Towels and introducing others
I know good nudist behavior requires us to sit on a towel when we get together either at each others homes or a club.I do try to do that all the time.But I confess around home I simply do not even think about it. I figure at this point about every surface i could sit on has had my bare ass on it.My question pertains to hosting my bicycling guest. Most all of them are fine with me nude. And many of them over the years have tried their first social naked evening themselves. They usually shower as soon as they get here and so are clean. The ones that try a naked evening often just come from the shower bare and stay that way. So they are clean. I honestly never gave it a thought to provide them dry towels to sit on for the evening. I think I will try that this season to get them into good nudist habits if they decide hanging out bare is for them. Anyone else have any experience getting newbie nudist into a good habit?
I know good nudist behavior requires us to sit on a towel when we get together either at each others homes or a club.I do try to do that all the time.But I confess around home I simply do not even think about it. I figure at this point about every surface i could sit on has had my bare ass on it.My question pertains to hosting my bicycling guest. Most all of them are fine with me nude. And many of them over the years have tried their first social naked evening themselves. They usually shower as soon as they get here and so are clean. The ones that try a naked evening often just come from the shower bare and stay that way. So they are clean. I honestly never gave it a thought to provide them dry towels to sit on for the evening. I think I will try that this season to get them into good nudist habits if they decide hanging out bare is for them. Anyone else have any experience getting newbie nudist into a good habit?
"I figure at this point about every surface i could sit on has had my bare ass on it."
And your guests don't mind????
I use towels at "events" in people's homes and at resorts, per nudist custom.
I think it's bizarre that a health-obsessed culture like ours tends to make do with rubbing oneself with a dry piece of paper, but one accommodates. Much of the world washes after going to the bathroom, as do any of the folks likely to undress in my house. I just don't buy the worry that clean "private parts" are any more
dangerous or dirty than hands and faces, and I DO shake hands, kiss
cheeks, and hug, so what they hey - I can spin a potential-disaster
story about any human contact one cares to name. But the rather
exceptional focus we - nudists and non-nudists alike - place on the
potential dirtiness of the "privates" is body-negativity, pure and
simple.
In my house I use a towel or other spread sometimes on furniture whose upholstery isn't comfortable for me (I'm allergic to wool) and have a nice muslin bedspread that can serve a a slipcover for our better couches. But otherwise never think of it, for myself or for visiting friends.
We rentened a place on our last return visit to Australia, we brought some cheap bed sheets to place over the lounge furniture and towels on the dining room chair, just as a measure of comfort and less chance of creating problems.
In Asia we have bidet sprays in all toilets and toilet paper to dry off with, so towels are only used if the seat is prone to get sticky with sweat due to the heat and high humidity.
Amazing but true. If we covered our faces and were embarrassed by our mouths to the point of legal sanctions, many of us probably wouldn't have control of our drooling, either.
Of course, some people do have continence issues of various sorts, and some people don't wash. It's easier, and kinder, to have a towel rule than to make some effort to identify the folks who need them, or ask them to self-identify, when there's a group event. And of course, people who need them at home should use them. And people who don't, shouldn't. I've got antique furniture in the living room, an upholstered (and un-toweled) desk chair, have a number of visitors who feel free to undress, and simply haven't had problems with stains on the furniture. This isn't "logic," it's experience. Don't tell me what I have and haven't done, have and haven't seen.