I have recently joined this site and have found it to be a wonderful place to visit. I have read several posts regarding nudity and the disparity between men and women, couples and singles, participating in nudist activities.
My take on the issue is that most men grow up more comfortable being naked together. If you were in the military like I was many eons ago, you had no choice but to feel at ease when you showered, slept, sat on the john sans partitions, ate, fought, and sometimes died in close proximity to one another. Running around naked on a beach is really not a very big excursion for most men.
For my late wife, however, it was a very big venture from her days when showering together meant separate shower stalls behind a curtain after gym class.
Combine that with repressive and exploitive tittering tabloids like "Playboy" or page 3 of you-know-what, and many women feel threatened by the drooling mobs of men viewing them as objects of their lust if not affection.
That doesn't mean that nudity and sexual attraction are somehow different than being fully clothed yet being sexually attracted to the opposite or same sex, but that is to me not really the issue.
My kids and grandkids have always enjoyed building sandcastles on a beach without the burden of sand in your knickers, but most of society does not.
Being naked and being comfortable being so is something that needs to be discussed and debated if we are to expand our mutual interest before we all are forced to wear burkas or beards.
What do you think?
Jack Adams
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