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Did you grow up in a nude house? Apologies if you now have an inappropriate mental picture of your parents and siblings naked. Or maybe you don’t. Maybe you’re drawing a blank because you can’t recall ever seeing your parents without their clothes on. Nor your siblings – not since you became too big to have baths together anyway.
When assessing the nude attitude in your household, there are many nudity nuances to consider, from sleeping naked to streaking the short distance from shower to bedroom to surfing the net while sprawled on the lounge with a glass of wine. Some people garden nude. Others cook. Prepared a nude snack lately? Make sure it’s not a toastie.
Having asked the nude-house question a lot this week (I highly recommend it as an ice-breaker at your next social gathering), I’ve learned that the level of nudity you grew up with is your baseline for normal and you think everyone else is weird.
Generally, people who were raised in a nude house are perplexed by those who weren’t. “What’s the big deal?” they shrug. Meanwhile non-nudists are freaked out by the concept of Chez Naked and wince a lot when discussing it. “The idea of family nudity honestly makes me gag a little,” said one guy who grew up on a farm and told me that, “being naked in our house was like being covered in a swarm of bees; not advisable and highly uncomfortable. Never happened. I wouldn’t even take my shirt off on a hot day.”
Another emphatic response came from a 20 year old who still lives at home with her family including her grandmother. “Ever seen Nana naked?” I enquired and she nearly passed out. “In our house, public nudity is about as common as setting yourself on fire.” [bees? fires? what’s with the extreme analogies from the non-nudists?] “I’ve never seen my parents naked and I think the last time they saw me in the nuddy was age 10. Maybe that’s why I don’t ever really feel comfortable without clothes on. Who are these people that love sleeping naked? What if there’s a fire??”
“I’ve always wondered about families that ARE naked all the time around each other,” agrees Farm Boy. “You can’t do the dishes naked (hot water splashes). You can’t cook naked (oil splashes too) you definitely shouldn’t mow naked. Especially in built-up areas. And what’s stopping you from having your clothes on standby in the bathroom so you can get dressed after your shower without having to flop down the hall?”
A different view from a friend who grew up with a single-mother and insisted nudity was no big deal. “Doors didn’t have to be shut to get changed and if someone was in the shower, you could still brush your teeth at the sink. Same rules apply when I’m at home these days as an adult. But I haven’t lived with my Dad since I was 9 so it’s easier in an all-girl house.”
She insists the same principles apply with her girlfriends. “Do we walk around naked when we’re getting ready to go out? No, but being topless or in our underwear isn’t uncommon. It’s no different to being in your bathers.”
I wonder if living alone makes you more likely to be nude? Certainly, the more people in your house, the more complex it becomes.
Once when I met someone with a live-in au pair, the first thing I asked was, “but don’t you miss walking around naked?”. Sensibly, she replied, “How often do you actually walk around your house naked?”
Fair point. And interestingly, I’ve never asked that question when I meet people who live with their parents or a flatmate.
Having children can change your attitude to household nudity, especially as they grow older. At what age is it uncool for the kids to see Mum and Dad naked? And vice-versa? Is it a same-sex rule? Mothers and daughters can see each other nude and fathers and sons? Until when?
Puberty according to many.
“That’s when it just naturally felt right to start having boundaries about who sees what,” says a friend with two teenagers. I quizzed her more specifically and discovered that her kids haven’t seen her nude since they were small. “I’m not a prude but I was ready to take back some of that privacy you surrender with kids. My husband and daughter haven’t seen each other nude since she was about five and my son was comfortable being nude in front of us until puberty when it changed very suddenly. For years now we’ve all showered with the door closed and wear towels to and from the bathroom.”
Some people however, refuse to modify their nudity for others. One friend’s partner likes to be nude and he doesn’t care who sees him. Even the cleaner. “His philosophy is that it’s his house and he should be able to let it all hang out,” his wife tells me while rolling her eyes almost out of her head. Memo to self: never drop in to see friends without texting first.
Did you grow up in a nude house? How nude is your household now?
