First Time
by: Brian
My own experience with nudism started in England when I was 11 years old. I attended a grammar school which had it's own swimming pool. After PE classes we went into the pool in the nude. It was the wonderful feeling of the water flowing over my naked body that convinced me even at that early age that swimsuits were not for me. I've avoided them ever since.
Shortly after I married for the first time I suggested to my wife that we visit a nudist club. She was reluctant but we often went to a well known beach where nudity was the norm. Gay stripped off and enjoyed sunbathing in the nude but would not venture out of the sand dunes onto the open beach. I kept on persuading to come with me to a club where we could practise social nudity. Eventually and to my great pleasure she agreed and we arranged to visit the naturist club near to where we lived. When we arrived we found the grounds to be deserted so Gay had no problem with undressing and settling down by the pool.
After a couple of hours she had to leave for a dental appointment. When she returned another car followed her into the parking lot. A man got out, she got out, they undressed together and came to join me. Gay was hooked, she was a nudist and from then on we often took our vacations at nudist resorts in England and at Paradise Lakes after we moved to Canada. We told her parents that we had become nudists and really enjoyed it. They were most intrigued but would not join us, although they did start sunbathing au naturel in the privacy of their back yard. After Gay and I emigrated to Canada we bought a house with a pool and completely private backyard where we could be nude whenever we wanted which was often! We soon found that several of our new friends also enjoyed swimming and sunbathing in the nude. We introduced other friends to social nudity through the simple expedient of suggesting "why don't we all go skinny-dipping?" Few refused and most enjoyed it. In this way nudity became the norm at Brian and Gay's place.
Ultimately our marriage broke down and we separated. It was then that I met Georgia who is now my second wife. When we were planning one of our vacations together I naturally suggested that we go to a nudist resort. She also was reluctant at first but we talked it over and she agreed on the grounds that I wouldn't ask her to do something that wasn't right and on condition that we would leave if she didn't like it. So, in February 1987, off we went for two weeks at Paradise Lakes. We arrived late in the evening after a long day of travel. After we checked into our condo I said "let's go to the hot tub." "What, with nothing on?" Georgia replied. "Of course" Isaid. So off we went. We arrived at the hot tub, took off our robes (it was a cool evening), showered and joined a few other couples in the water. After a few minutes she got out and sat on the side to cool off. Her words to me were "there's nothing to this, you don't even notice" that you and everyone else are naked. She had become a nudist then and we had a great vacation. She told me that being nude in a social situation with other people did wonders for her self esteem and body image and she wished she'd found naturism much earlier in her life.
Since that time we've enjoyed the nudist lifestyle together. We are frequently nude around the house and of course we are always nude in our hot tub. We joined the nudist club near Ottawa for a few years but left when it fell into a state of decline. We always take our vacations at clothing optional or preferably nudist resorts and have visited Paradise many times, Cypress Cove, Como and Hidden Valley as well as resorts in Mexico, Cuba, Spain, Yugoslavia and Lanzarote. After I retired we spent our first winter in Florida at Paradise. Now we have a winter home a few miles away, but have recently become members at Como which we find more to our liking than Paradise as we are not party animals.
So I've been a lifelong nudist myself and have been lucky to marry two ladies whose first experience of social nudity was good and who enjoyed the lifestyle as much, if not more, than I do once they had been introduced to it. Georgia insists that when we go on vacation we go to a nudist resort or at least somewhere that is clothing optional. As I found out all those years ago, and she agrees, swimsuits are to be avoided at all costs!