The Introduction Thread

[FrankT]

Hi, Troy, and welcome to the board. We'll be looking forward to reading your story.

We understand your wariness about posting too much about yourself on the Internet. In fact, we wouldn't want you to give out too much information about yourself here. But we hope you'll feel free to join in the discussions.

[Gymnos42]

Hi Troy.
~ Larry

[Toby_StH]

Hello, and welcome Troy.

[Superpan]

Thanks for the welcome and now on with the story.

I have been interested in nudity since when I was very young. My parents would always get angry when me or my sisters would walk in on them in the shower and they would also let us watch their tv shows like Saturday Night Live, The Drew Carey Show, Will and Grace, etc, so, being four years old and not knowing what women had down there, I assumed sex was just making out naked, and being four, sex as a concept creeped me out. That said, when I was getting dressed, I would always spend time either not wearing a shirt or pants just to see what it was like. I spent more time without a shirt, because if you see my posts, you can see I am a big fan of Jesus, and when I was younger, I would act out his life as a game, and being without a shirt was the only way to do the crucifixion justice.
Around the age of eight, I started not going without a shirt or pants anywhere, even while getting dressed. This stopped my bathing and I started having green mold grow on my feet. Soon after, I started puberty and became much more interested in various states of undress. I would feel hot at night and see what I felt like lying in bed in my underwear. I started thinking about having a nude wedding, nude holidays, and naked days around my house with my hypothetical wife and kids. I never seriously considered nudism because I still associated that with nudist colonies and I do not find cutting yourself off from the outside world and living in a commune all that appealing. At the same time I, the pre-teen that I was, discovered how to use a search engine and used it for what you'd expect a boy to use it for. This made me feel for the first time extremely bad about something I had done and I soon realized all the other selfish and, qutie frankly, evil ways I acted towards other people which made me lose confidence and feel insecure.
Being a teenage boy who had no luck with girls, my internet problem would occasionally resurface, until finally, after a bad end to a crush, I thought that if I looked at all the nudity on the internet, I would stop. I did not know that there is an infinite amount of nudity on the internet and inadverdantly developed an addiction. Luckily for me, that included many nudism sites. I was quickly won over by the philosophy, but did not want to move to a commune. That was when I found out that nudist colonies had become nudist resorts! Being the liberal republican that I am, I was delighted to see what I had thought the epitome of being a hippie had become a capitalist enterprise and that most nudists practiced it in their home. I officially declared myself a nudist in my mind and started sleeping nude every chance I get.
The main thing that drew me to it was that if I raised my kids nudist, then my sons would never develop the addiction I had with the internet and my daughters would not think their bodies were only for boys and other people to judge them, like these girls I know that broke down crying because some boys were going to have to see them without their makeup. Nudism alos helped me beat the addiction and get me in a closer relationship with God. I think that I enjoy nudism so much because I am just in my natural state and am just me. I noticed that all our cultures heroes, like Hercules, Jesus, Peter Pan, Mickey Mouse, or superheroes, do their heroic deeds near or in the nude. I think this is because being nude shows that you are you and nothing else and that is enough for you. Also, you don't waste all that time changing.

[Toby_StH]

Wall of text! :O
In the future you might want to split up your texts into paragraphs. It makes it A LOT easier to read and follow.

Quite interesting story though.

[Superpan]

Yeah, I thought it looked weird, but I thought paragraphs without indentation would look even weirder. Glad you enjoyed it.
I tried to correct it, but no luck. I promise an indented paragraph on my future essays and a chicken in every pot.

[Petruchio]

OK. I guess this thread is as good as any for a first post.

1. Name
AL

2. Gender
Male

3. Age
54

4. Etymology of name
From Shakespeare. If you knew my ex you would understand.

5. How you got into naturism
It has been a long journey from Ultra-Prude roots to now.

6. Closet? Social? Something in between?
In the home for now. I live in a very urban area and backyard nudity is impossible here.

7. Where you live
Suburb of a major Midwest US city.

8. Description of yourself
I spent my entire life trying to help and please others. Over the years I discovered that most of those I helped suddenly disappeared when I needed help. Now that I am retired due to medical issues, I have developed the attitude of "The (Bleep) with 'em all. I will live the rest of my life making ME happy!" I am on a short ticket and I know it. I am going to enjoy what is left of it.

I was raised in an Ultra-Prude home. Growing up, sleep ware was underwear and T shirt covered with Pajamas. (both top and bottom) If I had to leave the bedroom at night, I had to add slippers and a robe cinched tight. Even if I only had to go 3 steps from my room to go to the bathroom. After all, it was bad manors to let anyone see my Pajamas. Later, when I was married, nudity was only for a shower or sex. And sex was only at night, in the dark, and dress immediately after. My ex had severe body issues.

Well, my situation changed. Just over a year ago I ended up living alone. I had been divorced for many years but I had been caring for my elderly parents in their final years. In the last year I discovered that living nude was easier and more comfortable than dressed. My last surgery left me with nerve damage so now my skin feels like a permanent fresh sunburn. No shirt means less pain. Also I don't have to open clothes to inject Insulin 5 times a day. Yeah, it is a feeble excuse but so what. Any reason to get naked is a good reason.

This year I plan to grow and try social nudity. I would like to find a Nudist site/park/camp/whatever where I can stretch out nude in a portable hammock next to my car and get some sun.

[Gymnos42]

Welcome, Al.
~ Larry

[FrankT]

Let me add my welcome, Al. You certainly have an interesting life story.
Feel free to join in the discussions here. I hope you will.

[Superpan]

Hey, Al. Nice to hear you join up. Too bad about the body feeling like a sunburn. Ouch.

[Petruchio]

Thanks for the welcome. I went back and read my intro post. I did not mean to harp on the pain stuff. I guess I was having a bad day. It really is not that bad, just one side of my chest feels like that. But it beats having the lung cancer.

I had stumbled across a link to this forum on another one and decided to check it out. I have been on and left a few different nudist forums because they just did not "feel right". Most you had to sign up with to even read the discussions. Then, either they were hung up on pictures or they were intolerant of other viewpoints.

Yesterday I first came here and spent most of the afternoon reading posts. Somehow Cat has developed a nice little corner on the web. From what I read people are treated with respect here, no matter what age or where you are in the world. I like that. That was the little nudge that got me to join.

[Gymnos42]

Thanks for the kind words. I agree that this is a special place and I'm proud to be a part of it.

It's great to have you with us, Petruchio.
~ Larry

[Erin]

1. Name ~ Erin
2. Gender ~ female
3. Age ~ 15
4. Etymology of name (if any) Mods note - This means your screen name, not real name! ~ It's my name.
5. How you got into naturism ~by accident really. Just didn't get dressed after a shower 1 day and decided I loved the feeling of being nude.
6. Closet? Social? Something in between? ~ Closet. But I'm hoping to open up to some people or my family about it.
7. Where you live ~Connecticut.
8. Description of yourself ~ I'm just an average girl. I go to school, listen to music, and I'm really into movies and photography. A lot of that has been influenced by my brothers.

[FrankT]

Welcome to the board, Erin. You joined just in time for some nice spring and summer weather.

Thanks for the introduction, and feel free to join in the discussions here. I think you'll find a lot of friendly people around.

[Toby_StH]

Welcome to the board, Erin. Hope you will find some interesting topics to join in on.