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  • Are Naturists Nerds?

    I am serious

    Are some or most of us those who who be classified as nerds?

    I was born in the early 50's. My parents were older than average and, while not naturists, never though anything about being naked in front of each other or my sisters and I... in other words, a walk to the bathroom without clothes was hardly a
    problem.

    When I was young, I went to the Y and thought nothing of swimming nude in front of others. I went to highschool at the University of Illinois (a school that you tested to enter and my sister cried when I decided to attend because it was the nerd school). We had access to the university pools, which meant that no suits were required in the men's pool, and no one thought anything of it.

    During college, I went to school in Arizona, where all of the pools were outside, so no one though anything about nude swimming, but outside of regular classes, steaking a graduate pool was common. I wasn't until grad school that I discovered that some universities were dropping nude swimming in non-coed pools.

    After graduation, it is fair to say that I was still a nerd. I wasn't the popular "hot guy," just a great friend for everyone. Most important, I leaned to be comfortable with me, and not try to shine for anyone else. I traveled to other counties, went to nude beaches and thought nothing about it.

    This is where the topic of being a nerd got to be OK. So what is I was smart and reasonably successful in my chosen field. I learned to be comfortable with me and not worry about impressing others with who I was.

    I have noticed at clothing optional beaches that a good share of the people that my wife and I meet are not the "hot people," but average looking people in good jobs. They are the ones that can afford to take time off and go to places like St. Martin oe wherever that have clothing optional beaches. The people that I know that would be classified as hot, tend to hang around theor home base and be hot... the rest of us who are comfortable with ourselvels don't seem to mind as much letting it all "hand out."

    Perhaps nerd is a negative term to some, bit I don'y think it really is. We are the people who learned along time ago to be comfortable with ourselves, as opposed to spending all of our time worrying about what other people thought of us - as a person as by our appearance. I have found that most people on clothing optional beaches and at naturist resorts are average people, not body beautifuls. In other words, not the "hot people" but those that might be considered nerds.

    If people would classify me as such in the clothed world, I could care less. My wife and I are comfortable being nude at home, in our hot tub, at our cabin on the lake or in a nude appropriate area... we may not be body builders and we may be successful in our career choices, but we are very comfotable in who we are.

    Any thought from the rest of you great people on this forum?

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    I am serious

    Are some or most of us those who who be classified as nerds?

    I was born in the early 50's. My parents were older than average and, while not naturists, never though anything about being naked in front of each other or my sisters and I... in other words, a walk to the bathroom without clothes was hardly a
    problem.

    When I was young, I went to the Y and thought nothing of swimming nude in front of others. I went to highschool at the University of Illinois (a school that you tested to enter and my sister cried when I decided to attend because it was the nerd school). We had access to the university pools, which meant that no suits were required in the men's pool, and no one thought anything of it.

    During college, I went to school in Arizona, where all of the pools were outside, so no one though anything about nude swimming, but outside of regular classes, steaking a graduate pool was common. I wasn't until grad school that I discovered that some universities were dropping nude swimming in non-coed pools.

    After graduation, it is fair to say that I was still a nerd. I wasn't the popular "hot guy," just a great friend for everyone. Most important, I leaned to be comfortable with me, and not try to shine for anyone else. I traveled to other counties, went to nude beaches and thought nothing about it.

    This is where the topic of being a nerd got to be OK. So what is I was smart and reasonably successful in my chosen field. I learned to be comfortable with me and not worry about impressing others with who I was.

    I have noticed at clothing optional beaches that a good share of the people that my wife and I meet are not the "hot people," but average looking people in good jobs. They are the ones that can afford to take time off and go to places like St. Martin oe wherever that have clothing optional beaches. The people that I know that would be classified as hot, tend to hang around theor home base and be hot... the rest of us who are comfortable with ourselvels don't seem to mind as much letting it all "hand out."

    Perhaps nerd is a negative term to some, bit I don'y think it really is. We are the people who learned along time ago to be comfortable with ourselves, as opposed to spending all of our time worrying about what other people thought of us - as a person as by our appearance. I have found that most people on clothing optional beaches and at naturist resorts are average people, not body beautifuls. In other words, not the "hot people" but those that might be considered nerds.

