after what age is it no longer appropriate for your parent of the opposite sex to see your hoohoo/willie?

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I say, after age 19 or 20 or so, it gets a bit dodgy.

― Empiricon, Sunday, 26 February 2006 20:04 (twenty years ago)

I dunno, I think I stopped being naked around my parents around my late teens maybe. I can't remember. It wasn't a conscious decision. Nor would I feel that awkard if I was naked around them now.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Sunday, 26 February 2006 20:13 (twenty years ago)

In utero. They ought to put a black bar over the ultrasound pictures, if you ask me.

― John Justen (johnjusten), Sunday, 26 February 2006 20:15 (twenty years ago)

This thread will be incomplete until Tuomas posts.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Sunday, 26 February 2006 20:21 (twenty years ago)

I had a lock on my door from the age of 12, but I think shame set in a few years earlier.

― Cathy (Cathy), Sunday, 26 February 2006 20:26 (twenty years ago)

Why are people ashamed to be naked around their parents?!? I think it's great my parents were naked around me (and vice versa, me around them) until my late teens. *shrug*

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Sunday, 26 February 2006 20:36 (twenty years ago)

Personally I demand fully clothed entities in general. All the insects around here should stop being such nudists.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 26 February 2006 20:37 (twenty years ago)

Late teens? Ugh. Sounds like abuse just waiting to happen. Definitely not healthy.

― Jean Valkilmer, Sunday, 26 February 2006 20:38 (twenty years ago)

When the kid quits wearing diapers. Abuse waiting to happen is right...nothing is creepier than having to take a bath with your dad when you're in elementary school.

― Abbott (Abbott), Sunday, 26 February 2006 20:40 (twenty years ago)

One problem, of course, is that by 19 or 20 or so, most people will have had sex and will therefore no longer be able to view another naked person of the opposite sex (hets, that is) in a nonsexual context. Their own nudity subordinates their status in the relationship. The anthropological transaction, if you will, becpomes hypersexualized to an inappropriate degree.

― Empiricon, Sunday, 26 February 2006 20:51 (twenty years ago)

people call me rude
i wish we all were nude
i wish there were no black and white
i wish there was no food

― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 26 February 2006 20:52 (twenty years ago)

No doubt there are completely different rules in Finland

― Jean Valkilmer, Sunday, 26 February 2006 21:44 (twenty years ago)

"No food"?! Mark S, you crazy.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Sunday, 26 February 2006 21:56 (twenty years ago)

I had no problem with my mother seeing me naked(and she saw me naked quite often) until I was around 12. I still have no problem to be naked around my father.

― Lovelace (Lovelace), Sunday, 26 February 2006 22:39 (twenty years ago)

what a weird thread

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 26 February 2006 22:40 (twenty years ago)

YOU KNOW YOU WANT TO RJG

― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 26 February 2006 22:48 (twenty years ago)

daddy?

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 26 February 2006 22:49 (twenty years ago)

Till puberty.

― Jingo, Monday, 27 February 2006 01:17 (twenty years ago)

sally mann to thread.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Monday, 27 February 2006 01:26 (twenty years ago)

If your parents are perverts—never too early to suit up.
If no one gives a shit—never.
Most of us fall somewhere in between. You'll know when you get that icky feeling.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Monday, 27 February 2006 01:54 (twenty years ago)

I agree with puberty. When a girl starts getting buds, it's time for Dad to stop washing her hair. I used to bathe my kids in the shower with me every once in awhile because it was convenient, but when they were about one I didn't do that anymore, either.

Neither of my kids have a problem being around me naked. But I'm starting to feel weird around my daughter, who is starting to grow hair under her arms and her chest is, well, it just is becoming a woman's chest. Yesterday I was helping her get dressed for soccer and she took off her sports bra and I was like, WHOA!, wait til I leave the room! She was confused so I had to explain to her that it's just weird for me to see my baby growing up, because it means boys will be looking at her boobies.

So yeah, puberty.

