well, this has been well answered apparently, but there is a great deal of exhibitionist pictures and Nudist "posers" on this website. The folks actually tell on themselves when they leave sexually charged messages on members pics, and then if you were to look through their pics, they themselves may have more of a sexuallyimplied content.. these folks could be then considered exhibitionists, and perhaps nudists as well... but i think most of them are exhibitionists.
That is a good question !! I have often wondered myself how many members on here are real nudist, and how many may be exibitionist. I don't like to show myself at least on purpose. I don't really care if people see all of me on cam if it just happens. I am restricted on when I can be nude. I live with textile relatives. Sean
As the cat's mother & the kitchen sink have put their "oar" in here, going by the number of replies, I thought I would jump in also.lol
To my mind, naturism is just that. Being out-doors in nature, & when it is too cold, or with limited finances you are a full-time nudist at home. That is why when I think of "naturism" I look East of the British Islands to Europe, but when I hear either the word "exhibitionsim" or "nudity" verbalised, I look West of these Islands to the dis-United States of America.
I do not understand this idea that US citizens have that it needs to be practiced at either a "nude beach" or "resort". The American idea of a nudist resort, I tend to think of as yet another "ghetto". Al la "Queer Ghettos" like the Castro or the "Village".
For me, naturism is about clearing the obstacles & walls whether within our mind or physical man-made ones. NOT closing ones-self by these things= liberation of mind, body & spirt.
The Germans brought nudism to the US in the early 1930s, and at that time it was a healthy lifestyle with a self sustaining community like Cat Island in South Carolina (the actual first nudist enclave in the US). They grew their own food or fished, exercised for health. Unfortunately, the mosquitoes chased them away one year rather than the law.
Thanks NIM for stating it so eloquently.
I tend to agree with most, we..or i am kind of proud of my body & i enjoy looking at other nice bodys, not in a sexual way but just the same i like it. I think most out there are the same...we like looking & like being looked at. Thats not a bad thing its just human nature.
How sensible. Voyeurism, exhibitionism, nudism. Done of these are automatically sexual. Likewise people, nudist or otherwise can be sexual without be a voyeur or exhibitionist. Our bodies are works of rt by our creator. Mine was at the bottom end, but if anyone looks, so what
Exhibitionism - Nudism - Voyeurism
That's a lot of -ism's in there, with nudism sitting embaressingly in the middle. Are we all just one or the other of any particular label, or are we all a healthy mixture of many emotions and decisions, the one not necessarily related to the other?
Rich.
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Agreed. But if that was all it was then nudists would be content to be naked inside their four walls and behind their privacy fences. LOL
Just because we're not walking around in trench coats flashing people doesn't mean we don't mean we don't get SOME enjoyment being naked around others. And not everything is "sexual" in its intent.
"Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar."