*posted elsewhere, not on this blog
I love being openly naked. Whether it's online or outdoors at a clothing optional space, it makes me happy to know that the real me is being seen. When I'm openly naked I no longer need to feel the shame about my body that society once instilled in me, making me want to hide it away.
That's because being openly naked taught me to love my body and myself just the way I am. My first experience doing so was in 2019 at a gay men's clothing optional campground. It was a positive life changing experience that was such a liberating and joyful thing to do. This is especially significant in today's culture, which is obsessed with perfection and fitting everyone into the same mold, rather than celebrating our individual bodies as being beautiful specifically because they are one of a kind. I have a tummy and love handles, so I certainly don't have a "perfect" body, but it is just perfect for me.
Socially, I'm a quiet and shy person with an introverted personality, yet I have absolutely no problem with people seeing me completely naked. In fact I enjoy it. I like being seen as the real me, every part of me, and I don't think that there is anything shameful, wrong, unacceptable or unusual about that. Quite the opposite, I think it's considerably healthier to enjoy being openly naked, it's inherently more natural than purposefully keeping ones body covered up at all times out of shame, embarrassment, or some moral obligation towards the society that shamed us all in the first place.
Now before you go making a list of incorrect assumptions about me and blacklisting me, cancelling me, or labeling me as a pervert, keep your hat on. When I talk about being openly naked, I'm talking about non-sexual nudity.
I think it's safe to say that in our culture the term "non-sexual nudity" sounds like an oxymoron, but I assure you it isn't. Nudity and sex are not mutually exclusive. In other words, you don't need to be naked to have sex, and you can be naked without having sex. Being naked and being sexual are two completely different constructs.
Happy to be naked! Happy to be me!
Non-sexual nudity is simply people being people. It used to be that if you wanted to go for a swim, you just took off your clothes and went for a swim, there was nothing sexual or shameful about it. Sadly, nudity has been so sexualized and shamed in our culture that we've lost the ability to understand nudity as simply being our true nature as human beings. It's simply who we are for real when we're not hiding under our clothing.
By losing the ability to understand and accept our naked bodies, and each others, in a non-sexual way, we've lost a part of our humanity. Our understanding of ourselves as human beings has effectively been warped into being exclusively sexualized.
In our culture we're taught to be ashamed of our naked bodies from childhood, and that it's the norm to keep our bodies covered up. More often than not when I am around other people I am wearing clothes rather than naked, or in the least, more clothing than I would prefer to be wearing in order not to offend anyone.
We're also shamed for having the body that we have for real instead of a "perfect" one. Not too long ago, maybe 30 years or so, it was mainly women who were shamed in this way while, generally speaking, men were still able to have whatever type of body they happened to have. Today that has changed completely, both men and women are shamed equally for not having what the media tells us is the "perfect" body for ones specific gender. That's equality going in the wrong direction.
It's understandable that we each have our own comfort zones when it comes to being seen while we are naked, or seeing others while they are naked. The fact is, I simply don't like wearing clothes all of the time, sometimes I just want to be naked or to wear as little as possible.
My favourite article of clothing is a swimsuit thong which keeps my manhood suitably covered while leaving my butt cheeks exposed. I find it to be an extremely comfortable swimsuit to wear, and it's what I prefer to go swimming in at the public beach. I also often wear it around the house when I don't feel like being naked, as I find that my swim thong is just the right amount of clothing for me in those moments.
My favourite swimsuit thong which I've worn at the public beach many times.
I've always felt more comfortable being naked or wearing minimal clothing, but only recently have I felt comfortable enough to do so in front of others to this extent. When I was younger I was so ashamed of my desire to be openly naked that I thought it made me a sinner and a bad person. I thought that exposing my naked body was shameful and I was too embarrassed even to take my shirt off outdoors unless I was at the beach, therefore...
My first Speedo selfie in my first Speedo swim brief! Taken when I was 21.
At the age of 19 I got up enough courage to buy my first Speedo. I felt that wearing a swim brief was an "excuse" to be almost naked in front of others, so I went swimming as often as I could. It made me feel good to be that naked in front of others, and I especially liked that my swimsuit was so revealing, the spandex fabric showed the exact shape of my bulge. I also liked to take my time being naked in the men's change room, taking advantage of walking around in front of others with no clothes on, especially in the communal shower. It was a sense of freedom and liberation that I couldn't experience anywhere else.
