Over the past couple of months I’ve come across several guys online who were raised in nudist families, some of them with brothers brought up by a single dad, others with both parents. All of these people had one thing in common. They were all brought up without any shame about their body, nudity, erections or sex in general.
Are nudists more open minded or do they just have a different set of hangups? I think people brought up in a nudists environment are probably less likely to have body image issues or at least just deal with them better. Perusing any nudist website, like Hangoutnude, you’ll see that the vast majority of bodies are a long way from the commercial ideal of perfection. Surely that goes a long way to giving a healthier perception of what is healthy?
My parents weren’t prudish but apart from the odd walk between bathroom and bedroom, I never saw them nude and while I wasn’t taught that there is anything wrong with nudity, it’s not really something my parents would actively encourage. If I had kids I’d bring them up to be comfortable with being nude, but to respect other people’s boundaries.
A guy I’ve been chatting to was married to a man for some time and while they were together, the other man’s son came and stayed with them regularly from the age of 11 to 16, when their relationship ended. They would all happily spend most of the time at home nude and given the time period covered the son’s puberty he was apparently often hard but was taught that it’s nothing to be ashamed of. Such a healthy way to live.
It’s that time of year once again and I’m not far from packing my things and heading over to my sister’s house for Christmas. It’s the first time we haven’t had Christmas at my parent’s place since I was about six and only the second time ever. My nephew is nearly 7 and my niece is a bit over 4 so they are a great age to be sharing Christmas with.
Sadly my grandfather was taken to hospital last night but we think my mother will be able to pick him up tomorrow (Christmas Day here). He’s 93 and looks after himself, living with my (loser) uncle. He’s getting to the stage where he’s bored with living and my mother is actually convinced he’s trying to die. Fingers crossed he won’t accomplish that on Christmas or anytime soon.
I wish all of you my very best for the Holiday Season. I hope you all spend Christmas with loved ones, family or friends, and remind everyone just how much you appreciate them.
This week has been go go go at work and I have to admit, I resent having to stay late on a friday evening like I did tonight. Sometimes these things need to be done. However when I walked out of the building I discovered I had a flat tyre. Out comes the spare, also pretty darned flat. Ouch. I did a bad thing. I drove on the nearly flat spare to the petrol station and pumped it up. Oops. Cars really aren’t my thing apparently.
Tomorrow morning, if the rain doesn’t get in the way, I’m posing for another photographer before meeting my family to go camping on the island. Fingers crossed it’s going to be fun.
I love my family and Christmas is a great couple of days catching up, relaxing and laughing but I’m so glad to be out of there. Between my niece and nephew who refuse to hear anything they are told at the moment and my grandfather and great-aunt who CAN’T hear anything they are told and all four of them just talking at people assuming they are being listened to, I’m exhausted.
Santa was kind to me and got me some pretty good stuff. I hope everyone has had a great Xmas!
Family holidays like the one I’ve just walked back in from aren’t what you’d call relaxing. There’s just too many people, especially young children, to be relaxing but they are good for the heart and soul. I’ve grown up with these two other families and even though most of the “kids” have very little in common these days we all still get on famously, mostly because of the 30+ year history.
There’s lots of joking around, drinking (alcohol is good for making kids seem less noisy), laughing, chatting, catching up and just hanging out. People think it’s strange that I still go away with my family at the age of 34 but I wouldn’t miss it for the world. And no, there wasn’t any nudity or dolphins like the pics. Sorry.