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Yep, we’ve got a nudie household. Mum, Dad, 6 year old boy and teen girls. We see each other naked every day when we’re getting dressed or using the bathroom but we don’t hang out naked around the house. Sometimes in summer we’ll just strip off and jump in the pool in our undies. I don’t see a problem with it. It’s the same when my Mum comes to visit and it’s how I grew up as well. My husband is European and he also grew up the same way. I’m happy to say that both my girls have a lot of respect for themselves and have no body issues, and in this day and age – thank god I say.
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I grew up in a no (or only accidental) nudity household but married a Scandinavian. Since marrying 23 years ago my attitude to nudity at home has relaxed considerably, and even more so after living there. They have a very relaxed and no nonsense attitude to nudity and we raised our son in the same way. We don’t openly stride around the house naked on a regular basis but never go out of our way to hide our nudity, even now that our son is 19. He has never felt awkward, only for 5 minutes through puberty and sometimes these days we have to remind him that he should make some attempt to ‘cover it’ for our sake when he is standing in the doorway to the bathroom chatting to us because he forgets he is in the nude.
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There was no parent nudity whatsoever in my house but I sleep naked, occasionally walk around a little in the nude (at bedtime) and also sometimes bathe with the kids (we have a big bathtub, the kids are now 7 and 5) but lately my daughter (7) has been asking me to wear underpants in the bath because my vagina is “strange looking” even though I have bathed with her on occasion since she was a baby. My husband thinks I should definitely stop bathing with them. I really like to though as we chat, and it is easier to wash their hair. But I think I may have to stop soon.
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I didn’t grow up in a nudist home, but I remember, aged about 10yrs, taking my clothes off and running across a field behind my house. My nudity was fairly dormant for a number of years after leaving home. Once, I started living on my own, my ‘nude time’ gradually increased, until now, once it is warm enough the clothes come off.
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One morning I stepped into our shower, it’s a modern shower with no glass door my hair was all lathered up with shampoo and this voice behind me said Mum can I have this Yogo as I turned around there was my son with his yogo and sitting all wet at the back of the show was my very very wet poodle I think he had been there all the time.
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I grew up in a non nude house and i dont know what my dad or mum look like naked and its to late to ask !!! But when i have kids i dont really want to make it an issue and want to be able to walk from shower to bedroom without them screaming “Wow look at that its huge!!!” And i wouldnt advice it either.
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My parents were not exactly going about their chores while being naked,but still,they walked to and from shower without clothes and were certainly not ashamed to let us kids see them naked.That stopped naturally when we were teenagers though,i think.
I now have 2 children myself,and i’m spending a fair amount naked (usually also to do with pre-or apres shower activities)or half-naked (mostly due to the heat in summer).
The kids are 10y (boy) and 7y (girl),and lately i have noticed that my son’s eyes are magically drawn to my breasts and privates whenever he talks to me while i’ve got nothing on,even though he has seen it all a 1000 times…I think we’re approaching the time when he doesn’t need to see his mother naked anymore-and fast!
I do remember that something changed when i was about 12 or so myself,and suddenly i felt slightly uncomfortable seeing my dad’s naked butt running to the shower:).I think it’s just a matter of sensing when that time has arrived with ones own kids (very soon,or already missed it with my son,still no problem at all with my daughter).
I’m all for a healthy middle between feeling good,confident and happy with ones naked body and a good dose of modesty at certain times too…
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cant express how disturbed I feel about everybody’s comments. Does this really go on? did I grow up in some wierd cult where people actually wore clothes in the home?
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If you did, then my family must have been in the same cult.
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I grew up in a house where we could walk in on mum in the shower but not anyone else.. Noone wanted too! I sleep in a singlet and undies and will walk around in that now living with my Boyf and brother but not nude..
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I know I used to shower with my Dad when I was a kid… apparently the day that ended was the day I reached up and said “What’s this Daddy?”.
Also when young would have baths with my brother.
It was OK to go into parents ensuite to grab something if they were in shower- but only because the door was frosted so you couldn’t see anything. I know I didn’t mind doing it if it was mum, but wouldn’t intrude if it was Dad.
Mum would sometimes wear a bra and undies on very hot days when I was a teenager but never when my brother was home.
My husband sleeps naked- I cannot.
The door is always shut when either of us shower. We don’t enter unless specifically asking each other to, and questions are shouted through a gap in the door.
The door is shut when using the toilet.
We do not use the toilet while the other one is in the shower.
We do not enter while the other is using the toilet.
We mainly wear a towel from bathroom to bedroom.
I will however walk into the study to ask husband a question while naked- usually if I cannot decide what clothes to wear.
I fear this will all change when we have children.
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So well written! I grew up in a nude house and intend to do the same with my kids. Its only weird when you make it weird IMHO!
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I guess I grew up in a semi nude house; my Mum, sister and I would all use the bathroom while the other was in there, walk naked back to our rooms etc. Dad always slept naked and would walk back from the bathroom naked, but by the time we were maybe 8 or 10, we would knock before we walked into their bedroom, so he could throw a sheet over or whatever. It wasn’t until we were teenagers that my sister and I started to cover up if Dad was around.
In my family now, we often shower with Miss 4, we both sleep naked in summer (actually hubby usually sleeps in undies or boxers these days), and she has started sleeping in just undies, and will happily cuddle up with me when she wakes me in the morning, whilst calling me a “nudie rudie”.
We are fine to walk around the house naked, and Miss 4 knows that naked is fine at home or with Grandma and aunties, but she now knows what parts of her body are private outside the home.
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I also grew up in a naked household. My house seems to be the same. i have always slept naked and so have the kids, although sometimes in winter they will keep the Pjs on. When it comes to stopping, it is just when someone starts to feel uncomfortable. My daughters have never bother but my son who is 13 1/2 started to close the door when dressing and all that so I knew he wanted a little more privacy.
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yep i grew up in a ‘naked’ household…my parents tought us to be happy and comfortable in our own skin …
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I grew up in a house with my mum and 2 sisters. I saw my mum nude once when I accidently walked in on her in the shower. I still haven’t recovered from the horror. :-p
I don’t feel comfortable with exposing our 5 year old son to a nude household. To me that just doesn’t seem right or normal. Actually it sounds a bit like child abuse.
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WHat a ridiculous and ill-informed thing to say! Normalising the human body is hardly child abuse- grow up.
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Actually, it sounds more like child abuse to make 5 year olds ashamed of the naked human body.
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How is seeing people’s real bodies child abuse?
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Try counselling.
Seriously.
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I think some of you are abusing this person should think about people’s possible reasons for saying these things. I grew up in a house where as a girl I always had to cover up, and so did my brothers. I never saw my father naked, and rarely my Mum. My Mum admitted to me that she had been abused by her father as a young girl about ten years ago (she’s 70 now). For that reason she never left me alone with my father, and we all covered up. I feel sad that she had to always live with that fear (we were both the only girl of the siblings). So maybe wonder why some people are not ok with general nudity in the home.
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My upbringing was quite proper, with parents who were not even relaxed with each other, so I’m not really sure how I came to be so comfortable in my own body and happier sleeping naked from the time I reached adulthood. I remember visiting a nude beach with my first husband back in the 70s, and my beloved soulmate & husband of 2+ years would be very happy to wear a lot less around our home if it were not for my elderly mother living with us.
Knowing she’s safely asleep I can go naked to the loo during the night, but it’s really out of consideration for her that we cover up habitually, as she’d be terribly embarrassed to see nudity or be seen naked.
Having raised 3 sons, nudity as a family was not the norm for my own family.
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I was going to say that I grew up in a non-nudist house but remembered that either my sister or I would always be in the bathroom when Mum was having a bath. At every other time in our house everyone was always fully clothed, but it just seemed that Mum in the bath was the special time to have talks with her. My sister and I were never in there at the same time. It was an unspoken rule that if you walked in and your sister was there before you then you came back another night. At other times if you had a quick question you would just shout through the door!
At the moment we are a semi nudie house. We are not strict on clothes for the girls except for undies when they are doing gymnastics! And they often walk around in various stages of undress. I’m more open in nudie-ness than my husband, but then he will only wear undies a lot of the time. Open doors in showers, baths, etc.
