Bed!

[uskman]

This website is of course concerned with the naturist lifestyle generally, but it tends to presuppose public nudity. However, there is one activity besides swimming for which it is just as illogical to wear something, and that is sleeping. More people probably sleep naked than was the case a generation ago, but it is still not a very widespread practice, particularly with women. Why on earth is this? What possible motive could there be for wearing clothes to bed? Warmth? Not if you are a cold mortal and you have plenty of bedclothes. Fashion? That's a laugh; who can see you apart from your family. "Decency"? Why should nudity be indecent, particularly when you are in bed? And why wear clothes when bed is a common venue for sex that positively shouts against clothes? Hygiene? Not relevant since any body fluid stains would simply be on bedclothes instead of nightclothes. The possibility of fire - the old excuse against nudity? If this worries you, have a dressing gown by the side of the bed, but if you have to jump from a window in your birthday suit, so what? Your own life is more important than modesty, if that worries you. However, if your neighbours realise that you sleep naked, so what? (They probably do anyway, but are too prissy to admit it.) Why don't naturists lead a campaign against the sale of nightwear? (Actually, firms like Marks and Spencer, who, being in the clothing trade, admit that they sell few pairs of pyjamas in some areas than others, automatically reduce the supplies of these garments in those regions.)

[uskman]

This website is of course concerned with the naturist lifestyle generally, but it tends to presuppose public nudity. However, there is one activity besides swimming for which it is just as illogical to wear something, and that is sleeping. More people probably sleep naked than was the case a generation ago, but it is still not a very widespread practice, particularly with women. Why on earth is this? What possible motive could there be for wearing clothes to bed? Warmth? Not if you are a cold mortal and you have plenty of bedclothes. Fashion? That's a laugh; who can see you apart from your family. "Decency"? Why should nudity be indecent, particularly when you are in bed? And why wear clothes when bed is a common venue for sex that positively shouts against clothes? Hygiene? Not relevant since any body fluid stains would simply be on bedclothes instead of nightclothes. The possibility of fire - the old excuse against nudity? If this worries you, have a dressing gown by the side of the bed, but if you have to jump from a window in your birthday suit, so what? Your own life is more important than modesty, if that worries you. However, if your neighbours realise that you sleep naked, so what? (They probably do anyway, but are too prissy to admit it.) Why don't naturists lead a campaign against the sale of nightwear? (Actually, firms like Marks and Spencer, who, being in the clothing trade, admit that they sell few pairs of pyjamas in some areas than others, automatically reduce the supplies of these garments in those regions.)

[ScubaRay]

Nicely said- I have always asking why would you wear anything when you sleep.
Ray

[Cheffred]

10 Years ago when my wife and I just got together she would always wear a nightgown to bed. I convinced her to sleep naked, and now when she was going to share a room with another girl from her company, she was hard pressed to fing something to wear to bed.

[DJ Guy Productions]

I sleep naked 24-7-365 if it's cold outside, turn on the heat, and keep warm but under that I am naked. And lovin it



<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by ScubaRay:
Nicely said- I have always asking why would you wear anything when you sleep.
Ray </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

[Bob S.]

So DJ Guy, does that mean you are only awake for one day every four years? If so, how did you type that message?

I sleep naked roughly 8/7/365 (366 on leap years). Unfortunately, I usually fail to reach that 8.

Bob S.

[nudenwv]

good post. i've been sleeping nude since eighteen. my wife never got into it due to the fact if she had to get up during the night to tend to our daughter when younger,she didn,t want to expose herself. me on the ohter hand keep a robe close by for that purpose. sleeping nude is so much more relaxing. i'm not a cold weather person but just throw on another blanket.

[Sauna]

Sleeping naked has other name and it is to use ecological pyjama. One size fits all and it is washed in shower. It is free and all natural material.

I have noticed funny thing. If you tell to other people that you sleep naked they look little weird. If you tell that you use ecopyjama they concentrate to understand it and enjoy when they did understad it.(they were clever) After understanding it, naked sleeping is very positive thing.

[Danee]

I, as well as everyone in my family sleeps au natural and always has. Yet sometimes I will wear underwear for personal reasons, with no due respect for other comments about that.
-Danee

[ozboy]

Both I and my wife sleep nude. I always have, but my wife started about 7 years ago. She keeps a gown close to the bed just in case she needs to get up to the kids.

