This is the story of how I went from a prude, to nude and finally to rude. For those readers who expect a lot of immediate sexual activity, this may disappoint. Nudism did lead me to sexual awakenings, but it did not happen all that quickly. I recommend that you read my recollections from the beginning to understand better the context.
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The BBQ barn was lit by lanterns on the ceiling and candles on the tables. When I say barn I really mean a large, wall-less roofed area furnished with chairs, tables and a few sofas. It was where the campers at the nudist retreat gathered of an evening to socialise.
It was my first time there. I had arrived at an empty campground just the day before, determined to try naturism. Dave and Sabrina the owners had been sweet and helpful. Today eight other guests (three couples and two single men) had arrived and now I had been invited to join them all for an evening BBQ. For the first time ever I was about to socialise with other naked people.
A friendly fire was glowing in one corner, a large gas-fired BBQ was sizzling at one edge of the Barn, and the campers sat around a large communal table they had made by putting a lot of smaller tables together. The table was laden with nibbles, chips and dips and cheeses, and bottles of wine and beer.
"We all just sort of throw in whatever we have," Sabrina told me, leading me from the darkening evening into the warm light of the barn. All eyes turned toward me and I was bombarded with welcoming smiles and gestures. All of them, except Dave (who was tending the BBQ) were seated and I momentarily felt vulnerable standing there naked. I could not always tell who was looking at me just as a person, or who was appraising my naked body. I made eye contact with Gary and he gave me a friendly hello, but I'm sure I saw Daryl studying my boobs and even gazing at my pubic mound before I 'caught him out'. It was awkward to say the least.
Steph came to my rescue and pulled out a chair offering me a seat next to her and her husband Bruce, (the couple of the expensive tent which they seemed to share with Daryl.) I sat gratefully, remembering to put my towel down on the seat first. We were all now only visible from the chest up. Bruce poured me a glass of much needed wine, and I sipped as the conversation flowed around me.
From where I sat I could watch Dave. Like Sabrina he was clad in a tiny apron which covered his genitals but left his butt bare as he flipped and poked at the variety of goodies that were grilling on the BBQ. Sabrina hovered around, putting out salads and homemade bread. Her small breasts appearing and disappearing behind her long dark hair as she leant over the table.
The eight other guests (who were clearly all old friends) laughed and joked and chatted away.. As for me, being naturally shy, and still coming to terms with nudity, I'm afraid I did not add much to the conversation, which was mainly about where there had gotten nude since they all saw each other last - it seemed to be a both a hobby and a source of immense satisfaction for them to relate where, how often and under what circumstances they had taken their clothes off. I was beginning to understand that for them,nudism was almost a vocation, a constant challenge against society to live as they truly wanted to. As Stew (the guy who looked like a biker and not at all what I had imagined naturists to look like) said, "It's all about freedom baby, right?" Although I cringed at being called 'baby', I did see his point. They were mini-activists, wanting to live as freely as possible, but feeling themselves confined to places like nude beaches and this hidden away camping retreat.
Eventually Dave turned to us to announce the feast was ready. I noticed that his apron bore printing which read, "Kiss this cook". Except someone had replaced one of the letters in 'cook' with the obvious consonant. I actually found that a little confronting - although no-one else paid it any attention. In my short two days as a nudist, I had only just come around to using the word 'dick' instead of penis (and only in my own head, not out loud). Now here I was reading and thinking the word 'cock'. As fate would have it, tall Daryl stood up from the table opposite me just then to help Dave, and the word 'cock' screamed itself in my mind. The huge, large headed serpentine thing that hung down between his legs was definitely not a penis, not even a dick. The only word for it was cock. In had to prise my eyes away from it and hoped nobody had seen how fixated I had been on it. Daryl was an OK looking guy. Fit and tall with a shaven head like Patrick Stewart. But he wasn't my type (As a virgin I wasn't sure I had a 'type'..except maybe for Johnny Depp). By which I mean I don't think I was attracted to him. But his cock was mesmerising. I wondered if he was conscious of it? Proud of it? And the other women? Did they look at it too and compare it to that of their own partners? Did they ever bother to notice these things? I knew already that I had the largest boobs in the group. Not the best, just the biggest. Did the men make mental notes on these things? Or as so many websites I had read suggested, were they immune to such thoughts?
I only knew that I wasn't. Try as I might, I could not help comparing. Sabrina's small and fit body, Dave's placid cock, John's tummy and his wee little dick, Steph's pale teardrop shaped breasts, Stew's handsome tanned buttocks and velvety dick, Moira's junoesque figure with her large dark areolas - everywhere I looked I found another body part to appraise, another indication that we are all different, but all beautiful in our own way. Even me... with my slightly pendulous boobs, my butt much bigger than I would like, and ( my biggest fear) my labia. My inner lips were not protruding, my vagina was often no more than a chubby slit hidden by my pubic hair. Yet I had a nagging doubt that it was not 'neat' enough, that men might find it ugly. Moreover, thanks to my Asian heritage, I often worried that it, like my nipples, was too dark in colour. And, shame of all shames, did I smell OK 'down there'. Why did I have these concerns? I can't really say. What is it that makes us so concerned about details of our body we have no control over? It was, after all, my reason for being here - to learn to accept these things.
I had so much to learn from these people. These folks who moved and talked with so much ease, not caring what aspect of their bodies others saw. Not in the least concerned about being judged.
I accepted another glass of wine from Steph before remembering my manners and running to my tent to get a bottle of Semillon from my own supplies. After all, everyone but me had chipped in to the BBQ and I did not want to seem like a freeloader.
When I got back to the barn, Greg was standing just outside it, smoking a cigarette.
"You need more booze?" he joked.
"Oh no. Just adding my contribution," I said.
"About today..." he began.
I knew he was alluding to the moment on the nature trail when he had asked me to take his photo and had developed an erection as I did so. But I did not want to make a big deal of it.
"Today?"
"My umm... excitement." he said, red faced,
"Oh, no problem," I replied. "I'm sure it happens all the time."
"Well, no actually," Greg smiled. "At least, it's not supposed to. I'm really sorry and..."
"And?"
"Could you," he stomped out his cigarette and looked at the ground. "Could you do me a huge favour and not mention it? Especially around Dave and Sabrina. It could get me kicked out and, well, I really like it here."
In realised then that he was terrified that I might complain about him to the owners. Who was I to set rules?