Nudists/Naturists

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I have a friend who introduced me to life modelling last year and the same friend invited me to join her at a nudist/naturist evening at a swimming pool a few weeks ago. I went with her and found myself enjoying it, so I went with her last weekend too. There was quite a good balance between female/male attendees, which helped make it feel comfortable. So I am wondering if there is a fair number of nudists/naturists on Mumsnet too?

@LlynTegid Thank you. I assume so too. There are always people trying it out for the first time or because they're curious.

We'd been going to Fuerteventura for several years and saw lots of folk naked on the beaches. Curiosity got the better of me a few years ago. Tried it in my 50th birthday week, went swimming naked - loved it - and we used that same beach every day after. The following year we booked a hotel with a naturist area for me, and on day one on the beach my wife joined me and removed her bikini bottoms. She's always gone topless anyway.
We had a fabulous week together, and have used naturist beaches/ accommodation ever since for holidays and occasional club visits and swim events here.
For us, it's the ultimate in relaxation, no one is judging or staring at anyone else. It's all very respectful, with the added bonus that carry on baggage only cuts down the time wasted waiting around carousels in the airport.
We also enjoy wild swimming and there is nothing like being alone, early morning in the spring/ summer when it's just me, the water, the sunrise and ducks for skinny dipping.
'Each to their own' I guess.

I’ve genuinely never found that someone wearing jeans and a shirt prevented me connecting with them, or failing to see their ‘souls’.

I do also wonder about whether the people who gush about how liberating swimming naked is — do you usually swim wearing those Victorian swimsuits made out of wool, and ankle length, accessorised with hats? Because swimming in a bikini or ordinary swimsuit doesn’t really feel much different to naked…

swimming in a bikini or ordinary swimsuit doesn’t really feel much different to naked…

Oh, it is. Much freer, especially breasts. Also colder in the UK...

🤣

I watched a documentary a few years ago about nudists. Well I watched the first 10 minutes. It seemed to be mostly populated by elderly men with saggy moobs and saggy arses, and elderly women, same
Each to their own but I wouldn't want to see those sights in the flesh (pun intended) 🤣🤣🤣

I used to know a naturist many years ago. He was the father of my ex. Sometimes we'd go round and he'd be mowing the lawn in the buff. He'd occasionally get out old family movies of the whole family on holiday in the early 70s in naturist camps playing volleyball. At the time I felt a bit uncomfortable but tried to regard it as all very liberal and cool.

Years later after his wife died it became apparent he was a crossdresser, had long been wearing her clothes in secret and there was a sexual motivation.

I have since read it is not uncommon for the two to be connected.

I'm sure there are naturists who just enjoy the feel of the breeze on their bits. But I also know there are others for whom it is linked to a fetish. And because they don't wear signs on their heads there's no way of telling them apart.

No thanks.

I always seek out clothing optional beaches and saunas as sitting around in soggy swimwear is incredibly unhygienic and I adore swimming in the sea or ocean naked

Also find they tend to be the least spoilt or overlooked and with the least obnoxious people on them

@telestrations 100%. The beaches and accommodations are quieter, with more respectful people and in the ten years we've been involved, never seen anyone angry after getting drunk, falling over or spoiling anyone else's time. In Europe, it's common that whole families holiday this way too. No judgements, it's just how they're brought up.

The comments about how small some swimwear is (well women's swimwear anyway) are very true.

its one thing to enjoy being naked, it’s the desire to do so with strangers in a public place that’s odd and quite prevalent in this community . The op doesn’t even walk around her own home alone naked, and she’s obviously lived many summers, but enjoys the public element of it

My friends are nudists and they say they often go naked at home (adult children left home) as well as going to a nudist club locally and beaches abroad.

@varyblue I don't go naked at home, it's still too cold here at the moment. And certainly not with the cost of heating too 😬

But what about during the summer? Unless this is your first season embracing the nudist life?

When the warmer weather comes, if it does 🤔, I will get my first chance to consciously try being naked at home. I've only been naked between bedroom and bathroom so far.

The forecast was predicting temperatures of mid teens later this week. Though you might want scuba gear with it....

Oh, I wish, Single figures where I am 🙄

I have German family. Germans are mad keen on being nude. Not just naturist beaches but in saunas and spas it’s normal to be naked. It’s not just normal but a kind of part of their identity which they love to bang on about especially in contrast to what they perceive as our uptight, repressed conservative British ways. Whenever I am in a naked environment in Germany people take great pleasure in asking me how I feel, the implication being that being backwards and repressed must be very hard for me.

Obviously it’s lovely to be naked sometimes and I really don’t think of myself as uptight at all (in fact in comparison to most germans who have a million and one rules about the way to live your life, Germans love to police the wearing of the right clothes in the right situations eg wearing of hijab or buttoning up your coat in winter ) but you can’t remove thousands of years of culture. The fact is our whole culture does place huge importance on the way a woman’s body looks. It just does. No amount of wishful thinking gets rid of that.

I wish modesty didn’t have such negative and old fashioned connotations. I am not shy, uptight of repressed but I am modest.

That is so funny.🤣🤣🤣

There is a problem with naturist or nudist beaches in the UK, I believe. There is a popular one on the south coast which has a distinctly unsavoury reputation, for both voyeurs and exhibitionists. Mostly men. (And this one is not in Hastings as per the above post.)
And in France where nudity can be fairly common on quite a few beaches it always makes me laugh to see families with middle aged Dad completely naked, (apart from a man-bag, that is) and Mum is topless but the teenage DC are in conservative swimwear. Don't blame them.
(Man-bag -- Not a euphemism. French men seem to be quite attached to the concept. Viva la France.😚)

The weather has got warmer here so hoping to go to a beach soon. today, though, I'm trying being nude at home.

Thanks for the thread op.
For no particular reason, I’m going to share a photo of my favourite naturist pool…(Fuerteventura)
Don’t be alarmed 😊

My goodness, vacant sun loungers 😂

Looks lovely, thanks @VWT5 I'll have to google it.

In two weeks we'll be in Crete at a naturist hotel and complex. And, there are always enough sunbeds to go round everybody. No early morning dashing about.
That pool looks lovely. Where is it please@VWT5 ?

@NDerbys32 your holiday must be imminent hope you have a wonderful time.

We're here now. It's stunning and so peaceful