Curious to hear strangers recalling a deciding moment, Redditor JokeRadiant3881 asked:
"How did you feel the first time you saw your partner naked?"
These were triumphant reactions.
For Lack Of A Better Word
"I literally said 'woah' out loud."– ALIEN_Human_HYBRIDRomantic Thrill Ride
"Like a kid at Disney world. Hadn’t been on any rides yet but was excited to be there nonetheless."
– -Praetoria-
Headrush
"don't remember, no blood flow to my brain at that point."
– DoctorNotAnEngineer
Revved Up
"Horny."
– Shaggy_Poop
Complete Looney Tunes
"Remember that cartoon dog where his jaw hits the floor, tongue rolls out, and his eyes bulge out to the sound of an old timey car horn? Basically that."
– squaredistrict2213
Confidence levels were challenged but these Redditors were pleased with the results.
We Are Not Equals
"Felt sorry for what I had to offer in return."
– CurlyBill03
MILF Love
"Same! I’ve had four kids and had a lot of extra skin and sag. Man did NOT care. He seemed just as stunned as I was."
– TooTallMcCall
Embracing It All
"I felt the same way for a bit, with my hubby after baby. But every time I'm naked, even though I don't like where my body is at, he looks like he hit JACKPOT. So I feel better, knowing he thinks I'm hot, sexy, beautiful, even more so then before because I'm the mother of our child."
– DiamondEyedBarbie
Physical endowments were admired.
Life In Real-D
"She had deceptively big boobs."
– HappyDodge2
Object Appeared Larger Than Expected
"I felt like WOWZA im one lucky girl."
– Professional_Hour702
Breakfast Show
"Well, I’m 54 and got out of a marriage where my ex never felt comfortable being naked around me. My new fiancé has no problem getting naked and gives me a little show each morning she gets dressed. And she’s got an amazing body at 55!"
– macgiv
I'm very self-conscious when it comes to my body, but nothing says sexy like seeing the physical response from another man giving me a huge thumbs up, so to speak, after seeing me in my birthday suit.
Verbal affirmation isn't all that it's hyped up to be.
But body language? Now that is everything.
"[Serious] People who sleep naked, what is the funniest thing that happened to you in that state?"
It was a moment of crisis.
The Firemen
"One Saturday night, my boyfriend and I were happily watching a movie while I was lying naked on the couch (for comfort) when we suddenly hear frantic and loud banging on our apartment door. I just have time to duck under a blanket when no joke, 5 firefighters barge right into our apartment and go straight onto our balcony. Apparently there was a small fire in the building and floor directly opposite us and they needed to check in with their colleagues to get the all clear."
"Once they were done, they had a quick conversation with my bf all the while I’m stark naked under a blanket with 5 random men in my house. It was probably only a couple of minutes but felt like eternity."
– Throwawaykoalamoose
Confessions Of A Diabetic
"I'm diabetic and when I was living with a friend I had an low at 2am, so I stumbled my way to the kitchen and started eating raspberry jam out my emergency jar. Cue my flatmate opening his room door to ask if I was okay."
"I ended up opening the freezer door on the fridge, which was below the fridge and used it as a shield while standing eating jam and yelling."
"everything is fine close your door"
"meanwhile he's yelling 'dude why are you naked‽'"
"I'm yelling back 'I needed Jam!'"
"He's yelling 'why is your dick in the freezer.'"
"I'm just shovelling jam in my face shouting 'I'm low.'"
"We still joke about it to this day when I get a low."
– Trivius
Stepdad To The Rescue
"My house burned down, its ok im over it. The funny part was it was about 3 am and im in my front yard naked as a newborn and call my stepdad and ask him to bring me shorts and a shirt, i guess shock of what was goin on had me compleatly calm sounding, like i just decided to call randomly."
"I still laugh at how confused and borderline angry as hell he sounded, but even though i never thought to tell him on the phone what was happening he did get up and bring me clothes."
