Clothing Optional?

[Bir48die]

My wife and I have always slept nude. I hate having clothes clinging and wrapping around me when I'm trying to sleep. Not to mention the comfort of skin to skin contact with each other during the night. I do keep a tee shirt and pajama bottoms next to the bed for when I get up in the morning.

+1

Made the transition to this sometime after college. Now I just have to be careful when the grandkids suddenly wake up early and want to see us. Then it's a scramble.

 

[mountainsoft]

Made the transition to this sometime after college. Now I just have to be careful when the grandkids suddenly wake up early and want to see us. Then it's a scramble.

We have locks on our bedroom doors...

 

[W2R]

Here in New Orleans, our local customs are that adults just don't run around naked outside of their homes.

Well, except for tourists at Mardi Gras, who throw off their tops for beads, attention, or whatever they do that for at parades, especially during Carnival season. Locals never do that... TBH it is something that only really, really ignorant tourists do because they don't understand that this is just as inappropriate here as it is back home. People aren't shocked. After all this is New Orleans and tourists will be tourists. We are just bored with it.

Besides, New Orleanians all have at least six dozen boxes full of beads in the attic already, who needs more? Sure, we catch beads and wear them but they end up in the attic and eventually in a landfill.

New Orleans is the biggest small town in America and if you strip for beads, who knows, your aunt or your first grade teacher or someone from church or heaven knows who might be standing right next to you at a parade. So not only would you be caught in an embarrassing situation, but also the story about the time you were seen naked as a jaybird at a Mardi Gras parade would get all over town and would just NEVER die.

I really don't care what people do at nude beaches on the West Coast; they can get as sunburned as they want, as far as I'm concerned. What they do is their business, not mine. I'll be here in New Orleans with my clothes on.

 

[JustCurious]

As long as you're not performing a sex act in a public space, or pushing yourself onto someone else, I see nothing wrong with going clothing free in designated areas or in your own back yard. If you want to garden in the buff, more power to you.

I agree.

 

[mountainsoft]

There are a LOT of people I don't want to see naked, I can already see enough when they are clothed to know I don't want to see more of them.

Several folks have commented about not having the physical appearance to go naked. With very few exceptions, the folks who go nude are not there to show off their bodies. It's more about being free than being exhibitionists. Yeah, you will see other people naked but if you're there to lookie-loo you're there for the wrong reason. Ironically, the pretty people with the perfect bodies usually don't have the self confidence to bare all.

Being nude means not fighting uncomfortable clothes, no wet swimsuits clinging to your body, feeling the sun and wind on your skin, and learning to accept yourself as you are.

 

[HFWR]

There’ll be a lot of giggling and pointing...

 

[GravitySucks]

Nude at clothing optional hot springs, swim suit at springs that request it.

 

[ncbill]

I'm not good looking even when fully dressed.

Doctors and nurses frequently see me with nothing on, but at least they get paid to endure it.

Ditto!

 

[MRG]

Being nude means not fighting uncomfortable clothes, no wet swimsuits clinging to your body, feeling the sun and wind on your skin, and learning to accept yourself as you are.

+1

The feel of a wet swimsuit on my skin at 20° is no fun.

 

[grasshopper]

I thought I was pushing the limit walking out to the gate in my white cotton shivies. Our UPS driver says he has seen the whole town naked.

 

[misshathaway]

11. Is my physique the result of hard work, or luck? [emoji12]

Laugh of the morning

 

[misshathaway]

Going to the gym took care of any modesty I had. Besides, the kids ought to see what they're in for eventually. Public education.

 

[ckelly78z]

I spent most of this Summer (hot days) at home near the pool, and found that I enjoyed being naked, and the way the sun felt on areas that don't usually get sun. My wife generally stayed in the A/C, but on hot nights would join me in the dark.

We all have hangups about our bodies, but what happens in my own backyard (no neighbors) is my business...never been to nude beach, or resort.

 

[rodi]

Living at a beach town I see a lot of *almost* naked. Of all ages, shapes and sizes.

I play a game - asking myself the following questions:
- augmented or not? (Lots of gravity defying breasts - surprisingly, more on older women, than younger women.)

- How bad will that tattoo look in 20 years?

- Will he/she regret not using sunscreen?

I am comfortable with my body... but tend to cover up. My sags, jiggles, gravity tugged parts, and pasty white skin is for my own enjoyment.... not other folks. And the hassle of applying all that sun screen precludes me gardening in my backyard.

 

[Teacher Terry]

I was at a small clothing optional hot Springs and wore my suit. No thanks to being naked in public.

 

[garyt]

Last time we were there, it was a bunch of overweight elderly people there.

So what? They're not there for your visual enjoyment.

 

[Jerry1]

And the hassle of applying all that sun screen precludes me gardening in my backyard.

I don’t care what other people do but it’s not for me. As rodi points out though, I don’t at all understand why people want to go out totally unprotected and do things like gardening. I work in my yard a lot and appreciate the protection of clothing from all kinds of scrapes, bugs and the sun. That post about using a chain saw naked, is just down right stupid. There’s a reason for a lot of the clothes we wear and not all of it is for fashion or modesty.

 

[Gumby]

I have never minded wandering around the locker room at the gym without a stitch on. Nor do I mind the big group shower room. But I have noticed a large number of guys who are quite shy. They will put their shorts on under a towel, for example, or won't use the urinal. It seems that more young guys are like that than older guys. I have occasionally wondered how they came to be that way.

 

[aja8888]

I have never minded wandering around the locker room at the gym without a stitch on. Nor do I mind the big group shower room. But I have noticed a large number of guys who are quite shy. They will put their shorts on under a towel, for example, or won't use the urinal. It seems that more young guys are like that than older guys. I have occasionally wondered how they came to be that way.

I guess they never were in the military.

 

[W2R]

I guess they never were in the military.

I can tell you for sure, that giving birth in a Navy hospital will destroy any remnants of modesty a shy Navy wife might have. There were 23 people in the delivery room! I counted them. Doctors, nurses, medical students, and on and on. All wandering around and getting an eyeful and asking me questions.

And this was for an uncomplicated birth. I can't even imagine the crowds attending more medically interesting births.

Oh well. It was worth it to give birth to the sweetest, most adorable little baby I ever saw. Of course I was probably a little biased in that judgment.

 

[Gumby]

I guess they never were in the military.

That could well be. There was certainly no privacy aboard Uncle Sam's Cruise Line. And it is far more likely that older men are veterans.

 

[Spock]

1. I can get a sunburn walking to the mailbox.
2. They cut off parts of you with suspected skin cancer
Therefore: there are some parts of me that will never be exposed to direct sunlight....

 

[socca]

There are a LOT of people I don't want to see naked, I can already see enough when they are clothed to know I don't want to see more of them.

Florida Man likes to walk around in public almost-naked in deep summer regardless of the condition of his body. Beach ball belly? No problem! More body hair than the average bear? Go for it! Closer to 90 than 30 years old? Whatever! I’ve seen some things I’ll never be able to unsee no matter how hard I try.

 

[bolt]

This is a unique thread, talk about wasting precious time none of us will ever get back.

 

[ls99]

This thread is useless without relevant photos.