I dont think you can generalise. It is an individual thing. I know any number of gay men, including my brother and his partner, I wouldnt say a higher proportion of them were happier to be nude in front of other men than straight. The swim I used to go to had more , apparently, straight guys than gay.
It probably also depends on context. The two naturist beaches I use most often have distinct gay/bi male zones. I know straight men who are perfectly happy to be naked on the main part of the beach, even though majority of people there are male, but wont consider going naked on that part of the beach. Even though on one beach it forms a large part of the area that is available at high tide. They would rather get dressed and go home, for whatever reason.
Second, gay men probably see a lot more male nudity on the internet than straight males do. It's common on the gay-oriented web sites that few straight males care to visit.
I hadn't thought about that angle. It got me thinking about the fact that almost all the men on those web sites are in a "state of arousal," whereas the men that gay men see in naturist settings aren't. Maybe some gay man on this site could give us an insight on that.
On the conventional "straight" porn sites, there are a lot of women with their legs open in sexually inviting poses. Does that make nudity more sensuous for straight men or gay women? I don't know. If I saw that pose on a nude beach or a naturist setting, I think my body would be inclined to respond, although I'm sure I could control it after my years in the FKK.After all, all of us straight nudists have already been in a position of being the odd man out, going where most people don't go, and wanting to be free of the social pressures that the mainstream world is putting on us regarding what we want or don't want to wear and whom we want to associate with. I'm not saying that all straight nudist are as "woke" as we would like them to be, but the odds are that nudists are, on the whole, more liberal and accepting of other people's lifestyles and moral guidelines.
I'd agree with that, although I really don't have any experience with nude people in the US, aside from friends of skinny-dippers at folk festivals, and these are all pre-selected for being liberal, in both the political and the social sense. But the German naturists I met were all pretty free-thinking.
In my opinion, If the man is comfortable with his nudity, it doesn't matter his sexual preferences.
Or what my sexual preferences are. I've been hit on by gay men and straight women. It felt about the same to me. In both cases, when I turn them down, and they're cool with it and don't give me hard cheese, it doesn't affect my opinion of them. If they're not cool with it, well, that's their problem.
If anything, people seem to be less likely to hit on each other when they're naked. They recognize that the other person is in a more vulnerable position than if they were clothed, and go out of their way to downplay any sexual attraction they may be feeling. That's my experience, at any rate.
Maybe it's because I'm a relatively new nudist but when I go to the nude beach, I'm very comfortable being nude in the company of men but women make me feel more inhibited. Don't know why.
I felt that way at first, but have since gotten over it and suspect you will too.
Maybe it's because I'm a relatively new nudist but when I go to the nude beach, I'm very comfortable being nude in the company of men but women make me feel more inhibited. Don't know why.
Nudity promotes social equalization among men, there is instantly less competition and more cohesion. However, that equalization, for some men, may create a sense of vulnerability and lack of ability around women because in the world of clothing, the social class of women and men is in the textiles they wear, and women overwhelmingly still have uniforms that denote service or lower managerial status. Women tend to equalize up in nude groups. Nudist women (the ones I know anyway) also tend to be very confident (which to some men may seem unusual), used to far more harrassment and attention than men, so have the stance and the confidence down. You may also be remembering junior high dances where nervous male and female students lined two sides of a gym and everyone hated it. If you are of a certain age, you have also been nude socially with men all your life, and women, only recently. ;)
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