At what age did you start to feel embarrassed (if at all) about being naked?

I think there are a lot of factors that influence this and it's interesting how we all have different head trips over this stuff.

For me I was taught young, around 3 or 4 about wearing clothes and keeping them on because I was one of those rip my clothes off children. Things got in the way lol. I was a super energetic kid.

So I was taught keep your clothes on in public but it's ok to take them off at the doctor, but alongside that I got messages from my mother about not being undressed in front of men. I always had female medical providers because my mom thought that was more comfortable and so it got very ingrained to be more comfortable with nudity in front of women.

All told I didn't really mind nudity medically until my teenage years, then I started not liking my mother being in the room. But I didn't say anything until the year I was 15 and was offered the choice to see the doctor alone and took it. I definitely realize now that back then had some internalized embarrassment that I wasn't aware of until my mom wasn't in the room and I had a different experience.

The truth is I never felt ashamed of going naked. In the 80s it was very common for children to be naked on the beach.

In my house, nudity is experienced naturally. I have always seen my parents and brothers naked. We even bathe together.

I think I only felt embarrassed 3 times.

The first when I had my first circumcision on a trip to the beach at 7

The second when my mother on a trip to visit the family showed my grandmother and uncles my penis.

And the third time when I started puberty and its changes was the last time they let me walk naked in public at 11 years old.

As a child, I wasn't ashamed to be naked. I didn't feel embarrassed in front of my parents or medical staff. When I was 10, I felt embarrassed when I was examined by a pediatrician and had my genitals examined. I wasn't embarrassed by my mother seeing me undressed. I was not embarrassed by the fact that I was examined by a female pediatrician. I felt embarrassed that I was being examined in the presence of my mother.

My mother saw me naked until I was 15. The reasons were various - spanking, enema, suppositories, developmental assessment. My mother thought that at that age she had the right to see me naked. It didn't make me feel ashamed, it was just that I was treated like a child. I would be terribly embarrassed if it happened in front of another person.

Second grade I was seen having a embarrassing rectal exam. Two girls from school and their mother saw the whole thing and knew I was going home to get enemas.

I first recall being exposed my by doctor for a genital exam when I was 4. I developed a stiff erection that mortified me. (It was certainly not my first erection and they came on frequently. But I was certain it was something bad.) I recall searching the doctor's face for some acknowledgement of my state, wondering whether he 'noticed." Of course he did, and after checking out my urethral meatus, he gave my glans a quick pinch before smirking to himself.

I don’t know as nudity was let’s say common in our household. We saw each other with my sister many times in different stage. RT and suppositories were done mainly half exposed. Just the panty or pants (pijamas) were lowered. However we had to be completely naked for enemas and home exams. When only mom were present I never had problems, but felt a bit strange to stand in front of the doctor with strong erection. For me the worst was when aunty or other family members were witnessing my procedures.

I come from a family or a culture where mothers, aunts, elder sisters or even grandmothers can see us naked or pants down till we grow pubic hairs at around 12 or 13 strating from baths as infant to all home genital checks, enemas, foreskin roll back, even genital hygiene training were given by the elder female members at puberty. It might also have happened in the presence of other cousins as well .... however it felt embarrassing or awkward in front of the elder male members of the family.

As a child our pediatricians were all females. The first time a male doctor did a genital check up around 15 or 16 was really embarrassing as I was not so used to it.

I was raised by an aunt, but I guess for these purposes she was a maternal figure. She saw me undressed frequently when I was growing up (spankings, and a general unwillingness to knock, etc) but I don't remember finding it embarrassing until I was 12 and she took me to the doctor. I remember being acutely embarrassed both by the doctor seeing me undressed, but by my aunt seeing me at that moment too. Maybe it was having someone else present made it more real, like suddenly "everyone" knew how I was being treated like a child. I can still close my eyes and almost touch that moment.

I began getting a bit embarrassed for my younger sisters to see me naked around 11 or so, though it wasn't terrible if they saw after that. I wasn't embarrassed for my mom to see me naked until a few years after that.

The locker room scene starting in 6th grade was embarrassing, but that's a more complicated dynamic.

I think it depends from education and from the habits of parents. About me, I began around 5 years old.

But I felt completely free in front of my neighbor child (girl), on the contrary I was happy when it happened that we were both naked in the same place. She appreciated too! (Now in out 60 are still very good friends)

I recall I decided no one shall ever see me naked around age 7-8. That my showers should be mine and only mine. But even before, I'm not sure I recall walking around butt naked in the house. I did once walk out of a kindergarten bathroom stall with my pants down at age 4, but that's all I recall really. Don't know if I was a naturally more modest girl or if it's due to my upbringing.

As a child, not ashamed at all being naked. I was a child in the age when children ran over the beach naked and nobody cared about it.

