I think we are taught our ideas of what is beautiful to soem extent. Most people, at least in the U.S. are a bit over weight. Like it or not that is normal. Not he photophppped models with eating disorders. As an example to make my point that a lot fo our conception of beauty was learned, in the middle ages, plump was attractive as is denoted in virtually all the paintings of nudes from that time.

Personally, I think body shaming is one of the worst things our society does to people, as it affects virtually everyone and saps their self confidence and self esteem. At some point in my life I realized my attitudes about bodies was nto healthy, and I changed my attitude. I still desire a better body, but not having one is no longer a reason (for me) to feel inadequate or somehow lacking. I see my current attitude are beign more mentally healthy. Not to mention more realistic.

I’m not going to apologize for not like to look at things that gross me out.

I don’t like body shaming, no one deserves to be shamed for who they are in their own home, but I also don’t like people trying to normalize obesity. All that bs about healthy fat people...it might be ok while your adding the weight on, but long term it’s not. Our kids are growing up obese, their parents over feeding them crap and telling them it’s ok to be fat. It’s not.

I am all for people going at theeir own levels of comfort ability. That is why the World Naked Bike Ride says to fo "As Bare As You Dare".

Nothing wrong with not doing thinkgs naked outside of sex and bathing. Most people simply have been conditioned not to consider nudity outside of those contexts. Part of the purpose of my post, and why I included practical reasons for doing some things nude was to just open people up to consider more than their conditioned (learned) options and what actually makes more sense from a pragmatic perspective.

I'm in a community living center. We all remain clothed here. As well as work.

I switched to turkey bacon, partly due to less splattering, but mostly because it is supposed to be healthier.

Lucky you!

LOL...

At nudist clubs, or in nudist homes, it is customary to carry a towel with you for sitting on.

It is true, that some cultural adjustments would have to be made for purposes of sanitation and general public safety.

I think the purposes of clothing are three fold. First you wear clothing for warmth. Also you wear clothing for general protection. Finally peopel also wer clothign to denote their status int he community.

One of the greatest things I like about nudist clubs is that without the visual cues of clothing to denote status there is no status and everyone is treated pretty equally.

I've listed reasons why nudity works well for doign different things in the original post.

To me, the question isn't so much why people are fascinated with nudity, but as we are born nude, but why are people so obsessed with clothing?

After all, we are naked under our clothes.

Had to look up 300 club. I do not see why you might think there might be a limitation for that.

As it is so extreme, so limited and so very few can claim membership I posed the question with a slanted emoji. At least you now know the requirements for a 300 Club membership.

@Godnose That's seriously impressive! KUDOS!

OK. Rifing a motorcycle is something i would NOT do naked. I've got some scars just from wipe outs on my bicycle. On a motorcycle, I'd feel a need to be more protected.

For some, I don't think "prude" is always accurate. Some peopel have just never encountered nudity outside the the contexts of sex or bathing and our culture had trained us to equate nudity with sex. The idea of platonic nude recreation is something mos tpeople have never heard of or been exposed to. If they could gt past the feelings of "body shame" many people would really enjoy platonic nude recreation.

I also once modeled nude for an art class. They were impressed at how long I could hold still.

Yeah, we are generally conditioned as a society to wear clothes all the time, except when bathing or having sex. The problem with that is that peopel only think of nudity in those two contexts, and most often think nudity = sex/ When in fact a person can be nude doing virtually anything.

As one of my favorite T-shirts says "If we were meant to be naked, we'd be born that way."

I've hiked nude up above the snow line on Mt Hood (Oregon), but the air temperature was probably around 80F. I could not imagine skiing naked. I am just too warm blooded. To me clothing has two main purposes, warmth and protection. Still I ride my bike naked, so warmth is the more important to me. Even with the cold, the idea of skiing naked does seem like fun.

I thought about a naked parachute jump, but decided a bungie jump would probably be safer.