If we stay at someones house we always struggle to find some PJ's to wear.

[greensunshine]

I am with her, except the only other person in my home that sleeps naked is my better half, and that is because we both prefer it that way with the exception when it is that time of month, and then he is completely understanding of my reasons to sleep with only the bottom portion of my undies...

With light colored sheets I would rather have some method of preventing stains than to run the risk of changing their color...

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Danee:
I, as well as everyone in my family sleeps au natural and always has. Yet sometimes I will wear underwear for personal reasons, with no due respect for other comments about that.
-Danee </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

Greensunshine
Female, and still not going through menopause, yet anyway http://clothesfreeforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_wink.gif

[FireProf]

Since I was 14-15 years old and had my own room, I've been sleeping nude. I joined the service and it was a struggle at times to go unnoticed but I always managed to sleep nude then as well.

On our wedding night over 32 years ago, we've been sleeping nude together. The Prof would slip on a t-shirt when I wasn't home but soon found that it was so much more comfortable and she got a better nights sleep when nude, that she took off the t-shirt many, many years ago and hasn't worn anything to bed since.

At work, sleeping in a dorm with several other guys, I still slept nude. At first I tried to be discreet to the point of doing some quick manuvering when the alarm went off and we had to get up, but after being caught a few times and being made fun of by some and confessions of nude sleeping as well by others, I stopped hiding the fact and was very matter a fact about it.

When visiting others, we still ensure our privacy and sleep nude always. We have to resort to old tricks of putting on something under the covers but we don't let sleeping over someone else's home keep us from sleeping nude and getting a good nights sleep. http://clothesfreeforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_wink.gif

[DeathKnight]

Clothes tend to be an encumbrance when sleeping.

[Steve Dallas]

I remember a comic strip from several years ago. A mother is shocked to learn her son sleeps in the nude. She asks him, "What if the house catches on fire?" He replies: "I'll be the one who runs outside who's clothes won't be on fire."

[FMII]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Cheffred:
10 Years ago when my wife and I just got together she would always wear a nightgown to bed. I convinced her to sleep naked, and now when she was going to share a room with another girl from her company, she was hard pressed to fing something to wear to bed. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

[DJ Guy Productions]

SO sorry I meant to say 24/7/366 and I always sleep at night, too thanks for catching that for me. I appreciate it


<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Bob S.:
So DJ Guy, does that mean you are only awake for one day every four years? If so, how did you type that message?

I sleep naked roughly 8/7/365 (366 on leap years). Unfortunately, I usually fail to reach that 8.

Bob S. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

[Hooked]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by DJ Guy Productions:
SO sorry I meant to say 24/7/366 and I always sleep at night, too thanks for catching that for me. I appreciate it


<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Bob S.:
So DJ Guy, does that mean you are only awake for one day every four years? If so, how did you type that message?

I sleep naked roughly 8/7/365 (366 on leap years). Unfortunately, I usually fail to reach that 8.

Bob S. </div></BLOCKQUOTE> </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

hahaha, you're still saying that you sleep 24 hours a day...LOL

[Hooked]

When I was in high school/early college it was trendy for girls to wear boxers and pyjama bottoms to class. This annoying trend probably increased sales of pyjamas...we need to boycott the industry :P

[stcloud50]

I have been sleeping nude for over 30 years. Try it you will like it. I will never change.

[need2Bnude]

When I was younger I would sneek sleeping nude only because my family was not nude oriented. I sleep nude now all the time and love it. Its just better.

[Nudeinbama]

I've been sleeping nude since @12 years old and now can hardly sleep any other way. We have visited freinds or relatives and I situation calls I'll start out sleeping in underwear, but after too much tossing and turning, always have to ditch the drawers to sleep comfortable the rest of the night.I just have to remember I'm nude if I get up through the night or when I awake in the morning.
Once my wife's mother knew I was nude, because she came in the living room(we were on the pull-out couch) and my drawers were laying on the armrest, when she was standing over us waking us up. She did'nt make any comments. Lucky it was cold and we were under a blanket.
Nudeinbama

[takeitontherun]

I've just gone back to nude sleeping and the first two nights were the nicest sleep in a long time!!