– frenetic12345
Sound The Alarm
"Fire alarm while sleeping in university halls. Same happened a couple of times when I showered."
– kolandrill
Ahh, pets.
Tainted Puppy Love
"well I used to sleep naked. getting woken up by your 6 month old puppy trying to get under the blanket and licking your taint tends to end that."
– pppoopoopottypants
Play Thing
"Woke up to a stabbing pain in my dick. It was my wife's cat deciding she wanted to play. Not the type of p*ssy I wanted touching my junk. Haven't slept naked since."
– kantokiwi
It Was Feeding Time
"My kitten tried to breastfeed off me while I was sleeping. Freaky thing to wake up to."
– johntoyourdave
It started with a loud knock on the door.
Rude Awakening
"I was sleeping nude, next to my wife, and someone tried to break in to my house."
"She shakes my shoulder to wake me up, which is usually pretty cool, but she says 'someone's outside.' Oh sh*t."
"I'm on high alert, and so is my dog. This is really happening. I hop out of the bedroom, instinct kicks in. I go through to living room, into the kitchen, grab my cleaver, and storm outside, 11 PM, all my nude, 450-pound at-the-time glory. Little pecker flicking in the wind."
"And there was nobody there. I guess they heard me stomping through the house and assumed a herd of horned up rhinoceri were en route to their location, so they bolted."
"Had a security system set up the next day. I'm just glad nobody had to see my penis, and am more glad I didn't get shot by a robber while I was naked."
– plybon
Brush With The Law
"I was passed out and heard loud banging on the door to my apartment. It was about 2 or 3 in the Morning so I thought someone was trying to break in. I had a little souvenir bat in my closet for defence, so I grabbed it and ran to the door."
"Looked through the peep hole and it was the police. I yelled at them sorry I’m naked!!! Put on underwear and opened the door. They had a warrant for the previous tenant, searched the apartment and apologized. Laughed a bit since my idea of putting on clothes was boxer briefs."
– Electricfoodmk
Sad News
"Sad, funny, and wholesome."
"I (25M at the time) sleep naked, and my best friend (24M at the time) and roommate at the time knows this - I've told him so he doesn't ever walk in on me in my room. He was dating a girl at the time, so he was spending the night in her apartment next-door to ours, so I knew I was alone in the apartment that night."
"That morning at 4am there's a super loud, aggressive banging at the door. Abruptly awoken in a panic, my immediate thought is that someone is breaking into the apartment."
"The only form of combat I know is Brazilian jiu jitsu. I walked to the front door to prepare myself."
"Fortunately, it's my roommate. Very unfortunately and sadly, the reason he was banging was that he got a call saying his mother had unexpectedly passed, and he left his keys in our apartment. Knowing it was him, I was able to quickly dress myself and open the door to let him in."
"Later that night when he comes back to the apartment, he's obviously distraught. I tell him, 'Not to make light of the subject, but this morning I thought you were a stranger breaking into my apartment, you know I sleep naked, and my plan was to do a take down and do Brazilian jiu jitsu.'"
"His response was, 'So basically you were going to tackle me and tea-bag me.'"
"Then he had an honest, hearty, and several minute laugh about the situation, despite the terrible causing circumstances."
– Sufficient-Life-4454
Anything can happen to us while we're in various states of undress.
Thankfully, the examples shared by the Redditors above were in situations that did not end with them getting hurt–except for maybe their pride.
But to accentuate the positive here, perhaps their embarrassing situations made them more thick-skinned.
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Maybe I should get a group together and try again. Now that we're older and more creative we won't be sex obsessed. To heck with kissing, let's jump off a plane or something.
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Bored Julia Louis Dreyfus GIFGiphy"Ate a pencil."
- BreezyAy
"Actually this reminds me, someone dared me to stab him with a pencil on the palm of his hand which I did and he ended up crying."
