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To think there is something creepy about nudists

60 replies

victoriascrumptious · 12/07/2010 00:28

100% more creepy than swingers in fact. In fact swingers are not creepy at all. Just a bit Alan Patridge-style embarrassing.

Nudists however creep me out.

If there were any in my street I would be very unhappy

OP posts:
Tortington · 12/07/2010 00:30

why? its not like they would walk about your street with todgers out, balls dragging on floor

dont get it.

PrincessBoo · 12/07/2010 00:33

It's been bloody hot recently. I might consider becoming a nudist. My DS is definitely one already

YABU - and maybe a little repressed

LetThereBeRock · 12/07/2010 00:36

Why would you care,so long as they don't walk down the street naked.

lolapoppins · 12/07/2010 00:40

Ok, I win at this.

My parents were nudists for a while when i was about 7/8 years old.

It was horrendous.

I think because they suddenly got into it, it was much worse for me. They didn't make me join in, but I remember not knowing where to look and legging it up to my bedroom when thier two new freinds Roger and Patricia came over for the evening to fill them in on the local nudist group, butt nakid.

It was a fad of my mums which only lasted a few months, but I was treated to a holiday at a nudist place in France. I remember I spent a lot of time in the tent drawing.

Christ, how I wish i was making this up.

YANBU

PrincessBoo · 12/07/2010 00:50

lolapoppins Oh dear God how toe curlingly awful for you. DS is 2.6. I won't be wandering about the house starkers when when he is 9.

OP - I've changed my mind (am fickle).

YANBU.

booyhoo · 12/07/2010 00:56

i have just read a book about a girl who experienced similar lolapoppins although her story lasted until her teenage years and she was abused by several of her parents' friends. it has put nudism in a bad light for me but i can see how it can be liberating for some.

lolapoppins · 12/07/2010 01:04

Oh, that's awful booyhoo.

It was just a bit of a cringeworthy and confusing experience for me. Not so much in terms of seeing my own parents nakid, that was still fairly normal to me at that age, it was just really, really embarrasing seeing other adults and some children walk around with no clothes on. I couldn't get my head around why people would do that. If it had always been part of our lives since I was a baby, it would have been normal to me.

On a lighter note, my towards the end of thier experience as nudists, my parents went away for a weekend to a country house nudist weekend. Nudists dress for dinner. No one told that to my inexperienced parents

booyhoo · 12/07/2010 01:10

that is funny. one of the things the girl in the book couldn't undertsand is the nudists having a fancy dress disco. when the girl had grown up she asked her dad why he had made her do it, why they had become nudists. he said she was coming to that age where she would become curious about bodies so he wanted her to see it was nothing to be ashamed of she never did tell him what had happened to her as a result of his decision.

your poor parents, well at least it wasn't something they hadn't all seen before

boiledegg1 · 12/07/2010 01:19

I'm curious about why people get into this. Anyone care to enlighten me?

BaggedandTagged · 12/07/2010 01:37

Well some people see nudity as a natural state- sort of how we are "meant to be".

Personally I am not at all "body shy" and can see the appeal of hanging out naked in certain situations- around the house, in a pool, on a beach, but NOT in the supermarket or wherever (chilly around the freezer cabinets apart from anything else).

I dont think that nudity is necessarily sexual in itself and I do think for nudists, the appeal is in the freedom that nudity brings rather than getting an opportunity to perve other people.

It's not for me but I dont think it's creepy. Swinging is way weirder IMO, especially the dogging end of it

boiledegg1 · 13/07/2010 13:03

Thanks B&T, that is what I thought but I was not sure..

BoysAreLikeDogs · 13/07/2010 13:15

all I'm going to say is poo crumbs on your furniture

boiledegg1 · 13/07/2010 16:30

ewww!

Decorhate · 13/07/2010 16:34

There is a nudist colony a few miles from here and I was most amused to read in the local rag that the inmates residents were aggrieved that workers on a nearby construction site would be able to see them naked!

Morloth · 13/07/2010 16:40

YABU whatever floats your boat whether that be swinging or going nude.

Not my problem.

Handbagofoblivion · 13/07/2010 16:49

We go to a naturist camp site in a hot place every few years. It is much nicer being naked when it is really hot. Everyone carries their own towel to sit on for hygiene reasons.

Handbagofoblivion · 13/07/2010 16:52

Boiledegg, I 'got into it' because DH's parents are naturists and he enjoyed naturist holidays as a child and adolescent.

Assuming you are at a place with a pool or beach, your body dries without a swimming costume and that makes dipping in and out of the water far more pleasant.

There is nothing sexual about it.

RedArsedBaboon · 13/07/2010 16:53

Dont go to centerparcs in holland then, right next to one of them is a nudist area round a lake, they were riding their bicycles with nothing on but walking boots. The bicycles were hired from the centerparcs. I was the only one with a hired bike as everyone else took theirs with them.

The DC had a field day. 'look mummy....' 'look daddy...' with howls of laughter.

Must admit i was pmsl so much i couldnt turn the pedals.

RedArsedBaboon · 13/07/2010 17:00

Add to the fact that I spent the rest of the week riding about standing up on my bank which caused much hilarity too

RedArsedBaboon · 13/07/2010 17:01

bank?? bike

Morloth · 13/07/2010 17:07

There is nothing finer than skinny dipping in a river/lake/ocean.

franke · 13/07/2010 17:08

We have a naked man living in our neighbourhood (Germany). He's been around for over 20 years and features in tourist guides I think. He disappears for months on end and then suddenly pops up (so to speak) usually on the coldest day of the year. He doesn't bother anyone, it doesn't seem to be sexual.

boiledegg1 · 13/07/2010 17:41

Yes, I didn't think it was particularly a sexual thing. Skinny dipping in a warm sea is nice!

TheMoonOnAStick · 13/07/2010 17:50

In every way but one, I would agree with you victoria.

But each family holiday we've had has ended in mountains and mountains of depressing dirty clothes. Nine bin liners one year was my record. It negated the holiday totally.

I'd def consider it to avoid that

darcymum · 13/07/2010 17:51

I challenge you Lola!

My aunty (who I lived with as an adult) and uncle were naked. There front door was at the side of the house so not visible from the road and they would answer the door naked. They had a holiday flat in a nudest resort in France and the local church was having a fund raising so they donated a week at their flat with mentioning anywhere that it was on a nudist resort. Not to have a laugh, it just didn't occur to them to mention it.