How did you start as a nudist?

[Free-spirit]

I'm interested to know more about the nudist culture. Can you please tell me how did you start as a nudist or naturist? I would like your answers to serve as an inspiration to me.

[Free-spirit]

I'm interested to know more about the nudist culture. Can you please tell me how did you start as a nudist or naturist? I would like your answers to serve as an inspiration to me.

[FireProf]

There wasn't any revelation. I began sleeping nude at about age 14. Would go into my bed room, close the door and under the covers, I'd take off my underwear. I did this for a while then started playing sports in HS and saw that many of the older guys would put on their pants (levi's) and didn't wear underwear. I tried that several times and enjoyed it so at about 16 I was not wearing underwear and sleeping nude all the time.

When my parents and siblings would leave the house and I'd be alone, I would strip and stay nude inside and wonder out in our back yard til they came home.

When I joined the Navy, I was worried about how I was going to sleep nude in boot camp. I managed most nights. Once I was stationed on a ship, I really didn't care much what any of the other thought and slept nude all the time.

One morning a shipmate saw me get out of bed nude and later at breakfast asked if I was a nudist. I told him, "I dont' know", what's a nudist?" He was raised a nudist and told me all about "colonies" and his parents and family. I listen and after we talked many times about nudism, I was convinced that I was a nudist by his and his families' definition and philosophies.

After I was married, my wife and I spent many days at home together nude, slept nude but confined ourselves to the apartment or rented houses we occupied. One night at a rented house with reasonable privacy, we ventured outside in the backyard and "technically" the front yard nude and like the feeling and the rush.

We didn't experiment anymore for quite a while after that and confined our nudism to the house and backyard. For the past 27 years that we've owned homes, they have always been designed and configured to allow us to live without clothing both inside and outside on our property. We have ventured into social nudism only in the past 5-6 years. We both love it, love our nudist lifestyle and meet some really great people who are like minded. http://clothesfreeforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_cool.gif

[BroNudist]

Im not too certain what it was exactly that had me interested in nudism, but I guess that since I was a kid, I felt it was fun to take my clothes off. It was kinda cute to adults & was quite typical in a village setting to see kids of 4-5 yrs old running around nude & splashing in the river.

I did spend a few years in the United States when I was between 6-9 years of age. Went along with the whole family when my dad pursued his studies there. Made a lot of friends while I was there & one of the few things I remember the most, was when I & a few of my friends were done playing in the playground & adjourned to one of their house for lemonade. I still remember her mom telling us to get out of our soiled & dirty clothes, wash our hands & feet before we sat down to have some cookies & drinks. So 4-5 of us boys & girls would be sitting around naked in the living room having snacks & watching cartoons. It was then that it registered in my head that being nude was ok & not offensive.

Another significant moment I remember was, when mom, dad & my brothers went grocery shopping for the day & left me in the care of another Malaysian family friend, which was quite often. And while there, whenever it was time to take a shower before dinner I would be herded to the bathroom together with their daughters to shower together. So that also sort of cemented my notion that beinh nude with the opposite sex was ok.

And so as I got older, Ive started like many of us here by hanging around the house nude when everyone was out...id started to sleep nude too. As time progressed all these things & everything else Ive done nude have become a norm for me...till today.

[BackpackerBrian]

I started in college in Orlando, Florida. For a sociology class, called Deviant Behaviour, we took a field trip to Cypress Cove. I thought that was the coolest!

I wanted to explore more, so I chose nudism as my term-paper subject. This gave me the opportunity to talk to nudists and to use the American Nudist Research Library (at Cypress Cove) for background informaation.

In the end, my term-paper was a bit baised in favor of nudism. I got an "A" in the class, and shortly thereafter joined a club in Tampa. While it was initially challenging to erase the years of cultural programming that nudity equals sex, and to find friends in my age group, with time there was a transformation.

In the years since, I've found that the circle of friends I have formed in the naturist community consist of top-notch people. They are awesome people and great friends.

It was really a great decision I made to become a nudist, and would do it all over again. http://clothesfreeforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_smile.gif

[carbuff]

Like many of us here ,as a kid I found myself sleeping nudeand walking around the house nude when alone. I found that I felt better without clothes on .Than at 40I went to my first nudist outing it was great there is no turning back now.

[NudistGuy47]

I began as a teen while living on the family farm to go nude outdoors in the fields and by the river running through the property. I found I liked the skinny dipping while alone and then with others as some friends would join me after doing the farm work. I went social in college and converted my GF, soon to be wife, to the life. It was not a concious decision so much as doing what I enjoyed.

[Sir Oink]

Great stories, ya'll.

Mine is simpler since I am still a newbie. I was surfing the web and had heard about naturism from the Surreal Life on VH1 (when the people went to play volleyball in Palm Springs). I wasn't sure at first but the more I started reading here (and other sites) I was convinced that it was the way to go. It just seemed right. So I started hanging around the house nude then went swimming nude and then sunbathing nude. Now I am in the planning stages of my first social trip. I can't wait!!

