about it at Burning Man or the Bay to Breakers or Deep Creek Hot Springs.

 

[Kalinychta]

@Au Naturel I wonder if nudism may be a sensory thing for you? I mean, you’re clearly way into it, but perhaps its impetus was autism, and you just went with it.

 

[AspieOtaku]

Naked and afraid of love with me and my gf.

 

[Au Naturel]

@Au Naturel I wonder if nudism may be a sensory thing for you? I mean, you’re clearly way into it, but perhaps its impetus was autism, and you just went with it.

There is definitely a powerful sensory aspect. Clothing in general just scratches and restricts and binds. A lot of people never notice it but I can't not notice it. Sometimes drives me nuts. The warmth of the sun or a cool breeze on a hot day or the unrestricted flow of water is divine.

There's also a sense of freedom. In my case, it is an almost political freedom to do as I wish and be who I am as long as I'm not hurting anyone. Many nudists live in a closet for exactly the same reason gays did.

Acceptance also goes into the mix. Clothing is largely a lie that we put on to hide the physical reality of our perfectly imperfect bodies. Until you've accepted someone naked you have not accepted them.

Voluntary clothing serves as protection and decoration. Mandatory clothing is just a physical version of the masking we Aspies all have to do. Our bodies bother others for no logical reason, so we are forced to hide them.

 

[Kalinychta]

As a kid and young adult, my parents were hippies, so I am somewhat comfortable with the human body. I lived in the desert and would often swim nude in secluded creeks.

As an adult, however, I've had a bad experience, and I don't think I would unless I'm somewhere no one would ever see me.

I was in my early twenties, and brought my baby down to a very private nude beach. It was sort of a hippie place at a very secluded area on a river. Lots of families go there. People at the beach were just doing their thing, being normal.

I didn't undress until I was almost in the water. Even then I had a big towel around us until the last minute. Then I went in and soaked in the river, it was really nice, holding my baby and just swimming around, only letting our heads stick out of the water.

There was this pervert who I suspect lived downriver from the nude beach and would wait for naked women to get in the water. He zoomed up on his jetski and just sat there about twenty feet from me, staring. I was so repulsed. I ran out of the river, grabbed my towel and bundled up.

Once he left, I waited another several minutes before trying out the river again. I then did the same semi-modest approach, where I wore my towel, until I was in the water.

The same pervert appeared from a bend downriver and raced up on his jetski and came up and stared at me. I cussed at him and called him a pervert and a pedophile. He just laughed.

I got out of the water and put my clothes on and left.

Good point here. Nudism can be dangerous for women and expose us to perverts and predators.

 

[Au Naturel]

As a kid and young adult, my parents were hippies, so I am somewhat comfortable with the human body. I lived in the desert and would often swim nude in secluded creeks.

As an adult, however, I've had a bad experience, and I don't think I would unless I'm somewhere no one would ever see me.

I was in my early twenties, and brought my baby down to a very private nude beach. It was sort of a hippie place at a very secluded area on a river. Lots of families go there. People at the beach were just doing their thing, being normal.

I didn't undress until I was almost in the water. Even then I had a big towel around us until the last minute. Then I went in and soaked in the river, it was really nice, holding my baby and just swimming around, only letting our heads stick out of the water.

There was this pervert who I suspect lived downriver from the nude beach and would wait for naked women to get in the water. He zoomed up on his jetski and just sat there about twenty feet from me, staring. I was so repulsed. I ran out of the river, grabbed my towel and bundled up.

Once he left, I waited another several minutes before trying out the river again. I then did the same semi-modest approach, where I wore my towel, until I was in the water.

The same pervert appeared from a bend downriver and raced up on his jetski and came up and stared at me. I cussed at him and called him a pervert and a pedophile. He just laughed.

I got out of the water and put my clothes on and left.

That really sux. I would recommend a beach where there was a population of nudists. They tend to look out for one another. Solo female nudists have to be concerned about personal security.

 

[KOZMOZIS @realchrisharold]

Absolutely not

 

[Joshua the Writer]

There is definitely a powerful sensory aspect. Clothing in general just scratches and restricts and binds. A lot of people never notice it but I can't not notice it. Sometimes drives me nuts. The warmth of the sun or a cool breeze on a hot day or the unrestricted flow of water is divine.

There's also a sense of freedom. In my case, it is an almost political freedom to do as I wish and be who I am as long as I'm not hurting anyone. Many nudists live in a closet for exactly the same reason gays did.

Acceptance also goes into the mix. Clothing is largely a lie that we put on to hide the physical reality of our perfectly imperfect bodies. Until you've accepted someone naked you have not accepted them.

Voluntary clothing serves as protection and decoration. Mandatory clothing is just a physical version of the masking we Aspies all have to do. Our bodies bother others for no logical reason, so we are forced to hide them.

Yeah, the human body is overly sexualized. I think that the assumption that being nude around others = you want to be sexual with them is a very Christian assumption (particularly Puritan). It is a lot of purity culture bullcrap that does NOT have any place in our modern society. We need to abolish purity culture in whatever form it takes. Queer people fell victim to it, and so did People of Color, and so did Neurodivergent and Disabled people. Basically every single minority is a victim of purity culture.

Places like YouTube do not even let you show nude artwork (either by you or other people) if you do not put a disclaimer before hand that it is not pornographic.

 

[Crossbreed]

Yeah, the human body is overly sexualized. I think that the assumption that being nude around others = you want to be sexual with them is a very Christian assumption (particularly Puritan)...

At the very least, if my wife is there with me, I will want to be.
(And I am not particularly ashamed about that...)
I know from experience that another woman can have that kind of appeal even when she is fully dressed.
Knowing how that mechanism works,* I am not particularly ashamed of that attraction, either, but I need more boundaries, not less, in those times.

*Pheromones.

 

[Au Naturel]

At the very least, if my wife is there with me, I will want to be.
(And I am not particularly ashamed about that...)
I know from experience that another woman can have that kind of appeal even when she is fully dressed.
Knowing how that mechanism works,* I am not particularly ashamed of that attraction, either, but I need more boundaries, not less, in those times.

*Pheromones.

The funny thing is that once you get used to nudity, that response to seeing nudity and being socially nude gets unlearned. The novelty goes away. It is no longer exotic. There needs to be something more than simply nice optics, pheromones, and proximity. There has to be an intentional sexual context. Simply being at the pool or the beach isn't a sexual context. If you can't get past that, nudism probably isn't for you. I don't claim that nudism is the Simple Answer to All Bothersome Questions.

A dressed woman is just as sexy as a naked one. Usually sexier because that's one purpose of clothing, conceal the flaws and enhance the assets. Whatever level of clothing one is used to becomes a kind of standard and less clothing becomes taboo and therefore exciting. Clothing creates a situation where you spend your time speculating about what you can't see and imagining taking those clothes off. It makes a fetish out of exposure and being exposed. That's not healthy, IMHO.

If there aren't any clothes, nudity can't become a fetish.

 

[Confused]

When alone in my own room, I am often naked. I'd like to try naturism full-time when I am 18 and graduated from highschool, tho.

Would you mind becoming new friends and chatting? I'm David, also Autistic.