[DouglasG]

Interesting post, uskman (town in Cumbria?) & like many others., I agree with your comments. All I can say though is, that come the colder times of the year, (October to April!) it's easier to keep warm wearing something more than a dressing gown when you have to slip to the loo at 3 in the morning!

Now I know why I want to build an en-suite .... shorten the distance & reduce the time out of bed. ;-0)

[Gary Naturist]

I have slept naked for many years. Previously, I thought of this as sleeping without nightwear. Now I think of it as sleeping in my nightwear (like everyone else does) except that my choice of nightwear is nothing.

There is a subtle difference, which relates to how I appear just before bed, or during the night if I get up to pee, or early in the morning. Other people appear in their nightwear in these circumstances and now, so do I.

When I appear in my nightwear for the first time, I get a surprised look, but then the person quickly realizes that this is natural for me as a nudist and they usually accept, or at least tolerate, my clothing choice.

In addition to family and friends, I take this approach with neighbors and even sometimes cautiously with strangers (e.g. passersby).

Gary

[Jason Lee]

sleeping naked/nude in bed is unhygienic.

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Jason Lee:
sleeping naked/nude in bed is unhygienic. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

Are you saying that sleeping nude is not healthy? http://clothesfreeforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_confused.gif

[Toffer]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Jason Lee:
sleeping naked/nude in bed is unhygienic. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

???. Only if your bed is dirty and your sheets are nasty. I don't get that...

[DouglasG]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">sleeping naked/nude in bed is unhygienic. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

I'm afraid that after little more than a month on this forum, it's very apparent that Jason Lee is a plank. By that I mean his arguements are often flawed, his comments are often plain nonsense & he posts just to 'hear' his own voice.

Sad.

No doubt some will accuse me of being flammatory by saying this, but I'll take my chances.

[WacoTX]

Jason is OK. You get used to his weird posting after a time.

[foux003]

I not only sleep naked but until a month ago none of the bedrooms had doors. Now only mine has a door to keep out the noise when someone is on the computer or going up or down the stairs. My new door doesn't have a lock or latch and it is usualy wide open.

[nekidprof]

I don't see the big deal, sleeping naked is more comfortable. I had guests over this past wekend and I go to the bathroom naked (across the hall). I thought everyone was still asleep, when I returned to my room my wife told me all were awake and they may have sen me. I responded "Oh well". They are married and have kids so I am sure they have seen everything before.

[Ctbeachguy]

As far as I am concerned nude is the only way to sleep. A hot shower then right to bed...what could be better?

[Unwired]

A hot shower then right to bed on freshly laundered sheets, that's what. http://clothesfreeforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_smile.gif

Zzzzzzzzzz...

[missouriboy]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by DouglasG:
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">sleeping naked/nude in bed is unhygienic. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

I'm afraid that after little more than a month on this forum, it's very apparent that Jason Lee is a plank. By that I mean his arguements are often flawed, his comments are often plain nonsense... </div></BLOCKQUOTE>A plank? Naaahhhh. Jason Lee means well, but suffers a form of autism.

With that information, one can understand how to deal with his posts. With respect.
Ignore them, but with respect.

[tinner666]

I never bothered with any night-clothing during any of numerous overnight hospital visits. Much less at home. Nude is too comfortable. http://clothesfreeforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_smile.gif

[shãybare]

http://clothesfreeforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_cool.gif
When I am in the hospital, I always sleep nude. I inform my nurses of this and so far it has not been a problem.

The last time I was in the hospital all I wore was their gown that's open in the back. I didn't want to wear that but wore it out of respect for others. It kept bunching up under me in the bed, and I wanted SO much to remove it and should have anyway. Next time I will. It was VERY hot in the hospital, and I didn't need to wear anything to keep warm. Always before when I was in a hospital I was cold, but I've gotten too used to sleeping nude and can't stand to wear anything. It makes no more sense to put clothes on to go to bed than it does to put something to swim, sunbathe, or shower.

[uskman]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by DouglasG:
Interesting post, uskman (town in Cumbria?) & like many others., I agree with your comments. All I can say though is, that come the colder times of the year, (October to April!) it's easier to keep warm wearing something more than a dressing gown when you have to slip to the loo at 3 in the morning!

Now I know why I want to build an en-suite .... shorten the distance & reduce the time out of bed. ;-0) </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

Now that is strange, GouglasG. I sleep naked throughout the year, but I think nothing of commuting to the loo in the nude. Am I more of a polar bear than you?