In the Box
"I peed in the litter box in our basement. My mom thought the cat had a serious issue because it filled the whole box. My brother ratted on me, and my mom played the crap out of me by saying she was going to have to put the cat down because of a bladder issue. I cried and told her the truth."
- Napius
Damn Andy!
When I was like 13 my friend dared me to show my penis to his mom. She was just making lunch in the kitchen and I went for it. Her immediate reaction was, "Did Andy tell you to do this? All his friends do this to me." Apparently that was his go to dare."
Ted Said...
"Yesterday I came home from work and was sitting on the couch with my wife. I noticed the corner of her phone screen was cracked. I asked what happened. She said "Ted dared me to bite it really hard". Ted is my 8 year old son. My wife bit her phone until it broke because her 8 year old son dared her to. I'm now questioning all of my choices in life."
- MrStig91
Ouch!
Truth Or Dare Animation GIF by Yuval RobichekGiphy"In 5th grade at a birthday party we all played truth or dare. My friend knew I had a crush on this girl, so he dared me to kiss her. She said "I'm sorry, I'll hug you. But I want my first kiss to be with someone I like." That stung."
A pencil? What in the world? Also, can you turn people down in Truth or Dare? It's like in the rules. You can't shoot people down like that. Isn't implied that we're willing to be part of each other's possible dares? I must do research.
All In...
Running Away Go For It GIF by Coins And ConnectionsGiphy"I jumped in a river during winter time completely naked and have a photo to prove it. I can't show the photo cause i wasn't 18 at the time but let's just say, i go all in for truth or dare."
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Let's Chat
"It wasn't necessarily truth or dare, but I was playing For The Girls with my friends at a sleepover about a month ago, and i pulled a dare card. it said to put everyone i'd ever hooked up with into a group chat and ask if they thought any of them had anything in common."
Nudie
"A game of Spin the bottle ended in everyone (10-12 people, iirc) just being naked for the rest of the night. Surprised the hell out of my roommate when he came home to find me naked in the kitchen cooking noodles while there was clearly a party going on in the next room."
Boring
"I played one game of truth or dare as a post-pubescent high school kid. We spent so much time rules-lawyering about who could make which dares, and defining levels of comfort that people could agree to participate in what kinds of things, and where the lines were drawn, that we ended up barely playing at all and nobody did anything interesting. It's like we were all thinking "I hope somebody dares me to do some fun sex stuff" but nobody had the guts to dare anybody to do any fun sex stuff."
Truth or Death
"A friend at sixth form college (so aged 16) was dared by a classmate to drink the whole of the communal bottle of vinegar that was on the cafeteria table. Maybe 300 mililitres. He did it. He was off college for a week with (predictably enough) the kind of intestinal issues you would get from chugging acid."
Run Fast
Go Go Go Running GIFGiphy"Had to run naked down a residential street. Luckily it was dark and late at night so I don't think anyone but my friends saw me."
Think First
"When I was 16 there was a girl I really liked and she invited me over to play truth or dare with some of her cousins and brother. Long story short they all dared me to run naked across this field which was way further than anyone had gone. Being a dumba** and wanting to impress the girl I did it."
"They took my clothing and locked the doors and I ended up having to run naked about 2 miles through neighborhoods back to my parents house which was locked so I had to ring the door bell to get them to let me in. Most embarrassing moment of my life. She later said it wasn't her idea but needless to say my crush was over at that point."
House Rules
"We came up with a house rules version of Truth or Dare. You could reject a dare/truth but you had to lose an article of clothes. It was fun, it allowed people to reject stuff they may not want to do, while increasing the tension. To answer the question, we were mostly good high school kids it so we never went too far."
- Paxtez
Wild Kentucky!
john candy smoking GIFGiphy"I've already commented on this but I think I must do it again. I've also seen a man smoke a cigar out of his butt on dare in high school. He wasn't drunk. Eastern Kentucky is a wild place."
EEW EEW EEW EEW!!
