how can we encourage more young women to get into nudism

i have been going to nude beaches around the world for many years now

and there is less and less young women going to them from years before

(with the exception of europe which has always been a family/women frienldy place)

what are your thoughts on ways of encouraging young women to participate?

 

Get rid of the obvious perverts

 

There's no clear cut way of doing so. No two women are the same, although in our modern cultures they are conditioned from an early age to be submissive and ashamed of their bodies.

If you want to get a woman into nudism, it's best to do so first off with somebody who is already known to you as a friend and trusts you so that she knows you are genuinely interested in her as a whole person than just a leisure lady.

Talk to female friends of yours about it, explain the benefits of it as well as any pitfalls. Women do talk to others about their nudist experiences, especially if they've had any bad ones. Sadly it's the way our society works: people are more likely to harp on the bad things that have happened in nudist places than the good things.

I wonder what happened to all those brave ladies who rose up in the late 60's - early 70's when they burned their bras as a sign of claiming their independence from an oppressive society and wrote books like the Female Eunuch empowering women to stand on their own two feet?

Fear only empowers perverts, and I think women ought to be granted the legal right to carry guns and capsicum spray if they choose to go out on their own at night or to a nude beach in order to ward off these jerks. There are unfortunately some guys who can't seem to let up and will even be so forward as to setting up their towel right in front of a woman's legs on the beach or publicly masturbate a couple of metres away from them. Instead of standing up to these guys, the women get scared off and just pack up their clothes and leave the beach vowing never to return there again.

This is what's wrong with nude beaches: they are not policed properly. In Australia we used to have beach inspectors who would pull up and escort people off the beach if they did not behave appropriately and I think that they ought to be brought back again to deal with these oafs.

Women do not like to be treated solely as sex objects regardless of whether they are sexually conservative or liberal, and that's their main objection to nudism: they feel it trivialises them. When you have boorish guys being tolerated in nudist environments and nothing being done to reprimand them then of course it's going to be much harder to get women involved in it.

 

well, i don't think that's the right question
maybe, how can we help them feel safe, respected, and accepted in nudist environments?
just because they're not showing up doesn't mean they're not interested in the lifestyle or experience

 

stop being such a pervert, like you never seen a nude body before.. In other countries and cultures the men and women are naked all the time, except for a few pieces of regalia..

 

The few women that I have seen at clothing optional beaches seemed to really have enjoyed themselves. I've often seen them staring at the men's private parts as they walk up and down the beach!

I think a common misconception among women is that it is compulsory to be nude on one of these beaches or else be labeled as a gawker, but in fact all women are welcome on the beach whether clothed or not. It really would be nice to get a more even balance between the sexes.

Perhaps if all of us were to email every woman in our contacts list, explaining the virtues of nude beaches, and asked them to forward the message on to all the women in their contacts list and so on, and so on, maybe that would go some way to tempting some of them into visiting one.

 

very pro-active response

i like it

 

Staring is rude for either sex. That's a no-no for either sex, and causes part of the problem we're discussing. :cuss:

 

In the USA I think it starts with the culture which drives the laws. In other countries it is accepted for women to be topless at beaches or for both sexes to be nude. Much of the USA population is still horrified when a female nipple is exposed for 1 second on TV at a football game (reference Janet Jackson). The reasons for this are probably many, but I sure wish it would change.

 

Culture is a large part, I am sure. More opportunities and proper policing would still make a difference though. There are loads of beaches in the UK and US, and many saunas/spas, just very few that are clothes optional.

 

Here in the US, the two things women are concerned about most when they go to nudist resorts are 1)Are there going to be lots of single men there and 2) are there going to be naked families there.

These are the two biggest turn offs to women whether we are in our 20's or 80's.

Now at legally recognized beaches like Haulover you see all ages and many younger women. At unofficial beaches you will see lots of men. I was at Little Beach only once in my life and it was packed with men that day. The few couples that were there, we all sat by each other and all the women commented how creeped out we were by all the single men.

I think you find more younger women at nudist resorts in the US than beaches as they feel safer at resorts.

 

It's interesting at Harbin Hot Springs, because not only is it single-friendly, there are times when it seems there are at least as many, if not more, women than men!

 

I blame USA's puritan up-bringing that dates way back to the Salem witch burnings. Part of this stigma still lingers in our society today.

It's no wonder the British kicked these freaks off their island.

 

But I must add that at my local nude beaches there's plenty of young women. But I'd say about 80% of them only go topless.

At all beaches all men wearing swimtrunks is pretty much considered fully clothed. Men can expose all of it or none of it. Whereas women have the option of only exposing half.

 

i don't understand why any woman of any age be worried if there are families at the beach

i would think this would make it more attractive and safer for women

 

Women don't want to strip off at beaches and sit with hairy males. We have standards. We only do this sort of thing on the isles of Thera. But the women of Thera don't participate in the affairs of men.

 

well for starters its proper greek name is thira not thera or more popularly known as santorini

i think you have mistaken thira for lesvos

many of the women you talk about that go to lesvos for holidays are not the type of women id like to see naked or clothed

the real people of lesvos however (lesbians) , yes that include males and females that are native to the island are lovely with a rich culture that goes back thousands of years

 

Women are luckier than men when it comes to "testing the waters" of nudism. Women can take their tops off to try it out only halfway. For men, wearing trunks and being topless on a beach qualifies as being fully clothed. There is no in between zone for men, they're either naked or they're not