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jbeegoode

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Exposure as Liberation
« on: September 06, 2024, 06:53:03 AM »
I express our attitudes as our comfort changes and has evolved, with our exposure to others nude through years. I published an article on our website and hope to engage discussion here, about other's attitudes and maybe response to ours...or whatever.

https://thefreerangenaturist.org/2024/09/05/exposure-as-liberation/

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Re: Exposure as Liberation
« Reply #1 on: September 06, 2024, 03:34:58 PM »
Agreed.  Once we have been posted on line and stopped being afraid of being seen as who we are, it is very liberating.  We don't have to hide.  And, almost everyone who sees us enjoys seeing others of their own kind. 
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Re: Exposure as Liberation
« Reply #2 on: September 06, 2024, 08:07:49 PM »
I can't say that there is anyone in my local community that gets this. Even those, maybe especially those, that frequent the local nudist facilities and functions. Nudity to them is a special occassion, not simply being human. Speaking about it does not pursuade others to drop their lifetime of conditioning. They forget that they were 'born this way'. It is why I am so please to call you (y'all) my friends. People that see (grok) nonsexual nude living as something organic, something original, not anything new or a fad. I don't take my clothes off, I put them on.

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Re: Exposure as Liberation
« Reply #3 on: September 07, 2024, 09:20:23 PM »
Agreed.  Once we have been posted on line and stopped being afraid of being seen as who we are, it is very liberating.  We don't have to hide.  And, almost everyone who sees us enjoys seeing others of their own kind.

Personally, weirdly, I confess, I'm finding myself less and less enjoying seeing others nude. It is becoming more often inconsequential. It isn't that I dislike it, but it feels normal and I take to it like seeing a change in clothing, generally little interest.

It does still feel good to see people being naked, liberated, trusting, comfortable. We were at at party Labor Day. When we arrived, people were in the pool in suits, people were singing on the shady porch. As the hostess climbed into the pool naked, so did a couple of others. By the time that I got done with the potluck duties and snacked, nobody wore swim clothing, everyone comfortable. I was told that there were a few newcomers singing and concern at making them feel uncomfortable. The scene became much more comfortable, although nearly everyone redressed, as the hostess, outside of the pool. No rule, just a conformity thing, I suppose.

So, it does certainly still do my heart good to see folks comfortably being their naked selves. I like to see that. The bodies are less interesting. 
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Re: Exposure as Liberation
« Reply #4 on: September 10, 2024, 12:26:30 AM »
And this is where we come together.
To all the foregoing I say 'yup' 'OK' 'Tick' and other acquiescing expressions!
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Re: Exposure as Liberation
« Reply #5 on: September 10, 2024, 04:20:26 PM »
Personally, weirdly, I confess, I'm finding myself less and less enjoying seeing others nude. It is becoming more often inconsequential. It isn't that I dislike it, but it feels normal and I take to it like seeing a change in clothing, generally little interest.
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So, it does certainly still do my heart good to see folks comfortably being their naked selves. I like to see that. The bodies are less interesting. 
Jbee

Well, you've seen thousands of naked people Jbee.  It's become your normal.   Most clothists only rarely see others of their kind, so it's a memorable pleasure.   

Naked rapidly becomes normal when we are around naked people.
Human bodies are natural, comfortable, and green.
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Re: Exposure as Liberation
« Reply #6 on: September 15, 2024, 07:32:58 PM »
Quote from: safebare
I don't take my clothes off, I put them on.
That really rings a bell with me.  As one who has a less bohemian lifestyle than either, say Jbee and Df or Bob, with less effusive opportunity to be naked, and has to wear clothes a lot either for warmth or because one is in so called polite society where the hegemony of textilism is unchallenged and unchallengeable (i.e. almost everywhere!) these days, after 17 years since I really realised that I was properly a naturist, I have become accustomed to nudity too.  During a clothed day I feel the negative pressure of being clothed (especially shoes!) and I long to get home and get naked.  Those words of Safebare's really made me sit up and realise that I had also come that journey to being naked as default because I genuinely would be naked if I didn't have to dress.  Whilst having to be clothed far more than naked on most days (in autumn and winter especially), nowadays I feel the encumbrance of clothes more than the use, comfort, cold defence etc., of them.  I wish I had more outlets for being naked. 
Unlike Jbee however, I haven't got past the point where I accept others nudity as normal.  No, if in an opportunity to have a naked event with others, I rejoice in our mutual freedom to deport ourselves as we please.  I revel in my own nudity and the realisation that I can wander freely with no fear of criticism from my peers.  I take pleasure in being alongside others joy in being in a non sexual, mutually tolerant, supportive group of naturists.
John
 

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Re: Exposure as Liberation
« Reply #7 on: September 16, 2024, 10:20:04 AM »
Yes, Nuduke. Even though I have gotten comfortable with a lack of clothing and often feel it as a nuisance and have been desensitized to the original sense of liberation, I feel imprisoned, confined when clothed. Can't wait to get out of it and relieved when I'm freed.

A social event is a joy, celebration, good times, sharing friendship, connection, place and warm love.AND as most other things, doing that naked is an enhancement. A party naked is a better party.
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