A week in Spain

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DP and I are going to be taking a much needed break in a couple of weeks time to Malaga. Both sets of kids with respective grannies. Bliss!
DP has suggested that we try a naturist beach one day. Part of me thinks what the heck...no one will know me and there will be no kids. But the other part is scared stiff!
Never ever done this type of thing before and I would apprciate any advice. An added concern is that I cannot shave at all down below due to my sensitive skin, and am quite hirsuit so I am worried that I will stand out as the only hairy flabby pale white woman amongst bronzed tanned and clean shaven beautiful people. Aaargghhhh - help Please!!!

There are no bronzed, tanned and clean shaven beautiful people on nudist beaches. They are populated by elderly wrinkly Germans with hides like old chamois leathers.
HTH

Thanks for such a graphic description! 😉

Couldn't read and run: it will be fine. The only beaches where people are not staring at each other are nudist beaches. Remember to not look. It will be fine, uneventful. Might be better to go early in the holiday, before you have the telltale strap marks, so people know you day trippers rather than devotees.

carabos description certainly matches the people we saw at Papagayo in Lanzarote.

There is a small group of especially lovely beaches at the eastern end of Playa Blanca and we were walking between them as we met said 'elderly wrinkly people with hides like old chamois leathers' coming the other way.

No one will care.
Just do it.

I think I'd be more interested in knowing why my DH wanted to go to a naturist beach, personally it would be of absolutely no interest to me. But my parents used to love that sort of thing - in their 80s !

You won't look like the other textile-frees, that might bother you more than them. Also, are you up for sharing the beach with nekkid DM and MIL?

Part of me thinks what the heck...no one will know me and there will be no kids. But the other part is scared stiff
Wouldn't be too sure about that. I was relaxing on a lovely beach, on Rhodes, tits out, when who should I see in the distance? Yes, Stuart from Accounts. Cue swiftly tucked away boobs in BFs T shirt. Thank god I saw him before he saw me. Then last year I was happily diving in the pool in Singapore - I'd prefer not even my DH to see me in my cosier these days but heyho - literally only about six other people there, but one of them was a parent from DDs primary school, WTF?! I suppose if you do see anyone you know though at least they'll be starkers too. Is that good or bad?

Part of me thinks what the heck...no one will know me and there will be no kids. But the other part is scared stiff

Experimenting with something like naturism is almost guaranteed according to Sod's Law to demonstrate that 'it's a small world'.

For example, I know that one of my ex work clients (now retired) has a holiday home in the same resort in a quiet part of Spain that some our friends live in and we occasionally visit.

I also bumped into an ex colleague on another holiday but thankfully we were both fully dressed at the time.

addfreesociety:
You won't look like the other textile-frees, that might bother you more than them. Also, are you up for sharing the beach with nekkid DM and MIL? confused

Kids staying at home with grannies! lol

Spoke again with DP on this last night. No pressure at all from his side but we are both curious. Googled a few websites, and have to say I think I will look like a yeti in comparison!

One of the things I find liberating about a non-textile beach (only ever been in Europe...) is how it really, really isn't the 'beautiful people' swanning around. Its just bodies in all shapes and sizes, which i find very reassuring. Usually, the only images we see are in advertising, start beautiful and then air brushed within an inch of their lives. Reality is very, very different. All the best.

why would you be any more concerned about how you look on a "non textile" beach than when wearing a skimpy bikini or a costume or burkini? it makes no sense really.

most people are on a beach to enjoy themselves sun swim sea.
you or they may cast a glance and clock that person a is fat/thin/hairy...but that's all.

The whole point of nudism - as I understand it - is that it frees people from matters of personal appearance worries and is liberating - each person just is themselves. So worrying about being hairy etc is irrational. Just do it, if you want to.

Has anyone done it before? If so what was it like the first time?
I think once I get the initial part out of the way, I may enjoy it.

yse when younger with group of local friends in europe who made no big thing of it.. I would now..

the point is you go to the designated beach and everyone is lying around or walking or swimming without clothes.
that is all.
you go you take off your clothes you feel the sun you do what you usually do on a beach. that is all. no one is going to be pointing or staring.

Well - thats us back from a fab week away, and yes we did it....twice!!!!