Many cultures have a focus and desire on ‘getting back to nature’ and things natural, and I suspect it is a part of that.
Apologies. Only joking. Ex matelot you know? Thick skin. I am just going to strip off and have a shower after a 30 k cycle ride ( clothed!) in 35 degrees. I may then just lounge around in the buff for the rest of the evening. I don’t think my dog will mind! Il m’aime toujours. Mind you, I am still firm of skin, with no wrinkles. I have been confronted many times by wrinkly, flabby old men and women, especially when I was “working “ ( I am a musician) in San Diego. I was once chased off a beach near La Jolla because my bits were covered! It turned out that I had strayed onto an all-male nudist beach! Just at the foot of the Torrey Pines hotel golf course! Needless to say, I ran like hell. I could hear the flabby geezers chasing me! One for the diary!
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There are often ‘textiles’ who come onto naturist beaches eg in Spain, ignoring the signs and always young men in a little gang of 2 or 3 wearing shorts on top of bathing suits, desperate to have a good look at naked people, I assume they are a product of shame-culture and purity culture and very repressed AND probably the sort to think it’s ok to harass women, because they objectify them. Curiously when a couple of brawny naked Dutchmen tell them to strip or go away they always scuttle off.
@Volcanic I’m not accusing you of being a peeping Tom.
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As I said, I inadvertently strayed onto a gay nudist beach. Being straight, it was to say the least, a bit scary! Peeping Tom? Lol! That’s an old saying!
I have visited many beaches in Spain and in the Canaries which are open equally to the clothed and unclothed. They are not designated ’ naturist’, everyone is welcome. I think this happened in response to the repression of the Franco years.
In the Canaries there do seem to be an inordinate number of older German nudists compared to other nationalities.
I would agree, that swimming without your togs is a liberating experience.
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As did I, with my then boyfriend. It was Pamplona beach in the South of France and we were selling cold drinks and doughnuts.
I sold nothing, my Adonisesque boyfriend sold out in 2 minutes.
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So you now know what’s it’s like to be a woman 
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Pampelonne is my home beach, along with Les Salins, I could walk to both - it’s only naturist-tolerated in places*, usually private beaches though (unlike the Atlantic coast which is by and large all naturist except where it says it isn’t).
- Hence the naturist chasing in the Gendarmes de Saint Tropez films.
Yes, and some are explicitly designated naturist, especially in Catalonia, possibly the nicest being playa del Torn near Hospitalet del Infant.
Well there’s no answer to that 
Yep. Tout à fait! Au sujet d’être une femme. My wife and daughters remind me every day! Watching the Tour de France highlights. Bonne nuit et faites de beaux rêves.
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I think that can be summed up with Britain is smutty, nudge, nudge, wink wink and the US, with a massive porn industry, is puritan (unless there’s a buck in it).
A treasured photo of my boss (a lovely guy) teaching Mrs. Lapin how to windsurf here in 1981. Very happy days 
… Expired.
@cat Is this OK 
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Ah, that’s what it was called. I was only 20 at the time , I stayed a month in La Croix valmer? We were sent to different beaches every day.
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That’s sort of my take on it. For me and many of my family, nudity is just part of normal life and has been since before I can remember. Very different from the norm in 1960’s England. We were never prudish or ashamed of our bodies. But then we were never racist or sexist. We were not hippy or anything like that, just a normal family struggling to make ends meet like many. It’s a lot to do with how you’re brought up. If you’re brought up to be ashamed of your body, then you’ll probably never be comfortable being naked in front of others. Personally, I really don’t care who sees me naked.
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Well there is, stop voting for them
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Reminds me of an old song which I think was called “The Streak”
I said “Don’t look Ethel” - too late she had already been incensed.
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Hi I wear around the garden and house just a below knee length male I guess you would call it a nigth shirt in colour like a Egyptian dress. It is real comfortable and frankly I do not like taking it off. It stops any (more) sun damage and is as near to being naked as one could be. Soon I guess I will pluck up courage to do the bins out in the road. However, the confort…..
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Galabiehs and thawbs are super comfortable in New Caledonia everyone gets up super early, works and gets home 5 ish & has a shower and puts on a pareo either a loincloth skirty thing or a shapeless loose dress thing, very cooling.
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Just make sure it’s not windy when you do! Bon Dimanche.
That’s exactly what my ex neighbour who is Moroccan wears when it’s hot. It’s just what she’s used to I guess. When it’s very hot, I tend to often just stay naked within the house and in the hot tub (we’re very sans VAV), unless we have guests of course in which case it’s shorts and t-shirt or a short Mu’umu’u.
I’ve been caught out in exactly that manner in my mu’umu’u taking out the recycling. Fortunately nobody was around, that I knew of.