"I had my first kiss in a game of Truth or Dare. Wasn't the sweet or pleasant experience one may be imagining it to be, though. My class was taking an overnight field trip on a charter bus. The chaperones all fell asleep so a few kids started playing Truth or Dare. I wasn't participating, I was just sitting in my spot reading a book. Then I hear one of the guys say "I dare you to kiss Strawberrycocoa."
"I look up from my book to see this girl walking very very slowly towards me, with just disgust all over her face. She leaned in extremely hesitantly, gave me a peck on the lips, then started flailing her hands and running away shrieking "EEW EEW EEW EEW!!" Absolute confidence booster, that one."
"experienced"
"Pretty tame (i went to a Christian high school) but post-graduation senior year of high school I came back to my home town after moving away my junior/senior year. One of the girls wanted to have her first kiss before college and she wanted it to be with me because she thought I was "experienced," so her friends got a game going to play T/D so she could kiss me. It was my turn, I chose dare, and ya. We both had our first kisses that night."
- AryBerns
Here Kitty
disgusted jennifer lawrence GIFGiphy"Took a poop in my friend's front yard. His mom was wondering what type of cat had been in their yard until he narced on me."
Neighborhood Dare
"At house party in a rich area. I was dared to get naked and jump into 3 adjacent neighbors' pools (mind you, they were not close and each one had a 8'-0" tall fence that was climbable but difficult with no shoes.) Half drunk, naked, running, climbing fence, and jumping in pools. I am so thankful camera phones were not a thing back in 1998."
- Jim105
Hold Me Not
Everyone Hugs GIFGiphy"Not very. The last time I played was in middle school and one time my "friends" dared me to get a hug from a girl in our group. They all ran away."
Yeah, I'm going to stick with Madonna. I'm too old to be spinning bottles or grabbing dares to possibly swap some spit. I think a fiery game of UNO is a better time.
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FREEDOM!! !
GiphyEvery night cause the penis can't be held down, held back or placated into submission. The penis must be free! Cynical-stoic-
Prepared for disaster....
Not normally because if there's a fire I don't want to have to get dressed before running out. Also because I sleep walk on occasion. ellarrsea449
Dude, if there's a fire, my neighbors get to see my penis.
Simple. cosmic_butter_cpu
Just in Case...
I sleep in my boxers; I have this phobia that no matter how clean I am, I'm one day going to leave a skid mark on my sheets.
Even after sex I rush to put on my boxers because the idea of it is with me constantly. ABD63
Just 75?
No. I want at least a thin barrier between my butt and my sheets. In my imagination my undies will 100% save me from pooping the bed. SillyMongooose
In reality they will 75% save you, which is good enough. Rust_Dawg
OH 40!
GiphyI don't because a fart cant be trusted after 40! JesusChristSuperDerp
Thank you for this post. TheLeesiusManifesto
Bare...
Yep, most of the time. Mainly because it's the most nonrestrictive. At the very least I have to be shirtless. If I have a shirt on, it's just too much, I feel like I'm in a straight jacket under the covers. The same just applies to a lesser extent for the lower half of my body.
And quite simply, the bare skin in a sea of sheets/covers is just very comfortable. Reddit
I must Breathe!
Normally yes, having something constricting me like that while I'm trying to sleep gives me really bad anxiety and makes it hard fall asleep. orgasmicravioli
Lamo when I was 8 I fainted because of my comforter... ( naked in bed) Donkeys-
SECURITY!!!!
No, because the penis is uncomfortable unless it is secure. 86__
I heard a story about a guy who woke up in agony after twisting his testicle in his sleep so ever since then I've worn boxers to give the illusion of constriction. WhiteyFiskk
A Full House!
No because I don't live alone. Still live with parents and sibling. Even when i do live on my own i probably still wouldn't cause sleeping nude doesn't sound comfortable. Colvin76
Dude, naked sleeping is free sleeping. I can't stand wearing anything to bed. bowyer-betty
