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By *hezGeek OP Couple
over a year ago
Bristol |
... Why are we as Brits so hung up on it?
Context: I (S) am currently abroad at a conference at a ski resort in Germany. Our company has put us up in a lovely resort, with an epic spa. This is a traditional Bacarian spa - the pool and thermal baths are bathing-suit-only, but the saunas, steam rooms etc are nude. I’ve spent a lot of time abroad and the concept doesn’t faze me in the slightest, but most of my colleagues - male and female - flatly refused purely because of the nudity.
Because it’s so commonplace here and sauna etiquette is so rigidly followed (no perving, no touching, and a relaxing but deliberately unerotic environment) no-one here bats an eyelid. Men and women of all naked go about their business, walking between saunas and rooms with just a robe or towel on... and it is perfectly normal. Yet my colleagues all appeared terrified of the notion.
So, fine forum folk of Fab, why do we think this is? Why are we so hung up about being naked in fromt of strangers in permissive wnvironments? Would an establishment like this spa be a viable success in the UK? And if so, would you use it?
*caveat: this is NOT market research; it is genuine interest. |
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I wouldn't have any issue with a spa/swimming pool etc having rules on nudity. On a recent holiday to Iceland I visited a local swimming pool. The rules there are everyone must shower naked using soap before they put on their swimsuit. This is for hygiene reasons because they use little or no chlorine in the water. Other bathers do tell you if you try and enter the pool without showering properly e.g if your hair is dry you haven't washed it.
I didn't feel uncomfortable in the slightest, everyone has to do it and nudity is nothing to be embarrassed about. |
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First experience if being naked in public was on a beach in Europe.
I took a canoe out and rolled up on a beach that was mixed.
Thought I might as well try it and loved it.
As you say, there's nothing sexual and it's just 'comfortable'.
I'm lucky to have a reasonably private back garden so often go naked there.
I'd love to go on a naturist holiday but am bothered about being labelled a perv as many people view it that way.
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over a year ago
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I have visited saunas and spas in Berlin and Europe and it's liberating to be naked in public where it's not sexual.
I have to admit I was younger and slimmer then  |
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I don't know why so many people are hung up on being naked in front of other people. I wonder if it's something to do with the attitude that seems to prevail that if people are naked they are being sexual.
Both of us would be happy in spa such as you describe |
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"We are just not used to it I guess. I have never been nude anywhere to be honest, I might give it a try on a large expansive beach. "
Try the Canary or Balearic Islands - it's warmer and pretty common |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"We are just not used to it I guess. I have never been nude anywhere to be honest, I might give it a try on a large expansive beach.
Try the Canary or Balearic Islands - it's warmer and pretty common "
Somewhere warm would be best yes |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Just our conditioning. I undid a lot of mine over 20-25 years ago and I have a much more liberated attitude to public nudity now than I did then. I remember working through my personal embarrassment in Fuerteventura in 1995. Now it’s my favourite place on the planet. |
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The first thing I saw at a nudist camp was a naked man cycling past and it did make me giggle.
Once I got used to it I enjoyed walking around naked, even doing the shopping!
In this country we're too uptight, too suspicious and we can't handle that people might like to be naked and not need to have sex. It's also too cold! |
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"Just our conditioning. I undid a lot of mine over 20-25 years ago and I have a much more liberated attitude to public nudity now than I did then. I remember working through my personal embarrassment in Fuerteventura in 1995. Now it’s my favourite place on the planet."
Hah, Fuerteventura! My first visit abroad was there and on the way from the airport to the hotel saw a couple walking along the road starkers.
Next morning got up, drew the curtains to see a pair of boobs jiggling by the window.
An eye opener for somebody that had never been out the country before |
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By *hezGeek OP Couple
over a year ago
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Thought I might find some likeminded souls amongst the good people of Fab! I must admit have never visited anything specifically ‘nudist’ but wouldn’t write it off. Spas and suchlike though... would definitely like to see more of it in the UK. Next question - has anyone been to one in the UK? Where and how was it? |
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I have no issue being nude at venues like Kestrels but I really wouldn’t be comfortable prancing around naked at a Spa with colleagues.
I don’t really know why that is, as have got changed in front of them before, maybe it’s because I think they’d be more uncomfortable than me in that scenario. |
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"Thought I might find some likeminded souls amongst the good people of Fab! I must admit have never visited anything specifically ‘nudist’ but wouldn’t write it off. Spas and suchlike though... would definitely like to see more of it in the UK. Next question - has anyone been to one in the UK? Where and how was it?"
Silverleigh in Kent is a naturist spa with a pool, hot tubs and a sauna. Sexual activity isn't allowed publicly but there are rooms available which we've never used. We enjoyed our visits and also quite often visit naturist beaches. It's about attitude, some people will see a sexual element to nudity and you'll never stop that. |
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"I have no issue being nude at venues like Kestrels but I really wouldn’t be comfortable prancing around naked at a Spa with colleagues.
I don’t really know why that is, as have got changed in front of them before, maybe it’s because I think they’d be more uncomfortable than me in that scenario."
Yes, you make a good point there if other people are uncomfortable with nudity it makes the whole thing awkward and unpleasant.
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By *hezGeek OP Couple
over a year ago
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"Thought I might find some likeminded souls amongst the good people of Fab! I must admit have never visited anything specifically ‘nudist’ but wouldn’t write it off. Spas and suchlike though... would definitely like to see more of it in the UK. Next question - has anyone been to one in the UK? Where and how was it?
Silverleigh in Kent is a naturist spa with a pool, hot tubs and a sauna. Sexual activity isn't allowed publicly but there are rooms available which we've never used. We enjoyed our visits and also quite often visit naturist beaches. It's about attitude, some people will see a sexual element to nudity and you'll never stop that."
Thanks! We’re not looking for anywhere remotely sexual; just somewhere where people go to sauna as nature intended, European style |
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By *hezGeek OP Couple
over a year ago
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"I have no issue being nude at venues like Kestrels but I really wouldn’t be comfortable prancing around naked at a Spa with colleagues.
I don’t really know why that is, as have got changed in front of them before, maybe it’s because I think they’d be more uncomfortable than me in that scenario.
Yes, you make a good point there if other people are uncomfortable with nudity it makes the whole thing awkward and unpleasant.
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This is it - many of us have been naked before (lots of us use the same gym and swimming pool with communal showers), so why is this any different?
If you wouldn’t want to do it and would feel uncomfortable, what is it about being naked around other nude people in a non-sexual setting that makes you feel that way? |
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The problem us brits have with public nudity is that its not common place here and the perceived conception is the nudists are a little odd and naturist spas are hotbeds of sexual debauchery or homosexuality..
This mondset goes back ages and there probably was truth behind it.. it wasn't that long ago being a gay man was illegal.
Even the mere notion of discussing sex on tv was shunned in the 70's and the masses of censorship that took place in the 80's, led by Mary Whitehouse, just further repressed the British ability to deal with sex and nudity beyond being embarrassed or sniggering like school boys..
As for the rest of Europe, well they have had centuries of freedom and it all comes very natural and without any embarrassment..
Sorry.. no sex please, we are British.. |
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