What motivates girls to become nude?

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• BF

  bfrank13

  Jun 10, 2009

  This is a great topic for us.My new wife has agreed to try a co skinny dipping area in vermont.I used to go with my ex wife many years ago but my new wife has never been.I have told her that she only needs to do what she feels comfortable doing.She agreed to go topless and then see what happens from there.I think that the best approach is to lovingly compliment my wife and not be demanding or pushy.I think that once she feels the sun on her bare skin,the rest will come naturally.She has a wonderfull attitude about life and is not uptight so I really expect good results for us but it must come slowly with no demands.

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• TH

  

  Thomas

  Jun 10, 2009

  [quote]This is a great topic for us.My new wife has agreed to try a co skinny dipping area in vermont.I used to go with my ex wife many years ago but my new wife has never been.I have told her that she only needs to do what she feels comfortable doing.She agreed to go topless and then see what happens from there.I think that the best approach is to lovingly compliment my wife and not be demanding or pushy.I think that once she feels the sun on her bare skin,the rest will come naturally.She has a wonderfull attitude about life and is not uptight so I really expect good results for us but it must come slowly with no demands.[/quote]    That sounds like a good approach, good luck on it.

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• UK

  

  UKrudegirl

  Jun 11, 2009

  [quote]Hello everyone, I have friends that are femael and arent nudists and im wondering how some of the female members in this site get motivated to become nude[/quote]I like it, it saves laundry, easy to pack for a trip and I enjoy the attention I get!Simples !Love n stuff,Rudiex

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• GA

  

  gator1

  Jun 11, 2009

  [quote]This is a great topic for us.My new wife has agreed to try a co skinny dipping area in vermont.I used to go with my ex wife many years ago but my new wife has never been.I have told her that she only needs to do what she feels comfortable doing.She agreed to go topless and then see what happens from there.I think that the best approach is to lovingly compliment my wife and not be demanding or pushy.I think that once she feels the sun on her bare skin,the rest will come naturally.She has a wonderfull attitude about life and is not uptight so I really expect good results for us but it must come slowly with no demands.[/quote]   You are so taking the right approach, and if you help her be comfortable (and praise her bravery along with her appearance) with whatever steps she takes, you'll likely be at least somewhat of a nudist couple before too long.  Baby steps are what got my sweet wife to the point she's now comfortable nude with our friends at the resort.  She would not take the clothes off on our first three trips. Great decision, and best of luck!

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• RO

  

  Roosterock

  Jun 14, 2009

  I think some is to please the husband or boyfriend.  Then some are exhibitionists.  But like the women on here stated they have been brought up to believe there body needs to be perfect.  Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.  I know the beaches that I go to that hardly anyone has a perfect body once they are nude.  That is men and women both, they may look great with clothes.  I would like more people to say this is the way I am.  If I am happy with my body that is all that counts.  If you look at my profile you will see I need to lose some.  I agree but I am still happy to be nude and enjoy the sun with friends.

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• ME

  Member

  Jul 5, 2009

  I always get into passionate debates with friends on this general subject.  As it has been touched on by others I disagree that there should be concern about convincing anyone else to go nude.  They don't want to? Ok that's fine.  However what's important is being able to if you do want to.  I completely agree withLeannethat partitioning ourselves from everyone else is not a good solution.  In fact I really do contend that partitioning and having "nude only" destinations only makes things worse.  Textile dependent people will only wonder what "those people" are doing behind the fences.  I think that once people are OK with others being nude then they will be OK with being nude themselves.  The challenge is making sure that one's own nudity is not a big deal.  I don't think the question should ever be "Why won't that person get naked?"  It should instead be "Why on earth couldn't I be naked?" We kind of have a perfect storm of ideas to contend with when it comes to nudity.  Religion, Law, Sexuality.  All subjects which people are passionate about and have a lot of flexibility in interpretation.  This kind of institutionalizes textilism informally.  People grow up just "knowing" that nudity in general is not OK and/or even bad. I think this last point relates specifically to girls as they are taught to hide their sexuality.  Males are "expected" to be promiscuous to some extent.  Since many people equate nudity directly to sex it is easy to logically conclude that they have more reason to cover up based on this incorrect fact.    There are a lot of forces at play here.  Hopefully the "choir" isn't too bored back there :-p

