Featured Image Credit: Facebook/Kat Whitmire
Topics: Cruise ship, Travel
Callum Jones
A woman who works on a nude cruise welcoming 2,000 guests onboard has detailed the 'most important rule' everyone has to follow on the ship.
Kat Whitmire, a cruise organizer for the nudist cruise company Bare Necessities, lifted the lid on what it's like to be embark on a nude cruise last year.
While there's not meant to be anything sexual or NSFW about these cruises, the reason they are often in the news is because of people's curiosity getting the better of them. The internet is eager to know what goes down on these trips, and thankfully people who have worked on these ships have detailed exactly what goes on.
In a first-person piece for Business Insider published in 2024, Whitmire revealed all on the ins and outs of the NSFW vacation, debunking myths and theories, and explaining the 'important' rule everyone onboard must adhere to.
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"The most important one is that you have to ask permission before taking a photo with someone else in it," Whitmire wrote.
"Men can't be overly excited. We say that if they start to feel things around moving down there, jump in cold water, or think about baseball. Dinner in the formal dining room has a dress code, largely because the waitstaff carries trays of hot food."
So, who is the nude cruise for?
Well, Whitmire explained: "Our way of traveling isn't for everyone. Not everyone understands what nudism is all about, and that's OK. If you're curious, this way of travel might be what you're looking for.
"I joke that skinny-dipping is our gateway drug.
"On our Big Nude Boat with a little more than 2,100 passengers, about 70% of guests on board are repeat guests. Our boutique small-ship sailings sell out very quickly. That tells me we're doing something right."
It comes after a male naked cruise passenger said about the issue of arousal when a Reddit user asked whether accidental erections were 'frowned upon'.
The man explained that boners 'almost never happen' on board, saying: "This cruise is very non-sexual, so a man would want to hide it somehow. Non-nudists think about this a lot more than nudists do."
Before she started working as an organizer for Bare Necessities and the nude cruises, Whitmire and her husband actually worked as models on their first cruise after being approached by a friend who worked as a photographer.
They returned over the following years to work as staff members, before Whitmire got the job as a sales associate in 2010 and officially became a full-time employee.