Then I discovered spandex cycling shorts and also bought myself a spandex muscle shirt. Suddenly I had a new respect for myself and my body. The spandex clothes were like a second skin, they allowed everyone to see the shape of my body just as I am. It felt good to wear such minimal clothing as it made me feel like I was almost naked. Even better, I was allowed to wear my spandex clothes while riding my bicycle anywhere that I wanted to, all over town, because that's what they were made for! I still love wearing spandex clothing to this day!
Wearing my spandex cycling outfit when I was 21, along with a black leather
fanny pack which was an extremely popular fashion accessory back then! LOL
As much as I enjoy wearing spandex, frankly, I just feel smothered having clothes against my skin all of the time. Sometimes I want to be naked and let my skin breath, especially outside on a sunny summer day. It feels good being naked and free.
Swimming naked is my favourite thing to do outdoors, I love feeling the water all over my body. I find it very exhilarating and freeing and joyful, I just love it!
It would be wonderful if I could do so outdoors legally in my city. I don't like the idea that my naked body is offensive, or that parts of it are so dirty and immoral that it is wrong for those parts ever to be shown in public, even just to go swimming! To me, making nude swimming illegal by implementing a flat out ban is over doing it with the regulations, as it essentially makes our own humanity illegal! It outlaws our own bodies! I find this to be a very sad and negative way to think about ourselves and our own human nature. I've known my entire life that it doesn't make me feel good to think in so negatively about myself.
I'm proud of being a man and I'm proud of my penis, I'm tired of hiding it away out of shame when what I really want to do is to be naked and let people see it. I'm just an average guy in that regard but it's an important part of who I am and of my own unique male beauty. Truthfully, I absolutely love being openly naked outdoors and online and showing off my body for those who want to see it. It makes me feel good to do so and to be seen while I'm naked. It feels good to put all of society's shame aside in order to allow myself to show off my naked body, and just do my own thing.
Here's a cropped version of one of my naked selfies.
The unedited version is posted
here with more of my photos.
Yet main stream society wants me to be ashamed of those feelings, and of being openly naked, threatening to cancel me, exile me or arrest me for expressing myself in this way, but why? They're perfectly natural feelings and expressing them makes me happy.
What is so bad a but being human and the naked human body that it's worth all of this shaming? There's no rational justification for it.
I have absolutely no interest in shaming my body that way anymore, so from now on I am going to live my life as openly naked as I am able to. I'm going to enjoy myself because it makes me happy to shed my clothes and be the real me.
Admittedly, posting naked photos of myself online is not as joyful as actually being naked outdoors, but it's still quite a remarkable feeling to know that thousands of people have now seen my naked body along with "dick pics" of my penis. It makes me happy to think about that, and I can't help but to laugh because of it. What a silly and oppressive society we live in, yet it's one with a glaring omission called the internet that allows me to be openly naked in public anyway!
I'm simply showing what my naked body looks like, it shouldn't be so taboo to be seen as my natural human self. In my mind, the more people there are who see me naked online the better, because in this way it becomes even more and more redundant for society to shame me for not wearing any clothes! If everyone already knows what I look like naked, then insisting that I wear clothes becomes rather pointless!
It's exhilarating to be my natural naked self as I feel like it's the real version of me, there's no hiding required, nothing to feel ashamed about, just complete acceptance.
I love showing my naked body to others and feeling like, at long last, my true self is being seen. Honestly, I wish that my city (Ottawa, Ontario Canada) had a clothing optional beach as I would be there in my birthday suit every single day of the summer!
There is some good news though! I'm feeling optimistic about the fact that society is now starting to accept men wearing different types of minimal clothing, such as running shorts or short shorts, leggings and swim brief swimsuits (all of which are shown below). It means that society is starting to accept the natural shape of men's bodies again, just like in the 70's and 80's, and allowing men to show more skin than what was previously "allowed" by our prudish culture. I love wearing these types of minimal clothing, and being openly naked whenever it's suitable to do so, and I have no plans to ever stop!
This is the real me, and I'm proud of my body. I'm done with all the shaming!
But it still makes me sad to live in a society that has such a negative outlook about being naked, and doesn't understand (or simply doesn't care?) about the joy and freedom that we're all missing out on. I wish there was a way to make everyone feel positive about their own naked bodies, instead of being embarrassed or ashamed about them. There's really no reason to feel that way.
Thank you kindly for taking the time to read my post!
-Mikey
I love wearing short shorts as there's no excess fabric on my legs.
Lately I've been wearing leggings which are so much more comfortable than jeans!
Here are my shiny black spandex leggings and my mat black polyester/spandex leggings.
My cute little pink swimsuit swim brief, and my favourite black Speedo!
I have a collection of about 50 different swim briefs! LOL
Thanks again, have an awesome day!
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