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Anecdotally, if you have body-image issues, spending some time nude around others (like at a nude beach) can actually help alleviate them. Seeing other peoples
by daenz 7y ago
Anecdotally, if you have body-image issues, spending some time nude around others (like at a nude beach) can actually help alleviate them. Seeing other peoples asymmetrical, weird and quirky bodies makes you realize that it's the norm.
- smacktoward 7y agoGoing to a gym with a shared locker room or communal showers can have this effect, too. Even at a place like a gym, you will find very, very few people who are perfectly "cut." And while we all tend to obsess over the ways in which our bodies are weird, it can be liberating to realize that everyone else's body is weird too.
- mc32 7y agoYeah but then it’s possible to start imagining people as domesticated deer. In other words like sedentary house deer. Except non ruminant deer.
- Ididntdothis 7y agoMost nudists are not that perfectly built so you probably get a pretty realistic impression how people really look. My body image got shattered on a beach in Santa Barbara... No nude people but everybody almost perfect.
- scarejunba 7y agoEquinox is the same for me. Very motivating since everyone looks good.
- aasasd 7y agoDunno, I'm pretty non-puritan and got desensitized to nudity of all shapes just from the web, but the lesson was that I shouldn't assault people's gaze with my pitiful physique.