To feel weird that my parents took me to naturist campsites.

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In almost every holiday photo I’m naked, I have memories of visiting my parents friends houses who were fellow naturists and all would be naked in the garden (not overlooked) I didn’t think it was weird at the time but now I recall spending most of my childhood with my naked family and their friends in campsites mostly abroad but also one they were members of in England I do feel a bit strange about it and when I bring it up to friends they all think it’s weird. Does anyone else feel weird about going to these places? I seem to remember lots of other children would be there so it couldn’t have been that unusual.

I was responding to you writing "Because they were under 7 and they were splashing around at school and ^noone sexualised small children.^" Which has never been the case. There have always been a minority who sexualise young children.

I had a good friend at university who came from a naturist family (they were German), she went on loads of naturist holidays as a child and they were quite often naked at home, sitting round the breakfast table for example. I just couldnt wrap my head round it! I think it’s just so alien to our culture - the thought of being naked in front of my parents induces a full body cringe. And while I can see they trying to remove the sexual element from nudity, which is probably a good thing, given how many dodgy people are in the world it’s not something I’d be comfortable with my children doing.

I used to go skinny dipping at an outdoor lake near me, but that was women only. It was really liberating, I loved it.

Couldn’t countenance doing it with men or kids around though. The horror.

Oh wow, my childhood just came flooding back 😂

I was about 7 when this came out, I remember asking my parents what the song meant 😄

I think that’s awful. Deliberately putting your child in a potentially dangerous situation is the opposite of what parents should do.

Thank you. That has really made me laugh! I'm sure the badminton players didn't see anything funny in it, but I'm with you.

I know this is an old thread, but I wanted to post this as it's important.
I used to agree with the other posters here who think it's not a big deal. But studies are increasingly showing that sibling sexual abuse is vastly underreported & that it may in fact be THE most common form of CSA.

A risk factor for sibling sexual abuse is positive familial attitudes to nudity.

Everyone should be aware of this if they advocate naturism, whatever culture they are.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39625910/

Another study citing this as a risk factor.

Cosleeping/cobathing with a sibling are sadly also risk factors for sibling sexual abuse.

The podcast SiblingsToo has a lot more info on this horrible issue..

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25432976/

Naïve of your parents at best but appalling safeguarding of non consenting children. It doesn’t take a genius to see the issues around this for predators.

It’s is unsettling because you couldn’t consent to it.
So how is this statement any different than parents forcing children joining a specific religion or being indoctrinated to a specific brand of politics? Both of these areas are considered without consent to the children, yet definitely a lot more cloak and dagger with scandal after scandal throughout history hiding the pervs behind closed doors protecting them versus those that are naturists willing to protect the families that participate in their communities and quickly ostracize those who reveal themselves rather quickly. In fact I did a Google search and couldn't find any sinister plots within naturist communities versus thousands upon thousands of entries within political and religious activities of child endangerment of all types, so to each their own. Just back it up with actual factual basis next time before throwing rocks at those glass houses.

Non contact sexual abuse.

Completely inappropriate and a child safeguarding failure. You shouldn’t have been left naked in front of strangers nor should you have had to see strange naked adults.

I’d confront your DPs if still alive and book in some decent quality talking therapy.

Think its fine if adults want to walk around naked but children can’t consent to others viewing their bodies. It doesn’t even have to be sexual for the lack of consent to be a problem.

I wouldn’t strip my kid naked in front of people and we also don’t do religion or indoctrination. You can safeguard your children in multiple ways.

It’s an “I let my ten year old drink, but he’s never smoked a spliff so I’m not as bad as kate down the road” argument.

Well, your parents made you walk around naked in front of adults who could well include child rapists and forced you to look at naked adults - so of course you feel weird about it.

Agree.