I remember once dealing as a Police Offficer with a young lad who'd run out in to the road naked and then then run back in. We had the sense to deal with it by way of a caution. Not an official one just a word of advice and Mum took the lad to the local doctors and the matter was forgotten - put down to hormones. He was a decent kid. I wander if he's a naturist now?

Davie  😎

my first experience was quite similar, I was 14 and lived next to some woods. I would go very deep in them and strip and just walk around for a while, I became addicted to the freedom of it.

I too found the delight of being nude when only about 15.  Never looked back

I think I was 18 in Mallorca when I first went nude 

I can remember being young,must have been 13 as I was on a paper round. This took me into the country and past some wooded fields,so I'd wheel my bike into the woods and walk around naked with nobody to see me. What a great feeling.!! I always knew that being naked in the sun was the way forward from then on.

Very interesting thread. When I lived in Derbyshire I often used to disappear into the countryside in the summer and strip off alone. I even used to paddle in the local brook naked among the crayfish and the pike - I should have been eaten alive!!!

Until reading this thread it is a part of my life that I had forgotten :-[

cheers, Tim

i started at about 13, i went to boarding school, and on nice evening or weekends a few of us would climb up onto a sunken flat roof and sunbath naked, we had all seen each other naked in the showers so it was no big deal lying around naked

I have been nudist all my life as my perents took us on hiliday to nude beaches I was one of 6 childreen so it was so natural for us all to nude with mum and dad

I too was about 12 or 13 when I started, I suppose.  I was allowed to go off alone for walks in the countryside fairly close to home.  If it was sunny and warm, I used to strip to the waist when walking, but on a few occasions would find a secluded spot in a field corner and lie down and strip off altogether, enjoying the feeling of the sun and breeze on my body.   I would never be totally at ease, though, always slightly afraid of being seen, though I never was, to my knowledge. 
I didn't acually go naked 'in public', however, until I went to a naturist beach in my early twenties, but that's another story...
How I wish i could turn the clock back!

As long as the urge to go naked comes unprompted from the youngster that is healthy or if you are lucky enough to be brought up in a naturist family it is never too young to start.  My biggest regret having started when around 50 was that I never tried it sooner!  Bottom line is that it really does not matter when you start as long as you find it pleasing and relaxing.

Never mind being too young does anyone feel that there be a time when we should stop being naturists.  I've heard all sorts of unkind quips like "He skin needs Ironing!" but still feel that it must be an individual choice to carry on as long as you wish.

I was 11 or 12. Lived in the countryside, and would spend hours wandering the hills and woods naked, skinnydipping etc. Always wished I had some mates to enjoy this with at the time.

Another Newbie to the site and "Naturism". I recall going into the middle of hay fields and taking all my clothes off, and then rolling away from them so that I was complete free from clothes. I think I was about 10. We lived on a farm and I had lots of naked experiences through my teens. I just enjoyed taking my clothes off outdoors, but my family were not open to that kind of behaviour. I never felt guilty about it - just knew to keep it a secret.

Haha

I brought up on farm too.

Hay fields full if prickly hay tho...ouch I would not roll in that stuff...hehehe

In the 60s (when I were a lad) a group of us used to go fishing in the old log ponds on the Gloucester /Sharpness Canal which invariably turned into a nude swim and sunbathing time on the old barges. But you can't do this anymore as they have invented weales desease and its a killer. Or were we just stupid & ignorant then ? I cant remember anyone dying then.