Normalizing nudity
Return to DiscussionsI travel quite a bit for business and am almost always nude in my hotel room. I spent my final night at a hotel in the downtown of a Great Lakes State. I always ask for a hotel room on the highest floor, as I like to keep my curtains/shades open but do not want to be seen from the ground/street level. I feel claustrophobic if I keep the shades closed. Besides, it's just nice to be able to let in light and see outside. [I do the same when I get a window seat on an airplane.] So my hotel was adjacent to another hotel of the same height/stories and the room I was randomly assigned happened to align directly with the 6th floor hallway of the adjacent hotel. The way I saw it, I was doing nothing wrong by being nude in my room while keeping my window shade open. And from my experience working as a figure model for art classes, I have no problem being nude around clothed people - so long as it is not against the law. [And no, I was not sporting a hard-on (don't get me started on that.)] Accordingly, from time to time, hotel guests walking through that 6th floor hallway in the adjacent hotel could see a nude man (me) in his hotel room. I didn't make eye contact with any of them but I did act completely natural. I did keep an eye out for kids, though - not that I think there's anything wrong with kids being around or witnessing non-sexual nudity. Rather, I was acting out of caution that some Puritanical Textile might lose it and call the cops or report me to the hotel. Thankfully there were no kids and I didn't hear from the hotel front desk or anyone else.
I travel quite a bit for business and am almost always nude in my hotel room. I spent my final night at a hotel in the downtown of a Great Lakes State. I always ask for a hotel room on the highest floor, as I like to keep my curtains/shades open but do not want to be seen from the ground/street level. I feel claustrophobic if I keep the shades closed. Besides, it's just nice to be able to let in light and see outside. [I do the same when I get a window seat on an airplane.] So my hotel was adjacent to another hotel of the same height/stories and the room I was randomly assigned happened to align directly with the 6th floor hallway of the adjacent hotel. The way I saw it, I was doing nothing wrong by being nude in my room while keeping my window shade open. And from my experience working as a figure model for art classes, I have no problem being nude around clothed people - so long as it is not against the law. [And no, I was not sporting a hard-on (don't get me started on that.)] Accordingly, from time to time, hotel guests walking through that 6th floor hallway in the adjacent hotel could see a nude man (me) in his hotel room. I didn't make eye contact with any of them but I did act completely natural. I did keep an eye out for kids, though - not that I think there's anything wrong with kids being around or witnessing non-sexual nudity. Rather, I was acting out of caution that some Puritanical Textile might lose it and call the cops or report me to the hotel. Thankfully there were no kids and I didn't hear from the hotel front desk or anyone else.
Once I was in Boston for a seminar and the hotel was overbooked so we got a top floor suite.
No other building of similar height.
Great to be able to be nude in your room and look out over the city.
I used to work on Michigan Avenue in Chicago on the 19th floor of an office building directly adjacent a large hotel. I directly saw into hotel rooms and it was common for typically solo male guests to be naked with the curtains open getting dressed between 9 and 10 or so. I imagined they could see me just as well as I could see them. It was like locker room etiquette and I never made eye contact with anyone or thought twice about it. I've heard similar stories about people living in downtown high rise apartments - people are entitled to casual nudity in their own homes.
Hey F! This mustve felt nice bc I know you dont have the privacy at home to be able to go nude outside. Glad no one reported you as a pervert. Anytime I travel, as soon as I hit the hotel room, clothes are off. I like having a balcony, that doesnt happen much, but when it does, I like to take advantage of it!! Now I travel with hubby and he doesnt like it when I go by a window nude (remember, he thinks Im crazy for wanting to be nude outside the bedroom). Now if boyfriend was with me, thatd be a different story. Wed have some great adventures!
Love hearing about your travels!!!
As I've said before, we take our nudist life everywhere we go. When able, like hotel rooms, we live in them as we do here at home, completely naked. I also Recon the hotel room before unpacking. First, we always get a room with a balcony when able. Next, we get upper floor rooms, preferably without adjacent buildings. We also like keeping our window coverings open, sliding doors open or windows open, weather permitting.
We just spent 9 days in Hawaii on the 6th floor of a hotel with a nice size balcony with a cushioned lounge and chair. We utilized that balcony naked every day. Mornings, afternoons and evenings, we walked out on the balcony naked and sat and watched the beach, ocean, sail boats and all the people on the pool deck. We visited the pool deck to see what exactly anyone could see of us on our balcony, and it appeared that, in some cases, we could be seen if we stood up and walked up to the rail, walked around or walked back into the room. We acted as though we were oblivious to this and never had a phone call or visit from the front desk about our nudity on the balcony.
We were seen having breakfast out on the balcony, naked. My morning coffee out there each day, sitting out there in the afternoons and evenings. Seen several times for sure and probably more times we weren't aware of. Even seen by the housekeeping lady cleaning the adjacent room balcony.
We've taken this approach with living here with neighbors of just normalizing nudity. It seems to work because we've never had a complaint about our nudity at hotels or here at home. I've even tried to normalize nudity at textile RV parks when I'm able. It's never an "in your face" approach but more subtle and discreet.