I first became aware of naturism when about 15. A friend obtained a naturist magazine and I immediately wanted to do it. First experiences were in the very early hours on all nighter fishing trips.

Biggest regret is never talking about it until mid 40's only to find that my wife was interested too.

Yes...my first awareness also from early copies of a mates dad's H&E. I was genuinely interested.

I also did not do much about it seriously until I met my wife and her friends suggested we try...which we did on our first holiday in France.

However, in my later youth, there were some late night skinny dips at a place in Scotland called Glen Clova...the river had some deep pools called Thomson's pools or something...some of us in a mixed group snuck off there some hot summer nights long after bars closed at 10:00pm...remember 76 and 77...bliss... and skinny dipped in the gloaming (semi dark to non native Scots), we could not really see each other just shadows. I loved it but most just thought it a wild student type thing and we never really discussed it till later in life too.

I wonder how many of these old friends are naturists now? I never see them anyway so I would not recognise them now.

First time I remember skinny dipping was in a river in North Wales. We'd gone camping, no adults, so we decided to have a dip in the river and try it naked. I must have been 13 or 14 at the time. Think I was hooked from that moment on.

As kids we'd go to what was called "the log." This was a fallen tree that had falled part way across the river and so made a diving platform. I don't think we ever went naked from there. That was a missed opportunity. I suppose any kids trying that now would be chased away, if they were even allowed out.

Davie  😎