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Heilan Bolton's avatar

I am aligned with you thinking. Visiting Finnish saunas and then Italian Riverina helped me realise that no one GAF!

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Stephanie's avatar

No one! No one is looking at each other! Australians are the ones who make it weird!!

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Adelle's avatar

Agreed 100%. Aussie is so weird about nudity, especially considering we swim so often. I didn't get rid of my aversion to nakedness until I backpacked around Europe and started visiting bathhouses.

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Stephanie's avatar

Yup - completely reset my brain when I did it in Japan. I so believe in it now.

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Dakshi's avatar

I couldn't agree more. Everyone should try going nude in a Japanese bathhouse at least once!

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Stephanie's avatar

God, what I would do for onsens to be in Australia…

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Louisa Harken's avatar

A matter close to my heart as a fellow exhibitionist.. brilliant read thanks Coombes.

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Stephanie's avatar

I love that that has flushed out all my nudist friends.

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Gemma Calder's avatar

I was in Japan 4 weeks after having a fall from horse so bad I broke a few ribs and tore my liver. Lemme tell ya, they don't even stare at you in an onsen if 2/3 of your torso is brown and yellow from half healed bruises (which could be taken as good or bad depending on the origin of the bruises. But still).

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Stephanie's avatar

FUCKING TORN LIVER?! GET A NEW HOBBY, GEMMA JESUS CHRIST.

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Tez's avatar

I’m currently nude. I just wanted to share that.

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Stephanie's avatar

It was always more of a surprise when you were in them.

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Lucie's avatar

Thank you for providing a GOOD piece of writing on nudity that doesn’t shame, project, judge, and inevitably reveal that it was the writer who really showed their ass.

Also, mammaries doing the cha-cha is nudist clapping and I’m now suing Gilmore for discrimination.

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Stephanie's avatar

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH.

Yeah, the tone of the whole thing was SUPER judgey. Like mate, I don’t think about your body. But you’re clearly spending a lot of time thinking about the bodies of people who are minding their own business, getting changed.

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Lucie's avatar

Yep, just fuelled by repressed issues and typed while breathing heavily.

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