I guess we will take our cue from our kids. Sometimes Miss 6 will tell us not to look at her when she is getting dressed, but that will be us respecting her feelings. I don’t think her Dad and I will change.
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I grew up in a house with incidental nudity. We probably had a towel around us when leaving the bathroom, but noone fussed if not; bedroom doors were left open when getting dressed and I saw my parents if I had a question to ask; we slept nude in summer. But we didn’t lounge around the house or do housework naked.
My home now is quite naked. My boyfriend and I have both studied remedial massage, and there it’s normal to be in a classroom in bra and undies or to be lying face-down in undies and a towel while the teacher demonstrates on you to the class. We sleep naked, although I’ll sometimes wear a nightie in winter to keep my shoulders warm. In warm weather he’ll often wander around the house naked, or put on a sleeveless polarfleece jacket if he’s cold (which looks funny with no pants on LOL). I usually wear something, but only because I’m self-conscious about my blobby tummy. But in stinking hot weather, we’ll often both be naked during the day except for a wet towel around our necks. And our bathroom door is open except when we have visitors – it’s common for one to use the loo while the other is in the shower, and have a conversation.
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didn’t matter in our household growing up, but then when i was about 8 and my sister was 12 we both had our own bathroom whilst mum and dad had theirs.
it wasn’t a conscious decision to be nude or not nude, it didn’t really matter.
I have my own bathroom now so i only ever see my boyfriend nude!!
i walk around my room and bathroom naked if i’m getting in/out of the shower.
i won’t just suddenly decide to have no clothes on
but at my boyfriends house the second i get out of the shower i’ll put undies and bra on because his brothers always walked in on me (not on purpose, it was very hard to tell if someone was in the bathroom) but i don’t care if people see me in my underwear.
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We were always pretty open in my house. My brother started to become more conscious about it when he was a teenager though. I remember a few years ago my parents rented a little cottage in the middle of the bush for the weekend and it had huge, curtain-less windows throughout and my parents and I just spent the weekend naked, reading books and chatting.
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Not a nude house.
I can’t imagine why it’s such an imposition to put a towel around you before you leave the bathroom. Or maybe even put your pyjamas. Unless the bathroom is an en-suite, I think it’s a reasonable expectation.
If I use the pool changeroom at my gym, there always seem to be a lot of nude kids & nude/semi-nude mothers running round, & it freaked me out a little at first because we were never a nude family.
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Not an “imposition” so much as “unnecessary”.
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five kids, two parents, one bathroom – saw plenty of nakedness growing up, and still comfortable with it for functional purposes – I don’t set out to be naked but if I’m doing a load of washing that my clothes could go in and I’m about to have a shower I’ll throw them in and streak to the bathroom. three kids myself now and I can’t remember when I last had a shower that wasn’t interrupted by someone coming in to find something or clean teeth etc, so there’d be no point even if I didn’t want them to see me nude. no one knocks, although they are all getting better at making sure they don’t walk while someone is on the toilet, they still have a ways to go. i was once caught by my husband’s work colleagues who came to visit him, I was wearing undies and a pj shirt (unbuttoned because of breast feeding – you know how if you pull it open enough times the buttons never stay done up, although I wasn’t still breast feeding at this time, I was wondering around spot vacuuming with the dust buster and talking on the phone to a friend, as you do, heard the bell and spun around to give them a birds eye view of boobs swinging through the glass pane next to the front door – very embarassed. My husband told them he had a mad cleaning lady who liked to nude up to clean.) my kids are starting to get more conscious of covering up but only if others are around. my husband was once, well before we were married, washing his hands at the tap outside the kitchen window, stood up and there was mum starkers. that’s when he realised that my family were different to his. a friend of mine came over one day and could hear us all in the bathroom so walked in, the door was open, I was in the shower, one of the kids was on the toilet, one cleaning teeth, one doing hair and husband having a chat, she was surprised, but still just walks into the house when she comes over, but does yell out as she gets towards the bathroom. having said all this, two of my siblings are about the same as me, one more modest, and the other married a guy who didn’t even want their children to see her in her underclothes, so they didn’t for years until he was working away from home for a year and returned to a somewhat more relaxed home, which he really struggled with, so I’m sure she covers up now if he is around – which I find really odd.