[justnude]

How about a hot shower then right into bed with the person you love who has already warmed the sheets for you. Life does not get much better than that! Enjoyhttp://clothesfreeforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_smile.gif

[John Spooner]

[quote]A plank? Naaahhhh. Jason Lee means well, but suffers a form of autism."

Just for information Jason Lee is a fellow Aussie and the autism he suffers from is Aspergers Autism. As Missouriboy correctly states he means well. One of the outworkings of Aspergers is inappropriate comments which is part of this medical affective disorder.
Many sufferers of this disorder cannot function in society, he is fortunate that he can do so.
Like my Chronic Anxiety Disorder it can really only be controlled by intellect and that can be quite difficult at times.
Finally what actually is a "plank" as that word is not used in Oz, I trust it is not a reference to intellect or a disability.
Regards. John S.

[Ren]

I sleep so much better since I've started sleeping nude in the past couple years. It's much more comfortable since I don't get tangled in my clothes anymore. I don't know why I didn't think of it sooner.

[CCNude]

I've been sleeping naked since I was about 8 or 9 years old. A couple years ago, tho, I went out and bought a pair of pajamas, just in case I ever have to go to the hospital. As of now, tho, they are still sealed up in their original department store bag!

[foux003]

My wife had a younger female friend who thought being naked in bed or say a hot tub was unsanitary. If you wore a bathing suit in the hot tub or underwear to bed then that was ok it was sanitary. I could never figure this one out. It must have been a defect that this young woman had.
I have been sleeping naked for fifty years now and I plan on doing the same until they cary my DEAD NAKED body from my home.

[michaels7878]

Oddly enough I haven't been sleeping naked. I started sleeping nude a while back, and even converted my wife to to comforts of no cloths in bed. I've since started wearing my underwear...dunno why; I never unconsciously really decided to stop sleeping nude. Tonight I resolve to sleep nude again http://clothesfreeforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_smile.gif

[Naturist4Ever]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by CCNude:
A couple years ago, tho, I went out and bought a pair of pajamas, just in case I ever have to go to the hospital. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

Good point, I guess. I don't have pajames, only when I was a child. I guess I better get a pair them, just in case of an emergency (I guess hospitals have some form a replacements?)

[sawdust]

Naturist4ever,

As a nudist let me share my experiances at being in a hospital. After completing my entry registration form at the very bottom was a last question. "Is there anything else you think we should know about you?" I wrote down that I was a NUDIST.

I ended up in a very nice private room. The drapes were kept closed around my bed area and the door to my room was kept shut. Nurses would always knock before they entered.

On the third day of my hospital stay the head RN came in and wanted to talk to me about my being a nudist. We had a very nice and long talk about how and why I liked being a nudist and that my wife and I were both members of a local nudist club. She seemed to enjoy our talk and was at ease once she left.

In the eight days I was hospitalized I never once put on PJ's or those horrid hospital robes. When necessary I just covered up with the bed sheets. Remember too that these are for the most part medical professionals. It has to be understood by all that their seeing naked bodies, yours included should be "no big thing!" (no punn intended.)

Two things to remember here. 1. If you are in the hospital, you or your insurance is paying for you to be there. The hospital is required to see to YOUR needs not you to look after theirs. 2. If you still have the sales receit for the PJ's you bought, take them back and get your money back. You will not need them during your stay. Sawdust

[Ralph Harrison]

You look great. All naked and relax. The way it should be. Love your tatoo.

[Nudony]

Sleeping nude must be addictive. Initially, sleeping nude had to be a planned effort for me. Over time, it became second-nature. And today, I actually find it impossible to sleep well any other way. It's to a point where if I actually fall asleep with something on, I invariable wake up nude the next morning, with clothes laying at the foot of the bed; I unconsciously undress while sleeping.

My wife is a bottomless sleeper. She prefers to keep a t-shirt and sometimes even a bra on, but nothing else.

[NakedGary]

Ralph Harrison,

Your post puzzles me, or did I miss a post and image that was deleted?

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">You look great. All naked and relax. The way it should be. Love your tattoo.

Ralph Harrison </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

If a post and image has been deleted, you should also delete yours to reduce the confusion of a post/comment of something that's not on this topic/thread.

