Nudist Friends: Why you should want them, and why you should be them.
The following is in response to a tweet by nudist social media influencer Angela de la Cruz, who pondered:
Can you help me answering the next question: which benefits do you find of having nudist friends??
I gave a short reply on Twitter, but a few hours on, find there is more in my head on this subject, so here are my extended thoughts on nudist friends:
Broadly, having nudist friends to share one’s naked life with, has two consequences, one more practical, one more philosophical.
On the practical side, it’s simply nice to be able to share time and space naked with other people who understand the mere act of being naked isn’t in-of-itself a sexual act, and thus don’t paint the experience with the brush of sexualisation.
I’m a bit of a nudist evangelist, so while I’ll happily spend plenty of time explaining the nature of nudism to newbies and hesitants, it is none-the-less rather refreshing to not have to explain sometimes!
It’s nice to just be able to be naked, and be surrounded by other naked people, who don’t make a big deal about penises, vaginas, breasts, and the rest. It’s refreshing when people are comfortable enough about nudity that they aren’t very obviously tying themselves in knots to try…
