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Au Naturel's avatar

For what they are worth, here are my confused thoughts.

I think the association between nudity and sexuality exists everywhere. If it did not, places like Cap d'Age wouldn't exist.

Taking off your clothes to have sex becomes a conditioned reflex. So is seeing a nude person as sexual. Even if you've never had sex, you become conditioned by those around you. In the absence of contrarian experience, the association will remain. That association will not go away until they see so many people in the nude who are not associated with sex that the reflex goes extinct.

Telling people that it is not sexual is of extremely limited benefit. It doesn't break the conditioned response.

https://www.verywellmind.com/what-is-extinction-2795176

That isn't going to happen any time soon. Right now, Britain is about the only place where it conceivably could. There are more than enough nudists in Britain to make public nudity commonplace and beak the connection but the social penalties are still strong enough to hold.

Nudists continue to associate nonsexual nudity with people who aren't nudists - or nudity in non-nudist public areas - as evil exhibitionism. Regardless of the nudie's intent, obviously those textiles folks are looking at them sexually. And the thoughts they project into the other person's mind matter.

We close the closet door and lock it behind us.

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Jillian Page's avatar

We've had some very interesting responses here. The consensus: "swinging" is an affront to naturism for various reasons.

But what if self-defined nudists who also engage in group sex, partner swapping and the like during social nudism events didn't define themselves as "swingers"?

(If anybody sees this comment and responds, I will have a follow-up question. Otherwise, I'll follow it up in a new post.)

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