[Pieguy]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Ctbeachguy:
As far as I am concerned nude is the only way to sleep. A hot shower then right to bed...what could be better? </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

Amen to that. Out of curiosity though, how does everyone like their showers? I like mine hot as hellfire.

[Nudeinbama]

Hot,Hot,Hot!
Nudeinbama

[krcNY]

I like to get out of the hot tub and climb into my nice warm cozy FLEECE sheets with ercNY.

If you are cold at night try getting a pair of these sheets http://clothesfreeforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_smile.gif

I have slept nude for as long as I can remember. When I was younger my mother was upset, she asked "what if the house in on fire", people will be looking at the fire, not me. Just in case I kept a bathrobe hanging on my door.

Our whole family sleeps nude, and relatives know not to buy jammies for gifts. We only need robes.

[MarvinJS]

except when I was hospitalized and required to sleep with clothes, I have slept nude since I was 8 or so (when I got my own room). I have a difficult time sleeping with clothes, so I do that only when it is needed, e.g., the hospital, or when I am sleeping in the living room of my family home (my family is not quite as open to nudity as I would like).

[foux003]

Pieguy; I like my sauna very hot. Hot enough that the cold water shower feels hot.

[BEE-1]

Been sleeping nude since I was 12 or so. Hate it when Iam somewhere I have to keep my underwear on, just doesnt feel right. PEACE

[chadnude]

I can't sleep with any clothes on at all. I have to sleep naked, have been since I was 10 or 11.

[vapaa]

Sleep nude since 12-13... Wife, too. If not at home, also, but have to remember where i am in the midnight http://oakhurstonline.com/icon/beam.gif, because not all can understand...

[jgr20042004]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by sawdust:
Naturist4ever,

As a nudist let me share my experiances at being in a hospital. After completing my entry registration form at the very bottom was a last question. "Is there anything else you think we should know about you?" I wrote down that I was a NUDIST.

I ended up in a very nice private room. The drapes were kept closed around my bed area and the door to my room was kept shut. Nurses would always knock before they entered.

On the third day of my hospital stay the head RN came in and wanted to talk to me about my being a nudist. We had a very nice and long talk about how and why I liked being a nudist and that my wife and I were both members of a local nudist club. She seemed to enjoy our talk and was at ease once she left.

In the eight days I was hospitalized I never once put on PJ's or those horrid hospital robes. When necessary I just covered up with the bed sheets. Remember too that these are for the most part medical professionals. It has to be understood by all that their seeing naked bodies, yours included should be "no big thing!" (no punn intended.)

Two things to remember here. 1. If you are in the hospital, you or your insurance is paying for you to be there. The hospital is required to see to YOUR needs not you to look after theirs. 2. If you still have the sales receit for the PJ's you bought, take them back and get your money back. You will not need them during your stay. Sawdust </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

Your experience is very unusual - at least to me. I have been hospitalised a number of times, but I have never been asked: "Is there anything else you think we should know about you?" Certainly I would answer the same way as you, but equally certainly I am sure that I would not be put in a private room simply on the strength of that. You must have paid extra for the privilege.

[SunnyB]

I have been sleeping nude for over 20 years, there isn´t any other way, it is moore comfortable and you sleep so much better...no clothes in bed...

[jandatxnude]

I started sleeping nude when I was about 17. My mother, who was always kind of nosey, was not happy! I continued all through college, no matter the roommate. My wife and I started sleeping nude as soon as we got married. It was strange for her at first, but she adapted. She will still bring a gown with her when we travel, but rarely wears it. Our kids started sleeping nude as soon as they could keep the bed dry at night. I'm somewhat surprsied that there's still a "sleepwear industry".

Barefoot-n-Nude in Texas!

[Sauna]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content"> I'm somewhat surprsied that there's still a "sleepwear industry".

Barefoot-n-Nude in Texas! </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

Good challenge for all of us.Lets make sleepwear industry useless

[uskman]

We are experiencing very hot weather at the moment, so I have resorted to wearing shorts round the house and in the (totally secluded) back garden. However, I am a convinced naturist, but my wife gets ballistic if I attempt to remove my shorts. Even when I deliberately let them drop simply to a level where my sulcus or my pubic hair are showing she says something like: pull up your shorts; that's not nice! To keep the peace I comply, but when she is out the house I often strip off; it feels so free. I think she is ridiculous; she thinks I am disgusting. How on earth can I persuade her to get rid of her hang-ups? It's almost as if she loathes the sight of her naked husband, although I, many years ago, did manage to persuade her to accept my sleeping naked.