    If people would classify me as such in the clothed world, I could care less. My wife and I are comfortable being nude at home, in our hot tub, at our cabin on the lake or in a nude appropriate area... we may not be body builders and we may be successful in our career choices, but we are very comfotable in who we are.

    Any thought from the rest of you great people on this forum?

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    • #3
      Nudist Geek reporting in here. And proud of it.



      UW

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      • #4
        Absolutely NOT a nerd............not that there's anything wrong with that!!

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        • #5
          http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revenge_of_the_Nerds

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          • #6
            quote:
            Originally posted by OkieGuy:
            I am serious

            Are some or most of us those who who be classified as nerds?

            Any thought from the rest of you great people on this forum?


            I'm a computer nerd - hobbyist and employment - and I'm proud of it.

            Also a ham radio operator. Two weeks ago I was at the Maine Coast Solar Bares - probably 32 folks in attendance. Eight licensed hams in attendance.

            So yeah, so what of it? I find that in my 40s and 50s, I have been very comfortable in my station in life. Which is what REALLY counts, not our standing at the country club.

            Those folks who made fun of us in high school? We sure showed 'em, didn't we?

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            • #7
              I would put a lot of us under the nerd category. After all, look at how much time many of us spend online !

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              • #8
                OkieGuy, I really identified with what you described. If course you can't generalize any group of people, but I think that naturism is something that the "incrowd" generally would not be attracked to, because how would they where their designer clothes at the events?!?

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                • #9
                  Yup...I got Nerd of the Year award once..

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                  • #10
                    Nerd.

                    When noticing those who act like they're the hot ones, whatever that means, I couldn't care less.

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                    • #11
                      quote:
                      Originally posted by OkieGuy:
                      Are some or most of us those who who be classified as nerds?

                      You bet. Almost everyone that I know from high school, who thought they were hot stuff, have failed miserably as adults.

                      It is amazing to attend high school reunions and see just how bad some people have done in life. I would imagine that it is quite a let down for someone who thinks they are god's gift to humanity.

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                      • #12
                        well..I was always a jock in school...( back in the old days)...baseball...football...swimming...etc...and that is really where my comfort level of being socially nude began...in the locker rooms...showering...everyone was naked...no big deal...but I have to admit...social nudity is much nicer now...co-ed...LOL

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                        • #13
                          I don't consider myself a nerd, but if others do, well then that is thier problem. I am finally becoming comfortable with who I am and that is what really counts.

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                          • #14
                            quote:
                            When I was young, I went to the Y and thought nothing of swimming nude in front of others. I went to highschool at the University of Illinois (a school that you tested to enter and my sister cried when I decided to attend because it was the nerd school). We had access to the university pools, which meant that no suits were required in the men's pool, and no one thought anything of it.

                            During college, I went to school in Arizona, where all of the pools were outside, so no one though anything about nude swimming



                            What you said is interesting. It seems to me that there is a trend today to consider the naked human body as something evil and pornographic.

                            I mean, I am 35 years old, and when I was a kid, I could see posters of naked people, including children, in anyplace that they sell posters, from bookstores to drugstores to the shopping mall.

                            Now, the same posters would be purely illegal (a photo of a naked child is now considered as child pornography), and you pratically have to go to a sex shop in a big city to find a poster with a naked man or woman.

                            I could talk also about how, in 20 years, in Quebec, we went from a situation where there was plenty of places you could be naked (around lakes and rivers) and how today thoses places are not welcomming naturists anymore.

                            It seems that we went from a society in witch the naked human body was something normal and natural to a place today, where it is considered dangerous to show.

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                            • #15

                              WEBSTER'S NEW WORLD College Dictionary, 4th edition:
                              nerd(nurd) n. rhyming slang for TURD. [slang] a person regarded as socially dull, unsophisticated, awkward, etc., specif., as from being preoccupied with schoolwork, an intellectual hobby, etc. --nerdy (nur'de) adj.


                              I don't see myself as being a nerd since I am not socially dull, unsophisticated or awkward.

                              I don't think your definition of a nerd is the same as the dictionary. I could be wrong?

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