No connection between the two for me to be honest. The desire to be naked in some situations goes back to my teenage years.
I hike barefoot and have gone off trail and gotten naked a few times, but that's it. I'd like to try hiking naked, but too afraid of getting caught and possibly arrested.
I only usually go barefoot when I’m naked.,I’ve always enjoyed being nude, and I don’t feel completely nude unless I’m barefoot too. Hiking is different. I hike naked a lot in the summer and typically I wear shoes. You can’t hike the terrain and tempo I want barefoot. Even if you’re a badass barefooter and I’m not.
I'm the same way. I hate wearing footwear to begin with. It seems silly to wear them if the rest of me is bare. But I've always hiked barefoot as I like feeling the different terrains beneath me, and being closer to the earth. Moss feels the best. I only hiked in sandals when walking down to the shores of Hippie Hollow. A lot of bare slabs of rock roasting in the sun, waiting to burn your soles off. Maybe I could have handled it when mine were more calloused. Gotta toughen them back up again.
For me, barefooting does not necessarily lead to an urge to go naked, but I think there is a connection of both though. On the one hand, if I go nude I prefer to go barefoot too as for me it feels way more holistic this way, and the sensual experience is more intense. On the other hand, barefooting gives you a chance to have a little sensual experience where entire nudity isn’t possible, so for me I would say barefooting is the “little nudity” - a little delight you can enjoy in your everyday life, whereas nudity needs some special setting usually.
I’m a barefooter and a nudist and love doing both I wish it was legal to be nude in public. I’m always barefoot in public and all year around.
I appreciate the barefoot portion. Our fellow humans are not always naked quality. No offense but some (including me) should wear clothing. We may all be in God's image, all God's children, all beautiful people, but few can pull off naked in public.