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Grew up fairly relaxed, i.e. I’d comfortably walk in on my mum still while she was in the shower if I needed something in the bathroom. My dad not so much. But I remember being watched in the male changeroom after badminton games, with the men showering… I guess that was OK 30 years ago. Wouldn’t put my girl in the same situation though.
We sleep naked in my family and I’ll get my girl out of her cot naked, my husband wont. He’s a prude around others but not around me…
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I guess I grew up in a nude house. I sleep naked and it wasn’t/isn’t an issue to walk to the bathroom/ kitchen nude or in very little. This means I’ve seen my mum naked heaps. However my family never just sat on the couch and watched telly or anything together in the nude. Because of this, I am pretty comfortable to get changed and walk around in my undies in front of pretty much anybody. Took my boyfriend ages to get used to because he grew up in a very non nude house. I think he’s converted now though
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There’s normal nudity and then there is functional nudity.
Functional nudity- being naked and doing things like scrubbing the toilet, or vacuuming- not cool!
Normal nudity- awesome.
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When I shared a house as a late teenager I once lived with a girl who didnt like to wear clothes- didnt matter who was around. And she was gorgeous with a very curvaceous body too. Made it interesting interviewing potential roomates!!!
My parents were also very open about nudity- went to nude beaches and I even remember Dad putting out the rubbish in the nude. So I was always pretty open with my kids- and yet they have all grown up much more self-conscious than me. Strange!!!
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Yikes!
I’m starting to see where all my neuroses are from. In my parents house, you would not be able to get away with not wearing a bra, or even wearing pyjamas in the living room is considered generally ‘inappropriate’. I can’t even imagine any sort of nakedness!
I see where some of my problems are coming from…
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I can’t stand wearing PJs or nighties so uncomfortable we sleep naked and when I get up I wear a sarong.
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Hmmm i didn’t grow up in a nude house but i worked in musical theatre my whole life so i don’t actually care who sees me naked (sorry neighbours). I also know for a fact that my paternal grandmother had no hair ANYWHERE on her body i was 13 and in shock for quite some time over that. Not sure how i will feel about public nudity once i have had kids we shall see
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I am comfy being nude, showering with the door open etc and am trying to encourage our children to be the same way. The husband is not. YET, he sleeps naked and I cannot even doze unless I am wearing something, especially undies or pants. Have only just stopped and thought about how bizarre that is.
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I grew up in a nude house and I still see my mum nude when she stays with us. Hubby and I and kids are often nude in front of each other and I don’t see that stopping any time soon.
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In our household, we’re not nudists, but we don’t make a massive effort to cover up when getting out of the shower or seeing each other in the shower.
I was showering this evening and my brother came in to brush his teeth, and i do the same vice versa.
Yeah, i see my parents naked, my dad will just wander out of the shower not paying attention to anyone/anything around him.
I used to shower with my mum and dad when i was younger sometimes. When i was about 4 i was at the bank with my dad and i decided to announce to everyone “I had a shower with daddy this morning!”
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I grew up in a very un-nude house!! But we are the complete opposites. Not intentionally, but it’s just the way it’s rolled. Even our 12 year old was telling us a very unfunny joke after her shower the other night in the lounge room. I was the one who gently asked her to go chuck her dacks on before she gave us the punchline.
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I will never forget visiting a friend from school and seeing a nude family photo proudly displayed in the living room. A very tasteful nude family photo i’ll add, but still very nude.
Our house is comfortable being nude. I’ve been known to change nappies in the nude after a shower but sooner or later I always put clothes on, our couch is a really scratchy fabric, it’s not comfortable to sit on naked (as well as all the other practical problems with doing things naked). My partner lives in practically nothing but boxer shorts. In the middle of winter i’ll catch him in them turning up the heater and i’ll point out that he’d be warmer if he put some clothes on. So nudity is fine in our house, but I don’t think we’re ready for the nude family photo yet
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I did not grow up in a nude house at all. But my son is sure growing up in one now. I CANNOT sleep with clothes on. In fact my biggest fear about going to hospital to have a baby was that I was not going to be able to sleep because I would have to wear pajamas.
