Very fine advice. It is so good to get used to your own nudity before going "public" and each others if you are a couple. It would be fascinating to know proper statistics but I wonder how many non-naturists are uncomfortable about casual nudity around their home or in front of their partners. It wouldn't surprise me if it is quite high. Then there is other casual nudity like sports room changing rooms, even though these are single sex rooms many people are still coy about getting dressed and using showers. Although I was scared to death about taking my first naturist steps I certainly already felt comfortable being naked by myself at home, just getting on with household things. 

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I'm much more comfortable being naked in front of strangers. There are certain friends and family I don't think I'll ever be comfortable letting know I'm a nudist, much less seeing me nude, but I'm not going to let perfection be the enemy of the good!

I am feeling very comfortable being naked in general. I have no issues at my naturist club and move around freely. A particular moment of naked wellness, relaxing nudity, is when I have my session with my beautician lady when she removes the hair on my genitals.

It often seems the case that it is easier being naked around strangers than people we know well - and therefore should trust more. Could it be that with a strong history also come a level of expectation and judgement. We feel a need to explain ourselves to people we know well. We come to strangers as a blank page and they just accept us for what we are. Family and friends ask questions of us. Why do you want to be naked when you haven't wanted to before? We are also used to being seen dressed by them and to be undressed in front of them is a change - creating a shock to the system. It is like revealing a new you and breaking with old habits and perceptions is always hard. 

It shouldn't be this way though - these are the people who we should feel most comfortable with - it begs a big question of society - Why are we not more commonly naked in our history, in our families and as we grow? How can we really be honest and open with others when we are always encouraged to put up barriers with clothing?  

I enjoy being naked.  The sence of freedom feels great.  I also enjoy seeing others naked in a social setting.  It puts everyone on equal ground.  It does take a certain amount of mutual trust and when everyone is nude that seems to come more easily.  My wife is equally free to be nude in front of others.  As for our children now in their early 20s my daughter is coming along nicely and being a nursing student I feel she will be much more comfortable in her profession with seeing people naked everyday.  I keep telling her the best way to approach nudity is being comfortable with it herself.  My Son has other things to be involved at this busy point in his life but he has no difficulty seeing us nude around the house.  I only wish we could find more resorts near our home to go and just enjoy naked life.  Society has put such a stigma on nudity in the USA and laws to support it.  It has not alwasy been this way.  Like I posted on my home page, I rememberr swimming nude in the high school pool and the YMCA on a weekly basis.  We just did not even think to much about it at the time it was just a normal activity.  True it was not co-ed at the time but it might as well been.  I am sure after a week or two we would have all felt the same.  I was stationed in Germany for a couple of years and the southern Europeans are more free to be nude in social settings.  While it was in certain beaches, parks and swimming pools, such locations were nearby.  I guess this conversation just leads to more questions.