Naturism - would you, could you?

Sounds fantastic.

SiL and BiL have always been naturists, her upbringing. He was fine with it, and they had a little daughter. We always just said, we don't want to see your holiday snaps! But then my niece became a young teen and had her first period - she became violently anti, so no more holidays of that nature. They went all over the world. As my Sil said - they had far less luggage than anyone else on the planes!

I asked BiL what his first impressions were. He said - far better grooming 'down below'. He said there's nothing like the first time you are playing with your DD in the sandpit, turn round quickly and come face to * with a full Brazilian!

I've often swum naked in the med, we used to hire a pedallo or something and go out to a pontoon, strip off and swim. It's a wonderful feeling.

Would you? - YES, Could You? - YES, Have you - YES? It is the swimming without a cossie that makes it special, nothing to do with exhibitionism. Either find a deserted cove, swim at midnight or wear a sarong down to the water's edge.

vq

Max Miller rhyme

Adam and Eve
In the Garden of Eden
They were so happy and jolly
I wonder how they would have felt
If all the leaves had been holly.

sorry wine fingers [ blush].....

Defo Ana....but that also reminds me of a rhyme the kids used to sing,to the tune of An English country garden

what do you do
if you want to do a poo
in an Englsh country garden
you find a fig leaf
to wipe your underneath
in an English country garden

more verses not appropriate

You wouldn't want to get caught short there, would you?

that's Scotland out then....always reminds me of a Two Ronnies sketch

Land of the stormy weather
land of the prickly heather
So keep your knees together
Down in the glen

for some reason stuck in my mind for years

Yes. Avoid brambles if you're thinking of rambling in the nude!

We went to Greece for our 35th wedding anniversary . We wanted to snorkel but discovered that the only interesting rocks were at the nudist part of the beach which was split into 3 parts - fully clothed/topless/ nude. So we snorkelled wearing only our flippers. Actually it felt great and after a couple of minutes I had forgotten we were actually nude. Told the kids about it on our return and they all thought what we had done was "really cool". Any suggestions for our 50th which is in a,couple if years time?

I've done life drawing and sculpture and the models were usually very narcissistic. You can't learn how a body is put together when it's clothed and I never found it any more erotic than drawing plants. It surprised me that outsiders assumed it was titillating.
The men in the class tended to exaggerate a female model's boobs.

After the first few hours, you don't think about anyone's bits and pieces.

downtoearth

Once in my hey day I would have considered it. No way would I now! The thought of swimming without clothes in the warm Med is appealing but not in front of strangers though. Wouldn't inflict the remnants of my left boob on anyone

'Dribbly bits'! Love it, downtoearth...

I love swimming without a cozzie and often wander to the nudist part of the beach to take off the cozzie, slip in for a swim, put the cozzie back on and wander back to the clothed bit of the beach to lie in the sun.

I don't think I'm shy about being nekkid but I don't want to stay on the nudist part of the beach because some folks seem to be there for posing purposes. No, they aren't the beautiful youngsters either

I've done skinny dipping from an island in the Andaman Sea after dark. We then slept, with clothes on but not many (one doesn't need many in the tropics) on the beach on spread out sarongs and watched the firmament passing overhead. We were aware of dozens, if not hundreds, of crabs scuttling around us.

wouldn't you have to carry a towel to sit on chairs etc ...I would think of nothing but whose dirty bottom and dribbly bits had sat there previously..

The island was off the coast of the then Yugoslavia. It did not take long to get used to the nudity. To start with you were very conscious of the direction in which your eyes were drifting, and conversations involved gazing into people's eyes to be sure you were not thought to be sizing them up. This was a very primitive island with no facilities, so I did not have to endure the sight of naked people pushing their trolleys round the supermarket or sitting in cafes.

I have to say I was not bothered about getting my kit of - bodies are bodies. But, in retrospect, I think I should not have sent my parents a PC saying that we were going to a nudist island tomorrow. As a parent I now realise what a worry that might have been to them!

I bet mrcurious is loving this thread|!

Not in public and in the home always wear something to prevent chafing.......rubber gloves...its how I do the housework..just be careful where you splash the beach..

Are we wandering off the OP now?

"the female's raised hindquarters"! And how often do you see that at the local nightclub? More like over-exposed boobs, I would have thought.

Visited the nudist end of a beach once. Found it rather strange. There seemed to be quite a few couples with a considerable age difference the middle aged man much older than his female partner. Or maybe it was just that they stood out because the girls seemed to do a lot of prancing about. I only stripped off while lying down. Would I do it now? No.

When I was an Art student, in the first term we had 6 weeks of life drawing. It was strictly time tabled from 9.am until 6 pm. Every day.

I think I saw enough of other people's bodies to last me a lifetime!

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