I still bath with my son (much to Rick’s horror), my husband also does on occasion. We are often naked at home – not intentionally but just between bath, bed, laundry and well when I need a glass of water in the middle of the night and that kind of stuff. Also now that I think about it I usually brush my teeth before getting dressed and so does hubby.
My sister on the other hand who grew up in the same house as me is very “clothes conscious” and so are her kids….Polar opposites to us
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I grew up not showing ANY skin, prudes totally!
My husbands family let it all hang out, even now there are no boundaries, none!!!! (toilet door open) his dad just wore boxers ( i didnt know where to look) my husband still wears just shorts all the time when he’s home. I get sick of seeing him ‘naked’ all the time lol!! they think I have a problem!! I’m too up tight well sorry for wearing clothes.
Funny i teach my boys to be proud of their bodies but it’s good to wear a shirt…
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in his single days my husband learnt a valuable lesson, do not iron in the nude, especially as he’s tall and his crotch is at ironing board level, ouch!
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*wolf whistle*
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Total rudie nudie over here. I grew up as one of five siblings and I remember many times one or all of us having a chat to Mum while she was in the bath, both parents getting dressed in front of us and my brothers doing many a nudie run from the bathroom to their bedrooms. It was never even discussed, no big deal. My husband can’t cope with the fact I never shut the bathroom door now! Now I am a mother to a 3 1/2 year old daughter, I am exactly the same with her. We have baths together and I would never encourage her to be “modest” at this young age. When I became a nurse, the sheer volume of people you see naked never bothered me in the slightest because I was never taught to be worried about it and I really appreciated that, especially when one of my peers(who had grown up in an entirely opposite manner) went beet-red every time she was faced with the prospect of bathing someone!
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Mia, you wonder about those who sleep naked and what if there was a fire. When I met hubby, I slept naked. But he had survived a house fire a couple of years earlier. His compromise was to hang his undies on the end of the bed “just in case”.
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Lol. It wasn’t actually me who wondered about if there was a fire and you were sleeping nude. That was – cough – one of my colleagues who shall remain nameless……
I like your hubby’s compromise!
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I come from a family where we are all very open about things. We grew up having only one bathroom, so if you needed to go to the loo, and someone was in the bath, or shower, you knocked & went in.
My daughter is now two and I have discovered the truth of what my Mum always used to say… “I get more peace if I leave the bathroom door open when I am in there”. A sad but true fact in our family
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My 4yo is a nudist, I’m sure of it. Hubby and I are perfectly happy being naked around the kids (2 & 4), and I’ve been known to do the odd naked or partially clothed run to the laundry or some other room to get an item of clothing, meanwhile wishing we’d shut the curtains the night before! However we dont make a point of being naked – unlike the aforementioned 4 year old!
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Grew up bathing with my bro until we were too big to fit in the bath/both decided showers were much more efficient. Mum has never been overly worried if either of us kids or grandma wander up to her room when she’s changing, I used to be very conscious of being undressed as a teenager (not sure why, normal teenage nuerosis no doubt) but have become more accepting of the bod lately. It helps that I live in a house full of women and though. We all just parade around in towels and undies between the bathroom and our rooms or when searching through each others wardrobes.
I’ve actually been trying to get more used to nudity in general over the past few months. (timely post!) after reading an article on nudist beaches/resorts/cruises and visiting Italy and Italian beaches last year – I got stared at for having clothes on, highly amusing. After all it is just the human body!
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Wait, what…? People walk around nude in front of their families…?
Colour me actually shocked. I literally had no idea this happened. My family are in no way prudes, but we just didn’t do it. Maybe because it’s cold where we’re from, or maybe because I just don’t see the point. How awkward.
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I’m freaked out too! just the idea of glimpsing my mum/dad/brother in the nuddie is traumatic!! wrong wrong wrong…
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One day when my brother and I were in our mid-teens Mum wandered up the hallway wearing just her moccasins. My brother told her she looked like a skinned rabbit and that was it … she was referred to as Mrs Rabbit for a few years after that!
