What lead you to get into nudism?

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  Mike

  Mar 23, 2014

  Frankly, I cannot remember any identifying moment - but rather the lingering feeling that I would if the opportunity arose.
  It was always a bit of an issue internally, as my upbringing implied that it simply was inappropriate and an unacceptable option.
  but there was that lingering feeling, if the location was right - so rare opportunities were taken, the nude swim here, the co beach, the private yard when no one was around. I have slept nude as long as I can remember and both have since we were married. CO beaches were sought out, and the feeling continued.
  At home we are regularly naked and always at our pool unless others are over.  So more recently and hopefully, better late than never, we have focused on developing our our private paradise, pool and garden.  Social nudism does not sit well with my wife.
  Will be interested to see how the future evolves

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• ME

  Member

  Mar 23, 2014

  I was born naked, and have been a nudist ever since ;)

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• DA

  

  Dave

  Mar 23, 2014

  around age 12 I enjoyed being partly nude outside, even though my friend would not.  Never walked around, just sat in the bush and talked.  age 14, got nude at a nude beach, but not for long.   Few years later, did get nude there, and I did walk around nude(by that time,I could control my erection problems)    I have always tried to get nude whenever the opportunity exists, never been to a nudist resort as they have either told me no single males, or double the price because I am single.  equallity for all is it?  only for the rich!  That is what it seems to be.  So, for now, I just bide my time, and once in a blue moon hit a nudist beach.
  

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  sally_sydneyOriginal Poster

  Mar 28, 2014

  Thanks for your responses everyone, did everyone else notice that it's generally been the same to start with.. Thinking its somehow wrong before realising it's just a body and we all have one?

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  nudebeachbunny

  Mar 30, 2014

  For me, it sorta started in high school...Id occasionally sleep naked during hot summer nights. It made me comfortable, and it didnt really extend beyond that. It wasn't until college that I got more into it. After getting back to the dorm from the shower one day, I just decided not to put on clothes. I had the room all to myself and didn't have any classes or anywhere to go that day. I just thought to myself why bother, no one is here and I unwrapped my towel and let myself be free. It felt good, I felt comfortable and free. Since then, every time I had the dorm to myself I was naked. it just felt more comfortable. I then found out about nude beaches and found that there was two hours away from my university. I was curious about it and decided to give it a try. I instantly felt somewhat of a spiritual vibe the moment I stepped in the sand. The whole experience was very liberating and I loved it. I felt more connected to nature and I found myself going back there every so often whenever I needed to unwind, relax and de-stress.
  Now that Ive graduated and moved back with my parents, I rarely get to go to that beach anymore, but I do try to go at least a few times a year. I still however get naked every chance I get when no one is home. Its kinda funny when I think about it, this all started cause I was basically too lazy to put on clothes and I'm very glad I decided not to that day.
  

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  billyrubin

  Mar 31, 2014

  For me, I've always loved being nude but I guess my social nude tendencies started to show when I first went to uni. I was always up for a dare and did countless nude runs through the quad or down a random street.
  More recently though I discovered the joy of the nude beach and it's even harder to keep my clothes on!
  

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  Ferbie2by4

  Mar 31, 2014

  I always enjoyed being naked since I was little. Just felt natural and normal. I heard of nude beaches was a kid but didn't think much of them. I wanted a place where one could be naked 24/7 if they wished. Then I saw the "nudist colony" scene from "A Shot in the Dark." Although it was a comedic scene, it eventually confirmed my hopes. I wasn't alone. So once I became an adult I joined this site. Unfortunately on account of location, I have not been given the chance to practice social nudity yet.

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  theNakedNerd

  Mar 31, 2014

  It's a long story; but in essence I was a at an outdoor event and a local college student was taking photographs for their course work. Most of us went to their gallery show for support and free buffet #tbt. The college was looking for subject for further art courses so I though what the hell and signed up, it was just portrait stuff and a hand cast (don't ask). I basically got talked not to doing some posing for a life drawing class and some follow up photographs; it was then I thought, nobodies even looking or noticing it wasn't a weird thing to be doing. So a rather tentative trip to Leysdown beach and finally there I was naked in public, I have never looked back; although I live 3 million miles away from the nearest beach, so I am rather tentatively trying home nudism, but I am unsure of the law with respect being naked n my back garden.

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  Ronit

  Apr 1, 2014

  Good day all.
  It happened two years back.
  Before wedding me n my gf (now wife) were home nudist and had thought of going to Cape due Agde to experience how does it feel being nude outdoors. We went there an year after wedding. We had thought that we would not dresses whole time but due to shyness couldn't come out of apartment nude n walking to the beach nearby ( we stayed in naturis quarter). Season was almost over hence we didn't see anyone else nude outside on the street going to beach. We decided let's go to beach dressed. At beach we saw people nude n we felt comfortable n took off our dresses n were nude first time outdoors. And Wow we loved the feeling. We didn't want to get dressed again n later walked back to our apartment in nude. In the way we went to the supermarket n restaurant nude too. Being nude outdoors was really great. Next day onwards we didn't care if anyone nude or not, it is naturis Quarter n we can be nude so went nude from apartment always.
  And living outdoors it since then. Hopefully this year or next summers going Cape due Agde again.

