{"id":13183,"date":"2024-09-08T17:31:59","date_gmt":"2024-09-08T22:31:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/?p=13183"},"modified":"2024-09-08T17:32:32","modified_gmt":"2024-09-08T22:32:32","slug":"the-naked-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/13183","title":{"rendered":"The Naked Truth"},"content":{"rendered":"

So via my blog reader (Feedly) I’m looking at this post from a blog I only follow occasionally, but this particular post interested me when I saw it in the feed. Its author, a rock musician, is writing about posing nude for a rock magazine he’s often written for. Supposedly it was a turnabout is fair play issue, since the magazine often features lovely ladies wearing not very much if anything.<\/p>\n

I was curious because throughout my life whenever the opportunity to get naked, at a clothing optional resort for example, I just could not, though I remember once skinny dipping with some friends. In retrospect I think I managed it by mostly staying in the water. That discomfort I have is the punchline in that first episode of A Coming Out Story. I actually had a conversation about this with a friend recently back from Burning Man where the celebrants wander around in various stages of undress if they want.<\/p>\n

So I’m reading this blog post because after all these years I am still intensely curious to know how it is that people who can do this manage it. And I came to the following verbiage…<\/p>\n

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Having been on stage nude several times it was both a no-brainer to ask and a no-brainer that I would consent to doing so for their publication…But swanning around the room nude, very much in my element I had had a thought. Since nothing is quite as disappointing as the nude male…<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Huh? Really? Really?? Okay…tell me you’re a heterosexual male without telling me you’re a heterosexual male.<\/p>\n

I kinda skimmed the rest of that blog post, but I think I get a better sense of my own reticence now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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