Foxy,

What does it feel like to have a bath or shower nude? Swimming feels very similar. The best part is that when you get out of the water you don't have a dripping wet costume that clings to you and feels very uncomfortable. Not having pockets can be a bit of a problem, but coming to think of it, not many swimming costumes have pockets either.

The best answer to your question is Foxy, wait until the weather warms up and try it for yourself.

I went to a nude beach in Sydney and there was all sorts of sexual behaviour going on in the bushes on the way. Was fine on the beach though.

'On the other hand, I’ve seen young women and families with small kids in the close presence of naked men without any concern at all being shown. So if this is the general case, then why can’t all beaches be clothing optional? '

I wonder ludwig, why one would only be concerned about young women and families with small children seeing naked men? Why not naked women? Actually why naked anyone?

I agree many laws are Claytons Laws, but serve a very useful purpose. For example; I'm all in favour of keeping marijuana illegal. That way, teenagers can do something naughty, that police will normally only give them a slap on the wrist for. Make it legal, and more teenagers will be pressured by their peers to use it, and speed will be the new marijuana. Then legalise speed, and ice is the new speed.
It's all very practical.

I'm also happy to give the Police some room to use their common sense, rather than turning them into drones with no option but to rigourously enforce all the intricate explicit laws the state attempts (badly) to make to cover every eventuality.

I'm more than happy for a police officer to see people blatantly breaking a law, with no obvious victim or anyone being adversely affected, to turn a blind eye.

If I dont stop for exactly 3 seconds at a stop sign in a deserted town at 3AM with no traffic for miles, I would be disappointed if a police car waiting in the shadows with lights off booked me.

Foxy, I grew up on a farm near the mountains and a skinny dip in a cool mountain stream on a hot day takes some beating.

At a guess the experience will be different for most people but as a safe intro take your next shower or bath in bathers and see if it's as nice as your normal. I've not worked out if the difference is as marked for women as men as a lot more nudists seem to be men. Is it the plumbing or social attitudes that drive that difference?

R0bert

Dear RObert,

A cool mountain stream in summer sounds
like bliss.

My ancestry is from a land that was noted
for its luscious forests, beautiful orchards,
plentiful lakes, and fertile soil.

So perhaps that's where I get this "call of
the wild."

Anyway, as Steel Mann suggests, I will have to
try it some time, given the opportunity.

Cant say I know of a committed christian Steel who runs around with no clothes on?
You sure youre not a One World Church plant?

"Cant say I know of a committed christian ... who runs around with no clothes on?"

Gibo you probably know committed christians who do so but given your extremist intollerant views of those who don't conform to the way you think they should be it's unlikely that they will tell you about it.

Like many of the issues fundies get so bothered by there is little in the bible which directly supports an anti-nudity stance and it's really a matter of grasping at interpretations to find indirect support for that stance.

R0bert