Not all of the facilities are separated. Some give an option for sharing showers. All have stalls, but some have coed rooms with the stall option. But, it is true, as you say, they haven't all gotten over all the body things.
I think that a part of it is that it is an old enough institution that it grew out of the more repressive times, where they had to overcome a more harsh hysterical society around them. They were under attack and these things were not overcome, yet.
Also, I think that these resort situations are businesses that have to cater to the tastes and sensibilities of their clientele. There is a cultural influence that follows their people into the resort. Most people haven't gotten over waste in public issues, and they probably won't for awhile. A business needs to cater to that. There are upscale, rustic camping retreats, a whole gamut. There are even lifestyle resorts. People enjoy different things naked.
I myself feel uncomfortable wiping my ass in public, even with close friends. It is business that I would rather take care of by myself and most everybody would prefer that I do. The other day in the sweat a young guy was talking about farting in public. He thought the action a good thing, but I had to tell him that natural though it is, I just don't like the smell and please, don't share your bodily blessings.
People were walking off and peeing in my yard. After a couple of times the stuff gets ammonia and smells. I like flowers and grass and mulch, not that. I never do it more than once in any place and generally only to discourage other animals.
I'm not so sure that waste repression and body repression are the same thing. I like bodies, I dislike raw waste.
My friends all genders tend to not be too uptight about being seen taking a leak. I have had to dump in public at a Rainbow Gathering and my preference is still privacy. We do it, everybody knows that. I don't want to watch, or have anything to do with any poo, not mine, theirs.
Oils and tread-marks don't always come clean and they certainly will get on furnishings and make them smell or stain. Unless there is a frequent shower cleaning of some kind, a towel protects that. It isn't the body that is the problem it is that aspect. I put my mouth in such places as an act of love, but the sheets get cleaned. There is also the monthly lady thing that can be a mess. I put out towels, or require them around the house and for myself, too.
I use a towel in the sweat, lots of icky body stuff that we are there to get rid of is left on the seats. There are bodily waste that need to be compensated for. I don't want to get someone else's tread-marks.
If someone squats, like a primitive, is dried with air, lives a more natural primitive lifestyle, then a towel is less of an issue. But, in modern world situations, in these new things, like chairs, and car seats, who squats and keeps off of the floor. Nobody sits on the nice dirty ground, or on a rock, where nature takes care of such issues automatically?
Nudists are people without clothing. They do everything without clothing that anyone else would. Nudist can have whatever cultural differences amongst themselves as they please. They can be sexy, or not by choice. If a resort, doesn't want sexy, then okay. We have a spiritual sweat. It is not a pickup venue, people need to be comfortable and focus on spirit, so frisky is left outside. Part of that is because of the sexy that is outside the walls in our culture.
We can choose how to deal with our emotions in social situations, be it anger, or sex. Both are natural, both can disrupt civil life and mess with others in undesirable ways. It isn't good to repress either, but that doesn't mean that behavior can't be adjusted, or shouldn't be.
When someone goes to the outhouse, everyone knows who and what is going on. When someone puts on clothing, everybody knows that there is a naked person under the cloth. When you get hung up on it, the cloth or the privacy, I think that that is the issue. One is natural and harmless. One is natural, but stinks and is slimy.
I think that the no camera policies at resorts are to protect people from the outside and then grow nudism. The newbies are concerned with pictures. Some have concerns about their outside business. It isn't a perfect world yet, and newbies need some space at first. On the other hand, I don't want people taking photos of me, publishing or sharing them, without my permission, clothed or not. I don't like people staring at me. I like a choice about what I am presented as to the world and not have labels and other's trips put on me. It is just a part of being a social animal in a bizarre social world.
Yep, we agree, you are correct, "American nudists talk about "body acceptance" but in many ways they are as bad or worse at Body Repression than the general public." But then I gotta disagree with some of it.
Jbee
