In honor of the orange “full moon” tonight I ask this question of you…
This random question comes to you from the experience I just had at the pool. I am the most comfortable person when it comes to a nude beach or in the case of Colorado, nude caves. I have even been to nude beaches with friends. I admit, before my first visit to a nude beach I was a very nervous walk down the 450 stairs to the secluded beach. However, when I got there it was the easiest most natural thing to shed my clothes.
Now take this nude thought indoors and the rules start to change…
My house? Definitely OK with being nude.
Gym change room? I can do the walk to the showers with my towel in hand, however changing I usually turn my back to the room???
Steam room / Sauna? No problem sitting on my towel… that is if everyone else is.
Public pool change rooms? For some reason I shower with my swimsuit on… even if others aren’t. Yet I still change out in the open and don’t use the change rooms.
Now let’s add friends to the mix. I will quickly drop my trunks to the floor and change quickly with my back to my friends. My friends seem to range from:
- drop trou right in the middle of the change room while talking to everyone
- changing with their back to everyone
- changing by doing that awkward dance of pulling up their pants while still wearing their towel, sometimes resulting in them flashing everyone anyway unless they fall flat on their face
- or running to the nearest change room
Now we finally get to my experience at the pool tonight. I walked into the showers to do my mandatory pre-pool shower and there is a co-worker in the showers. There they are! My worst naked fear! The dreaded co-worker. Even though we were both wearing swimsuits, combined with the fact that I don’t even know them (we just work in the same building) suddenly I felt like my swimsuit wasn’t enough coverage. What is with all these silly “in this situation yes” or “in this situation no” rules??? When we were both out of the showers and in the pool area it was fine… I just got the heebies showering with them.
How can someone so free to frolic on the beach have so many other levels of “naked”?
So in closing I ask once again What kind of naked are you? Do you get the mail wearing only a towel in the morning or do you take baths wearing a suimsuit in the comfort of your own house?
I’m so horrified of “naked” that I put a towel over the mirror before I get out of the shower at home! (kidding)…truth…never..even at my best in my misbegotten youth was I comfortable naked in front of anyone …dreaded high school because I knew I would have to shower in what I called “public”
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Hhhm. Well let me explain my naked by giving you some examples:
*I walk around the house in boxers infront of the guys I live with.
* If I bring someone back home after a date, being naked is no problem. Even afterward, when all is ‘normal’ (:-P). No shame.
* I shower naked at the gym, although these are closed stalls.
* If I were in an open row of showers I’d still shower naked.
* If I go to the gym with my buddy, I politely turn my back while toweling and pulling on some boxers.
* If I lived alone I don’t think I’d get dressed unless it was to go outside.
* Yet the idea of a nude beach makes me very uncomfortable.
* I could NEVER go to a nude beach with friends.
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I am not afraid of being naked but that is just me.
I have never been to a nude beach but it is on my life list. I just want to say I was able to do it. So I have been planning and just trying to get one friend to go with me so I can share the experience with someone else.
Or maybe I just want to know I got someone else to do it too so I am not the only naked person I know. 🙂
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I don’t mind being naked around other naked people. I walked by a mirror in house while in the nude the other day and freaked because I thought someone else was in my house, but it turned out to be my own ass. I gotta either lay off the fried chicken and mojitos, or hang out with fatter people.
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