NUDITY

i was very uncomfortable being nude in front of anyone until I was 18. I recall being embarrassed as a kid in the school locker room. I had started puberty early so I was farther along than my peers, but nudity was not something I had experienced before. Even getting a physical exam caused me high anxiety when the doctor asked me to slide my underwear down.

The turning point came my first year of college when I got a job as a nude model for art classes. That was a real life changer for me. It was so liberating, not just to be able to stand nude in the middle of a large classroom with about 25 people whose eyes were focused on me, but to enjoy it.

Once I got past that hurdle the doctor visits were a breeze and I started finding opportunities to be nude, such as visiting nude beaches. My first trip to a nude beach was on my own, but I saw entire families there, several couples together enjoying the sun, and what appeared to be a group of college guys playing volleyball. There were all different shapes and sizes of bodies and cocks and balls. Nobody seemed to care about it. My next trip,were with friends, both male and female.

I decided when I got married and my wife and I had our first child that I wanted him to feel comfortable with his body and view nudity as healthy and normal. My wife was also on board with that. We never just hung out nude at home, but didn't cover ourselves if our son saw us nude. A couple years later our daughter was born and we did the same and a couple years later our second son was born and we continued.

As the kids got older we became one of those families who,went to the nude beach together. One time we were in a different state at a nude beach and our neighbors were there, too. It seemed awkward for a few minutes, but soon it was comfortable.

Since my sons were little boys they started experiencing the locker room at the Y and became totally at ease in the showers, etc. I think it is sad that some guys, younger especially, are so uptight about changing clothes in a locker room which was designed as a place to change clothes. I see these guys doing the "towel dance" and have witnessed a couple actually fall when they trip trying to hold the towel up while getting in or out of underwear. I have heard some guys think it is gay to see other nude men or gay to be seen nude by other guys. The last I heard gay was about thoughts and actions, not nudity.

My kids have thanked my wife and I for raising them the way we did. They think it is hilarious to see their friends make a big deal out of changing clothes in front of each other, but freely send nude pix on social platforms.

Late last year my older son decided to follow in my footsteps and he became a nude model, too. I taught him a bunch of poses and he was really enjoying it, but didn't get much time doing it before Covid caused class cancellations.

I know everyone is wired differently and nudity is not and will not be a part of their lives, but if you have the desire to overcome your fears and try it, you should do it. It seems Americans are becoming more prudish about social nudity. I travel for business and have witnessed that people in many other countries are far less inhibited than we are as a group. The communal showers are mostly gone from gyms and dorms and privacy shields between urinals is the norm. Yet in other countries a urinal is basically like stepping up to a wall and guys are side by side taking a leak and think nothing of it. Why are we the way we are?

I think some people have a perception that when people are nude together it is like an orgy and it becomes sexual. Or that there are a bunch of perverts gawking and drooling. That is not at all the case with the majority of us who enjoy it. In fact, most nudists are about the polar opposite. It is about body freedom and camaraderie.

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