How common in your home is nudity?

[nightdrot]

Growing up, my dad was a doctor and he treated nudity as pretty much another day at the office. So seeing my brothers or sister naked was not uncommon. (Though not my mom, and only my dad if we happened to be at the gym or a public swimming pool locker room together.)

My girlfriend grew up in a more conservative home - two sisters - and she says she saw one of her sisters naked maybe once in her whole life until my girlfriend moved out.

My girlfriend and I have lived together for ten years and have three children and we seem to be right in the middle with a tilt toward the way my family was. As my kids get older, I generally tend to assume that we will be more like my family, though I certainly would not demand that.

Anyhow, I just want to see how we stack up to other families.

We're nudists

Pretty routine to see family naked, but not a lifestyle

Sometimes see other family members naked, not embarrrassed

Sometimes see other family members naked, embarrassing

Very much the exception, not the rule

Have never seen another family member naked

[fauchelevent]

When I was young, it was pretty normal for y parents to walk around naked or almost naked. I was never comfortable with it and never did it myself. Now, no one here walks around naked though the boys seem to have no issue walking around in boxers with their house coats done up if they want to.

[nightdrot]

Thanks for replying. My sense is that your response is fairly typical. My family, as I say, with a dad for a doctor was definitely not the norm. Thanks again.

[nightdrot]

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[Anonymous]

I live with my mother only im her daughter amd we are in bra and panties inside the house and its normal. But we aren't naked or know how we look naked.
I've never know of someone who does this so please give a like to this comment if you know of a family like this or you are one yourself.

[nightdrot]

Like I mentioned, my family - both growing up and now, are pretty easy going about nudity. My sister saw me in my underwear when I was a teenager more times than I care to count. Nude too, though not quite as much.

My girlfriend and I are pretty easy going, though now that we have kids we are a little more conservative.

Thanks for responding.

[Anonymous]

I saw my mom naked many times, perhaps it inspired me to dress in minimum clothes, followed by bra and pantie, and later fully naked sometimes (but not in presence of father and brother). After marriage I seldom wear clothes at home, so does my husband. We are very comfortable.

[nightdrot]

Thanks for responding.

[Opinion Owner]

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[doodleheads]

i've never seen my parents naked, but seen my siblings naked when we bathed together as little kids. once i was 5 years old, and my siblings were 7, my parents started washing us separately and that was the last time i've seen my siblings completely butt naked.

[nightdrot]

Thanks for responding. If I might - for some reason your answer prompted a question. Assuming you have sisters, did you never have a gym class together or were in the same locker room? No need to respond if it is too personal - and I should have thought to include that option in the question. It is just that I never would have seen my dad naked - at least I don't think so - but we use the lockers at a gym and so we sometimes see each other. I guess I was wondering how common that is.

Thanks again - and no need to reply if it is too personal.

[doodleheads]

i go to gym by myself, my siblings and parents aren't into fitness.

[nightdrot]

Okay, thanks. One more - if I might - how do you think you and a sibling would handle it if you went to the gym together? Is it a question of shyness or habit?

[doodleheads]

i think i'll be fine with it because i'm already used to seeing people changing, 80+ yo women walking around with wrinkly saggy boobs, peoples pubic hairs that would reminds you of santa's beard when dried and when wet it's like guan yu's beard in the locker rooms. but i'm not sure how my sister would react since we don't really change together, even when ask if we can borrow each other's clothes we go back to our room to change. i mean i wouldn't have any problems changing in front of her but since she always went back to her room and closes the door i just thought she's not okay with it so i go back to my room to change when i ask to borrow her clothes.

[nightdrot]

Had to laugh at your descriptions. You should be a writer. At any rate, thanks. From the sound of it this is more about habit than shyness. You do what you always did. Kind of like with my family - you take things as you find them.

Thanks again.

[owens97]

i am not in a nudist family and dont wamt to be with my family now but wen i have my own id love to

[nightdrot]

Thanks for responding.

[owens97]

thats ok

[matchrestore]

I grew up in a nudist family and we're planning on raising our son the same way.

[nightdrot]

Although we are not, my girlfriend and I know a nudist couple. Very good people and while we have no interest in the lifestyle, I can say nothing but good things about the nudists I've met. I can even see the appeal in the lifestyle in the sense that it feels good to be natural and as we were intended to be - at least for me sometimes.

Oh and congratulations on the baby - if I read you right.

Thanks for your reply.

[Moonchild714]

Not common at least not in the USA. I never saw my Dad or brothers naked, my mom that's a different story, I helped take care of her when she got sick.

[nightdrot]

Thanks for responding. Of course, this is not a scientific survey and I have never seen any data on it, but I tend to think you are right. My family - both growing up and now - is the exception rather than the rule.

