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[RICHinNC]

(((((( Personally, I'm OK with sex & once I get to sleep ))))))

Dang girl....you sound like my ex wife !!!!
Oh?? Did I miss a word???? hehehe

[Laura]

I have no issue with it. In fact, I may end up bunking with Walter on my upcoming trip. (seperate beds, sorry darling!)

I'm just "one of the guys" as far as my dive club buddies are concerned, so I've seen them in their tightly whities for a "brief" moment, it's no big deal.

Laura

[happy2dive]

...so I've seen them in their tightly whities for a "brief" moment...

Most of you might freak out at how relaxed things are over here. Most gyms in Amsterdam have mixed saunas, one that I was a member of didn't even have separate dressing rooms or showers for the gym-sauna members. The current gym that I go to also has a great sauna area, mixed. Half of the time you're covered with a towel but most of the time under the showers, in the cold dip, in the steam room and in the sauna...where it's not practical to drag around a towel, nudity rules. In other words, once you get used to it, you take a rather clinical - Peter Greenaway type of attitude towards the human body and it’s various states of undress. So if I had to bunk with a male roommate and he forgets his towel, I wouldn't bat an eyelid. And I would expect that nonchalance to be reciprocated as well. Of course I'll take extra care in covering up if I know that nudity, accidental or not, offends the other person. So being one of the guys here in Amsterdam takes on a whole new definition...even have on occasion overcome the slightly more (mutually) embarrassing moments of running into colleagues and clients in a local sauna. Well the embarrassment passes in a moment and it's business as usual...it's worse to make a big deal out of it.
Having said that, not all guys and gals are comfortable with this setup and but then they just skip the after-training sauna bit or they cover up in swimwear and stick out in a very weird way among the rest of the sporters au naturel.

[gina]

I have shared a room many times with men and have had no problems. They seem to be good roomates so far. If it makes you uncomfortable discuss it with the people putting on the trip.

[Walter]

Hi Gina,

Please post an introduction so everyone can get to know you. We love meeting people.

Walter

[Walter]

Didi,

My sister is a bit of a prude. She lived in the Netherlands for a few years in the '80's. She got quite a shock on her first visit to the spa. LOL!

Walter

[happy2dive]

Oh I've seen that happen....don't want to generalize but it's usually an American or British visitor who freaks out. I've seen both men and women flip when they realize that a sauna is mixed. Sometimes by coincidence, all the sauna goers are one gender or the other so the new visitor get's comfortable thinking it's not mixed...and they have the shock of their lives when a girl/guy wanders in. I hope your sister got over it. In Japan too, this is very unusual as well. But I got used to it and am glad I'm not bothered anymore. It makes life less complicated...also I think it provides people with a healthier idea of how the natural body should be. 99.99% of us in the sauna or on a nudist beach do not have top model bodies. So by seeing all the fat rolls, lumps, bumps, scrawny limbs, sizes and shapes, you learn to accept your own peculiarities as is instead of becoming pathologically obsessed about dieting to achieve an impossible top model figure.

[DivingGal]

Been there. Done that. No problems.

DL

Ditto

[GentDiver]

Been there. Done that.  No problems.

DL

Ditto

Same here.

I actually have flashbacks to the movie "Planes, Trains, and Automobiles" when I share a room with a bunch of guys... "Those aren't pillows!"

[Marvel]

I have shared a room many times with men and have had no problems. They seem to be good roomates so far. If it makes you uncomfortable discuss it with the people putting on the trip.

Hey Gina! As Walter said, you're new & you deserve you're own intro thread!

[triggerfish]

I'm just "one of the guys" as far as my dive club buddies are concerned, so I've seen them in their tightly whities for a "brief" moment, it's no big deal.

Laura

no big deal??


you gotta find different buds, hon.

perhaps that "Dick Long" guy????

*****just trying to give you some mod practice, sweetie!!!

[Marvel]

.... It makes life less complicated...also I think it provides people with a healthier idea of how the natural body should be. 99.99% of us in the sauna or on a nudist beach do not have top model bodies. So by seeing all the fat rolls, lumps, bumps, scrawny limbs, sizes and shapes, you learn to accept your own peculiarities as is instead of becoming pathologically obsessed about dieting to achieve an impossible top model figure.

So true, so true. We in America have some really prudish ideas (dating back to the Puritans) about the human body & its exposure. Even though we know it is natural, we still tend to get very uncomfortable, yours truly included.....

[Walter]

So Marvel, want some help working on those nudity issues?

[Marvel]

So Marvel, want some help working on those nudity issues?

Walter!! My lands!! Well I.....I....OH!

[happy2dive]

Even though we know it is natural, we still tend to get very uncomfortable, yours truly included.....

But Marvel, if you come over to Amsterdam with Mischievous I thought all of us could have a girls day out at the local spa?