― Rebekkah (burntbrat), Monday, 27 February 2006 02:11 (twenty years ago)

sally mann to thread.

omg i masturbated to a sally mann photo in harper's when i was like 12.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 27 February 2006 03:31 (twenty years ago)

s/harper's/new york times magazine/;

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 27 February 2006 03:32 (twenty years ago)

...uh...what's a "hoohoo?"

― SkylersaysNo, Monday, 27 February 2006 06:16 (twenty years ago)

It's a ladypart.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 27 February 2006 06:29 (twenty years ago)

bladder?

― lil' flipper (eman), Monday, 27 February 2006 06:41 (twenty years ago)

Getting warmer.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 27 February 2006 06:51 (twenty years ago)

The answer is eleven. After that, it's only ok if you've got two broken arms and require help dressing/bathing (and even then it should be very akward).

― naus (Robert T), Monday, 27 February 2006 06:57 (twenty years ago)

kidney? (xpost)

― lil' flipper (eman), Monday, 27 February 2006 07:02 (twenty years ago)

I can't believe that anyone seriously raised the spectre of abuse on this thread. An abusive parent is going to do what they want regardless of whether a child is clothed or not. I'm nearly 30, and I don't care if either of my parents happen to catch a glimpse of my bits on the way in or out of the shower or whatever. Not to sound like a hippie of anything, but nudity is a very natural state and shouldn't be infused with all kinds of guilt and neuroses.

If you're not able to view your parents in a non-sexual context, then you've got other problems. What about doctors of the opposite sex?

― J-rock (Julien Sandiford), Monday, 27 February 2006 07:31 (twenty years ago)

Especially sexy doctors!

No, obviously J. is OTM here (as others have been). I'm rather private about my naked flesh, and wouldn't go out of my way to show my body to anyone other than sexual partners (or, I would go out of my way to not show my body to people I'm not having sex with), but if things get seen, things get seen, and it's no big deal, parents or otherwise.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 27 February 2006 07:39 (twenty years ago)

bladder?
-- lil' flipper

Getting warmer.
-- Casuistry

Hahahahahaha!

Serious answer: When any of them starts feeling uncomfortable with it.

― nickn (nickn), Monday, 27 February 2006 07:46 (twenty years ago)

Once you're old enough to dress and bathe yourself, what possible reason is there for your parents to see you naked?

― James Ward (jamesmichaelward), Monday, 27 February 2006 10:37 (twenty years ago)

family holidays

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 27 February 2006 10:45 (twenty years ago)

I dread the day I have to stop walking round the house bollock-naked.

― Raw, Uncompromising, and Noodly (noodle vague), Monday, 27 February 2006 12:21 (twenty years ago)

My answer would be: depends on what your culture deems appropriate, and whether or not your family acts according to those cultural conventions. Back here there's no age limit to it, though I guess some can feel shy about it when they reach puberty. But most people go to the sauna with their parents from childhood to adult age, so it's not a big deal at all. And I agree with J-Rock that it's sad if nudity in front you parents carries some sort of implication of abuse, since abuse is a whole different issue, and shouldn't be mixed with something perfectly innocent.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 27 February 2006 12:30 (twenty years ago)

"One problem, of course, is that by 19 or 20 or so, most people will have had sex and will therefore no longer be able to view another naked person of the opposite sex (hets, that is) in a nonsexual context. Their own nudity subordinates their status in the relationship. The anthropological transaction, if you will, becpomes hypersexualized to an inappropriate degree."

Surely people tend to be er most hypersexualized in the years immediately preceding their first sexual experience?

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Monday, 27 February 2006 12:44 (twenty years ago)

So anyway, who first misread 'parent' in the thread title as 'partner'?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 27 February 2006 13:03 (twenty years ago)

PAGING DR FREUD

― Raw, Uncompromising, and Noodly (noodle vague), Monday, 27 February 2006 13:08 (twenty years ago)

"Honey, it's no longer appropriate for you to see my hoohoo."

"But we've been married for twenty years!"

"Why thank you, mom."

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 27 February 2006 13:10 (twenty years ago)

14N Riese-Moraine to thread?

― what does this confusing fream mean? (Matt Chesnut), Monday, 27 February 2006 13:41 (twenty years ago)

"Late teens? Ugh. Sounds like abuse just waiting to happen. Definitely not healthy."