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• MA

  

  macnude

  Jul 13, 2009

  Tcotta,
  You've made some interesting points in complete agreement with a rather long narrative which I have begun on how to attract younger nudists. An small excerpt follows:
  " It’s very difficult to sell a product that nobody wants.
  Why is it that the nude resorts in the Caribbean are  often booked to capacity at $300.00 to $400.00 per night. when nudist clubs offering nominal grounds fees cannot fill their pool chairs. The median age for those resorts is 20 to 25 years younger than the nudist clubs. It’s a very unfair comparison but I think it establishes that nudity is not the issue.
  Grin and Bare it.
  Art

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• MA

  

  macnude

  Jul 13, 2009

  Tcotta,
  You've made some interesting point which are in complete agreement with a rather long narrative which I have begun on how to attract younger nudists. A short excerpt follows:
  " It’s very difficult to sell a product that nobody wants.
  Why is it that the nude resorts in the Caribbean are  often booked to capacity at $300.00 to $400.00 per night. when nudist clubs offering nominal grounds fees cannot fill their pool chairs. The median age for those resorts is 20 to 25 years younger than the nudist clubs. It’s a very unfair comparison but I think it establishes that nudity is not the issue."
  Grin and Bare it.
  Art

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• LA

  

  LaeLae

  Jul 17, 2009

  Just my roommates are 2 guys and a girl. The 2 guys became nudists and so I was too scared to but started wearing bikinis with the other girl. So then after a while we joined the guys and are nudists all 4 of us. So i got motivated from others at home! My parents whereas were never nudists but i slept nude always growing up until i bought lingerie which i like a lot to wear in bed for sure.

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• I2

  

  i2gobare

  Jul 17, 2009

  I love the feeling of being free and love the sun on my body also... it just radiates to my soul......
  I can say though that most of my women friends are not nudists because they are not totally confident in their own skin and are afraid of the preconceived comments or snide remarks.  I try to explain to them that it's a pretty safe enviroment, but some have been to nude beaches where men have oogled or been rude or hovering and they did not appreciate that type of attention.

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• RI

  

  RiverRat84

  Jul 17, 2009

  As I see it, within some of the responses to this question, IMO, lies the answer. The women that are presently active nudists are the ones that need to be recruiting, convincing, or whatever term you want to apply. Not meaning or wanting to sound sexist, but the truth of the matter remains, women stick together. The presently active female nudists regardless of age, are the ones that need to be the ones that assures that the nudist lifestyle will continue to exsist as we once knew. Having been raised in the lifestyle, I would hate to see all the resorts and the lifestyle dwindle to nonexsitence.

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• LA

  

  LaeLae

  Jul 17, 2009

  I dont go to nude beaches but i like going to regular beaches in bikinis and then during sunbaking i just take off my bottoms and nobody arrests me its fun and liberates me

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• IA

  

  ianlouise2

  Aug 14, 2009

  I enjoy being nude, enjoy sunning nude, swimming nude, hot tubbing nude (most nights) and being around other nude people, both men and women.  I know my husband likes being nude with me.  It is a sense of freedom and naturalness and I have always enjoyed it.
  Louise

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• MA

  

  macnude

  Aug 16, 2009

  I agree 100% with jmokes quoted below.
  "3. Give up on the current cliches, maybe we need to throw out "Nudist" and "Naturist" for something else, like "natural sunbathing", or something that reaches women and young people together.....Ideas???? "
  When my somewhat conservative neighbors found that I had participated in "the Record Skinny Dip" on July 11 they thought it was cool. Had they known that I had been at the same nudist club just two weeks prior, they might have been shocked. Skinny Dip has always implied a fun, innocent experience while nudism has been misunderstood as immoral, cultish and sexual by the uninformed.
  Grin and Bare it
  Art

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• RM

  

  RMitch

  Aug 18, 2009

  A point brought up earlier...
  "Men have more experience being naked in public"
  To this statement, I have to simply disagree.  In todays culture, there no longer exists any sort of nudity preference among male culture, that does not exist among female.  IMO, male society is moving towards more privacy.  Sure you have occasional lockerroom and military nudity, but from discussions with female friends, this is just as common among the female sector as well; sometimes even moreso.
  Perhaps we'll see a greater gravitation of females towards nudity in the future.

