I felt the urge today after a long, long time and wrote a story. Like most of my stories, this one is not especially fast, has moderate amounts of nudity, a focus on double standards and no sex. I also wrote it fairly quickly, which might result in a few typos, which I hope you'll ignore. This is a completely standalone story and will have no prequel or sequel. I really do hope you enjoy it!
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Mike already found this town he had entered extremely weird. In many ways, it seemed to be the most modern city he had been in, in some ways there were was an odd adherence to tradition. He wondered occasionally whether this even qualified to be a city. The moment his mother had informed him that they - the 39 year old mother along with the 19 year old twin brother and sister duo - were going to spend the summer with his aunt in a beach town along the lines of Florida, he had immediately taken to a bit of research to fathom exactly how bored he would become.
The research had yielded little of value to the young boy, except that the town was a close-knit community with a one of the best beaches in the state. It was ruled by the local government, which ran quite independently, and had an exceptionally low crime rate. It also said that the town was famous for maintaining certain customs that may be considered outdated in most parts of the world today, but that was only part of the charm. All in all, the twins could hardly be described as the picture of excitement. Mike's sister, May, shared her brother's sense of impending doom.
Mike and May, however, adored their aunt, though they had always played hosts since childhood. Their Aunt Lily, along with her now 25 year old son, Dave and 18 year old daughter Christine, had visited them very often along the years. Their cousins, inspite of the age difference with Dave, had become pretty close too, especially with Dave acting as the older brother to them all. However, Mike wished they would come down to New York instead of them going to some town whose only attraction seemed to be the beach.
But as they drove into town, it really did seem very pretty, and he felt it might not be as bad as it may have been imagined. The road they took, in fact, passed right along the edge of the beach, and they had a gorgeous view of white sands and blue waters. On the beach, many people were enjoying the sun and some were playing in the water. Maybe it was a play of the sun or merely the distance, but Mike could have sworn that some of the people he saw were naked. He wondered if this was a nude beach. In that case, he could not decide if he was enthused by this fact or bemused. While he wasn't especially comfortable with nudity, having grown up around two women, he was very eager to see some naked or at least topless women around. Boobs were attractive, and especially so to a boy who had just turned 20.
Mike was going to fact the worst case scenario. Unfortunately, his research had not revealed to him this particular nugget of information.
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Aunt Lily was as warm as ever. His mother's older sister, she still retained a lot of her youth with her mischievous mind and toned body. She was a lot into water sports, and she loved adventure of all kind. She also had the tendency to be the devil, and often played pranks on the children, leading to all sorts of fun and embarrassment for the kids, and the boys more often.
Giving an enthusiastic hug to her sister and her nephew and niece, all of whom she had not seen in more than a year, she immediately showed them to their rooms and asked them freshen up. While the girls were going to bunk together, the boys would share a room as well. The two ladies got their separate rooms. While Lily and Rose had attached baths in their rooms, the children had to share one common bathroom. Neither May or Mike had an issue with this, honestly. It turned out that their cousins had gone into town to get a bit of shopping done for lunch and dinner that day and would be expected soon.
In the meantime, the children freshened up. The rooms were nice and spacious, with king-sized beds to sleep in. The bathrooms were clean, and had beautiful warm water to wash away the tiredness of the flight and the long trip here. Aunt Lily had placed 2 towels and 2 bathrobes in the bathroom, clarifying to May and Mike that the towels were for the boys and the bathrobes for the girls. This did not seem particularly odd to either the brother or sister, who proceeded to take nice, hot baths and come out of the bathroom, one with a bathrobe covering her entire body and the other with a towel covering his crotch and barely coming to his mid-thigh. Mike had not realized that the towels would be that short.
As he was coming out of the bathroom, he realized that his cousins had finished their shopping and had come back home. He flushed slightly to be in front of his cousin sister and aunt in such a small towel. His sister had changed and had come out of her room in a pair of shorts and tee. Giving a squeal, she had immediately given Christine a tight hug and had practically jumped into Dave's arms. She had always seen him as the protective older brother, and all but adored him. At this point, she realized that Dave was wearing only a pair of shorts and was shirtless. She wondered if he had gone out like that or had just taken off his shirt to cool off at home. It was quite humid, after all, and that would make sense. Christine, like May, was in a pair of shorts and a long tee. Christine saw the nearly naked Mike just coming out of the bathroom and immediately ran over to give him a hug. Mike put his arms around his cousin, very mindful of the fact that he was wearing only a towel and that piece of cloth was all that came between his penis and his cousin, who was now sticking to him.
Christine tore herself away from her cousin, and gave him a lookover. Commenting on how he looked fit and must be working out, she gave a nod of approval at what she saw. Other than that, neither did she comment on his state of near nudity nor did she seem to find it particularly out of place. May, however, told her brother to get dressed and stop embarrassing them, but was quickly shot down by her Aunt Lily, who decreed that Mike was just a boy and it didn't really matter what he wore. May laughed as her aunt suggested that Mike just hang the towel up to dry and come down for lunch in buff. This only caused Mike to turn an alarming color of red, and quickly run off to get dressed.
Dave, however, remained in his state of shirtlessness, seemingly as comfortable as he would be fully clothed. May could not help but admire the physique her cousin had built up, not too bulky, but ideally toned. He was tall and the lean look went beautifully with him. The fact that he was wearing only a pair shorts helped enhance the effect and she took in his body with a look of admiration and sisterly affection. Her mother was also going through the same rounds of observation.
Unlike May, Rose had some knowledge of this town's proclivity towards male nudity and had come to expect that she would be seeing quite of bit of naked male flesh on her trip here, including her nephew and son. She was rather looking forward to it.
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The day was perfect for the beach, and so they decided to spend the day there post a night of rest and a scrumptious breakfast. While deciding what to pack and which swimming shorts he could wear to the beach, Dave came into the room behind Mike and gave him a broslap on the back. Seeing what his cousin was upto, Dave quickly pointed out that he need not really bother packing anything, and all he really needs to wear on the way there is a pair of comfortable shorts. After a minute of trying to process this piece of advice and failing miserably, Mike questioned Dave on the most obvious point of what the hell was he saying.
Dave, sometimes forgetting that visitors were not used to the norms of society in his little town, and that this was certainly not the norm where Mike came from, went on to explain that males went naked on the beach here. He elaborated on this theme, saying that right from the parking lot to the water, males were not allowed any kind of clothing except a well-recommended layer of sunscreen along with a pair of flipflops. Males, in the opinion of his indifferent cousin, went with their cocks flopping around in the wind.