I like both, assuming you are making a distinction between the two - I swim a lot at a local YMCA in the colder months and wish that I didn't have to wear anything
I stopped going to the YMCA, about 40yrs ago, for that same reason... LOL
I don't have too much of a choice but go to the YMCA in the winter - ZERO impact water aerobics and swimming are the only formal exercise I can tolerate (I can't even do in shallow end of the pool as it kills my back and knees) - Summer months I will be swimming off my boat
There's a city park pool here that has the tradition of skinny dipping anytime late at night from 10pm till 5 AM. Cops pretty much ignore it except for bottle alcohol in the facility and mess. Any ages and fun times. Some cops just tell everyone to get out, but then it resumes later.
I draw a distinction between skinny dipping and swimming naked at a nude beach. Does anyone else do this? To me skinny dipping is swimming naked wherever you are. When I am swimming naked at a designated nude beach it is a sanctioned activity. I love it. But i think of Skinny dipping as more a personal choice to go naked wherever you are. i'm curious if anybody else sees it this way. If I go for a hike and come upon a nice pool of water or swimming hole and i make the choice to jump in naked I call it skinnydipping.
I gotta say I agree: when you go skinny dipping, you run the risk of surprising others (by being naked) who may come upon you. Not so when you swim naked at a pool at a clothing optional resort. Or at a nude beach. And I think this is why, for me, skinny dipping often carries with it a bit more of a potential for a mental rush (doing something that may cause you or others embarrassment), unlike swimming in the buff.I agree. That mental rush is something I enjoy. I don't have to be alone. I can be with a group of people "skinnydipping" and then I am conscious of it as a group activity: that we are all making a gang decision to shed clothes and go naked together. There's that risk of being caught that provides this thrill and makes me enjoy the free expression of the nudity even more, not knowing who is going to see me and yet enjoying the expression. It comes back again to it being a personal choice, a private decision made public. It's a little bit for me likethe choiceto be naked with other people, whether they are naked or not and it's a little like posting a picture of myself naked not knowing who might see it, but loving the freedom of expression.
I draw a distinction between skinny dipping and swimming naked at a nude beach. Does anyone else do this? To me skinny dipping is swimming naked wherever you are. When I am swimming naked at a designated nude beach it is a sanctioned activity. I love it. But i think of Skinny dipping as more a personal choice to go naked wherever you are. i'm curious if anybody else sees it this way. If I go for a hike and come upon a nice pool of water or swimming hole and i make the choice to jump in naked I call it skinnydipping.
I always thought of it as long as you were naked in any kind of swimming place it was called skinny dipping no matter if it was in a swimming pool, in a beach, or where ever there is water and yu can be naked in it. I might be wrong but that how I always thought of it to be. However it may be called i love being naked while swimming if its called skinny dipping or swimming naked i love the feel on the water on my naked body, and for my self I will call it all skinny dipping however that don't mean i am 100 % right nore does it mean i'm wrong either but for myself I will always call it skinny dipping.
This discussion has been amusing...let me try to "put a fork in it." Skinny-dipping and swimming naked denote (that's the key word) exactly the same thing, but the connotation of "skinny-dipping" is a surreptitious (clandestine) activity. For example, one might say, "When the Smiths were away, we snuck into their yard and went skinny-dipping in their pool," but you would be much less likely to say, "and went naked swimming in their pool." Conversely, one would be less likely to say, "We went to a naturist resort and went skinny-dipping in their pool." Swimming naked in the context is more normalized, so using a term that's most often related to clandestine activity is less appropriate. It'sall about denotation vs. connotation.
I think you can call it whatever you want. I just drive distinction. & I like this response as an articulation of what I was saying.
I've really liked reading the responses in this discussion. Its not a serious conversation. It's just about words and the way we think about being naked but I've really liked what I've heard people share here.these conversations make me feel closer and more bonded to my naked brothers and sisters!
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