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SexuallyPerplexedPancake

My own brand of asexuality derives, seemingly, from a position of utter indifference to the concept of sex. But, through talking with some ace friends, I've noticed that some aces might have some aversion to nudity that I don't fully understand.

Nudity, for me, is a topic which I have strong opinions about. I beleive that the human body is an amazing beautiful thing that we shouldn't be ashamed of and that we shouldn't cover up. I'm not squeamish around naked people. (I'm not aroused by them either, once I get past the initial shock of 'whoa, that person is naked' I just kind of process naked person as a normal person. It's an ADHD thing, I cant linger on a thought like that for too long.) I think that if I could get away with not wearing clothes I would on most days (not cold days, but definitely warm days) I would totally go for it! clothes are sort of restrictive for me and I like having the freedom of being able to move without them.

So, I guess my questions are as follows:

What do you think about nudity in general?

How would you react to someone who was just walking about naked?

If you could get away with not wearing clothes, would you?

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Contrary to popular belief... there are many asexuals who enjoy looking at nude pics/porn. They even masturbate (sometimes daily).

Theres a branch called self-sexual.

I cant visualize women touching me or loving me. I have no ideal go-to woman in my head... so I view porn when I can. I have no problems with nudity. Its the hypocrisy and slutty attitude that revolves around revealing dresses is what bothers me.

Theres a lot more class in decent outfits and its intriguing to fantasize/desire whats beneath it.

I am a fitness freak and enjoy fit bodies. I have no desire to see/appreciate fat or obese nudists. If someone around me is walking naked... eventually that shocking thing would die down... and then it would be all about sounds n smell rather than watching uncovered skin and genitals.

Although I have no problem roaming around without my shirt... but I have no aversion to clothes. Nudity just for the sake of it (if it doesnt involve sex) is not something that interests me.

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I'm mostly indifferent to it as long as it isn't being sexualized. Which is pretty rare, unfortunately.

I beleive that the human body is an amazing beautiful thing that we shouldn't be ashamed of and that we shouldn't cover up.


I'm not that enthusiastic about it, haha. To me these "shells" of ours are generally uninteresting.

How would you react to someone who was just walking about naked?

I personally wouldn't care, but I'd also think they were probably a pretty inconsiderate person.

If you could get away with not wearing clothes, would you?

No, because being able to "get away with it" still doesn't make it very considerate. Even if that weren't a factor (for instance, if I was entirely alone on the planet), I still wouldn't just want various Dangly Bits hanging around.

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Conscientious Ghost

In general? It can be aesthetically pleasing if I perceive that way. It depends on the situation for me. If it was some stranger walking around and about naked in public, I would feel a bit uncomfortable but I think it's because I'm not used to people walking around naked. I feel like it would have been a different story if it was a social norm to not wear clothes (and I' would wear my clothes still). But with that said, I'll just readjust and mind my own business. If they aren't harming themselves or anyone else around, I can walk away from it. And me? Nah, nope. I'm slowly getting used to my body and I'm sure as hell I'm not going to walk around without wearing any clothes.


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I wouldn't mind if people walked around naked but I think they should cover their crotches for sanitary reasons.

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What do you think about nudity in general?
It has its place. Hopefully one far away from me. It's okay for a partner to be naked around me, though, if they want that (but the reverse isn't true - I wouldn't want to be naked in front of a partner, not even during sex).

How would you react to someone who was just walking about naked?
If they do it where I can see them - and I simply don't go to places where it would be acceptable, like beaches, saunas, nudist resorts etc. - I'd consider them rude and ill-behaved (and probably afflicted with some mix of narcissism and exhibitionism). We would be... unlikely to become friends, to say the least.

If you could get away with not wearing clothes, would you?
Absolutely not. I hate being naked, and the only place where I ever am is in the shower, out of hygienic necessity.

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Prufrock, but like, worse

We should genetically engineer humans to grow clothes without which they spontaneously combust.

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Ace of Amethysts

I don`t care as along as I don`t have to see people`s privates up close.

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I love me some nudity. Not in a sexual way. It's just a good thing when you feel comfortable enough around someone that you're all, what the hell, clothes are hot and itchy. Feel free to go all out nakies in my presence. I don't mind. But if you have a "dude unit" don't wave it around all over the place because they are kind of weird looking. You don't have to hide it, but don't feel the need to introduce it to me. Ladies, blouses should be banned. Breast are too danged pretty to be covered up all the time. Edited because autocorrect makes some unfortunate choices at times.

