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Can you tell of times you found that other Christians were ok with nudity or at least talking about it?
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Occasionally I reflect on times that I've discovered that other non-nudist Christians had an acceptance of or tolerance for nudity. Some examples:

  • My wife and I had hiked into a hot spring in Idaho and camped overnight; we took some pictures of us enjoying the hot springs; in one of them, though the flowing water blurred the picture, apparently people could tell my wife was nude. We had the picture album (remember those) on our coffee table, and a friend browsing through it asked, "Did you have a swimsuit on?" My wife answered "No" and I added, there was no one else nearby (mentally qualifying nearby as "within 6 feet" because there was another couple about 8 - 10 feet away). Our friends made no comment and showed no reaction.
  • Our hiking friends, and some others, know we've often gone to wilderness hot springs, which are usually clothing optional; all the hikers, and some of the others, must know that there is nudity there - but no one has criticised or questioned us.
  • I ran into my best friend at a clothing optional hot tub resort; when I encountered him, he was at a picnic table but had been to the hot tubs and knew they allowed nudity; he did not question our having gone nude. Some months later, he and I skinnydipped together whilst our families were camping together.
  • A devout Christian co-worker shared a cubicle with me and was fascinated but not critical when I told her of the times my wife and I have gone to nude beaches and skinnydipped etc.
  • My secretary in my small consultancy once left a bra in a paper sack by the network printer in the hallway; I found it and puzzled over who could have left it there; I asked her and she confessed that she gets tired of bras and often takes them off. That led to a discussion of how breasts are not forbidden to seen in the Bible, and that it's not only fine to be braless, but she was unfazed when I mentioned that my wife (whom she knows; she goes to the same church as we do) and I skinnydip in hot springs etc., she said "is there any other way" to use a hot tub (they have one) and she says that her husband (whom I know) goes nude at home.
  • I led a large group from our church on a hike one hot summer day in the high Cascade Mountains; one friend, standing by his wife, looked down the hill to a small lake and said "what a great place to skinnydip!"
  • I had an employee who was a Christian nudist (with his wife)
  • Many years ago, a Christian woman we knew had started a career as a licensed massage therapist; I rarely get a massage but I did go to her, and with her permission, walked in her apartment to use the restroom, nude (she went to another room) as I had taken the draping off. During the massage, we talked about the issue of nudity etc. and she confessed to going topless on a secluded beach at least once, and was unfazed when I mentioned that my wife and I had gone nude on several occasions.

Please post in comments if you have had similar encounters with nudity-accepting Christians (whether non-nudist or nudist).

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