50 Plus Nudists
A group for nudists 50 years old or more. A place to discuss issues concerning nudism, past experiences, new directions, plans for your future ... most anything that strikes the veteran nudist's interest. BLANK, PARTIALLY filled out or PRIVATE profiles will not be allowed to join ... unless you contact me first. Thanks for your understanding.
- created by AndyDi
Is it easier to be open about nudism as we get older?
Return to DiscussionsI've never been one to shout out to everyone that I'm a nudist but I've never felt it was something I should hide, but at earlier times in life I might not have told as many friends, nudist and textile, that I was attending nudist events as I do now. I've had jobs in the past where my nudism unfortunately could well have been an issue if it was common knowledge, I've known plenty of other nudists faced with similar issues.
However, once this was no longer a problem I've rejoiced in the fact that I can be open and upfront about being a nudist. I don't see anything to be embarrassed or ashamed about being a nudist, nor does it matter who sees me naked, life is too short to worry about that unnecessarily. Over time more of my social life has been spent with other nudists, I spend more time at local nudist beaches since moving to the coast and I've been on more events like naked bike rides. With local friends we socialise nude year round in our homes, I've got very used to being nude both in public and anywhere else that I can be, a weekend without nude socialising is quite rare.
Its not just that my employment is no longer a problem, I think that as I've got older nudism has become a much bigger part of life, more friends know that I'm a nudist, its very easy to talk to friends about what I do as a nudist and why I like life naked best.
Do other 50 plus nudists here have similar feelings? Are you more open now about being nudists? Does it matter who knows you're a nudist now, when it may have done previously?
I'm not quite sure about my answer on this one...I'm quite comfortable roaming about the house, parts of the yard and the periodic resorts nude but know it would quite difficult if my co-workers knew. I'm still a few years from retirement but getting there one day at the time. I figure someday I won't have to keep it completely under wraps but probably won't ever announce it publicly. We'll see how it pans out...
We should just be our true selves. Yes I'm retired but I do voluntary work and all my work-mates know I'm a nudist. We talk about it often. And I was chatting about it tonight in the pub - to a complete stranger and to people I know.
In my case I made sure most everybody in my circle of friends knew I am a nudist most of my life. It has been only in the last couple of years of my career that I began to get much more vocal about. Talking about retiring out in the farm country so I could tend a garden and mow the grass naked and that sort of thing. I can't recall ever getting a real negative reaction from anyone other than the usual replies nudist always get.
Just the other day I was walking down a hallway at work passing by our operations manager's office when I heard him say "Speak of the devil, there goes a nudist now!" I backed up to his door to see him talking to a couple of guest in his office. He said they were talking about nudist when I walked down the hallway so he had to invite me in. I was excited to get to explain nudism to his guest for 5 minutes or so.
Jack
Thank you Andy. As a black man just discovering the joys of social nudity I was worried about acceptance at the clubs because of our current political climate. What I have found however is a friendly and accepting atmosphere. The conversations have been varied but never politics or religion. On TN the community is more diverse and there is a group for everyone so the likelihood of running into some offensive comments is higher but it just lets me know that people are people and that nudist come in all forms.
Its a sad fact that you still need to make those considerations in the 21 st century. But, here in the UK since there was a referendum on membership of the European Union, more extreme views from across the divides in various areas of life have come much more to the fore since it was held(please note, before anyone tries to pick me up on this, I've not said what my views are on that referendum).
Generally the long held view that nudists are mostly very accepting of others seems to be the case still, but I can think of a few cases where individuals bigotry seems to have come more to the fore. As with life in general, its usually quite possible to live without having anything to do with people like that.