Even over this issue she protests from time to time, though, initially because of semen staining the sheets and latterly because of my perspiration staining them. I think she is absurd. Generally our marriage is a fairly sound one, but I am infuriated by her attitude over these issues. Am I really being so unreasonable if I am offending my wife over them?

[OZJames]

I must say my wife said that the sheets get dirty quicker from body sweat causing her to have to wash them more often.

USKMAN, perhaps you could offer to wash all the bed linen. that might eliminate her complaints

http://oakhurstonline.com/icon/beam.gif <span class="ev_code_RED">JAMES</span> http://oakhurstonline.com/icon/beam.gif

[JohnE44]

I have been sleeping nude for 37 years now and when I got married it only took me 8 years to convince my wife to sleep nude Now its as far as she goes going nude for now ???

[Jay473]

*cought*bob s is a nerd*cought* (page 1) lol

Sometimes I sleep with a shirt on but it all depends on my mood. Also if its cold I sleep with cloths on because for some reason we cant turn on the heat. But that will change this year.

[luvnaturism]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by uskman:
I am a convinced naturist, but my wife gets ballistic if I attempt to remove my shorts....I think she is ridiculous; she thinks I am disgusting.... How on earth can I persuade her to get rid of her hang-ups? </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

You can't. Persuading is what you do when the issue is rational. This issue is emotional, and attempts at persuasion are more likely to make things worse than to help. Emotions by their nature are irrational, and they are more powerful than logic.

What may work is a two-fold process:

A. Demonstrate that her needs are important to you. Ask her to help you understand why nudity is an important issue for her (you have to really want to know, as opposed to seeking ammunition for rebutal). Listen. Ask questions to help you understand, but don't reject anything no matter how unreasonable it sounds to you; these are her feelings, and she's entitled to them. She probably can't tell you what the real issue is right way, so you have to keep coming back to the same gentle conversation over weeks and months.

B. Each time, after you have listened, gently explain that you also have needs that are important to you, and that you hope she will work with you find a way that BOTH of your needs can be met. Ask if she would like to know what your needs are. If she doesn't want to know just then, leave it there; eventually she will invite you tell her if, as you say, your marriage is "a fairly sound one."

Keep both sides of this conversation patient, loving, and calm. Good luck.

[NakedGary]

[By "uskman"]
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Even when I deliberately let them drop simply to a level where my sulcus or my pubic hair are showing </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

uskman, why are you deliberately dropping your shorts to expose most all of your penis except the glands when you wife is around knowing she gets upset or goes ballistic? There is a big difference in deliberately dropping your shorts to show slight bit of pubic hair than exposing five sixths of your penis shaft to the sulcus line especially when she is there.

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">I am infuriated by her attitude over these issues. Am I really being so unreasonable if I am offending my wife over them? </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

Yes, you are being unreasonable if you're deliberately exposing most of your penis to her because your'e infuriated by her attitude of issues over your nudity knowing she gets upset and goes ballistic, then to keep peace you pull your shorts up to be covered when she is there.

I would assume most people would wash their bed linen often enough so they would not be offended by semen stains, perspiration stains, or resultant odors even if you sleep together or separately.
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[nimrod]

I only wear the PJ bottoms, but not when I am sleeping, then I am nude. I like to wear just the bottoms around the house when I have to wear something, like when it is too cold or I have the curtains open, they are more comfortable than regular pants, and now they make them in shorts, which is nice because it is almost like being nude.

[freesobernaked]

I've slept naked for about 10 years, and now find it almost impossible to sleep any other way.

At first, SigOther wanted me to wear underwear, but has completely come to terms with my choice of nightwear now.

Around the house I wear shorts when not alone, nothing when I am alone. The two of us had to come to "terms" about when I could be naked without offending.

I have to agree with NakedGary - deliberately dropping your shorts to expose most of your genitals to someone who has already expressed offense is disrespectful, and likely to be completely counterproductive. There must be a better way to incorporate our personal wishes for nudity with the wishes of those we live with.....

