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Nudists are exhibitionists, right?
I heard that pretty much all nudists are exhibitionists. Is that true? If so, I don’t really want to be one!
I heard that pretty much all nudists are exhibitionists. Is that true? If so, I don’t really want to be one!
A few might be, but the overwhelming majority are not. Nudists simply enjoy doing normal activities without clothes on. Exhibitionists are about trying to shock people by being nude, usually by being nude in inappropriate places.
No. An actual nudist is not an exhibitionist.
An exhibitionist gets naked for the thrill of other people seeing them naked, doing things naked, etc.
A nudist is only naked because they find it enjoyable to be naked, not because they find it enjoyable for other people to see them naked.
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LikeDislikeMy neighbor suggested that I was an exhibitionist just as you question, simply because I like to be naked in public. In all actuality fashion can be considered more exhibitionism than nudism. If you look at a picture filled with naked people mixed in with clothed people, who truly stands out more? You will more than likely answer the one with the most layers of color on their body.
Other references to the term “exhibitionism” are relatively used in correlation to voyeurism. Since the primary principle of nudism is non-sexual nudity there really is no reason a nudist should be labelled as an exhibitionist unless of course that person looking upon them has voyeuristic tendencies.
Psychologically-speaking, exhibitionists are individuals who get sexually aroused by exhibiting their genitals. They are almost always aroused when doing it and are usually trying to get attention with some sort of “act”. They get their thrill by getting attention and shocking their victims. As such, exhibitionists would be very disappointed in a nudist/naturist environment since nobody would care.
Exhibitionists expose themselves for the shock value AND for the sexual thrill. If this is brought into a nudist environment, as BareOaks said, both the shock and thrill are not there. So, no, nudists are NOT exhibitionists.
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