I'm just a practitioner myself. Here's a video from my yogi I've been using: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLoC2e9QHGA
If you are interested in deepening and broadening your understanding beyond a westernized perspective check out
Tantra Path of Ecstasy by Georg Feuerstein one of the foremost yoga scholars. It has a chapter at the end on The Transmutation of Desire
Here is a quote from the preface.The paucity of research and publications on the Tantric heritage of Hinduism has in recent years made room for a whole crop of ill-informed popular books on what I have called "Neo-Tantrism."8 Their reductionism is so extreme that a true initiate would barely recognize the Tantric heritage in these writings. The most common distortion is to present Tantra Yoga as a mere discipline of ritualized or sacred sex. In the popular mind, Tantra has become equivalent to sex. Nothing could be farther from the truth!
https://ia903408.us.archive.org/20/items/georg-feuerstein-tantra-the-path-of-ectasy/Georg%20Feuerstein%20-%20Tantra%2C%20The%20Path%20Of%20Ectasy.pdf
I would say as naturists we do more the tiny tim peeking. Do not focus on showing, focus on accepting nature. And focus on other people feelings and not your own anatomy.
Luv this response. So many recent nudists are convinced that the focus of nudism or naturism is genital which is far from the truth beyond the online space.
As others have said, and this was my fear when I first started going as well, is simply don't worry about it.
Isn't the brain amazing? Men have ED issues because they fear NOT being able to get hard, so they don't.
Then we fear getting hard, and worry that it could happen any way (and may do so).
Every time I'm at a nude resort, I get hard just enough to rise off my thigh if I'm laying down. No big deal, because it's often because I'm "feeling free" and turned on more by that experience than seeing a lovely woman. I've never gotten a full erection but if it was close, I'd just cover up with my towel until it subsides.
I've taken many women to the nude resorts and talk to ladies there as well. Yes, women look just like we look at their bodies (when I notice that actually is something that begins to get me hard actually). However, it's certainly more observational than judgmental, and what comes out of your mouth will have a much larger impact that what's sticking out below.
When it comes down to it, erections are not about sex, they're about blood vessels. It's a shame people read so much in to them.
Puritanism runs deep on TN. On one hand you have the "get a room - no boners outside of marriage" nudists and on the other hand (most often the right one) is the cockcentric crowd. I consider both Puritanical as they are extremes of disassociating genitalia as a healthy integral part of the body.
There's a third option to the extremes of covering an erection in shame and beating your meat. It's not making a fuss about it. Simple enough.
Puritanism was a moment to reform the Church of England and has nothing to do with nudism and I dont see much religious reforming going on here on TN
You are using the word to label members of a nudist website as prudish.
Prudish is a more proper adjective to use for what you are describing.
I disagree, if people regularly go naked with other nudist you can not label them prudes. Its a paradox to do so.
Of the three labels you use to describe nudists, the OP fits into none of the categories. Could I suggest you label him one of the many people on this site who are the . (Look, I have a penis isnt it a wonderful thing. ) group.
The Puritans were English Protestants in the 16th and 17th centuries who sought to purify the Church of England of Roman Catholic practices, maintaining that the Church of England had not been fully reformed and should become more Protestant.[1] Puritanism
The OED
Someone needs to start a new thread titled "Penis Adoration" where people can go to adore their own as well as other penises. There should be no penis envy, only adoration. I bet that such a thread would be an instant hit and could lead to members going on cam to show off their penises. After all, the demand for any and all things 'penis' is through the roof and is certainly of interest to the majority here. Forget about plain and simple nudism. It is way too boring. Bring on the penises! Long live the penis! lol Never forget, man can always be reduced to nothing more then a walking penis.