Putting on swimming gear on the beach could take quite some time. We, as kids wanted to get rid as fast as possible of our clothes and our parents wanted to install themselves and after that we were summoned to put our swimming pants on. Great time, it was

I began to become 'self aware' not ashamed yet, when I did have my development follow-up exams at 14. Reason being that there apparantly was something wrong with me developing slower than expected. So every exam being naked with the doctor and, because of the exams, touching, palpation and checks getting erect during every exam made me 'ashamed' of that reaction. The doc always said there was nothing to be worried or ashamed about and that she'd seen many boys reacting as such, but that even did put some more stress on that particular fact. And as those exams happened every 6 months until I was 18, she did get to know me quite well and I did remain quite self-aware about being naked during exams...

I was aware that I should not show off my private parts to strangers since very early age. But at home I would go to my room after bath completely naked until I was 8. And it was like that until on one occasion when I came out of the bath and in the entrance hall I accidentally met a women, my grandma’s friend who already was leaving our house after visiting my grandma. I did not hear that she was there and that’s why I was so careless to run into her completely naked. I was a polite good boy, so I said hello and I wanted to vanish as soon as possible but I couldn’t because she started asking me questions. I had to stay for some time. After I managed to escape to my room I felt very embarrassed. The next time I asked my grandma to bring all my under ware to the bathroom because I didn’t want to appear naked anywhere outside the bathroom.

My embarrassment at being seen naked was situational. At home with family I'd readily pass between my bedroom and bathroom naked, I even preferred the bathroom door say open while I was in there. Mom was more modest but never rushed to cover herself if I encountered her only partly dressed or naked. My older sisters were other extreme. I only saw them naked (or half naked) for a flash before a door would be slammed closed between us. Dad was openly naked with me or mom but would cover himself around my sisters.

I was also fine with being naked with other boys of similar age, but only if I wasn't the only one naked. For instance, if buddies and I were stripping to go skinny dipping, I wouldn't remove my underpants until at least one other boy had already done so. When dressing again afterward, I made sure I wasn't last to put on my underpants. This also applied on the beach where I happily went naked until age 7 when most other kids my age wore swim ware.

When puberty arrived I started holding a towel or underpants against my crotch when passing down the hall at home. (I kind of liked showing off my butt!)

With relative strangers, I was much more modest and respectful of others modesty.

Initially, I wasn't embarrassed. I remember being at the pediatrician's office waiting for him to come into the exam room. I got so tired of waiting that I ran out stark naked into the waiting room to play with the toys (with my mother running after me). One incident soon after that changed me. A neighbor had come to the door asking if I could come out to play. I was about to go out the front door, again without any clothes. My mother grabbed me and told me that this just wasn't done. She then went and had me look out of the living room window standing stark naked. My friends were all laughing and pointing. They were probably pointing at the fact that I had no clothes on but I actually thought they were laughing at my penis. From that point on, I was embarrassed and afraid to be naked in front of people. This made exams at the hospital go anything but smoothly!

I can’t recall a time in my life when I haven’t been embarrassed by being naked. I’ve always been a pretty shy/bashful person, so any time I’ve had to be undressed (medically or otherwise) has caused at least some variable amount of embarrassment for me. Not always in a bad way, I should say, especially as I’ve gotten older and incorporated that embarrassment and shyness as an aspect of my role as a submissive.

But when I was younger, oh yes, I was incredibly embarrassed by any amount of undress regardless of the situation, though some instances were more inevitably embarrassing than others. Medical exams often caused me to feel far more embarrassed than, say, changing clothes in gym class or anything like that.

I don’t believe that there was necessarily anything in my upbringing that was meant to make me feel ashamed at the idea of being undressed, whether partially or fully, and I certainly wasn’t raised in a body-negative environment. A modest one, yes, but not excessively so, and of course I was also taught not be show myself to strangers when I was young.

Besides that there weren’t many factors besides my own personality which contributed to my current feelings of embarrassment. I’ve always been this way, and likely always will be to some extent.

I think mine was around 13 when i started puberty and started to get hair down there I was embarrassed because I was the oldest sibling so when I started puberty I was just embarrassed because none of my other siblings were any where close to starting.

Growing up, I was raised a strict Catholic, so the idea of nudity in front of people, with certain exceptions like a doctor, was verboten. I was even somewhat embarrassed in front of my mother. Outside of those boundaries, the only time you would be naked was it private. It got much worse during puberty, and I learned to suck it up, keep my head down and dress as quickly as possible during group showers and such in high school. When I entered Boot camp, it was a whole different world.

You are in an open bay barracks with 50-80 other guys, open showers, and even the toilets were side by side with no stalls. Privacy simply did not exist. (It started with the MEPS physical) Your sense of modesty gets burned out of you extremely quickly. As I got older, nudity became no big deal.

Were you embarrassed by nudity as a child?

I was embarrassed when younger. The fat girl is not what society was looking to see...naked. But as I've aged I have gotten less "embarrassed". What others think or care is not one of my concerns as much any more. This body is what it is and the story is not necessarily pretty.

I first knew I was embarrassed about my nudity at a round 11 or 12 when my body was beginning to change. before that I just looked at myself the same as my younger brother by being flat chested with the only difference being he had that thing between his legs that I didn't. but when my body started to change with swelling boobs, tender nipples and getting pubes it started to be more embarrassing to be seen without clothes.

