Short list of places I've seen people naked in a non-sexual context:
Locker room at the YMCA and school
The public showers at beaches where people wash the salt water off them (more of a thing in Hawai'i than the Continental US)
Human figure drawing class
A bunch of festivals/outdoor concerts (a lot of people there were naked for horny reasons but more were naked for heat management reasons)
Taking care of my senior citizen parents and grandparents
At the hospital. They try to keep things as private as possible but you See Things anyway
Sometimes people have the kind of mental health problems that cause them to be without clothes in public. It's cause for concern, but not alarm
Multiple occasions of me cleaning up/standing guard over someone who got covered in something hazardous or unpleasant and had to strip and wait until someone else could bring them clothes (chemical spill in science class, bear spray accident, incontinence, really bad bloody nose etc.)
Someone needed me to check their body for something medical (if a rash was getting worse, ticks)
I've had roommate situations where we were both 'sure whatever' about being naked in front of each other
Also roommates that had sensory processing issues that were alleviated by not wearing clothes
Not every time you see your romantic partners naked is sexual. Most of them aren't actually.
One of the most common ones that people experience that I haven't is having to take care of infants and small children. Not only in the context of bathing but most kids go through a phase as toddlers where they will just strip and go about their business naked, probably for sensory reasons. This is mostly because all my friends and relatives with children live in other states:/
But yeah Anon. I'm in the US where people are real weird about bodies and a region where protective clothing is necessary 80% of the year and there are a TON of times/places where people will be naked in front of others in a non-sexual context.
And to be honest? It really helped me. Eating disorders and other forms of body dysmorphia based self-harm were EXTREMELY common among kids and teenagers when I was young but exposure to a wide variety of bodies of various ages, sizes, ethnicities, genders and abilities gave me very realistic ideas of What Humans Look Like and What Non-sexual Nudity Is Like that served me very well in terms of self-acceptance and recognizing when someone was being a creep.
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