wholesome family nudism

Did anybody here have experience with household nudism?

I have some friends who are topless around their family inside their house.

 

Do these seem like good guidelines?



http://www.wikihow.com/Practice-Nudity-in-your-Family

 

I have such experience

What interests you in particular? My entire family is normally nude around each other.

 

What do you think of those "guidelines".


Are your views any different than those instructions ?


If so, what are they?

 

I don't know. I never thought of family nudity as something that requires "instructions".

I grew up clothes-free for as long as I can remember myself. I was never taught the concept of shame as it applies to nudity. Instead, my parents always told me that different rules are accepted by different groups of people and one should pick their battles wisely. Not always in so many words mind you.

As far as anatomical and sexual questions, they were always answered in a straightforward and honest way when I was old enough to ask.

And before you ask, no, there was never a question of sexual tension of any kind between family members. That just never was an issue for us. People on this forum are fond of bringing it up, but the real world disagrees, at least in my case.

 

Exactly. It's the 'rules', 'instructions', whatever you want to call them, that create the tension in the first place.

 

Should there be any rules in a nudist household?

 

As a nudist when we have kids they will be free to do what they like. Not pressured to be naked nor forced to dressed.

Hope this answers your question.

 

As I mentioned in a previous post, I visited Nudist beaches/sites with an ex boyfriend over the space of a year, and visited homes where nudism was practiced. Overall I enjoyed the experience but one aspect that left me very uncomfortable was being nude around children.

To be honest if there were children around I would have preferred to stay dressed, I especially found it uncomfortable to interact with them in any way. It's not a case that there nudity bothered me its just that I didn't feel comfortable being nude in front of them.

Anywho like I said I haven't visited any nudist resorts since I broke up with my bf so it's not somthing I had to come to terms with.

 

I don't see the problem. If kids see us naked, we're not likely to be the first nude adults they've ever met. If that's a likely thing in that family, their parents will have taken them to beaches or resorts, or will have been going nude themselves, to the point where the children aren't surprised. I'd want to be sure that it's OK with the parents, but then I'd be perfectly comfortable with it. I've been seen nude by plenty of kids. I'm sure it wasn't a serious educational experience for any of them!

 

I accept everything you say, but I just felt uncomfortable being nude in front of children I'm not sure if I can articulate why.

Isn't it hard for kids, not sexualising nudity is something that i stuggled to come to terms with, let alone pubescent kids

 

You seem to be saying that you can't help feeling that being naked is sexual, and if you're able to do it at all, you couldn't do it comfortably with children around.

Well, maybe it depends on the experiences a person has had, and whether the people around have made nudity sexual. Once you've done it as a purely social thing, or just a trip to the beach, or even home alone, it feels more like a thing you can enjoy separately from sex. In fact, if there are children there, it's a good sign that it's a social, not sexual, activity. Well, people can still flirt, but it's not likely to be in a physical way.

 

I've been nude in front of kids of all ages, and it doesn't bother me at all. But then again, it's not as if I showed up to random strangers' houses and took my clothes off (hm, I guess that could make SOMEONE happy).

Kids that I've been naked in front of had nudist parents, or parents who accepted casual nudity. So the general mood was not anymore sexual than what you'd have hanging out with a bunch of kids younger than you with all your clothes on.

Now, did I have younger boys "check me out"? I'm pretty sure the answer to that is yes, but then again, they'd be "checking me out" whether I was clothed or naked. If anything, the absence of the tease, or, as my mother said, "lies of the clothes", made the "checking out" part a lot less obnoxious.

 

My kids are comfortable seeing me nude. They have seen me since they were young and have no problem with it.

 

My parents are textiles but i have learned the nudity with my aunt since i was 4-5years old..shes a nudist and i was always naked with her..having baths together..sleeping naked together and general being natural with each other..ofcourse having erections infront of her and act normal with our sexual desires it was a natural freedom which i loved and love to have with her and my family too..my fiance and i we are natuirsts nudists and we want to have children and have a nudist family..to be free and natural as a family..

 

I have had no experience and know my family would be offended, and so as I love them I am clothed around them.

 

I always feel sexual when I'm naked in the presence of other people. It's definitely an awkward feeling when families are around, but as long as others don't know I feel sexual, then no harm is done. However, usually my conscience gets the best of me and I end up avoiding situations like that.
~Tina

 

I grew up in a very conservative household and if I had wandered around the house naked, my parents would have sent me off to a psychiatrist or perhaps a mental hospital. However, when they weren't home, I would sneak outside (we had a large yard) and be naked in our backyard.

I've been at the homes of other nudists when they're visiting their families and it's a mixed bag. Some of my nudist friends don't even let their families know about their passion about nudism and others are very open - even to the extent of innocently being naked in front of all family members. I remember going to the house of a nudist couple's (friends of mine) house (they don't have kids). When I arrived, they were both nude and it was obvious that I was expected to shed my clothes as well, which I did. Later that evening, they invited their neighbors to come over and I didn't know what to expect. Were they nudists? Were they conservative? As I like the thrill of being an exhibitionist, I decided to not ask. As it turned out, they weren't nudists and wore their clothes the entire time they were visiting. They didn't seem to have the slightest issue with the nudity of my friends or me. It was absolutely thrilling being naked in front of clothed people in that environment.