Probably between ages 11 and 13, when I started to view nudity in a sexual manner. Before that, nudity was comedic. Getting naked was fun. When puberty came I was more aware of nudity in myself and others. Nudity was both embarrassing and exciting at same time. Being seen naked was embarrassing, but it was also thrilling. Getting to see others naked was exciting. It was definitely a range of emotions that hit strongly and suddenly.

For me, it depended a lot on the context and the reason for being naked...

For example, I also started to feel embarrassed at the doctor's office around the age of 11 or 12.

Away from home, I remember the first time I went to the beach when I was about 7. Up until then, I'd been naked (partly out of habit, not because they forced me), and a friend of my stepmom came to visit. She and her daughter, who was a little older than me... I didn't know her very well; we'd played together a few times. Finding myself naked in front of her, in a swimsuit, made me very embarrassed.

At home, I never felt too embarrassed until puberty. But even after that, very little. In fact, I was used to being seen naked from a young age. As I've written in other posts, for health reasons, I've had several enemas, so nudity was also normal.

And even as I grew older, I never felt much embarrassment. As I said, it depends a lot on the context.

One time I felt really embarrassed was when I was about 10, when my stepmother gave me an enema while her sister was present... She wanted to see why she had to do it to her son. She'd certainly seen me naked before as a child, but it had been years, she wasn't someone I knew very well, and I felt helpless.

I'd say I started to feel embarrassed when nude around the age of 10 or 11. Growing up with a household of just my mother and me, there was little to stand in the way of privacy. Nudity wasn't looked down on or anything, I was just becoming more independent and soon to start developing more. By this age, I was showering myself and so on. So I had a few years of not being seen naked until my first teenage physical exam, which ended with peak embarrassment. What I thought would be a quick, in and out exam, ended with me fully nude in front of the doctor while my mother watched close by. The nudity was embarrassing, but the erection was mortifying. Lol. I got used to this over the next few exams, perhaps began to enjoy it. Along with that, I became a little more relaxed with nudity at home also. I may have even worked to "accidentally" be seen nude for the thrill of it. But by the end of my teens, only my mother and couple closest friends had seen me nude and I found the thought of others embarrassing.

This embarrassment continued up through my mid 30s. I was well aware of having a small penis and avoided having others see it. The rare event I had to change in a public place, I'd change as quick and hidden as possible. I'd become more comfortable in time with sexual partners, but would still be shy at first. I had in interest in nudity, but was still embarrassed of it.

That finally changed once I joined our local ymca. At first, I was shocked by the casual locker room and open showers. But once I finally took the plunge, I realized I loved it. Now I'm pretty sure the only reason I go is to take my time nude in the locker room or showers.

Oddly I didn’t feel embarrassed being naked at home, my mother often saw me without clothes on. But for some reason around 10 onwards whenever she watched me being examined at the GP surgery, I felt incredibly exposed and very awkward

a, being undressed,

b, standing in front of the doctor being examined and

c, my mother staring at my body throughout the exam.

By the age of 7 I think I had generally started to feel a bit veird about appearing naked even in places where it was somehow normal or expected - like at the beach or at a medical check-up.

However, depending on the context, I could sometimes be much more or much less ashamed of being naked.

For example, I was used to my mother occasionally taking my rectal temperature or inserting suppositories in the privacy of our home or attending a group medical consultation at school (where at some point we all had to undress in front of each other), but I was terribly ashamed if my grandmother insisted on taking my rectal temperature or giving me an enema (until about 11 it was still possible in my case) when my cousins ​​where present and they could only be witnesses since they had not received such procedures since they were much younger...

Probably around 10 or 11. I became very self conscious as my school friends began to develop and for me that didn't happen until later. I was teased regularly in school because I didn't wear a bra yet by some of the other girls and it was around that time.

I think I started Noticing my embarrassment around the age of 8/9…I was Very shy growing up but in my early 20s I suddenly Discovered that I loved Being naked and developed quite and exhibitionist side to my personality!

I've never been embarassed about being naked at the doctor's. Clothing (incl. underwear) can interfere with the examination being adequately/acurately performed.

It's a bit complicated. One of my earliest memories was refusing to take my shoes off at the beach. I have no idea why. I guess I was about 5 years old. I remember doing a little striptease changing into my pajamas behind a chair in front of the babysitter when I was probably about 8 or 10. Once when I had the flu and was somewhat delirious my sister saw me with my pajama pants down and I was quite embarrassed. I remember being shy in the locker room at swim class around age 12. Later, I really hated the gang showers in the high school locker room so I avoided them. I started getting used to nudity in high school swim class when all the guys had to line up naked to pass through the showers and pick up a pair of swim trunks. Finally when I got to college and discovered skinnydipping with my classmates at a lake on school property outside of town, I loved to get naked. One skinnydipping party I think we had around 20 boys and girls, everybody completely naked. Since then I've really enjoyed nudity.

I've never been comfortable and always embarrassed being naked for as long as I can remember. Now that I know why and had many genital exams and procedures for being incontinent and transgender is not near as bad.