Q: Do nudists get turned on by seeing the other naked people? Is it acceptable? – Anonymous
Answer:
Instantly, I am reminded of an episode of Seinfeld in which Jerry’s girlfriend starts spending large amounts of time in the nude.
Jerry's girlfriend needs to learn that living day-to-day in the nude is not sexy.
At first, the group discussion is that this is an amazing reward for Jerry. But he quickly realizes that reading the paper, vacuuming, and even trimming toenails are not the most attractive … “positions” to see your girlfriend in.
A plan is hatched to give her a taste of her own medicine. Jerry starts prancing about in the buff while “jiggling” as much as possible. In the end everyone puts their clothes on again only to find they can’t stop thinking about each other in the nude.
Jerry discovers that a girlfriend naked 24/7 is not necessarily a good thing.
Unfortunately for Jerry, she can only see a hairy monkey scratching and using a belt sander to refinish the floor.
So, to keep it direct, I say: No, no one wants to see that shit. Put some clothes on and just get naked in the dark when you’re positive your partner has taken out their contacts.
~ The Girlfriend
Q: Do nudists get turned on by seeing the other naked people?
A: Depends on the situation. The wife clipping her toenails in the buff? Not a turn on. Beach volleyball on a nude beach? Not generally a turn on, either. The same wife sashaying up to me nude with that look in her eyes? Hell of a turn on.
Q: Is it acceptable?
A: Mu. Or, to use a couple more words: Is what acceptable? To whom?
Sprouting a boner on a nude beach, to take one possible interpretation, is not acceptable, which really should go without saying.
The whole point is tantalizingly hinted at in the two picture captions, but our dear author, like the Seinfeld writing team, sadly seems to fail at actually getting it: Nudity isn’t sexy per se. And it really isn’t required to be so except by your own culturally colored expectations. When your culture consistently links nudity and eroticism to the point that a bed room with the lights out and one man and one woman engaged in procreation is the only acceptable situation for nudity (to somewhat overstate the case), then sure, you’ll think “sexy” every time you see nudity. And you’re disappointed when you learn, as Jerry and his girlfriend did, that the two are not actually the same at all.
But that’s hardly the fault of nudity and more of the fucked up expectations and hangups surrounding it.
So, to keep it direct, I say: Take your hangups and shove’em. Or at least have the intestinal fortitude to examine them and to recognize them for what they are instead of projecting them on everyone else.