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Some Background:
I've been a nudist my whole life, and my wife has been one since shortly after she met me. We have a few nudist friends, but when the only thing you have in common with someone is the desire to be nude, its not always the most fulfilling friendship.
The Friend:
My wife and I have been friends with this woman (we'll call her Ruth for anonymity, although she gave me permission to share this story) for about 8 years now. We didn't hide the fact that we were nudists from her, but we were never nude with her. We get along great with her, and probably spend more time with her more often than any of our other friends, even brining her on a recent vacation with us.
How It Started:
We had Ruth over to our house for wine and appetizers a few months ago. We started planning a weekend getaway for a weekend where my parents could watch my son. We settled on a ski resort a couple of hours away. When it came time to look at lodging, Ruth brought up a villa with a private outdoor hot tub, and since the price was right we booked it immediately.
The first night at the resort, we ate at a restaurant in the resort and came back to the villa. We decided to go in the hot tub almost immediately (we were paying extra for it after all). My wife asked if Ruth was ok with her going in nude, and Ruth said that would be fine. I didn't want to press that luck so I still wore my speedo, and Ruth wore her one-piece. Neither of us had been nude in front of her, so that was progress.
Over the course of the night she asked us all sorts of questions about nudism. If we had ever done swinging (we haven't), if our nudist friends undressed right inside the front door, or how that worked (they usually undress in the guest room), and if there's ever been any jealousy (not that I know of). No additional swimwear was removed that night in the hot tub that night, however, and we all were fully clothed as we watched a movie afterwards.
The next day we skied hard, and opted to hit the hot tub right away after the slopes closed and order in dinner later. Ruth told me I could skip my suit, and she informed us she wanted to try going topless, which of course we agreed with. Queue the boner questions, which are honestly easy to answer for me by this point (its the most common question I get from non-nudists). We asked her how it felt going topless in front of us, and she said she didn't expect it to feel so normal.
After we got out, both my wife and I stayed nude for a while as we looked through delivery menus on our phones, and while Ruth initially wrapped her torso in a towel, she eventually decided to wrap her hair in it instead. We settled on a seafood/pasta place and ordered some family-style dishes to share. After that my wife asked if she minded us being nude when not partially obscured by the turbulent water of the hot tub and she again said she felt surprisingly comfortable with it, so we stayed nude (thank god for contactless deliveries that have come about as result of Covid 19! We all ate our food around the table, wearing no more clothes than we had in the hot tub.
The next morning we all wondered out into the kitchen to start the coffee, bacon, and eggs we had planned for breakfast. Ruth came out in a robe, but we were still nude. Side note: cooking bacon in the oven is an essential trick if you're going to cook nude! After breakfast we hit the slopes again, and when we returned to the villa Ruth decided there was no better time to plunge into nudism than plunging into the hot tub.
She felt a bit nervous at first, but after a few minutes we were back to talking about what we would have been talking about if we all had been clothed. We again stayed nude most of the rest of the night.
Back Home:
Its one thing to go nude on vacation, another to do it at home. Ruth invited us over the next week, and none of us went without clothing. There were a couple mentions of her first social nudity experience, but otherwise it was pretty much how it had always been.
A few weeks later one of our nudist friends was hosting our monthly nude dinner party (it rotates between four different houses). We invited Ruth along, and the look on her face was one of pure terror! She was ok with being nude around us- she knew us, and was comfortable with us, it was another thing to be nude around strangers. After the look of terror faded a bit, my wife said "I'm guessing that's a no then" to which Ruth replied "I wish I was that brave." After a bit of back and fourth, describing the other couples, and going over the logistics of both the nudity (towels to sit on are provided, there's a private room to disrobe, you don't have to go fully nude) and the dinner (the host provides main dish, guests are to bring a bottle of wine and either a side dish or desert), she asked for the date and time of the dinner again, although she emphasized that she wasn't RSVPing yes just yet.
As the party grew closer, my wife and I would get questions texted to us occasionally about the party (does the house have good curtains was one of them). We could tell she was trying to talk herself into it, but we didn't want to force it of course. Finally, 3 days out, she said "tell them I'm coming." She decided she wanted to drive with us so we'd get there together.
The Dinner Party:
Upon arrival, we rang the bell, and the door was answered by the owner of the home and her husband, who were both in robes. There was one other couple there, and they were already nude at the kitchen island. I showed Ruth where the guest room was to disrobe, complete with a neat stack of towels on the bed for us to sit on. She went in first and disrobed, then pulled my wife into the room, as she didn't want to walk out to the kitchen without one of us, having only been briefly introduced. They came out with their towels, and I disrobed after them. By the time I got out to the room, she had a glass of wine and was deep into discussion with some of our friends about their trip to Crimea years ago before Russia annexed it (for those that don't know they were famous for their nude beaches before the annexation).
The rest of the party she would occasionally whisper to my wife or I how surprised she was that she felt so at ease with everyone. I told her nudity will do that! By the end of the night, she had already asked when the next dinner party would be.
The Girlfriend:
Up to this point in the story, Ruth has been single. Shortly after the first nude dinner party, she met someone on a dating app and hit it off right away. About a week into their relationship I got a text asking "how did you bring up being a nudist to [your wife]?" For me that was a bit more urgent of a topic of discussion, as my parents are also nudist, and meeting the family would eventually happen. I told her that I approached it by telling her "you know how I'm really comfortable just being nude around the house, well I'm actually a nudist."
It took her a bit, and I'm not sure how exactly she brought it up with her girlfriend, but I eventually got a text from Ruth saying she told her girlfriend, and mentioned that we were nudists too (we had hung out clothed a few times before that). Her girlfriend was very positive about it and said she'd try it out with her. They opted to invite us over for a trial run before doing anything more public. It went well, and her girlfriend asked many of the same questions Ruth had, but this time my wife and I weren't the only ones answering.
We ended up inviting them on a day trip to a clothing optional hot springs a few days later. It was both of their first experience being nude out in public. It was a weekday so there weren't too many people there when we hiked up to the springs, maybe a dozen or so. Ruth's girlfriend wore a bikini under her hiking outfit just in case, and kept it on for the first 10 minutes or so before she told Ruth she felt more self conscious about not being naked than she would being naked.
We've since invited them to a few more nude dinner parties, a sauna night, and just over to our house, and this summer we're planning a trip to California that will include at least one day at a nude beach.
Conclusion:
While having a group of people to experience social nudity with was positive, we didn't really connect with any of them as much as we did with our non-nudist friends with similar interests. We've decided its easier to convert a non-nudist friend to be nudist than it is to find a someone who is already nudist we click with.
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