Secretive Or Not?

Do you keep being a nudist a secret or do you let others know? Are you ever nude around textiles?

 

I'm not secretive about it in the slightest

 

I'm not secretive either,remember... Life is too short

 

I first got naked in mixed company at the Atlanta Pop Festival in July 1970. I have been an official nudist by joining a club in 1984, then writing a column "Nude Attitude" in Naturist newsletters and magazines shortly after that. My naked fotos have been published as well and almost everyone who knows me knows I frequent our Miami-Dade Nude Beach at Haulover Park.

So, not secretive at all. The only time I have been nude around textiles has been posing at art classes as the nude model.

 

i'm very op[en about it...no problem in being around textiles but much prefer other nude company

 

Not secretive, but it's surprising how seldom it actually comes up in conversation. I don't inflict my preference for nudity on other people, but it would actually be nice to let people know I was okay with it without making people feel uncomfortable.

 

I started off being secretive about it, but then I told a friend, which led me to sit as a life model for her during her studies, so her family ended up finding out then when she went into teaching I sat for some of her art classes and slowly more and more people became aware.

So it just grew from there really and finally a girlfriend was very open and she was keen to show me off, so now most people know.

 

I don't keep it a secret, but I don't impose it on anybody else. If it doesn't come up in conversation, I don't raise it (usually). Nude beaches are more common to talk about than nudist clubs. Nude around textiles at the beach. Doesn't come up otherwise, but I'm okay with it.

 

To our family and friends we see no reason to disclose it. We have decided to never deny it we are ever confronted. We do have friends that are nudist also. We have mentioned it to people we have crossed in passing. My doctors and his staff know. I have had some great conversations with textile people who were curious.

 

Yeah, no tan lines kinda give you away.

 

No, not at all. I was open, upfront and very visible about it way back as a teenager.
More often than not, it's the textiles who are around a nudist on a nudist beach!

 

I don't broadcast the fact that I am a nudist, but many people know that I am. I don't consider it a shameful thing but as a practical matter, I am discrete about it at work. Friends and neighbors know that we are nude around the house. Some will call ahead if they are uncomfortable about our nudity, others are willing to take their chances and come over unannounced. When my daughters were younger some friends were allowed by their parents to visit when they were nude, others were not. I think that trying to keep things a deep dark secret is counter productive--people want to know what you are hiding. Also it sends the wrong message to our children. Our desire to be nudists is not shameful and we shouldn't make it so.

 

The only people who know about my liking of nude sunbathing and saunas are those there themselves. So it is an oasis from the rest of the world.

 

Secret? What on earth for?

Naked around textiles? Doesn't bother me at all and if it seriously bothers them I usually cover up, unless they could have reasonably anticipated it.

 

Not bashful about it at all

 

I don't disagree with you at all except that I expect you are discreet about your naturism rather than discrete. Sorry about being pedantic, but I am an unashamed pedant as well as a naturist.

 

We don't get tan lines easily in Manchester, nudist or not! I was (as usual) going commando at an X-ray session with a camp radiology technician once, who pulled down my trousers, said excitedly “Ooh, no underwear!” and covered by genitals with a paper towel. I chucked it on the floor and told him “Just get on with it, man”.

 

I grew up believing that nudity was dirty and shameful. It took a lot of reprogramming, so I didn't become comfortable being naked till my early to mid 40's. Now I really enjoy it. However, I have found that most of my friends really aren't open to it, so unfortunately I must keep it to myself.

 

Not secretive about it at all, no need to be. I'm very open about being naturist, no problem being nude amongst textiles either.

 

I'm very secretive about it. But then again, I'm probably not an official nudist. I only get nude at home when nobody is here, and go outside in the sun at my place. I have 3 acres in the country, so nobody sees me.