Any guys relax nude with each other?

What has happened to men? So many won't say the word naked. In the south, naked means you have no clothes on, and nekked means you have no clothes on and are up to something. Men used to get naked all the time together, swimming, camping, stuff. LETS ALL GET NAKED or NEKKED if it's your preference. Of course, since many of us are now middleaged and older, I will leave my glasses at home.

Naked, to me unclothed and vulnerable, you can also be naked even if clothed. Nude, unclothed and comfortable.
Nakey, unclothed and comfortable and having fun..... Having fun does not have to sexual, can be having fun doing what ever..... even sitting at home and surfing the net....whatever is fun....

Eh, you're straight, you don't want to be perceived as gay, so you avoid situations where there might be the possibility of this interpretation. Being gay is still perceived as something to be scorned, laughed at, or sickened by in America, whether people actually admit it or not. Note, I am not saying I like this, or accept it as the way things have to be, but acknowledge its reality. Last thing someone really wants is to be perceived as a member of a hated minority. It is perfectly understandable position.

What a funny thread! It's a homoerotic fantasy many gay men (like me) have...hot, handsome studs lounging around, slapping eachothers buts, etc...lol. Just like the one str8 men have of luscious women lounging around in Fredericks negligees..having pillow fights, etc...But sometimes, reality BITES!

So true---I suspect even the Roman orgie had its fair share of politics, rejection, and overall stupidity.

But the fantasy is an undeniable turn-on, ain't it?

Of course---I even have a gay porno along that theme somewhere in my collection.

LOL - interesting perspecitves - thanks guys! If anyone else has anything to add, go for it. I didn't realize I'd get this much of a response! :) Later -

My first summer out of high school, I worked as a guide at a wilderness camp.

The other employees at the camp introduced me to casual nudism. Whenever we had days off with no guests around, nobody wore clothes. We ate, slept, swam, did chores, and wrote letters home... all nude.

kewl

they just wanted to look at your big cajones man.

This is partly why I love europeans.


but I do find our American friends on the other side of the Atlantic rather prudish.

I agree.

I blame the British....if they hadn't kicked out the blue-nosed, ultra conservative Puritans in the first place, the US might have been founded by a more reasonable group....like, the criminals who founded Australia--you know, a better class of people..

I think the biggest hangups that people have about nudity is that nudity equals sex. And for most people that's what it is.

I think people should stop thinking about sex when being nude. A human body is a human body...if it's unclothed don't gawk at it. I have no problem with nudity or being nude around other people unless I'm being made into a spectacle or object of your sexual desire. And it's pretty easy to read based on another's actions how bad they want you. I'd get uncomfortable and leave. Not becausue of uncomfortable in my own sexuality. I know who I am and what I am. I'm more uncomfortable with your sexuality. It's like why advertise something that's not for sale? I don't want to get anybody's hopes up in such a situation...

Now in a situation where everybody is cool and acting like a regular situation and being nude? I'm totally cool with that. I think that's what facinates me about nudist camps.

i'm very comfortable being nude around other men in certain settings (college fraternity--lots of nude guys). locker rooms. taking a steam. late night skinny dip in the summer. but i've never been a nude lounger at home, by myself or with friends. if i'm naked on the furniture i'm fucking--otherwise i stay clothed!