People who work on the popular 'nude cruise ships' really do get to see it all, but there's one thing no worker wants to see from any of their care-free passengers that is absolutely banned.
While heading out on the seven seas with nothing in your luggage but sun cream and some towels might sound like an appealing proposition for those among us who hate packing and have a great level of self-confidence, there are some things you simply cannot do on a nude cruise ship.
The main one is to simply not get aroused, as most of your fellow passengers are not there to ogle each other's dangly bits or do anything sexual, but bask in body positivity and feel closer to the world around them.
But with thousands of people walking around a cruise ship naked, accidents do tend to happen. Kat Whitmire, a cruise organizer for the nudist-cruise company Bare Necessities, has revealed exactly what she tells passengers to do who cannot help but pitch a tent, with no tent to cover their indiscretion.
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Speaking to Business Insider, Whitmire explained that it's actually a rule onboard the ship that 'men can't be overly excited'.
She also shared the advice she offers to men if they start to feel themselves entering a certain situation.
Whitmire said: "We say that if they start to feel things around moving down there, jump in cold water, or think about baseball."
The organizer's advice helps explain what 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."
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It turns out that the anti-arousal rule is just one of a number of stipulations Bare Necessities has in place for passengers; another being that passengers must ask permission before taking a photo with someone else in it.
Another rule relates to the one place where clothes must be worn - the formal dining room.
Whitmire explains that there is a dress code of 'no nips, no bits and no butts' in the dining room, largely because the staff working there often carry trays of hot food, and no naked person wants to be on the receiving end of that disaster.
Before she started working as an organizer for Bare Necessities, Whitmire and her husband actually worked as models on their first cruise after being approached by a friend who worked there as a photographer.
They returned over the following years to work as general staff, before Whitmire got the job as a sales associate in 2010 and officially became a full-time employee.
Topics: Travel, Sex and Relationships, Cruise ship
William Morgan