NAKED THOUGHTS

I talk about my nudist tendencies but never have written a post 
specifically about the subject. It's not really founded on an 
interesting philosophy but just a preference I've had since I was a 
child, secretly stripping off in my bedroom or when my parents were 
out. Nevertheless I could propose that there is a mental barrier 
that clothes errect between yourself and the world, and I have a 
natural distaste for such false frontages. By covering up, you deny 
yourself in a way, disguising yourself as a creature of society, 
fitting your physical form into a defined social image, even at 
home. Mentally it makes you separate yourself from your body, the 
latter burried under cloth, senses underneath separated from the 
world. I can't see how that's healthy, you need to see yourself to 
accept youself as you are, not some ideal of naked humans presented 
on screen or paper.

Alternatively, it crosses my mind that it might just be a symptom 
of my sexual frustration - some sub-conscious idea that if I hang 
around naked it'll be easier to have sex, even though there are no 
women anywhere near. I doubt it, but I do get turned on a lot more 
when I'm naked at home, day dreaming about women. Too often lately, 
really.

Even besides those times, I generally find it's more comfortable 
with my genitals out and about in warm weather or while doing 
physical activity. I think it's evident that heat radiates from 
there more than most other areas and covering ones dick and balls 
up has a similarly significant effect to wearing socks or gloves on 
a hot day. Letting them out in the air makes a big difference. Last 
summer I hardly had the A/C on at all, and of course it avoids 
wearing out clothing too, the tearing of which is really wasted 
money when you didn't need to wear anything in the first place (or
even turned up your A/C so you could!).

The same also holds for physical exercise, and although running 
with my penis flopping around took some getting used to, I find it 
more comfortable now for the same reason, cooling the body down. 
Not that I otherwise feel my balls are boiling during a run, but I 
feel hotter overall without airflow cooling my genitals down as my 
body warms up. The same for any hard physical work, and now I often 
strip off for working on cars in warmer weather, which also just 
makes it more fun I think, and the grease washes off skin easier 
than from clothes. It's limited to things done in the shed or at 
night though, as the cost and inconvenience of sunscreen required 
in the warmer months makes it impractical to be naked regularly in 
daylight, even though I live mainly out of sight in the middle of 
nowhere.

My one departure from only being naked in the middle of nowhere has 
been my relatively recent embrace of the nudist beach, two of very 
few official public clothing-optional places being a relatively 
short drive away. I've got comfortable being naked in public pretty 
easily. Though there's still my natural aversion to other people 
which tends to encourage me towards empty parts of the beach for 
most of the time, after undressing near the entrance. Even where 
being naked is accepted I'm conscious of enjoying things like 
climbing over the mounds of erroded rocks that nobody else seems to 
do except clothed people looking for fossils.

Of course it's a bit harder avoiding clothes over winter, although 
last year I stayed in the habit of stripping off at the start of 
each evening, to tuck in under blankets on the couch where the 
reverse-cycle A/C is pointed. Then eventually I brave entering the 
unheated bedroom. My pre-bed push-up routine warms me up again 
nicely after before jumping into bed. In the daytime I layer up 
with clothes so I don't usually have to run the heating if there's 
some warmth coming from the sun room, but with the rise of solar 
power generating surplus electricity during the day, apparantly the 
Australian government is mandating three hours of free electricity 
during every day later this year, caled the "Solar Sharer Program". 
I'm skeptical about the wisdom of this strategy overall, but if 
it's realised that means in winter It'd be cheaper running heating to
get the house as hot as I can stand during those three hours in the 
day, then turning it off and hoping it stays fairly warm into the 
evening (which I think it will). Obviously then I'll have much more 
time naked in winter, with the house as warm as summer from the 
middle of the day, then warm enough under blankets in the evening. 
It doesn't start in my state until October (somehow the Victorian 
state government is today announcing this themselves as their 
"Midday Power Saver" programme even though the federal government 
already announced the same national plan to start in July, but first
beginning in other states), so actually it'll miss winter this 
year. But it's usually still cold in October so I'm looking forward 
to trying it then. I'm not sure how long it'll last once everyone's 
cranking up their heating on wet, cloudy, October days when solar 
panels aren't really generating much power though...

https://www.energy.gov.au/news/solar-sharer-offer-cut-electricity-bills
https://www.9news.com.au/national/victorians-offered-three-hours-of-free-energy-every-day-under-state-government-plan/96f48f67-c1dd-4831-8fcc-9236d184d291

Of course I also thought about crypto mining, but it seems even 
with unlimited free electricity for three hours a day the cost of 
the hardware still doesn't really present a worthwhile ROI anymore.

 - The Free Thinker