Mum & Dad have always been okay with letting it all hang out. Thankfully they keep it all covered when we go to visit them these days. I really wouldn’t cope
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I grew up in the 40s & 50s and rather surprisingly there was no problem in our family, in terms of travelling from bathroom to bedroom in the nude, or going to the loo when someone was in the shower. That was about as far as it went. My husband and I have never worn pyjamas, and that’s just something I became used to, having always worn them whilst growing up.
If fire breaks out, dressing gowns are close by!
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Not many boundaries in this house. We always said we’d just go with the flow when it came to the kids getting a bit older and let it sort itself out. We figured they’d set their own boundaries and we’d just go with it. Our oldest is 8 and so far is more than happy to shower with her younger siblings or even myself. No one shuts a door, or has a problem with sitting on the bath edge to talk to someone in the shower. I disagree that it has to do with how you grew up. Both my husband and I were brought up in a very prudish way and we have gone the total opposite. I wouldn’t go as far as saying we are nudists, as household chores and other daily things are performed fully clothed. With the exception of my husband doing the vacuuming. For someone he always decides it needs doing just as he’s about to get in the shower. I’m sure there will be a family legend of Dad vacuuming in the nude.
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I grew up seeing Mum nude and Dad never! Married : Husband was never nude in front of anyone – I was a total nudie. My kids accepted this as the norm (Older daughter two younger sons) until eldest son reached 16 and I was standing at a cupboard outside my bedroom, naked and his response was: “Mum that is a dreadful sight can you put some clothes on!” Have been single and living solo for many years and LOVE the freedom of ‘no clothes around the house’! My grand kids don’t seem to have an issue with it when they visit. I recently decided to visit a nudist beach for the first time and LOVED the experience!
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I love to be at home naked and now my fourteen year old has found solace in it. his mid pubescent body is changing rapidly and is proud to display his newly emerging tufts to anyone who wishes to see them. since my divorce I have become addicted to being naked at home whenever I can ……sleep nude , cook mostly naked . sometimes even darting to the hills hoist to fetch undies naked . there’s a little thrill there . unfortunately I have started working from home and just the other day a lady client dropped in unexpectedly…the door bell ding dongs “can you get that ” I ask my daughter ….”I am naked ” thinking it was just one of my sons friends. “Dad ….a customer…..”
“tell her I am naked and I won’t be long (pardon the pun ) ” . I slipped on whatever I could and greeted her at the door . A broad smile beamed from her face ….another nudite I am sure. I have decided that working from home will not do my reputation well in a small country town.
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I grew up in a household where incidental and partial nudity was common. We certainly didn’t routinely strut around in the buff (can’t fathom being a nudist; too uncomfortable to start with. My wobbly bits need to be held in place!), but a quick dash from bathroom to bedroom, or walking around in your underwear, was not cause for alarm (except that time I was caught out in my granny underwear (’cause I was ironing the clothes I was about to put on) by my brother’s mate who – unbeknownst to me – was crashing out on our couch. My family never intentionally subjected ‘outsiders’ to our lax clothing policy).
Barging in on mum while she’s in the shower is still something my siblings and I would not think twice about (well, maybe we would pause to consider it – courtesy and all that – before continuing on our way. Poor woman…she still doesn’t get a moment’s peace from her ‘children’).
I think my sister-in-law is a little disturbed by the fact that my brother still walks around in front of me and my mother and sister (and their kids) in only his jocks. It’s just habit. Or maybe we are just too lazy to get fully dressed…? I prefer to think that it is a natural consequence of being part of an emotionally close (and no-nonsense) family…and growing up in a very hot climate!
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I grew up in a household that was pretty much emotionally frigid, so nudity was way out of the question and even the mere thought of it probably would have driven my mom to panic!
I sleep nude now but live alone, so no concerns. But for my whole life I have had major body issues and shame – won’t even allow a doctor to see me naked – and know it comes from my childhood.
If I had/have kids I like to think I’d be more relaxed about nudity but in truth I don’t know if I could…
Thanks for the pic though!
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