Very sorry to hear about your mother. She was lucky to have you as a loving and caring daughter.

[Scarlettblaze]

I've seen my mom naked a lot and I'm more of a nudist myself, but kept mostly clothed because my dad and siblings wouldn't appreciate it, lol.

[nightdrot]

Thanks for responding.

[MemeSupreme]

Anyone above the age of five that lives at my house we don't see naked.

[nightdrot]

Thanks for responding.

[Harleyonfire]

I saw my step sister naked all the time because we shared a room and bathroom before she got married.

[nightdrot]

Thanks for responding.

[Anonymous]

I live alone. When I'm alone, I usually prance around my house topless after sleeping naked. When my boyfriend is is around, he also walks around naked in my place. All the same in his condo.

[nightdrot]

Thanks for responding. That sounds a lot like my life with my girlfriend - especially before the kids came along. Thanks again.

[kaskas19]

My sister and I see each other naked. But that's it. Hell we even have full on conversations while we're naked.

[nightdrot]

Thanks for responding. That is exactly like what it was with my brothers growing up. Of course, when your dad is a doctor - as mine was, you tend to treat nudity like any other day at the office. I get the sense, though, that we are the exception.

[Julielamar2]

I am modest and my family too lol, and my family is not even conservative, and it is not for a religious reason.


It surely comes from our upbringing, but my younger brother walks around the house in his underpants and I have to say I'm not comfortable with it, I prefer it when he has shorts or pants. But I tell him nothing, because I don't want to impose anything on anyone. But yeah I'm absolutely not comfortable with that 😅

[qwert1234]

Have never seen another family member naked - and I never wished to.

[nightdrot]

Thanks for replying. My sense is that your response is closer to the norm, though maybe a little extreme in the opposite direction. (Embarrassment is one thing, loathing quite another.) Still, my family, as I say, with a dad for a doctor was definitely not the norm.

Thanks again for responding.

[qwert1234]

No problem.
Just to give you a small background, my parents were born in a time where the country is so conservative, where religion plays an important role on how people behaved. I would think they carried that until adulthood - especially my super religious mom.

[nightdrot]

That may be - and certainly nothing to apologize for or that you need to explain. Even here in the States, my parents are about the same age as yours, my dad was a bit more casual about nudity than the average. My mother would just sigh and say that having naked boys around the house was the price of doing business in a doctor's home.

Thanks again for your reply.

[johnhere87]

I am not a part of such a lifestyle.. but I am always curious to try it.. but never had a chance

[nightdrot]

Thanks for your reply. This was not so much about nudism and lifestyle. Again, my parents were not nudists, but dad was quite casual about it being a doctor.

[johnhere87]

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[johnhere87]

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[gregpl]

My dad used to always walk around in just his underwear
Thats the closest I've seen lol

[nightdrot]

Thanks for responding.

[Anonymous]

I had to re-read that paragraph because I thought I read it wrong the first time. Why would it be more like your family's as the kids get older? Usually, it's the opposite.

[nightdrot]

Well, it is sort of the bell shaped curve.

Scientifically, when they are very little, they don't care. At about ages 4 to 6 - it varies somewhat - kids develop a sense of modesty. As teens, however, there is a tendency for them to become a bit more relaxed about nudity again.

Not in the way they were when they were babies, and of course they react different around their parents, but that is the basic psychological pattern. There are evolutionary reasons that help explain this - but I'll spare you.

Beyond that, I expect to some degree that my kids will tend to adapt to the way they were raised. My girlfriend and I are nowhere near as easygoing as my parents - especially my dad - was, but we are also not exactly prudish. I am assuming - and it may not be true, only time will tell - that my kids will tend to take a certain level of nudity as normal.

They will be more easy going about nudity because we are somewhat easy going. That, and the natural development of teens will make it normal.

[GayHowellMeme]

Sometimes see other family members naked, embarrassing

[nightdrot]

Thanks for responding. I understand- just remember that old aphorism. "They saw you before you saw yourself."

Thanks again.

[Rick912]

Family nudity is more common than people think or realize. It is not a big deal if you don't make it one.

[Senacık]

Sometimes see other family members naked, not embarrrassed

[CheerGirl38139]

I voted E

[nightdrot]

Thanks for your response.

[Anonymous]

Seen my family members either in short dress or sometimes nude.

[Anonymous]

It is not common

[nightdrot]

Thanks for responding. If I may push - no need to reply if it is too personal - you say "not common," but per my poll, is it embarrassing when it happens, or pretty much taken in its course?

Thanks again.

[Anonymous]

Not common

[nightdrot]

Thanks for replying.