Would you let your 25 year-old son see you naked?

No definitely not. I am not really keen on wearing bathing suit on beach. I wear it under my clothes and put sarong on to lie in sun, then take it off just before I go into water and then put sarong straight on after I get out of water. I don't like my legs so tend to keep them covered.

In essence I don't see it as being distasteful, because there are people out there, such as naturists, who wouldn't have a problem with it ....who are we to judge. On a personal level I couldn't and wouldn't! But each to their own.

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I remember a few chats with my friend, who used to toilet, the bath, and walked around naked in front of her teen son.
She considered it really strange that myself and my daughter didn't. Her question was 'why not?' and my stance on it was 'why?'. A dressing gown takes 2 seconds to put on, a wee takes two minutes, and a bath, in a home with just two people in can be sorted by the "I'm about to have a bath, does anyone need to toilet?" conversation.

Definitely no.

For me it's a no with some exemptions. My sister (60) while recovering from a fall got stuck in the bath and her son had to get her out. Not nice for either of them, now she sticks to showers. Bad enough when our kids have to help in those situations but generally no. IMHO if our kids can't see the difference between real women and airbrushed with our clothes on I'm not sure clothes off will greatly improve their perception of real bodies. Still it's given us something to think and talk about.

God forbid - it would traumatise them for life!

We’re fairly open in our house - no locks on bathroom doors because our eldest is severely autistic. He walks around with no idea he is naked (we do tell him him to at least wear pants! He’s usually obliging). He needs to be supervised in the bath due to epilepsy. We don’t flaunt it but also don’t hide it. My mid teens son will sometimes talk to me while I’m in the bath, but it’s all done without gasping. I suspect without a severely autistic son we would have been very different.

My youngest is pretty prudish so we try to respect that. He’s in the wrong house though really!

Perish the thought ! ?

I find it's the other way round. I haven't seen my son clothes free since he was 14 over 20 years ago! What he sees never bothers me. Maybe it was years of swimming pool changing rooms... Really you look how you look and it never crossed my mind that you had to protect? your child from that. Doesn't seem a good way forward for grandchildren either if you feel desperate to cover up. When my son was 17 he had a tattoo done (of which he knew I would disapprove) in the October and it took me until the following June to find out, his girlfriend knew at the time. It was on his leg and he just kept covered up.

I have been in these saunas where you have to be naked to be allowed in - in Austria during ski-ing season. I went in with my daughter and total strangers but drew the line at my son-in-law.

I must have been a good twenty years older than anyone else and unshaven. The oldness was worse than the nudity.

I saw my mother naked several times - she wasn't particularly bothered and she had a good body. I haven't got a good body so I've always kept it covered. I saw my dad naked once - and was intrigued!!!

Certainly not! When 3 yr old granddaughter & I visit toilet together, it's a given that each of us turn our backs while the other having a wee!

It'd have to be a deep bath before I'd let anyone in!

I agree with greyduster. Just having me as a mother is enough embarrassment for my sons, without having to cope with the sight of my skinny wrinkled nudiness!

Gosh no, my son never saw me in anything less than a dressing gown. I never saw my own mother naked though both of my grandmothers were less shy in private with just female relatives around when perhaps changing or dressing but never totally naked.

I was educated by nuns who taught us to undress in such a way that no more than half of us was exposed at any time so I never saw myself naked until I had my first baby. We never worried about being naked in the house in front of the children until my eldest reached the age of 10 and began locking the bathroom door and I felt that we should respect her feelings and wear at least a modicum of garments.

This thread has had me in hysterics, perfect to get me in a good mood for some of today’s Christmas cooking. My kids, two out of the three anyway, would be distressed to see me naked now. The day will come when mayhave to deal with it as I did with my mother of course. Just the thought of my son’s face if he saw me naked has me giggling.

Gothree sons defiantly no !!!

I have just revisited what Linda Robson said 'I always leave the bathroom door open because someone always wants something and yesterday her son Louie went in. Gloria said how old is Louis? Linda said he was 25, BUT Linda was in the bath!!! and not walking around naked. So the question should have been 'if you were in the bath and one of your grown-up children wanted to come in the bathroom, would you let them'? of course, because you are assuming they are going to be standing there gawping at you(that would be weird) they want something out of the bathroom and you are in the bath (not walking around naked) so what is the problem?

If its something you've always done, then yes ok, it would be strange to suddenly start covering up. It's only skin ffs

Definately NO, although I believe in the country where I live, people often walk around the house naked, never seen this though.

No! That's embarrassing and weird and yuk!

We were totally relaxed about being naked in front of our kids and vice versa. From a distant memory (twin son & daughter now 39) when they were about 10-12, I noticed bathroom door would be locked. From then on I started closing my bedroom or en suite door if I was undressed etc. A natural progression to privacy so a big NO, they never see me naked.

*embarrassed

My sons would be embarrased so I would never allow myself to be seen naked (by them)
I'm ok with the way I look, even after 5 children and 6 pregnancies but, just as my children wouldn't like me to talk about sex, I know that they wouldn't like me walking around in the buff or even my underwear. It's just having respect for the relationship.