Dude, how is that abuse waiting to happen? It isn't the nakedness that will cause the abuse. I think in fact it's quite unhealthy to think of your parents in a sexual way (in relation to yourself) and vice versa. That's double ugh with yuck on top. I mean, sure, I know my parents have sex but I'd never think of that when I (or them) walk around them (or me) naked.

I think I was lucky my parents were so unselfconscious and thaught me to be the same.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Monday, 27 February 2006 14:35 (twenty years ago)

unselfconscious or desperately crying out for (trangressive sexual) attention from remote, unavailable parents?

― DrFreudIsIn, Monday, 27 February 2006 14:41 (twenty years ago)

I think in fact it's quite unhealthy to think of your parents in a sexual way (in relation to yourself) and vice versa. That's double ugh with yuck on top.

OTM

i don't generally show my cock to anyone who i don't have sex with though, so i don't show it to my parents. but if they happen to see it not a problem

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 27 February 2006 14:41 (twenty years ago)

Oh please, Freud is so frigging passe. The time we repressed things are (sadly?) long gone. Hence why people ask these questions now. They wouldn't have in his time.

I realize unselfconscious is a literal translation from Dutch. I don't know the right word. :-(((

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Monday, 27 February 2006 14:55 (twenty years ago)

yeah i dont get all this "abuse just waitin to happen" its a load of crap. there's no real age limit, but for me i started being uncomfortable with it after puberty set in. my dad has absolutely noshame though and continues to walk around the house in whatever state of undress he pleases.

thank god i dont live there anymore though, old man nakedness was the least of my problems.

― AaronK (AaronK), Monday, 27 February 2006 14:58 (twenty years ago)

or was it...?

― DrFreudIsIn, Monday, 27 February 2006 15:04 (twenty years ago)

Sometimes an old man's withered nutsack is just an old man's withered nutsack.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 27 February 2006 15:08 (twenty years ago)

show us your nuts ned.

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 27 February 2006 15:12 (twenty years ago)

That would be rude.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 27 February 2006 15:18 (twenty years ago)

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Maria——
Ever catch dad with a boner?

― Rinky Dinky Dink, Tuesday, 28 February 2006 20:15 (twenty years ago)

Ew. No.

― Maria :D (Maria D.), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 20:21 (twenty years ago)

What do you think he's doing when his hands are under the water?

― Rinky Dinky Dink, Tuesday, 28 February 2006 20:32 (twenty years ago)

what provokes someone to ask this while killing time on the internet

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 20:35 (twenty years ago)

The original question or the last question? In either case, the answer must be Satan.

― Rinky Dinky Dink, Tuesday, 28 February 2006 20:54 (twenty years ago)

I keep reading the last part of this thread title as "hoohoo-ville."

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 20:55 (twenty years ago)

Would it be a good or a bad idea to run for city council there, jaymc?

― M. White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 21:03 (twenty years ago)

[shakes head] There are things in heaven and earth, Horatio, not dreamt of in your philosophy.

― Aimless (Aimless), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 21:12 (twenty years ago)

i just wish people wouldn't post on a topic which they obviously know nothing about. one of the greatest challenges facing our repressed society in 2006 is our inability to communicate with each other in regard to PERFECTLY NORMAL biological functions of genital organs, all of which have been pathetically objectified and infantilized by posters to this thread.

for the record, the correct scientific terms are 'cha-cha' and 'ding-ding'.

thankyou

― john clarkson, Tuesday, 28 February 2006 21:24 (twenty years ago)

The thread question becomes exponentially more relevant the more Protestant your parent are.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 21:26 (twenty years ago)

It's odd that people are so quick to defend inappropriate family nudity when there is virtually no need ever to experience it in the modern age. It simply isn't necessary at best. At worst, the potential dangers are well-documented. A modest one-piece bathing suit is always tasteful-even in a sauna in finland. Why not just cover up a bit to avoid problems.

― condol33zaREIZ, Tuesday, 28 February 2006 21:49 (twenty years ago)

Why not? Because my wang must be free!

― (jacob) (ockle boc), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 22:08 (twenty years ago)

does anyone want 2 CDs?

