Some interesting thoughts and a good read I found on the net:
**How to Go to a Nude Beach With Your Friends (And Not Feel Weird About It)**
There’s a sweet spot between not looking at all and looking too long.
By Matthew Wille, March 26, 2026
You make plans to go to a nude beach with your friends for the first time, and for five or 10 minutes after booking the tickets, you contemplate the nude portion with a plethora of emotions swirling in your stomach. To have your feet in the hot sand surrounded by your friends’ (and strangers’) pubic hair and bare asses; it’s an image that, in the abstract, excites, fascinates, and inspires anxiety.
You mostly forget the image (though it does sit in the back of your mind, somewhere) until you’ve nearly arrived at your destination, whether near or far. You’re hopping off a plane or a ferry or an Uber and looking at your smiling friends like, Oh, right, there’s a solid chance I’ll be seeing every bit of their bodies in a few minutes. And you’re not quite sure how to feel about that, just yet.
A friend gave me this advice ahead of my first trip to a nude beach: “Just be chill about it.” Good advice, generally, though it didn’t exactly hit at the complexities of my clothing-optional anxiety. Upon landing in Zipolite late last year, a co-ed group of friends and I pounded down to the cove at the end of the beach, Playa del Amor, to catch the sunset. No one in my group made moves to take off their bikinis or speedos just yet. I caught glimpses of every kind of nudity as we ran east along the water: straight couples, gay guys, older people, younger people, everything in between. No one seemed self-conscious; no one stared...
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