I wanted to type one more thing …

About mating, I think that clothes makes it even worse. If girls are dressed sexy, I think it can make guys more interested in mating then completely without clothes.

Think about it, forbidden fruit is sweetest …

What you can’t see, you imagine and I think brain is most powerful mechanism in human body. But yup, being naked could make things easier for some “not normal, not healthy” people..

If we talk about past, ok, people were naked, and it was normal, why are we dressing now ? There are probably many reasons.

But I ask you what is normal ?

By nature people are born naked, you are not born with clothes but yup, you can’t run in city without clothes cause it’s not polite, not nice bla bla ..

Could anybody live on Antartica without clothes ? I don’t think so.

So we don’t have to talk about what was like before and now ..

But what I’m interested is shame in front of others, if its natural to be naked why 90% of civilization is ashamed ?

Well that is not normal for me, aldo I’m ashamed my self, but I’m one guy who thinks: “Where all people go, I’ll go”, I don’t feel normal when others wear clothes and I do, but for example, after sports, in gym or after soccer, we all go to showers and no we don’t touch each others or anything like that, but we are not ashamed, no dirty thoughts … Its so simple and easy, no negative, or wrong thoughts, relaxed, natural, normal feeling.

But I have 1 more opinion, most of people here mentioned they have extra pounds and that they are ashamed cause of it. Well if you were naked from start, you wouldn’t have that extra pounds, cause you would see your body and you would know that everybody sees your body every day, and you would take care of it ..

Well I had conversation about this with 1 girl, she is ashamed in front of her family, and I’m not, why is there need to hide something that your own parents made ? They made me, they feed me, cleaned me and changed my dippers, and now I should be ashamed after I passed puberty ? Why ? I’m still their child, and I will always be. And I think there is nothing to be ashamed of…

I believe all negative feelings are not good, and that we should think only positive, so this cant be right ..

My two cents ..

As for the issues of hygiene and body image, nudists carry a towel around to sit on, and when everyone else around you is nude and showing their imperfections, the embarrassment tends to go away.

That said, I take a pragmatic approach to the question posed and remind people tha tin the north eastern US, it’s cold like half the year. Perhaps our society could out mode the body-shame cycle but it’s still a survival issue between November – April.

When I decided to tell some of my family members that I was a nudist, the problems began…though not right away. See, I’m the only nudist in my entire family. They still have body shame and phobias that I once had, pre-nudist. With a few (VERY FEW) exceptions, no one in my family would let me be nude in their presence, for it would make them uncomfortable.

Yet, no one in my family will give me a straight answer as to WHY nudity makes them uncomfortable. To them, it just does…no reason why…just that it does. And, when I tried convincing them that nudity is no big deal and that I’ve gotten used to it, they got defensive. Though they deny it, I feel like an outcast in my own family. Ain’t that nice (sarcasm)? The few that support me of being a nudist say that they don’t mind if I’m naked in private, but NOT when they’re around.

This went on for quite some time until it reached a breaking point. Now, I feel as though I’m struggling with my own nudist lifestyle as I find it hard to practice, except at night when they’re asleep and when I’m home alone during the day. I’m not trying to shock anyone with my nudity. I just want to do everyday things in the nude, but trying convincing most of my family with that statement and all hell breaks loose, especially if they see it.

But, what they don’t realize is that the stress and aggravations of not letting me be nude whenever I want to is putting quite a struggle on this thing. In fact, it’s putting me on a much more dangerous path…possibly putting me back on the porn addiction again! I’m not saying I’m addicted to it as I was, but it’s becoming much more frequent than it was when I was peacefully nude. To that, I say this: HELP!

That out of the way, here’s my two cents on this issue. I am 30 years old, going on 31 (next March) and, for the first 27, 28 years or so, I was living in shame of my body. I was brought up like most people…that being nude is bad or private, which must never be seen by anyone but a spouse/lover.

At about that time in my life (after 27 or 28 years), nudism found me. I always used to say that I discovered nudism, but I strongly believe it found me instead. It found me by accident, too, because before then, I was a porn addict. That’s right. I was addicted to pornography…in the WORST possible way, too!

Thanks to nudism, I’ve backed off of porn, though not completely, but far less than the addiction I had. Being a nudist has made me more self-confident about myself. I’m no longer ashamed of what I look like. For a while, nudism has made my life better in so many ways, one of which I already explained. But, this peace of mind did not last. More in my next comment.

those are imposed social controls that continue to hinder our senses of empathy and self confidence.

Just take off your shirt and get used to it. (especially in a hot climate!)