nude male bonding experience shows me real friendship

after years of becoming a guy who enjoys being nude in every possible moment, only few months a go i found the real meaning of "nude bonding"...to be precised "nude male bonding" (not in a sexual way). well, as a heterosexual guy i already found the meaning of "nude bonding" experiences with female... my current girl friend as well as several ex-girl friends...not that many, just few exes..hahaha. before i never had "nude bonding" experience with guys...well nude in locker room, sauna or other casual moments with other nude guys also happened in the past, but the experience of spending time in the nude with other guy for hours was something i never experienced before. couple months a go i had a project with this Korean guy...he's also in his 30's, only few years older than me. he's married with one child. i never worked with Korean or Asian guy before. at the beginning we were so busy with the project, so we almost never had time for relax. well yes we went to the bar for drinks once in a while, but somehow the conversations were boring and seemed like we just couldn't be buddies. in the middle of the project, me and him had to go to Japan for business trip. at the beginning i was imagining it would be a quiet boring trip. we had to stay a week there. we didn't talk much in the plane. to save some budget, we didn't stay in a hotel. instead, we stayed at my Korean colleague's cousin's house in Japan. the owner of the house was leaving to Seoul for a month, so we could stay there during our trip to Japan. it was a nice house nearby the mountain area. not big but it's nice. the best thing of the house that it has private hot spring pool in its backyard. also not big, but i guess up to four adults could soak together in the pool...or jacuzzi...or whatever you call it. while i was unpacking my clothes from my travel bag, to my surprise my Korean colleague - his name is Han, showed in the door of my bedroom completely nude while holding two towels on his hands. i was a bit surprise with the view. then he told me that he was going to take dip in the hot spring pool while handed me a towel in case i wanted to join him. before i say anything he walked to the open air backyard. well to be honest at the beginning it was a bit weird for me...a nude guy asked me to join him to dip in the jacuzzi...or whatever that is. before i decided to join or not, i took a peek at him in the pool backyard. still nude, he was doing some...errr stretching or whatever that was, before he entered the pool. Japan is quite known for its hot spring water..so i decided to join him. i stripped my clothes and covered my waist with that not-so-big towel. when i approached the pool Han laughed at me and said "why bother covering it? what's the big secret anyway?"... i was a bit embarrassed when he said that. but i guess he got the point. then i removed the towel from my waist and joint him in the pool in my birthday suit. he then told me that in both Korean and Japan, it is very common that same-sex people go to bath together...of course nude. so they're very casual about nudity. he also added that also in both country, going to bath together and drinking together were great ways to get to know each other better. i told him that bathing together with other guy is something new for me. Han was just laugh. he said he understand that. even though the water's temperature was quite hot, but it was really nice. the situation was very relaxing. this time Han was more talkative than before. we talked about many things from job to personal issues. i also found myself also easier to talk to Han than before. i guess that relaxing moment really helped us to be more friendly to each other. bathing or dipping nude together in the pool then became our daily activity. in the morning and in the evening we would spent hours nude together in that pool...well not exactly always inside the pool..sometimes we also sit on the bench nearby the pool...but still nude, no need to cover up. even starting the second day we both mostly nude while in the house. when i saw Han slept in the nude, i asked him whether he is a nudist or not. Han said he usually wear nothing in his house. well, we found something in common...the next day we both always nude inside the house. the night before we leave Japan, we decided to buy some Japanese liquor and brought it home. we drank bottles of liquor in the house until we both drunk. well, to be honest it was my first time drinking with a buddy in the nude. it was quite fun. Han was very funny when drunk. to my surprise Han suddenly touch my penis and asked me did i took some chemical drug to make my penis big? i was surprised with his question. and i said "no, i did not". then i grab his penis while saying "you're not happy with your size?".. then we both laughed. for Asian men, seems like having physical contact is totally fine. well i have to say that Han and i had quite many physical contacts...but nothing sexual at all. at the beginning i was a bit surprise, but Han told me that non-sexual physical contact for Korean is part of acceptance. so nothing to worry about. after that Japan trip, me and Han became buddies. what Han said before about the Korean/Japanese custom to bath and drinking together as ways to get to know someone better, is very true. and in my opinion, the one that took big part of those ice breaking moments is the nudity. being nude in front of each other makes us feel free and honest about our selves, more honest to other person. being nude together also makes us see equality...that we are the same human being, whatever our position in real world is. being nude together also increases trust among each other. that was the moments where i finally found the essence of "nude male bonding" experience. i guess this Asian custom of bathing together and having nude moment - the Japanese has the word "Hadaka No Tsukiai" which means communication in the nude or nude companionship, is the purest way of making good relationship with other human being. thanks to my good friend Han for showing me that.