[MJ_KC]

I started going nude outdoors when I was abour 10 or 11 years old. I would do this any time the oppurtunity presented itself because I lived out in the country where the chances of anyone seeing me were extremely low.

I didn't become a social nudist until I was about 30 when I found out about Playalinda Beach in Florida and made it a point to take a vacation in central Florida. Playalinda beach is still one of my favorite beaches, although Haulover is perhaps my favorite.

[merum]

Started in high school skinnydipping in the pool at night when no one was around, which led to sleeping nude. When I was in grad school started going to a beach on Fire Island that was c/o took off the trunks and never went back. We have a pool at home now, over the last two seasons have not worn a suit.

[T.L. L.A.]

I Started reading th bible more, getting more into church, started working more in the church and getting closer to God, Then I started doing some Spiritual Work and one day I accepted myself 100% and I've been nude whenever possible eversince.

[Chance]

I, unlike FireProf, and Naked Kat, did become a nudist overnight. Literally! I had heard about nudism on the news, and decided to check it out. So I looked for some articles on google. Here is the one that convinced me.
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Why and how should you become nudist ?

-Who can become a nudist ?
-Anyone ! Of any gender and any age !.
-Why should you become nudist ?
-Live a healthier live style.
-You will enjoy more in your life !
-You wont have tan lines http://clothesfreeforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_smile.gif
-You will become a better person.
-Forget your every-day cares while you are nude.
-You will enjoy doing activities during the day ( while you are nude ).
-Its like with clothes, but better !
-Save money on clothes http://clothesfreeforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_smile.gif
-You will have fun !
-If you are teen, then you must know what is good and fun for you, you dont have job or all the cares adults have... you should try it.... read on.

How do you become a nudist ?

Well, ther is nothing easier than to become a nudist !

The only thing you should do is to take your clothes off ! http://clothesfreeforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_smile.gif

So how do you feel ? Great huh ? So free - its fun...

Of course you wont do it now ( But, if you done it, its great ) if you have someone at home, try removing your clothes when you are home alone, and you will see its great !

Next time you're be alone, lock the door, and undress, walk around from a couple of hours. Feel the breeze on your skin, the touch of the floor under your feet. Act as you would act usually, watch TV, read, etc. You can also start sleeping nude. I can guaranty you'll like it !

How do you become a nudist ?

Warning ! - If you will do the following you will never want to wear your clothes ever again (especially Israeli people) http://clothesfreeforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_smile.gif - It is hot now ... very hot, once you came home at the middle of the day (after school for example) and you have no one at home, remove your sticky and sweaty jeans and shirt ( or whatever )... So how do you feel ? So free ... feel the nice breeze on your naked body... and now try to remember how did you felt a few minutes ago... dressed, sweated , uncomfortable , yuck ! http://clothesfreeforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_smile.gif
Try doing things you don't like to do in the nude, for example try cleaning your room, or studying while you nude... you will enjoy it !
-Start sleep in the nude ( if you hadn't done it until now )
-Try to find a place to go nude outside, a nude resort for example, find a nudist community.
-Thats it ! You are a nudist now ...
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I tried it... and loved it. I have been a nudist since March, 2005. Yeah. not very long... Sorry it is so long.

[Nudony]

Progressively. First, there was a short nude stroll in the woods behind my parent's house, which became longer over time. Then they erected a pool, so I added skinny-dipping sessions when they were out. A big turning point was when I went on vacation in the French Pyrenees, went hiking and undressed at the top of a mountain. That's when I knew that it wasn't just some weird compulsion; it was much more. A year later I officially became a nudist.
On a side note, there seems to be two ways people start. First, there are the people who discover it by themselves; so it usually a lengthier process for them. And then there are people who are directly introduced to it; so for them it is more of an "instant" process. I sometimes wish I had been part of the second category.

[ididndoit]

Don't know that I became a nudist. It seems more that I was always a nudist and just never verbalized it. I note that several have mentioned growing up in rural environments where the opportunity to be naked was present. I really think there are many many nudist out there but they never admit to it. I must admit to some anxiety the first time I went to a CO location and one part of me kept saying "you don't HAVE to do this" while the other side kept saying "you will never know what it is like if you don't try it". I've since met some very nice people and a few old grouches. Should we find it strange that this community mimics the rest of society in that respect? Not really!!
Personnally, I most enjoy the nude hiking because in addition to the feeling of the sun and the breeze on your skin you have the added challenge of avoiding detection. My powers of seeing, hearing and smelling become elevated and guess what happens? Not only do I avoid detection but suddenly I am so much more in tune with nature and my surroundings. I see more wildlife and can observe it more closely. Actually, only those who have experienced this have any idea what I'm talking about. Too bad most of the world will never know what that is like!!!!

