Some interesting thoughts and a good read I found on the net:
**I thought there was something wrong with my body – until I shared a shower with 50 strangers**
Naked in a forest, among people of every age, race, gender and physique, I finally shook off the self-doubt that had haunted me since my teens
By Stephanie Peirolo, 12 Nov 202
hen I was 15, I grew nine inches in nine months. My bones ached at night. I grew out of my clothes at a rapid clip, exposing skinny ankles beneath the bottom of my blue jeans. I went from being average height to towering over everyone in my class.
I had been uncomfortable in my own skin even before that. I grew up in the US in the late 70s, and my body type was not in fashion. I was curvy in places that were not celebrated, with thighs and a butt that announced themselves in ways I found uncomfortable. I was a teen when I first started dieting, and women’s critiques of their bodies, and the bodies of others, quickly became a constant refrain of my youth.
I carried the narrative that my body was faulty and needed to be controlled into adulthood. Until one summer, when I was in my early 30s. I was divorced, and my two children were with their father at his home in Europe for the summer. I worked at a demanding job, and rarely took vacations, but a friend persuaded me to drive with him from my home in Seattle to the Oregon Country Fair. We were recovering alcoholics, and I wasn’t sure about attending a three-day music fair in the middle of nowhere, but I figured we would be fine together – he had been sober longer than I had.
I’m not outdoorsy, but my friend and I set up a tent in the performers’ camping area with his friends, who were acrobats and circus performers. For days we lived in the forest, listening to music and staying up late around a campfire. When they were done with their public shows, the performers joined us, playing their instruments and singing. My friend and I, the only sober ones in the group, smoked lots of cigarettes...
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https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/nov/12/thought-something-wrong-with-body-then-shared-shower-with-50-strangers
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