― gear (gear), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 22:17 (twenty years ago)

yes

― Give them to me, Tuesday, 28 February 2006 22:20 (twenty years ago)

what do you mean by "more Protestant"?

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 22:22 (twenty years ago)

deez nuts

― gear (gear), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 22:54 (twenty years ago)

Candidly, the thought is revolting anyway.

― condol33zaREIZ, Tuesday, 28 February 2006 22:57 (twenty years ago)

What if your hoohoo is malformed or misshapen? Surely a father should never see that?

― Mack Gillicuddy, Tuesday, 28 February 2006 23:34 (twenty years ago)

Oh tha horra and tha shame of a misshapen hoohoo!

― Jean Valkilmer, Wednesday, 1 March 2006 00:28 (twenty years ago)

http://www.gasolinealleyantiques.com/celebrity/images/Rock/who-stud.JPG http://www.gasolinealleyantiques.com/celebrity/images/Rock/who-stud.JPG

― Adam Rice Lacucaracha (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 00:32 (twenty years ago)

http://www.moms-backdoor.com/images/senior_slutfest/07-06-05/12.jpg

― YOO HOO..........., Wednesday, 1 March 2006 02:02 (twenty years ago)

Parents should under no circumstances see the pubic hair of their chidren, nor should they allow it to be styled inappropriately.

― condol33zaREIZ, Wednesday, 1 March 2006 06:26 (twenty years ago)

But they would never know, would they?

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 06:28 (twenty years ago)

Let the Children Boogie - Intercourse with the Maw in Britian

Dear Andrew:

Cecil doesn't have the most reputable sources for this kind of thing. In fact, I blush to admit, I have been fishing for tips once
again on the Internet. I do not want to give the impression I spend all my time on the Internet, but in the right hands it is a
wondrous tool, and in the wrong hands it is an even better one. Here's what's turned up so far:

A merkin is somebody who lives in Merika. (Har!)
They used to shave off all the pubic hair as a cure for syphillis, so the well-to-do used wigs.
Before penicillin was around to ease the lives of the promiscuous, these were used to cover up any sores prostitutes may have obtained in the line of duty.
They used to treat the syphilitic with mercury, which caused baldness.
The merkin is for women with no pubic hair. Some people just don't develop hair down there, and this can be embarrassing.
In days of old a common problem was lice. One of the ways people dealt with this was to shave all the hair off their bodies, including arms, legs, and pubes. Wigs became very popular. Pubic wigs caught on slowly, starting among the kinkier set, but eventually became halfway respectable.
A merkin is a crotch wig for both men and women and is usually worn on the outside. Have you ever seen a Scot in full regalia? That little fur "purse" in front is a merkin.
In a country of mainly dark haired people, a prostitute may wear a blond merkin to be unusual and therefore more desirable. (Got this from a dictionary of sex.)
One of the more recent uses is to allow exotic dancers to comply with local laws prohibiting full nudity. They wear what amounts to a flesh-colored panty with hair on the front, appearing to the patrons of the establishment to disrobe completely without actually doing so.
In a sci fi story by John Varley called something like "The Barbie Murders," a group of women gives up individuality (and sex) and undergoes surgery to become perfect nonsexual beings resembling Barbie dolls. This involves losing genitals, pubic hair, etc. One Barbie goes back to being a woman for a night, painting on nipples and using a merkin.
Fascinating, ja? Erudite answers from around the globe, and not one of them duplicates another. Also, one is still left with a nagging question: who's a merkin supposed to fool? By the time you get to the level of intimacy where somebody is going to see whether you have pubic hair or not, your range of observation, as we might say, is such that a wig is not going to make for a very convincing masquerade, strippers possibly excepted. VOICE FROM THE NET: Yeah, but during the period when merkins were popular, the degree of intimacy among the upper class was low even during sex. ME: What's that supposed to mean, you had your valet do it for you? You sent it in by mail? Clearly more investigation needs to be done.

-- Mike Hanle y (pennyson...), February 24th, 2003.

― JonBon, Wednesday, 1 March 2006 07:02 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, but during the period when merkins were popular, the degree of intimacy among the upper class was low even during sex. ME: What's that supposed to mean, you had your valet do it for you?