In my 20s, I would have stripped before asking. I was thin and androgynous and liked to show it off. Now I'm in my 40s and I'm more... Ehhh.. flabby post pregnancy gut, cellulite butt and boobs with a heat rash aren't as sexy as they sound. I take off my pants for comfort but wear a long shirt so not to give anyone nightmares. It's not that I don't trust you, but seriously... You don't want to see that.

In fact, in my 20s I was a performance artist and I also performed in a group in San Francisco called "Sick and Twisted Players" Feel free to Google it. Tony put it up on YouTube, and if you figure out who I was back then, please be kind and understand that I was fully aware that I was a bad actor. I just loved being on stage and hamming it up to a ridiculous level.

Anyway, we were not an erotic or sex show, but almost everyone was a drag performer, King, queen and faux queen (female drag queen) I was one one of two females who was neither drag or professional stripper or sex positive performance artist. I was the token "vanilla straight girl" of the bunch. The shows were camp comedy, but every now and then things got edgy. Like one show, one of the actors got a bug up his butt for some reason and for some reason, expressed this by doing his entire scene nude except for a tie and black socks. He did the performance as usual with seemingly no idea that he forgot to put on clothes before he came on stage. This caused the actors onstage with him to burst out laughing at random times. I think the show was Halloween and it's partially in YouTube. My favorite part is when young Michael Myers turns around to look at his father and sees for the first time that his father is completely naked for no explainable reason at all. It's my favorite scene from my "acting career" and I wasn't even in that scene.

The guy who played Michael Myers in that scene was recently in a music video I love. I don't remember the song or the exact plot, but I think the story is a girl brings her boyfriend to a family reunion and for some reason, everyone is naked except for the girl and the boyfriend. The whole family seems blissfully unaware that anything is amiss. And they do all of these stereotypical boring family interactions that become hilarious because two naked people are doing it. It's not sexual at all. Its just absurd.

If I had a 20 year old body again and still lived in the Bay Area, I'd probably do sex positive performance art as a hobby. I think it would be fun and playful. Basically I'd be a nude stand up comedian if I had any say about it. Everyone should have a chance to experience the fun non sexual nude experience. It's total freedom. Just a great feeling to be onstage naked and having people point and laugh at you. (OK I did that last sentence on purpose because I understand that's everyone's worst nightmare except for mine.)

I remove the sexuality from nudity naturally. I love looking at nude people. But I don't believe I've ever did the solo sex to it. I've done that 2 or 3 times in my life and I must be doing it wrong. It feels more like a gyno appointment than a sex act. And I'm sort of, I do the sex thing to make my partner happy now and then. Do I REALLY have to put time and effort into doing it for myself? I could be doing something fun like clipping my toenails or blowing my nose instead.

The only times I recall being shy about it are specific times when I found my body... goofy looking. Like I had no problem when I was flat chested, and I had no problem post puberty. But during puberty, my breasts seemed to be a little bit ... creative about growing in and I during like how they looked kind of lopsided and crooked. So shirts on through those years.

Anyway -- you can be totally asexual and appreciate the naked people. I think it's actually more fun that way. Edited to add. I see all those grammatical oopsies. I'll get around to editing later.

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What do you think about nudity in general?


I severely dislike nudity. In general, I find the human body to be absolutely repugnant when fully nude. Put on some underwear and it's bearable. Even just an itty bitty thong would lessen the disgust I feel. There is a reason I avoid R-rated movies (aside from violence, gore, blah blah blah). I could probably stand looking at a naked woman more than a naked man. Dangly bits in general cause severe disgust to well up. I hate dangly bits.



How would you react to someone who was just walking about naked?


I would do my utmost best to walk away, avoid my eyes, close my eyes, cover my eyes, anything to keep from seeing them. Even if that meant taking a one-mile detour or something. Understanding how much I dislike nudity yet?



If you could get away with not wearing clothes, would you?


No. I would not, at all. I feel most comfortable with clothes one. I dislike being nude, even while taking a shower.





...Yeaaaah. I feel rather... strongly in my dislikes. :mellow:


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1. I like bodies. I'm an artist and come on, we are born this way. I'm not repulsed. 2. Just shrug and move on. Who am I to judge what people do? As long as it doesn't affect me, why should I care? 3. Around the house, yes. On the beach, fine. In public, no. Everybody has standards.

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You know what's interesting? That even though we're all asexual and not interested in sex, we have different opinions in regards to sex and nudity. No wonder there is such confusion sometimes among people about us. The general belief is that asexuals= sex repulsed, but when sex positive and neutral show up, people get confused. I wonder how much it is that there is sex repulsed vs positive with neutral being neutral has status on the term.