[nudeM]

Just by reading the stories, I tend to think we all had nudist tendencies when we were younger. I know I did. My story is basically the same, took off the clothes when I was alone at home, or slept nude at times.

But when I first discovered I liked the lifestyle, was about three years ago. After surfing the web and found this site, I decided right then and there, life was too short, so I literally dropped my shorts in the living room, in front of my wife (hw). She thought I lost it. I was going through a very tragic time in my life (family deaths), and decided I had to live my life.

To make a long story short, she has since became accepting of my nakedness, but only when the house is clear of kids. She has since been a regular here on the forums and has made many friends. I admit, I became a 'hard core' nudist, but for the wrong reasons. I liked being naked so much, I put it ahead of my family. To this, I have 'tamed down', but I still don't wear anything when on the computer, but I will wear shorts when my sons' and grandsons' friends over, or when my daughter visits.

Very interesting question. For the older members, you have probably heard my story before, but I repeated it for the newer members. Hard to believe the many different aspirations that have been similiar, just to gain the same goal, and that is to live life without clothes. http://clothesfreeforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_cool.gif

[Kevin Cabrera]

I, too, did not just wake up one morning and think of myself as a nudist.
I remember as a very very young boy, taking my PJ's off during the night. In the morning my mother would come in to wake me up and find my PJ's on floor. By the time I was 10 or so, I would take my clothes off when my family wasn't at home and run around naked. When I started to drive at the age of 16 I would drive out to a local lake and find a secluded area where I could strip my clothes off and hang out nude. Then when I turned 18 years old, I realized that there were "others" out there just like me, so I went to nudist resort and I was hooked for life. It just kept getting better from there.

[Ruins of Ayutthaya]

No one special moment that suddenly converted me here, it was pretty gradual.

I had always enjoyed being naked throughout my life, of course. (Who doesn't?) And I was lucky enough to have a pool to help feed those tendencies whenever I felt like going swimming without having anything crowding around my body. Still, I really didn't think much of it for many years.

A few years ago, I was wandering around the internet when I rather unceremoniously came across some nudist sites. I was pretty shocked at first to see such a lifestyle officially existed, much less had so many well-organized communities. Still, after some quick exploring through these sites, I realized that I wasn't alone in my wanting to be naked and more or less went "official", so to speak. Now I can't stop.

[andy_ma]

Hmmmm, well I was born this way and I knew early on that I felt most comfortable this way. Like NudistGuy47, I too grew up on a farm, and enjoyed free hiking in my teens when nobody was home. Of course as soon as the family left the house and I had it to my house, I too then stripped down to relax. Officially, I guess it was about 1987 when I left home to go to college and had my own place. No looking back and enjoy being nude to this day.

[fred950]

Like NudeM, my story has been posted before. And like M, I guess I too, will repeat it.


As an infant, my mom said that I would take off my own diapers...And remember, this was long before 'huggies' and tape closers were ever heard of!

As a youngster, I was 'jealous' of the African / Amazon Rain Forest natives in National Geographics who were naked all of the time!

At age 10 or 11, I simplly stopped wearing jammies' and started to sleep nude.

As a teen I used to get together with some friends to do some skinny dipping in a pool 'Behide the Barn'. Plus, while in high school, came into possion of an early sixies' nudist magazine. ( The Nudist Way of Life.) Also in this time frame, after taking a shower other members of my family would hold their towel in front of them (while otherwise nude) I would just hold the towel making no effort to cover up.

While in college, I was part of a loosely formed skinny-dipping club that used the university's pool after hours.

All this while and during my marrage, I was what is referred to here as a 'House Nudist'. After my divorce I sought out nudist ventures near me winding up first as a regular at Mazo Beach. When the soft sand of Mazo got to be too much for my right foot, I went to Valley View and haven't looked back since.

[Ben_m]

I certainly never considered myself a nudist or a naturist until about 3 or 4 years ago. However, while I refused to shower in a locker room I was also secretly nude whenever I could get away with it and for as long as I can remember. I was hugely conflicted about it.

When I saw similar behavior in my oldest daughter (at a very young age herself - it didn't last...), I started to wonder if what I thought to be true, making me something of a perverted wanna-be, I realized, was really true. It took a lot of searching for me and quite a bit of time and thinking. Eventually, I completely changed realizing the errors in my previous thinking. But, it wasn't something that happened over night, nor easily for me and lots of contributing factors and people helped me along the way.

I still feel constrained in my naturist practice by certain factors and in certain ways, but I have realized and done things that I never dreamed I would and loved every minute of it. I could not go back. There is nothing worth going back to.

I've told this here before, but once more won't hurt.

