Naked parents

I have seen my dad naked, once, when I was 5. It was for a split second when I walked by and his door was left open as he came out of the shower. That was it.

Like some others, I tend to get creeped out by some of the accounts of supposed nudist/nudist family lifestyles on here. I agree that we in modern Western society tend to be way too prudish and over reactive about people being naked. Nudity should not be seen as shameful or disgusting in any way. If I ever manage to start a family someday, I’m not going to make it a big deal if little kids run around naked or if somebody gets caught walking from the shower to their room. And I really admire the good-hearted, genuine, well meaning nudists out there, however few or however many they may be.

However, it has become obvious to me over the course of my Internet misadventures that the majority of people on forum sites (especially such as this one) who purport to live these lifestyles are weird and perverted, and probably don’t have families at all. Most of them are creepy guys, young and old, who have failed to establish meaningful and heathy relationships and as a result have become increasingly sexually frustrated and deviant, creating a fantasy of a life they wish they had on the internet and getting off with the people in the comments.

There must be, however, a subset of that subset which purports to live these crazy sexually open familial lives and is really telling the truth, which is even more concerning. There’s a fine line between “We go nude to swim or if it’s hot”, or “We’re teaching our kids not to be ashamed of their bodies” and “WE LIKE TO CUDDLE NAKED WITH OUR KIDS FROM AN EARLY AGE” or “OUR FAMILY MASTURBATES TOGETHER ANYTIME ANYPLACE”. In fact, it’s not just a fine line-it’s a canyon. Of the people who purport these things, few are telling the truth-but those few are seriously morally bankrupt and making animals of themselves and their children.

I am, though, complicit in this to some degree. As much as I decry these things, I can’t say I never get off to peoples posts here. I’ve been addicted to porn since I was 12, and even though I’ve grown more resistant in the past year or so-largely by replacing my addiction with an obsession with a real world girl- I have found it difficult to finally break the habit. This place, as much as I enjoy wholistic discussions about life and the universe, is also an outlet for me to jerk off to peoples life stories, as disgusting as I might find it later when post-nut clarity hits.

 

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I agree with JH93022.........home or family nudity is way more common than people want to acknowledge—the main reason, in my opinion, is that it's nobody's business except the family.

I grew up with parents who slept naked, who I bathed with when I was a boy, and who, to this day, we still see each other nude when we travel together and share a motel or hotel room.

My parents are not nudists per se, but Dad and I sauna, use the steam room and swim naked at his gym. When on vacation, if available, we have gone as a family to local nude beaches.

There has never been anything sexual about our family nudity. Family nudity is a private affair and not something you talk about. I think those who choose to talk about and express their sexual fantasies about family nudity are doing just that...expressing their fantasies.

The reality of family nudity is very different and is not sexual.

 

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There is this new online thing I've seen called "Sex-positive parenting." Clearly it is nothing more that "pseudo-incest fantasizing." From the responses I've seen, it seems that luckily most people understand it as such. Still, it is pretty toxic.

"Body-positive parenting" is very different. You don't even have to be a nudist per se to practice it; and there are in fact many families who endorse it to some degree. The general idea is to not hide nudity from children; nor discourage them from being naked themselves.
Becoming a nudist family is a personal choice that I feel should be a natural development. When it became clear that - when given the choice - my daughter would choose to remain nude after bathing, and with me being a home-nudist; my then-wife decided to start joining us. And with everyone being clearly comfortable with it, time spent clothed at home became shorter and shorter; until nudity eventually became "full-time." There was no big "existentialist" conversation; it just naturally progressed that way.

 

Nudony........ it was a similar process with my family....... Both my parents were not shy when it came to nudity. As far back as I can remember, I've seen them naked. They were both nude sleepers. I bathed with one of them or with my older sister every day when I was growing up. We didn't run around or spend our days naked, but often, after bathing, especially in the evenings, Dad and I would hang out in our undies. Sometimes, Mom and my sister would, too. We respected each other's privacy, but seeing each other naked wasn't an issue for us.

I think their attitude regarding nudity is one of the reasons I became a nudist at age 20. I'm very comfortable being naked all the time at home. My mother took up nudism a year or so after I did. Unfortunately, neither my Dad nor my sister are nudists. It's their choice, and I'm okay with it.

 

Just my mom by accident. But I regularly saw the parents of one of my friends naked, and they saw me.

 

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I know this is a very old post. Thought I'd chime in anyway.

When we were newly weds my wife and I agreed to not hide our nudity from our kids. They all grew up seeing us naked pretty much every day and never thought anything of it. They had no problem being naked around us and each other, up to puberty, but then they stopped. But even after puberty that still didn't seem to care about seeing us. Memory: My high school aged daughter came into our bathroom while I was in the shower (glass door - 100% see through) sat herself down on the counter, and had a conversation with me. It continued as I got out, toweled off, and got dressed. To my knowledge, they have never seen me erect, which is a good thing.

 

I grew up in a naturist family, both my parents were always nude at home, and I saw other family nude most days including my aunt, uncle, and cousins as they lived close by. There was only open farmland between us so it was easy go visit and stay nude, apart from a little used public footpath only farm animals could see us! It all seemed natural to me as I didn't know any other way of life. We mostly socialized with other nudists too. Everything seemed perfectly normal until I started to grow up and realized that as well as nudists my parents were swingers and into various fetishes too. Only then did the nudist lifestyle change to mean something different for me.

 

I think being nude make us happier...... It doesnt keep us restrained in anyway.........

Nothing at all wrong with nudity

 

We were raised in a small one bathroom house with only a bathtub. It was three sisters and me the only boy and both parents. It was common seeing one another.

 

I find it strange how parents or children become absolutely frightened being seen by the other. You concaved gave birth and spent years being completely nude together. And why should the onset of puberty drastically change that.

I was always proud of my body sharing its growth and changes with my mom especially during my puberty!

 

Ya my mum was like that.... She didnt want me to see her..... Hehe I knew what she looked like basically anyway!!!

 

I'd like to hear more about this!

 

growing up I seen my parents both nude many times.and they seen us kids because we sleep nude in summer. no ac back then

 

I was raised same way except we had heat the water for bath on stove.so we take bath two at a time.no doors inside house so when changing you be seen.

 

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Since I was a child, I saw my parents and my close friends and their parents naked, we were not nudists, it was natural.

 

Sure. The term, before it was hijacked online to mean something completely different, meant this: "Talking to children about sex in a sex-positive way means having open, ongoing, and age-appropriate conversations about sexuality, consent, and healthy relationships." The original meaning is now rarely found online.

In "puritan" America, this concept is still very controversial. Nudist families are in a pretty unique position to be able to have healthy talks; and I think many do. We did as well. It was very simple conversations; and we did not have to use "birds and bees metaphors" since all the parts involved were in plain view. Kids in that setting can put "two and two together" easily. But there certainly are parents, nudist or not, that will choose to put it off...waiting for a "right time" that never happens.