nudity within the home

I don't remember any prudishness with my parents, don't remember them in the nude either.
I'm not bothered really, my bits are no different to anyone elses'

my neighbours have come very close to a nasty shock

A favourite story - the little boy who sees his mother en déshabillé,and rushes into the kitchen - "Daddy! Daddy - Mummy's got fevvers!.

When I acquired a five-year old step daughter it took me a while to become accustomed to her turning up in the bathroom to watch - fascinated - as I shaved. My total nudity didn't seem to register at all.

Are we so guilt-ridden (thank you religion) that we fear our own bodies? Answers on the back of a fiver, please, to...

I never saw my parents in their underwear much less nude. I wasn't bothered about being seen in underwear in my own home and my children are all very relaxed about nudity with their own children..

Oh I was the exact opposite with my children nina .

The strange thing is that my younger sister has inherited quite a lot of my mums prudishness (is there such a word?) whilst I have always been very determined to be the exact opposite. I do not walk around in the nude but have always been comfortable with things like taking a bath without locking the door ( my mum would never do that) and dressing and undressing in front of my husband or daughter. I remember being chastised as a child for scratching my bum and wondering what I had done wrong.

on mum

But were you and their dad the same with your own children??

I don't ever remember seeing my dad naked, but if I happened to walk in on accidentally, she wasn't phased.

Oh gillybob - how I do identify with that! Lights off and think of England I guess!

Ditto gillybob but now my mum is coming up 101 she has no qualms about letting a nice young male carer wipe her bum !!!

I often wonder how I am actually here at all.

I was brought up in a very strict household. Nudity was a definite no,no. In fact my mum was such a prude that she made my sister and I turn our backs whilst she adjusted her slip. We never saw her in a state of undress or even half dressed. Ditto my dad. My mum also has a very strange attitude to the human body and although well into her 70's she still uses childish terms when she is forced to describe a rude sexual intimate body part. I find her attitude quite sad and extremely annoying in equal measures.