Anyone Ever Tried Just Being Themselves?

I mean has anyone ever tried being BOLD and being themselves in some place??

Like @ the YMCA try to step out of the locker room into the pool area NUDE and just see how the reactions are..... ITS GOTTA START SOMEWHERE


Lately I have been just opening my door to get the paper or whatever and if I have no pants on,I DONT WORRY..... I dont consider i am doing anything wrong...... I AM ME!!!!!!!

NOTHING WRONG WITH NUDITY!!!!!!!!


Anyone else just fed up with having to hide like you were some monster or something??

 

they may arrest a scary naked man on the pool deck of the ymca....and i'm sorry but it is rude to answer the door naked......

 

I am a believer in being yourself....to the title question....the nudity part....only for privacy and private eyes....

 

There's a time and place for nudity. I don't believe it's in a public environment.

 

Good luck with your program, but in most parts of the world you're likely to end up meeting unfriendly people in uniforms.

 

yes, plenty of people are not allowed to live near a school anymore.

 

weird, i always assumed that white background meant that someone had copy/pasted their post from some other site. but i swear i didn't just do that. maybe i've been calling people trolls when they really weren't.

ok, so they probably were trolls based on what they posted. but it's still interesting to know that the white background is a natural part of hipforums.

 

Personally, I don't really enjoy being naked... I'm not sure why. Maybe traumatic experiences in the past? Never living by myself maybe? I don't feel you have to be nude in order to be yourself tho. It does seem to portray your "true self" though, in a sense. If you can be naked around someone, shit... I guess you've got nothing to hide!

 

There are nudist colonies that you can do just that in. You do have to follow the rules regarding acceptable within the community but most of those are pretty basic and logical.

 

it's important to consider that even though you may simply be intending to be yourself, you are also forcing the people around you to have a relationship to you that they don't want.

go to a place where nudity is accepted, and all will be in harmony

 

In theory, you could say everyone has a relationship with everyone, whether we like it or not! But let's say we only have a relationship with someone if they're within a range where we could make explicit contact--talk, or at least make a gesture. Exactly why is it a relationship "that they don't want" if a person passes within view and they're naked, but it's acceptable if that person is clothed?

I'm asking about this as a theory, but earlier I said that actually going around naked would probably get a person into trouble! We never seem to hear a statement of exactly why nudity is so bad. I wonder if trying to figure it out gets us in an endless circle saying "A relationship you don't want is one that isn't acceptable to you" and "a relationship that's unacceptable is one that you don't want". That wouldn't answer the question of why people react so negatively to nudity.

It's hard to come up with examples of anything else that people dislike so much that it's a crime, yet which isn't harmful to anyone or even directed to any individual's attention. You know, there's a naked person over there, who isn't naked for any reason to do with us, and maybe they haven't even noticed us yet. But let's call the police anyway. Why would we do that?

 

I think it's strictly a matter of an implicit social agreement, the nudity is not inherently objectionable.

Similarly, you might be offended if someone decided that they were going to wear clothes at a nudist beach

 

I really do not want to see alot of people naked.....

 

There is nothing wrong with a person being nude. There is something wrong with that nude person making others witness it if they don't want to. And I'm pretty well known at my gym so if I stepped out of the locker room nude...I'm sure a lot of people would hear about it.

 

i do. just not the ones that i'm actually allowed to see naked.

 

No, that wouldn't be the same, because a nude beach is always (at least the ones I've ever been to) a public place, and people can wear what they want. I might wish everyone were naked, but if I'm "offended" because some of them are clothed, there's nothing I can do about it. It's nothing like the situation with nudity at a regular beach. It might be interesting to call the nudity cops, but we're a long way from that possibility.

"Implicit social agreement" is fair enough, but what's the underlying reason why we have this, and keep enforcing it? Nobody asked me to sign a contract for any such thing, but I still seem to be bound by it.

Moonglow181 said "I really do not want to see alot of people naked" and there's often talk about which bodies are fit to be seen naked, but I don't agree. I'd like to see everyone naked, including the ones who aren't "attractive" and definitely people I'd never be interested in sexually. When I go to a naturist resort or a nude beach, what I feel is affection--all those naked people who don't think that they need to hide their bodies away! It doesn't have to be a sexual experience or an esthetic one, really it is a "relationship" thing, an idea that not being ashamed of our human bodies (or afraid of anyone else's) links us together.

 

Call me old fashioned. I just don't need to be linked to everyone in that way, even though it is not always sexual in viewing.

We are all different....and that is a good thing, imo.

 

It was Newbie-one who talked about "forcing the people around you to have a relationship to you that they don't want", and perhaps that is the issue for people. We may have an instinct that clothes are insulation between us, and if the clothes aren't there, we assume that there's more intimacy and we imagine relationships existing without our consent. Maybe that's it.

 

Yes we dont wanna be l00ked @ like that do we??