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Originally posted by Joeaksa
You feel funny at a nude beach or park in Europe where everyone is nude but after a while get used to it and stop staring. After you see so many people without clothes for a longer time it just becomes second nature and do not even think about it.
For me it took a long time when I returned to the states to get used to wearing clothes when swimming or sunbathing. Just does not feel right now...
Joe A
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Some of you know I am an undercover hippie. My (if I do say so myself) distinguished grey hair is roughly 1/2" long and I wear slacks and neckties to work. As straight an arrow as you're likely to see in Corporate Consultant Amerika. But I like to frolic and I just get back from my beloved Oregon Country Fair where nudity is fairly tolerated. Ladies don't have to wear tops, and many don't. They paint thier chests, in fact. The sauna is a place for two or three hundred naked people. Kids too. But here's the part many of you will not be able to understand. It's a family place. Kids are everywhere and nobody thinks the naked body is ugly or obscene. You have to hide it and surround it with mystery and forbidden-ness to do that. Frankly, the people who make the most sense to me in America are the super-liberal types. It's a really cool community. Nude bodies are not obscene, they are beautiful. Disemboweled and decapitated humans....now that's obsene. I am happy to submit myself to the former, and will not pollute my psyche with the latter.
Oh, my daughters can see a peepee any time they like. They'd just have to look in the bathroom while I'm shaving. No big deal. And they've been going to the hippie fair since they were little.