It means that you ate no beav, and you looked at nothing in full light. You just stuck the little dude in there.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 07:16 (twenty years ago)

Beav eating, you must remember, is a very recent phenomenon. So is washing in the way that we're accustomed to. Used to be that the smell would make you pass out.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 07:19 (twenty years ago)

I digress.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 07:19 (twenty years ago)

you disgust

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 07:49 (twenty years ago)

http://media.nintendo.com/mediaFiles/9eeeca8c-b4a1-48cb-bf98-a439d971a45e.jpg

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 07:59 (twenty years ago)

"So, I might as well have a three-way with my parents, is that it?"

Ek, pervert. Sicko. No, as I said before I don't think of sex when I see them naked or if I'm naked around them. As Maria said, what about hot springs? In Japan it's perfectly normal to bathe naked in an onsen. I think it's funny, as though the mere sight of a naked body will make people think of sex (and thus, in this case, abuse). It's like saying a girl wearing a mini-skirt who was raped more or less provoked it. No?

what provokes someone to ask this while killing time on the internet

It's like going to the pub with your mates and talking shit. Ronan, why are YOU on this thread? Oh right, to ask a question and feel a little bit better about yourself for not stooping so low.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 08:46 (twenty years ago)

The issue of social nudity in general is I don't know, tricky. There's really no great need for it, and a lot of bad things come from it.

― JenineK, Wednesday, 1 March 2006 14:23 (twenty years ago)

For instance, someone might see you naked.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 14:25 (twenty years ago)

Which is bad because then they have seen you naked.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 14:26 (twenty years ago)

If you never see your parents naked, I imagine that it can be quite shocking and potentially sexually charged to see them unrobed. If you're used to it, it's not a big deal. The idea of putting on a bathing suit in my dad's hot tub is weird to me. It really is more comfortable naked.

How many of you come from countries where it is normal for women to sunbathe topless? It becomes a very normal thing.

― Maria :D (Maria D.), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 17:57 (twenty years ago)

This is where we all start posting naked pictures of ourselves.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 22:29 (twenty years ago)

Or of your mother.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 22:30 (twenty years ago)

My mother?

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 22:33 (twenty years ago)

Sorry, Beth. The temptation of an easy zinger took me over for a moment.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 22:34 (twenty years ago)

Who's the troll using half a dozen different personas on this thread anyway.

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 22:40 (twenty years ago)

In Japan it's perfectly normal to bathe naked in an onsen.

Oh, Japan?! Where their minds are so warped it's wacky?! You're using this as a standard. A Coworker of mine just went there to drum up new business and came back with stories about how men work till they fall asleep on the sidewalk and have sex with anything and everything that is available while their wives stay home and take care of the house and kids. Over lunch (not even dinner), one asked her, "I would like to have sex with American woman. Would you like to have sex with Japanese man?"

― Rinky Dinky Dink, Thursday, 2 March 2006 16:59 (twenty years ago)

You should hear what the Japanese say about your Coworker.

― Maria :D (Maria D.), Thursday, 2 March 2006 19:06 (twenty years ago)

Japan-- where they have shows featuring kittens nursing on women's breasts, women bitch slapping the shit out of each other, men sniffing panties, the originators of alien tentacle rape and public (I think) and rape porn which for some reason pixellates the point of penetration (as if that is the offensive part).

― Rinky Dinky Dink, Thursday, 2 March 2006 20:45 (twenty years ago)

tubgirl.jpg

― melton mowbray (adr), Thursday, 2 March 2006 20:56 (twenty years ago)

http://www.losing-virginity.com/galleries/thedirtyoldman-1411/13.jpg

― ITS ALL IN YOUR MIND, BRO, Thursday, 2 March 2006 23:14 (twenty years ago)

After what age is it no longer appropriate...

In Finland, 4 yrs.
Anywhere else, 8 yrs.

― J'Net duBois, Friday, 3 March 2006 03:02 (twenty years ago)

eleven years pass...

Sometimes an old man's withered nutsack is just an old man's withered nutsack.
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