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• ME

  Member

  Aug 19, 2009

  I do not think the problem is what motivates us, it is more the problem of what prevents us from becoming nudists. My husband convinced me to try it, not unlike the previous posts suggested. but what was holding me back was basically 2 things;
  1 The belief that it is about guys just wanting to look and that it was sexually based. (for those of you guys in the chat that think you have to play as soon as a cam comes on leads validation to this concern)
  2 This I think is one of the main reasons that women hesitate or are not drawn into the nudist lifestyle. Society, through it's magazines and commercials portray what women are supposed to look like, most of us do not fit this societal image. It is only later in life that I believe most women decide or mature past this philosophy.
  I have been going to nudist resorts and beaches with my husband for about 8 years, but when I gain a few pounds or do not feel good about myself, I do not seek out nudist opportunities. trust me that once I do shed my clothes in the company of good people, my self image is no longer relevant. It is about getting a person there to try it that is the key. Until then society has a larger hold on how we judge ourselves than nudism ever can, unless you are able to bombard the public with commercials and program about the lifestyle, the ignorance will remain.
  I have read comments in response to articles about nudism that are basically naive or uneducated assumptions. Education is the key!!!!

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• CO

  

  Curt, or Cowboy

  Aug 19, 2009

  In response to Princedale.......

  Your point #1, in fact *is* valid ! I freely admit as a fully functional normal male, I do particularly enjoy seeing nude women ! I'm not dead !
  That it's sexually based, strictly speaking, is true. I enjoy seeing women largely because they ARE women ! How can that NOT be sexual to a certain extent. That it's a purient interest would be wrong. It's merely a deep appreciation for one of the best ideas God ever had ! Age is irrelevant, as are a number of other things one might think were a factor, but are not.

  Your point #2, the body image thing.
  Methinks that's also valid. Society does depict the "perfect" woman as being the minimum acceptable standard all too often, when it is not.
  Very young girls don't care, as we see them scampering about at resorts, and neither do older women ( and/or men ) when we reach the point in life where we just don't really care WHAT our peers think of our appearance. It's the middle ground that's the biggest problem, when young women think that any single hair out of place is a disaster. Of course, after about 1 visit, maybe 15 minutes at a resort we all learn that it's also completely irrelevant, and only the perverts care, or notice.
  True, "middle aged" women ( and to a lesser extent, men ) have some degree of self consiousness about body image at first, but it's truly an extension of the social aspects of the textile world, where woman are in constant, and sometimes fierce competition with each other to be better looking. ( to istinctively be the best they can be, and attract a suitable mate ) We see it in clothing, jewelry, hair styles, makeup, everything, and largely unimportant to men. We even see it at resorts with jewlery, the various sarongs so prevelant in a "nude" environment, especially in the evenings., makeup, and such. It puzzles me that "nude" is far too often NOT nude at all, even when it truly doesn't matter one whit to most.
  This societal ingraining of the superficially "important" is hard to shake, no matter who you are, or are not. As a result, the women I know, textiles, have severe reservations about being nude in any non-private context based entirely on their perception of the superficial, and quite shallow, perception of what's "important" in appearance, believing that some things are hidden beneath clothing. Well, these things ARE hidden beneath clothing, which inadvertantly creates a focus on what can't be seen. It seems it's only AFTER these things are exposed, be it cellulite, "a few extra pounds" or whatever, that once revealed, and noted, never again noticed, seen, mentioned, or in any way any concern to anyone, that one can accept that when nude, men look women in the eye.
  The "undressing with his eyes" thing is a valid concern to most women. Most have a very difficult time accepting that when one can NOT undress her with his eyes, because she's already undressed, that this mystery is revealed, that it becomes what it truly is. Irrelevant. Not only not a big deal, but in fact, no deal at all !
  Women by their nature, and by evolutionary design ( which does not even remotely suggest *not* created that way by a higher being ) are the nururing protectors of children. It's SUPPOSED to be that way. Women instinctively  seek to protect something, even when there is nothing to be protected, and this can extend to their own self-image and body conciousness.
  Men, on the other hand, are the hunters, the gatherers, the risk takers, by evolutionary design. It stands to reason that men will be far, far more willing to take the risk, and strip off in public, even when they intellectually have reservations.
  It's instinct, coming from lower brain functions.
  It's my opinion that when we recognize this, rather than deny it, and allow for the feelings of aprehension that MUST be more intense in women, allow the patience for the higher brain to overcome the lower brain, and for a woman to learn deep down in her very being that there is no danger. There is nothing to protect, because there is no threat. When we get to that point, there is nothing to prevent a woman from walking naked and proud among others as any man. It seems that once women have overcome this natural apprehension that women, not men, hold onto their new found freedom and aceptance just as fiercly as they at first refused.
  To that end, and again IMHO, it *is* up to men to fight the perverts, and eliminate them from the venues, so as to eliminate any validity to the concerns that women have.
  Men are ideally suited to this fight, as it's OUR instinct to protect and defend our women, at any and all costs.
  When women in general can see and understand that this protection exists, that we will fight on their behalf any challengeas may occure, then women can become as comfortable in a nudist experience as any man, or anyone at all for that matter, as comfortable as the little children who know none of this, and happily scamper through the resorts, and in the textile world as well when young enough, as naked as the day they were born, with not a care or worry for anything. When this can be domnstrated at a lower brian, instinctive level, this "problem" simply ceases to exist.
  It's our responsibility, not an option, to make this environment so. As men, to eliminate the cheaters, liers, and the other perverts from the nude venues as soon as they are discovered.  If we are not willing to do so, then we surrender our masculinity along with shirking that responsibility.
  My opinion. The rambelings of an individual.

