My name is Peter. For the last few years I've been living in Japan in a small town near Tokyo. I live alone and I have a good life over here, there are few things that I miss from England and those I have learned to mostly live without. The one thing that I still do miss is going to naturist beaches. In Japan there is nothing equivalent to that. There are onsen, natural hot springs, but there men and women are separated so it is not the same.
My Japanese is pretty good, having been over here for so long it would be scandalous if it was not. I have a Japanese teacher, Aya, who comes to my apartment once a week to teach me and I try to study everyday as well. A couple of years ago we were chatting about something, I forget what, and Aya mentioned that she had seen, in magazines, photos of some actresses topless at the beach which is something that definitely does not happen in Japan. She asked me if that was a typical thing to do.
"Do many women do that? Is it even legal?" asked Emi.
"Yes, of course, in Europe lots of women go topless." I told her. "Actually, not just topless there are even beaches where you can go completely naked."
"What? Men and women together, you mean?" she asked.
"Yes, nudist beaches. I've been to nudist beaches. It's really comfortable, much more comfortable than wearing swimming trunks." I said.
"You've been naked on the beach with loads of other people. But aren't you embarrassed, to be naked in front of everybody? Doesn't everybody stare at you?"
"No, not really because everybody is naked. It's just a really comfortable feeling. A couple of years ago I went on holiday to a place called Cap D'agde which is really a nudist town, it's wonderful, you can go shopping naked, eat dinner naked, everything." I said.
"Hmm, I'm not sure that I could do that." said Aya.
"If you tried it I'm sure that you'd enjoy it. After a few minutes you kind of forget that you are even naked, it just becomes normal to be like that. You know, in the Summer, when you aren't here, when I am on my own I'm always naked at home, I just put on clothes before you get here but I really prefer to be naked." I said.
By this time Aya was looking a little red in the face, perhaps I had gone too far, I hadn't wanted to embarrass her I just wanted to let her know about my hobby.
After that the conversation moved on and I didn't think anything more about it. The lesson finished and Aya left. It had been fun to tell her about what I liked to do but knowing what Japanese women are like, quite shy and modest, I didn't think anything would come from it.
The next week, before my lesson I was tidying my apartment before Aya came over. Of course I was doing it in the nude because I like to be nude and because the Summer is so hot that it is just easier to nude than to wear clothes most of the time. I hadn't really been paying attention to the time so I hadn't put any clothes on before the doorbell rang. Luckily the door was still locked so Aya couldn't just walk in, I shouted to her to wait a minute and quickly pulled on some shorts. I grabbed a T-shirt and was pulling it over my head when I opened the door, Aya came in just as I was pulling it down to my waist.
Aya looked at me as she took of her shoes. I apologized for keeping her waiting.
"Were you naked just now?" she asked me.
"Yes, sorry, I didn't realize the time." I told her.
"No, that's fine, I suppose you really do prefer to be naked." She said.