[alfredr]

I generally sleep with nothing on; my wife will sleep occasionally with nothing on, but often wears something to bed, anywhere from almost fully clothed to nightgown to only bra or only panties. Sometimes I can get more of them off her and sometimes I can't. Makes no sense to me, but she is a cold person: she will use bllankets (note: plural) while I'm sleeping naked and uncovered beside her.

I know I started sleeping nude when I was a child, but can't say what age. I also can't say there weren't lapses such as in college with roommates or while in the Peace Corps for instance. I don't remember one way or the other about some of those times. I would shower under the runoff from the roof on the back of the house after dark. I didn't have running water if it wasn't raining. But, boy, that water was cold!

I also know what happens if the house catches fire while you are sleeping nude. In my case, I did what seemed to need doing. I was awakened by one of the other guys (cast of characters: Myself and my wife, her brother-in-law, age about 40, her cousin, 17, a nephew, 21, one son, 18, and a grandson, 11. Some of them already knew I slept nude/like to be nude. All male except for my wife.) He hadn't gotten back to sleep from having gone to the bathroom when he heard noise and on opening his eyes saw fire in the other bathroom and woke us.

What had happened was that a candle that my wife had lit, had burned down and apparently the heat had broken the saucer that it was on and the wax had run and somehow the fire got to some clothes. And they were burning quite fearsomely. Flames out into the hallway and all that. Right across the hall from our bedroom. I remember deciding not to waste time putting on any clothes and opened the door and went out to check. The fire was behind the bathroom door, which was part way open. I don't remember a lot of the details, really, but I got a pot and started getting water from the kitchen and throwing it over the door at the fire. Someone was helping pass me water, someone called 911, someone woke up the other people and I don't know who did what. We got the fire out and the burnt clothes outside before my wife told me I should get something on as the fire dept should be coming soon. We actually had the fire out before whoever was off the phone with 911.

So you do what you have to.

[uskman]

What is the record, I wonder, for sleeping naked and never, under any circumstances, breaking that rule? 40 years? 50 years? Anyone got any comments?

[RedEarth]

I started sleeping nude in my early teens, but it was usually a case of slipping my PJs off under the sheets. Once I went to university I slept nude ever since, and continue to do so now. I just can't see any point in wearing clothes to bed unless its so cold that there is no other way to keep oneself warm enough. I appreciate other people have their own reasons, but for me, nude is the only way!

[Bob S.]

Jay:"*cought*bob s is a nerd*cought* (page 1) lol"

That is not being a nerd. It is being observant and a literalist.

Now for the record, I find it annoying when someone comments on one of my posts that is nearly a year old!

uskman:"How on earth can I persuade her to get rid of her hang-ups?"

You can't. Oh heck, just read what luv wrote. It expresses my sentiments.

Bob S.

[luvnaturism]

Several posts in this thread raise the issue of keeping warm in cold weather. Years ago we had a waterbed and learned the sublime luxury of having heat come up from underneath and surround you.

An option that gives a similar wonderful feeling is to use an electric mattress pad. It works just the same as an electric blanket, but the heat rises from underneath. If you turn it on a bit before going to bed you'll slide into toasty warm sheets. We love it on cold nights.

[flnude]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by DeathKnight:
Clothes tend to be an encumbrance when sleeping. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

Speaking of, over the past few years, since I was 23, I got used to sleeping nude due to the fact that I felt more and more unconfortable sleeping in my night clothes. About a year ago, I start doing it every night because it felt great and my sleep improved dramatically,

[BlobbyBob]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by luvnaturism:
Several posts in this thread raise the issue of keeping warm in cold weather. Years ago we had a waterbed and learned the sublime luxury of having heat come up from underneath and surround you.

An option that gives a similar wonderful feeling is to use an electric mattress pad. It works just the same as an electric blanket, but the heat rises from underneath. If you turn it on a bit before going to bed you'll slide into toasty warm sheets. We love it on cold nights. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

I'd recommend not using the waterbed and electric mattress pad at the same time http://oakhurstonline.com/icon/tongue.gif

[luvnaturism]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by BlobbyBob:
I'd recommend not using the waterbed and electric mattress pad at the same time http://oakhurstonline.com/icon/tongue.gif </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

Good point. I vote with you. http://oakhurstonline.com/icon/applause.gif

[WacoTX]

I like the electric mattress pad. I also wear a t-shirt if it is really cold.