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My thoughts on nudity change a bit depending on the context. For example porn is terrifying to me, but a naked murder victim on a crime show? Just fine. Same with studying in my old anatomy class, I think it bothers me less if there's logic. If someone was just walking around naked, I'd be upset, avert my eyes, leave as soon as I could. As for if I could get away with not wearing clothes, absolutely not. But I'm also trans,I'm used to my body being bound and dressed in layers, so that's a different problem than my views on nudity.

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EggplantWitch

Short answer: nudity? No thanks

Longer answer: It's really only genitalia I have an aversion to. I can go to the beach and everyone's running around in little bits of stretchy fabric and be alright, but the moment private parts get introduced the disgust rises. They're just so... horrible :\ There's nothing even remotely attractive about any kind. I have, however, heard that a lot of sexual people have the same kind of opinions (but tend to get over it when they actually have sex).

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Lord Jade Cross

1) This will probably sound contradictory but to me nudity is only acceptable as long as the subject involved isnt human. In other words, a painting or a statue can be "nude" and it will be ok with me (but please cover the genitals! I do not want to see that)

2) I would not like to have someone walk around naked, especially if its someone I know. I would insist on them wearing some clothes.

3)I would not be walking around naked. I pretty much hate looking at my body to the point in which I feel as if my mind is being limited and punished by having to be trapped in this physical form. So if anyone has any methods for becoming a non bodied thinking entity, please share your secrets with me.

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Anthracite_Impreza

As long as the downstairs nether-regions are covered up I can cope (I think it's hypocritical to make female breasts be covered up but not male), but I'd prefer clothed people. I have no aesthetic appreciation of humans at all, they're just bald apes so...

I would keep clothes on at all times other than washing and bedtime; I don't strip in front of anyone.

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(I think it's hypocritical to make female breasts be covered up but not male)

Just keep them all covered up.

There's no legitimate need to bare a male chest in public, either (outside of the "nudity allowed here" areas mentioned above... and possibly with the additional exception of breastfeeding - an excuse which works for females, but not males).

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I find nudity mostly neutral. I'd prefer that everyone keep their clothes on, but I'm not repulsed by nakedness, and could deal if nudity became more common. When it comes to me personally though, I would want to be covered up all the time unless I was by myself. Even if nudity became socially acceptable, I'd probably still wear clothes.

I think what I would do if I saw a naked person would depend on the context. I think mostly I'd be shocked that someone was naked despite the social taboo against it, but I probably wouldn't be offended or grossed out.

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What do you think about nudity in general?


I like it ? I'm neutral ? I'm a little biased, I admit, I enjoy looking at nudity when it's pleasing to look at. But I'm not offended, nor do I believe I should get to be offended by the nudity of someone I don't think is pretty. After all, someones not there to look pleasing for me whether they have clothes on or if they're wearing their natural body. But my own nudity can be very upsetting to me sometimes, even if other times I can be on the full other end of that spectrum.



A dick is a dick, is a dick. . . . :mellow:



How would you react to someone who was just walking about naked?


"Ya' look a little cold, friend.."



If you could get away with not wearing clothes, would you?


I wouldn't mind, maybe... but...I like clothing. It's aesthetic. I also sometimes work around ovens and I don't want to burn one of my tits. I've never lived in this hypothetical place where nudity was okay in all public places, so I can't say for sure how I would feel. If I saw that many people were nude, maybe I would feel more confidence to do the same. I feel restricted to be nude in the places where nudity is expected and even though I am 100% okay in those places, I don't know if I would still feel that barrier against doing it in public. My attachment to fashion is a little too much to ditch, I think.

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What do you think about nudity in general?

yes 8) . no <_< . idc. :lol:

How would you react to someone who was just walking about naked?

It depends on who it is.

If you could get away with not wearing clothes, would you?

uh, no. I don't have a positive body image and I would not like to traumatize people. :P

Yes, when I'm hyper and happy. :D

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What do you think about nudity in general?

I'm fine with it. It's natural and I don't see any fundamental difference with animals, say, sphynx cats for example. I have a hard time understanding being prudish as freedom is important to me.

If I have no problem seeing others naked as long as they respect hygiene, I'm always afraid of others judging my body, so being comfortable naked around others would be more difficult for me. Not that i couldn't eventually get used to it but it would certainly ask me some time.

How would you react to someone who was just walking about naked?

Same as above. No problem.

If you could get away with not wearing clothes, would you?

In an ideal world, if people felt comfortable with it and were non-judgmental, and if my low thyroid didn't make me feel cold often, yes.

I'm not a fan of clothes. Mostly because I have no sense of fashion. So if I could get rid of them without any bad consequences, and keep just a few to be warm and for hygiene, that would be nice.

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What do you think about nudity in general?