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• CE

  

  Centralists

  Sep 3, 2009

  Lot's of good insights, answers and a few accusations levelled.

  What's the big deal overall? We've been naked most places we ever find to swim, boat, or just sunbathe. It's not really a matter of avoiding anyone, often I do it without my significant other or some friend that tags along (when I'm on the road travelling...I ask if there's a nude beach nearby or so....most responses are "of course").

  It's always best for safety's sake, when crowded areas lesson the threat some, but my preference is secluded areas where there's no overriding problem...for the most part.

  On the question of worrying about someone watching me and having sexual thoughts? Of course they're going to have those. Why deny we're human? ALso for me seeing a nearby sun bather growing a hard-on from watching me? It's more a sign of respect I think. WE usually giggle it off. If there's a friendship struck, all the more better.

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• JA

  

  JackNeilson

  Jun 19, 2010

  bump

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• WE

  

  westheathen

  Jun 23, 2010

  Hi, I think that a major problem for BOTH males and females is body acceptance.  But unlike men, women who by and large seem to be of the opinion "what the hell, there is nothing I can do about my size down there" (at least that is my attitude); women seem to be less accepting of this.

  As for the clothes optional thing that is a good place to start in my opinion.  In my view folks should be left to do things at their own pace in this typ of situation;nothing is more of-putting than having to be told "you have to do this or that" when you are in a social setting.
  Someone mentioned earlier about the way people feel the need to conform.  I have not had experience of this myself, but one of my friends told me of an incident when she visited Japan.  She went to have a sauna and as usual (well it is in Britain) put on her one piece cossy; only to find that everyone else there was totally nude. As a result she felt very uncomfortable, went back to the locker room, stripped off and felt much better when she went back.  (As far as I know she is not a naturist/nudist).

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• MI

  

  Miss_Linda

  Jun 23, 2010

  [quote]Hello everyone, I have friends that are femael and arent nudists and im wondering how some of the female members in this site get motivated to become nude[/quote]    Once upon a time, I wanted a better tan. Now I know how foolish it is to risk skin cancer. Nonetheless, it is still comfortable to be nude.

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• CD

  

  Cheri Donna Dawson

  Jun 23, 2010

  I was vacationing at a resort in the Caribbean.  The first two days were spent on the beach
  sitting in a soggy swimsuit and being chafed by sand.  I signed up for a day boat trip and
  picnic at a beach on an island away from the resort.  As we were leaving, I discovered that
  the excursion was to an island with a nude beach!   I decided to go anyway, thinking no way
  was anybody getting me out of my suit.  I stood firm and, in fact, was the last person to
  give in and shed my swimsuit - I was the last one to get dressed to return to the resort.
  Why hadn't someone told me about this sooner?  I was hooked, and that was over 40 years ago.
  The phrase, "nude when possible, clothed when practical," definitely describes me.  I do
  wear at least shoes when vacuuming the house though as I have a habit of running over my
  toes with the vacuum cleaner.

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• ME

  Member

  Dec 12, 2010

  attempts to bounce the garbage off the hoem page would be my guess, NIM!Jen

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• PV

  

  Paul Vogler

  Dec 13, 2010

  Lots of alcohol.

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