nude with family....

[netrox]

That caught my attention:

Keeping Your Clothes On


Where It’s Offensive: Scandinavian countries, Turkey.

What’s Offensive: Wearing bathing suits, shorts and T-shirts, underwear, or any other piece of clothing into a sauna, hammam, or other place of physical purification. In some cultures, a steam room or a sauna is considered a place of purity and reflection, where the outside world (i.e., your clothes) should be left outside. In some Scandinavian countries it’s common for entire families to sauna together in the nude.

What You Should Do Instead: Sitting on a folded towel is considered acceptable. If you’re too modest to appear naked, strip down, but wrap yourself in a towel.

Can you imagine your family nude with you in sauna? LOL

World's Worst Cultural Mistakes

 

[JamieLynn]

Not my family, but my girlf-friends sure... After fitness class I'm off to the sauna once per week!

Jamie

 

[Miss-Delectable]

I remember one Canadian teacher elaborating on his experience bathing with a host family in Finland, I think, and he was like 'eek, but later got used to it'.

However, I couldn't do it!

 

[Frisky Feline]

Blowing Your Nose


Where It’s Offensive: Japan, China, Saudi Arabia, France.


What’s Offensive: Some cultures find it disgusting to blow your nose in public — especially at the table. The Japanese and Chinese are also repelled by the idea of a handkerchief. As Mark McCrum points out in his book Going Dutch in Beijing, the Japanese word hanakuso unpleasantly means nose waste.

What You Should Do Instead: If traveling through Eastern and Asian countries, leave the hankies at home and opt for disposable tissues instead. In France as well as in Eastern countries, if you’re dining and need to clear your nasal passages, excuse yourself and head to the restroom. Worst-case scenario: make an exaggerated effort to steer away from the table. Let’s hope you don’t have a cold

 

[Liebling:-)))]

Can you imagine your family nude with you in sauna? LOL

Cultural shock ?

For me being together with family is normal... :shrug: Why should we be ashamed of our bodies?

We including my hubby & both teenage sons are nude at home.

I went topless beaches when I was at oversea and also went to mixed sauna twice a week after fitness studio. Being a nudist is not about sex or pornography.

Nudism is common and popular here in Europe. My American co-workers told me that nudity on US TV is very rare. Most nudity on TV here in Germany which is total different as in America. It's cultural shock for them

 

[Liebling:-)))]

Nudity in Scandinavia

Nudity in Scandinavia « DianeCA’s Metamorphoses

An American's blog of her experience in Scandinavia...

 

[pek1]

Cultural shock ?

For me being together with family is normal... :shrug: Why should we be ashamed of our bodies?

We including my hubby & both teenage sons are nude at home.

I went topless beaches when I was at oversea and also went to mixed sauna twice a week after fitness studio. Being a nudist is not about sex or pornography.

Nudism is common and popular here in Europe. My American co-workers told me that nudity on US TV is very rare. Most nudity on TV here in Germany which is total different as in America. It's cultural shock for them

As a naturist myself, I see nothing wrong with being nude with other people, family or not.

Being nude is not about sex or pornography . . . in fact, seeing a woman in a bikini or a man in speedos is very suggestive. Take those garments away and goes away the imagination of what's underneath.

In short, sex sells, nudity doesn't.

 

[AlleyCat]

Still wouldn't parade around nude with my family. No offense to others who don't mind it.

Of course I don't mind being nude in front of my SO and my cats!

 

[shel90]

I wouldnt go nude in front of anyone except for my hubby!

 

[~*Kaelei*~]

*shudders* I would not go nude in front of anyone except for my hubby.... I don't feel comfortable showing my nude body to my family or anyone for that matter. I only show nude to my hubby and myself, no one else.