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  R

  Apr 5, 2014

  I discovered that sleeping in the nude was much more restful than wearing textiles and partially from my ex wife. After our children were born she had no problems with being nude in front of the children if they just walked into our bedroom whereas I was the more prudish one. Now whenever I get the chance I remain unclothed at home and visited my first nudist campgrounds last year. I'm hoping to get out to more this year.
  
  Edit: I just remembered another thing that may have lead me to here. When I was stationed in California for my training we were learning to drive 5 ton trucks for my MOS. One day the SNCO's took out out to some cliff over looking a beach we'd never been to before. It turned out it was a nude beach and all the SNCO's had their looking glasses along with them. That was my first every introduction to a nude beach and since then I've been wanting to go to one.
  

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  stonesinariver

  Apr 8, 2014

  mine was the funniest thing but looking back, I could hav got into trouble but people mostly see the fun side.I was camping in the seventies at torquay,a normal bathing surf beach,and my friends said that I,m allowed to go nude there,so I stripped off walked to the beach in my skimpy bathers,got to the beach and took them off.It felt good,so I went in the surf,by then the early morning rush was congregating,and before  I knew it the beach was full of clothed people,i got out of th water and was getting stared at and  laughed at,so I went bac to camp only to find out they played a joke on me.After that,i loved th feeling of being free and found there was a nude beach at point impossible,and went there twice a week,loved it and since then I will never go to a normal bathing beach,as a matter of fact I do all my work at home naked only wear clothes to go shopping or outside my property boundary

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  StruttingRooster

  May 4, 2014

  I started when I was on holiday in Sydney. I went to Lady Bay beach and haven't looked back since! I love being nude.

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  Tom === Thomas S. Tierney

  May 4, 2014

  Born Nude!
  

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  Steve

  May 4, 2014

  Skin problems. Clothes have never felt good - started sleeping naked when I was a kid, going naked in private places on the grandparents' farm, skinny dipping, naked around the house and at anything countercultural (swimming holes, Rainbow Gatherings.) I'm a "nudist" now because that countercultural freedom has faded, and I'm so used to nudity it's hard to count someone as a friend if I have to dress for them - so the nudist world is a comfortable social space.
  

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• ME

  Member

  May 8, 2014

  I first seriously thought about it around age 14 when I read an article about a nudist summer camp in the newspaper, and thought it might be a neat thing.  Then I did some research on it, and discovered it was apparently a whole lifestyle, and secretly started trying it out whenever I was the only one home.  Still haven't been to a beach or camp or anything, but I'm hoping to get out sometime this summer.

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• TR

  

  Travellingbizguy

  May 16, 2014

  For me it was a chance to be quietly rebellious and not conform to the way we/I were expected.
  

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• ME

  Member

  Apr 15, 2015

  I grew up in a very conservative state so I never experienced nudism until my early twenties. I went to a couple hot springs in California and slowly got hooked. It wasn't until I went swimming and hiking nude in Colorado at a hot spring that I knew nudism will always be a part of my life. It is so relaxing, and once you realize that no one has a perfect body and people except  you for who you are that it makes nudism worthwhile.

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  David

  Apr 15, 2015

  I've always liked to be outside in nature. First experience I remember was playing naked hide-n-seek with the neighborhood kids at about 6 or 7 years old. I've never looked back since!
  

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• ME

  Member

  May 9, 2015

  Hi all, a few of you may already know I,m very new to this..my lead into this at such a late time in my life come about from "what I really liked to do" while growing up and being married, My then wife & I really liked the idea of being naked together but really embarrassed to go public, so we,d go to public places and try to get away with making love without being caught..not because we liked the risk of being caught..on the contrary..we just liked the freedom..the open air..but hated the thought of being caught out!, so I guess I want to do this before I,m too old & unable to enjoy it...I,m still on the verge of going public & just looking for the chance to "go nude" legally in public but just need to find friends to go with! :-) x
  

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  Half

  May 10, 2015

  Mine sounds different. I too slept nude for decades and was nude when alone for as long as I can remember. Clothed with others. It was never about social nudism. Only about five years ago when I finally stopped giving a shit about what other people thought did I open up and put it out there, and that includes to my spouse. Now I love the freedom of nudity, the equality of nudity, the simplicity of nudity. I'm a nudist. For 45 years I was a dude who liked to be naked.

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• MI

  

  Mike

  May 12, 2015

  An elder woman ... she was 16, I was 14!  She also persuaded me to start taking nude photos.  And the rest is history!
  

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  VinceD

  May 14, 2015

  I was with a group of friends one hot summer and and we decided to skinny dip in the river.

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  nudie_iq7721

  Jan 21, 2023

  I was at lake powell and because it was pretty warm at night, started sleeping naked. and then started just going naked in the daytime, and the other 2 couples and my lady friend did too. it was more comfortable being naked and plus we were always in the water a lot.that led to long walks naked along the canyons and we all stayed naked for almost 2 weeks.

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