Transition from Nudism At Home to More

So I think I've handled the first couple of levels of nudism. I started life extremely shy and wouldn't' even go barefoot in public. As I've gotten closer to middle age, become more comfortable with my body, and stopped giving a …. I've come to the point where I can be nude (with towel or underwear for sitting on furniture) at home and in my yard. If I'm somewhere I might be seen I'll have shorts on. Shower at the gym, and carry my towel, don't wear it.

Now how do I take another step? I think it would be fun to start spending time nude with others, and not everything, but perhaps the things that lend themselves to less clothes, like card games, sitting by the pool or another body of water? Any advice or recommendations to grow from an at home nudist to a more social one?

Do what my girlfriend and I did…go to a clothing optional place and take the plunge. You won't regret it

@juserman – i agree with russian. when my gf and i first went to a nudist campground it was her first time and my first time in such a crowd. it was awesome. you will love it. you wont feel at all strange. it is getting nude that scares you. once you are nude you will be amazed.

honestly amazed!

I was the same and now love being naked as I’ve posted a few times In different contexts.

However my approach is not quite the nudism you’re talking about. Maybe find a quiet beach as I do and enjoy a swim, being free and naked in a public place without people there? I find it liberating, a little risky but hugely enjoyable.

On holiday beaches and in the gym and so on I’ve then found being naked around others far less of a mountain to climb.

Thanks all. So I'll be in key west in a few months, and I know there is a clothing optional bar there, perhaps a good first step? Some liquid courage and a party atmosphere

It was only this summer that I finally went to a public nudist beach and undressed like all the others. I'd been wanting to do so ever since I learned about the practice, but it was always one thing or the other that got in the way, mainly kids and living in a cold climate. We would have had to drive some 1200 km at the very least to get to a decently warm nudist beach.

One thing I noticed though: it's much easier to go a nudist beach/resort where there are many people present. That way you are just one person in a multitude and are not even looked at when nude. On a secluded beach however, you will become the object of attention to anyone else there immediately. And if you are shy, then there will be a constant ‘worry’ about others coming to the same place.

So my advice would be to go to a busy nudist beach/resort, besides not being noticed, you will also see a vast range of bodies and realize that yours is nothing special and therefore nothing to be ashamed of.

And if you go to a much frequented nudist beach and walk around clothed, you will stick out like a sore thumb and decide that undressing is the better option not to attract attention.

And once undressed at such venues, getting drinks at a bar or having lunch while nude becomes the most normal thing to be in those places.