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MissAdventure Thu 28-Feb-19 15:00:10

Where do you sit on the scale of being totally at ease with being naked, or covering up, even in front of your partner/children/in-laws?

Willow500 Fri 01-Mar-19 14:57:27

0 or even less - with anyone!

GranDi Fri 01-Mar-19 15:18:06

Depends who's looking!

MissAdventure Fri 01-Mar-19 15:21:04

I'm not comfortable naked on my own.
I prefer to have something on, apart from my slippers, which I always wear!

paddyann Fri 01-Mar-19 15:42:08

I think its just how you are ,my late mother used to tell stories about me as a toddler and up until 5 or 6 when my idea of dressing up was a hat and a pair of high heels along with my knickers or my drawers as I called them .Nothing much changed really....lol

Sheilasue Fri 01-Mar-19 15:44:17

If I didn’t have a muffin top or bit of a belly I wouldn’t mind.
Even when I was young never thought of walking around nude. But early years of marriage yes.

Happysexagenarian Fri 01-Mar-19 16:19:39

DH 10
Everyone else 1

Ellie Anne Fri 01-Mar-19 16:28:21

Definitely not

cookiemonster66 Fri 01-Mar-19 16:30:12

I am a naturist, and am naked whenever I can. It is not about thinking that I have a great body, in fact I am size 28 and think I look horrendous, so my own personal body confidence is a big fat zero. It is also not about what other people think of my body. Being a naturist is all about the freedom to get back to nature and it is quite liberating. I love naked swimming, am often in my garden naked, (not overlooked) nudity does not bother me at all. I go to naturist clubs and beaches where many families often frequent. My parents were the same , we had no hang ups in our house and I brought my kids up the same. It is all about accepting our bodies whatever shape , size, warts and all.

MissAdventure Fri 01-Mar-19 16:47:58

smile
I would love to be that comfortable about nudity.

lmm6 Fri 01-Mar-19 17:18:22

Can't even bear to show my arms in public let alone anything else.

LilyBlue Fri 01-Mar-19 17:19:31

Husband 10
Daughters. 10
Grandchildren. 10
Now grandchildren are older they don’t wander into bedroom without knocking but it wouldn’t bother me if they did.
Doctor/nurse. 10
Not a pretty site but nothing to hide.
In public 0

Peardrop50 Fri 01-Mar-19 18:09:56

Mr P - 10
Sons and grandchildren - 0 for their sake and my pride
friends - 6 - did a calendar girls thing for local charity
public baths or changing rooms - 6
don't fancy naturism, I wouldn't want to sit where other bare parts had been before, have enough trouble sitting on public toilet seat.

JackyB Fri 01-Mar-19 18:42:06

We went to naturist beaches and campsites when the kids were young, (less these days) and I have never had any problems with being naked. I am now much fatter and have a front covered in scars, but it's not my problem if it bothers anyone.

It could be living on the continent which made me that way, but my sister is the same and she's stayed in the UK all her life.

I interpret it as a rebellion against the Victorian attitudes of our parents - covering up seems so insidious.

labazsisslowlygoingmad Fri 01-Mar-19 18:54:51

im quite happy to go naked in front of my partner but i dont think anyone else would like to see me wandering round as nature intended

marionk Fri 01-Mar-19 19:42:50

Probably not even a 10 with the in-laws tbh! But love swimming naked and don’t m9nd a nudist beach.

glammagran Fri 01-Mar-19 20:10:28

Never had problem with being naked in front of DH. In the ‘80s I used to sunbathe topless with my young children around but strangely, I don’t like to see topless sun bathing anymore. Often see it in countries where I’m sure hosts really don’t approve. I was always slim until I put on 4 stone with baby no 3 at 38 and to my horror only lost 1.5 stone afterwards. Now at 63 I’m about 2 stone heavier than I was pre baby no-3. Never did get rid of extra weight. Size 14 now instead of 10.

Silverlining47 Fri 01-Mar-19 20:23:23

I'm quite happy with my own body (72 this year) and living in France with a swimming pool it was a revelation to go swimming naked. Wonderful...and why would you struggle in and out of a wet swim suit. But to our amazement when we casually mentioned this to our adult children they all, seperately, had the same reaction.......ugh!! They seemed horrified that we oldies should do such a thing!
So....
OH 10 (doesn't notice anymore sad)
AC 4
Close friends (similarly minded) 10
Other family members 3 because they would be more embarrassed than me

BlueSapphire Fri 01-Mar-19 21:06:31

Never been shy of being naked in front of DH, and he was the same with me, right up until he died.
Only in front of DC when they were tiny, but I did go topless on the beach in Majorca when they were 8 and 4......
Medical staff are used to it anyway and it doesn't bother me.

Buffybee Sat 02-Mar-19 01:00:46

Thanks for the warning kircubbin, I will never be tempted to have a Turkish Bath.
Husband (when I had one) 10
Anyone else 0
I don't wish my daughter, or son (horrors), any friends or any Grandchild to see me naked.
Why would you, for goodness sake?

Saggi Sat 02-Mar-19 07:06:33

Totally inecessary to be naked except in bed. I always sleep naked. Otherwise it’s just exhibitionism.

barbiedoll Sat 02-Mar-19 15:09:42

Can't think of anything worse for a child to see!

Polskasue Sat 02-Mar-19 16:40:15

After sleeping naked for 40 years, now I'm alone I go to bed looking like Nanook of the North - just in case I get a burglar!

dizzygran Sun 03-Mar-19 07:52:25

no problem with DH - not DG. they getting older.bikini days are long gone but happy in a swimsuit.

Luckygirl Sun 03-Mar-19 10:03:52

Doesn't bother me being naked.

My DDs take that to the next level by calmly sitting down and peeing when we both happen to be in the bathroom.

M0nica Sun 03-Mar-19 19:40:20

I look at this discussion from 2 angles.

One is how comfortable I am with my own body and whether I would be embarrassed if an indifferent and uninterested passer by saw me naked. The answer to that is that I would not be remotely embarrassed. I do not have any hang-ups about my body and never have, no matter what shape it was/is.

The second angle is being naked in relation to someone who is not disinterested - family member or similar and that is very different. If someone saw me briefly and accidentally - walking into the bathroom/bedroom when I had no clothes on, not expecting me to be there, again equally unbothered, but I would not go naked where anyone was around who might be embarrassed by it ie not in front of children, grandchildren, friends or other family.