You shouldn't be ashamed of your body but you also shouldn't show it off. Younger children don't really want to look at naked bodies and also you could get raped if you just went walking round naked or wearing little clothing. It also kind of depends on the weather, it would be stupid to walk outside in a bikini in the middle of winter lol.



How would you react to someone who was just walking about naked?


I would be disgusted.



If you could get away with not wearing clothes, would you?


No, it is really cold where I live and I would much rather be nice and warm, and also I wouldn't want people looking at me, that would be strange.


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One Winged Angel

What do you think about nudity in general?

- I always remember saying to a friend during my school years that I thought people looked better with their clothes on, and this became a running joke against me for many years. That said, I do not have anything against nudity in general and do not find it repulsive per say, but most people really do look better with some kind of clothes on for me!

How would you react to someone who was just walking about naked?

- If they did this in the privacy of their home and involved nobody who was unwilling or unable to consent to the behaviour, I would have absolutely no problem with it. Each to their own.

If you could get away with not wearing clothes, would you?

- No. I would find this to be very cold and well, I'm clumsy and there's sharp corners on my furniture. Accident waiting to happen.

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RoseGoesToYale

About nudity in general, I'm pretty indifferent to it, but I think the human body can be artful (like in Greek sculptures or b&w photography). My friends and I used to ponder going to a clothing optional beach since we were all pretty accepting of it.

If I saw someone walking around naked, I'd probably do a double take, but other than that I wouldn't care. Now, if they were running around all over place or trying exhibitionism, I'd probably be concerned.

If I could get away with not wearing clothes... I suppose I might, but I would keep pants or a skirt on. I kind of like wearing clothes, since they can be used for self-expression.

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El-not-so-ace

I sometimes think that if more people were naked, I'd have more different comparisons. Since I basically only have TV or skinny fit girls to compare with, I kind of hate my body (mostly upper body) because of how imperfect it already is and I'm not even 25 yet... Just reading this thread is almost a trigger for my sadness unfortunately... :/ No one wants to see or accept the idea of an already-imperfect young body...

So yeah, I'd rather everyone cover up around me...

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I myself am fine with boobs, and female genitalia are not that visible so I don't really care if I see that, but penises are not things I love to see.

Not that I have an averse reaction to it, but I just think they're silly looking. In general, I really like the way good looking bodies look in underwear, but I don't feel like I want them to remove more clothing. Especially boobs just look that much better supported by bras then they do without. If everyone were to decide to walk around naked, I'd be okay with it I guess, but I think they'd look better with underwear.

I love walking around in underwear myself, and I hate sleeping with pajamas. If I could, I might sometimes skip getting dressed in the morning if clothes were an optional thing, but only when it's very warm outside.

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CaptainKhaleesi

I personally find naked bodies pretty repulsive to look at. I'm not sure why, but I've always felt that way. I've been confused about why people think nudity is beautiful because I think it just looks... I don't know...wrong. I don't want to look at it! Like another poster said, it could be the most beautiful fit body ever and I still wouldn't like it. I think people's bodies can look great in clothing that flatters them, but I don't want to see what's underneath! :P

I don't even want to see myself naked. I'm not ashamed or self-conscious, I just don't like the look of nudity. Good to know I'm not alone at least!

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I personally find naked bodies pretty repulsive to look at. I'm not sure why, but I've always felt that way. I've been confused about why people think nudity is beautiful because I think it just looks... I don't know...wrong. I don't want to look at it! Like another poster said, it could be the most beautiful fit body ever and I still wouldn't like it. I think people's bodies can look great in clothing that flatters them, but I don't want to see what's underneath! :P

I don't even want to see myself naked. I'm not ashamed or self-conscious, I just don't like the look of nudity. Good to know I'm not alone at least!

It's actually more lonely to be an asexual who likes to look at nudity. Sounds contradictory but it's not. People like or dislike different things. I don't get repulsion too much, but I can appreciate that different people have different opinions. It makes the world colorful.

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What do you think about nudity in general?

When it comes to arousal, nudity kills it for me. I will not judge someone for their own choice to be naked in private, but when you don't consider the feelings of those around you, you start to become less likable in my eyes. Example: You're uncomfortable with nudity, and the person/people you live with ignore your concerns.


How would you react to someone who was just walking about naked?

I would avoid eye contact, and pretend to be somewhere else for that moment. For this reason, I try to avoid the locker rooms at my local gym.


If you could get away with not wearing clothes, would you?

Strange thing is, when I'm alone, sometimes I'll just walk around naked. Usually before a shower because I don't see the need to put clothes back on if they're coming off shortly. I have no problem looking at myself naked. I don't want to be naked in front of other people, and I don't actively seek out nude photos.

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