All my life I've enjoyed being nude. I have always slept nude; it just seemed the natural thing to do--particularly since I never had any PJ's. I bought one pair to use in the hospital and eventually threw them away. If I'm in the hospital again, it will be without PJ's.

My parents never hired a sitter for me as a child. I remember being home alone as young as 5, and I would always be nude. At age 5 my 8-year-old brother played that we were nudists. We had somehow heard the word and had some idea of what it meant. I would sneak out of the house at night as a child and a teen and walk around nude. I skinny dipped every chance I got--even at the local beach. Swimsuits then were very small (like brief-type underwear). I would go out to the deep water, take them off and carry them in my hand as I enjoyed being nude while everyone else wore swimsuits.

I would find places where I could be nude in the daytime without being seen, although I nearly got caught a few times. http://clothesfreeforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_eek.gif

When I got married I continued to be nude in the home, and my wife didn't care, but she didn't join me.

In 2001 I found this Web site and looking at the photos gave me the courage to go to a nudist venue. My first time at one and I was hooked. I couldn't go back if I wanted to, and I don't!

[sawdust]

I was about 7 or 8 years old when my folks bought me a membership in our local YMCA. Back then in the mid to late 50es we were allowed to swim in the nude. I found the experiance wonderful and freeing. I was also in the BSA at that same time and at summer camp all the scouts swam in the nude. It was not unusual to see a number of boys walking to or from the lake in the nude. No one thought a thing about it as being wrong or sinful. My folks knew naturally that these activities were taking place in the nude. They never questioned me about and did not experess an opinion one way ot the other. All I remember was that I was young and it all was lots of fun.

As I got older I started to find time to be nude and in the woods or at a lake by myself. I had a few friends and we would all ride our bikes out to a near by lake for a day of nude swimming and sunning. Again, it was all innoicent and fun.

Having these social experiances at being publicly nude helped me adjust to future lockerroom and military times. When asked to, required to or ordered to "get naked" it was no big deal.

I remember vividly my first day in the USAF. We were all marched to a large building. In groups of a dozen or so we entered a room and ordered to strip naked. We were then all handed a duffle bag into which we put our civie clothing. By the time we exited the far end of the building we had a bag full of military clothing and were dressed as USAF personel. Some guys tried hiding behind the guy in front of them so as to no be seen. That ended when the Sgt made us all stand in the nude side by side in a row.

I slept in the nude through most of basic training and tech school and always once I was assigned to a base. I was not alone as a number of guys also slept in the nude.

Prior to getting married I told my then wife to be that I slept in the nude and would like her to do likewise. It is now 37 years later and we still sleep in the nude most of the time. Sawdust

[John Spooner]

When I was studying for my projectionists licence in my early 20`s, the operator of the cinema I was trained at and some of his mates took me down to Maslins Beach which had recently been declared a legal nude beach.
That was the catalyst which started me off.
John S.

[wolfie]

Sometimes I think i am a real minority, being I have always been a nudist. I was raised in a naturist household from birth on. So social nudity is all I have ever know, and I may add will contiune to know until the Grim Reaper makes his visit. I was raised at the old Zorro nature park, sorry to say it's long gone, along with two siblings. One has passed over, the other is still a practicing nudist. I married a naturist gal, also has passed on, and raised one child as a nudist. The child, a daughter, has chosen not to remain in the lifestyle. But, she is well into her 30's so it's her choice.

[Free-spirit]

Thank you for all the inputs. I just went swimming nude last Sunday at Lake Tahoe and actually enjoyed it.

I just wish that the nudists there at Secret Creek are friendlier. The atmosphere there is to each is your own. Many are not interested in interacting with fellow nudist. As a newbie, I expect that they will somehow give me some encouragements.

Or could it be because I'm an Asian and they're thinking I'm different from them.

[Buzzer]

http://clothesfreeforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_cool.gifYou may have just gone at the wrong time. The others may have sensed your "newness" and thought you would rather be left to yourself. Go another time and the atmosphere may be very different.

I never once interacted with strangers at a beach, and I'm not sure it would be any different at a nude beach.

At a nudist resort, however, you're together in the hot tub and pool, play different games together, and just generally have closer contact with others than you do at a beach.

[Cheffred]

My wife and I were basically closet nudists for a few years as we ventured to clothing optional hot springs occasionally. But when we had pictures taken of our daughters nude and pregnant I found the real beauty of nudity. Then I studied nudity for a college essay I wrote and found that I loved the concepts and ideas of the nudist lifestyle and well for my wife and I we have fully embraced nudity and all it has to offer

[nudeM]

Free-spirit, I tend to believe that people at nudist beaches are not 'unfriendly' but wish to be left alone when they are nude. I know I have tried to make conversation to nudists at a beach, only to be shunned. I did find someone who was willing to talk, but for the most part, I believe they just want to be left alone and enjoy some nude time to themselves, without interacting. http://clothesfreeforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_cool.gif