RiskyDanielle said

NakedBoba said
I’ve partaken in my own time but there’s just, idk, a line I never felt the real need to cross and that’s just generally been posting myself to anyplace. Beyond a certain point it just really hasn’t held an appeal to me
  

I also find it hard to put into words exactly why. It's not a practical thing about having to carry something; whenever I've done stuff out in public, unless I stay incredibly close to my clothes/bag, then I always take my phone with me just for safety (so if I wanted to, I easily could take pics). And like I said before, it's not a shyness or privacy thing either.
I feel like I'm just not wired that way. Even when I'm just out with friends, I'm never the one taking pictures or posting about it on social media. I will happily share stories and talk about the stuff I've done if someone asks. But in my head the memory/story of the time me and my friends went skinny dipping is the part that matters to me, not whether we got pictures or not.
  

There was someone who called herself Bushstroke that always used a selfie stick made on the spot from a tree branch to make great videos…

I also don't like the idea of having to find time to pose and take photos; feels like it would take me out of the experience.
  

So when I “did” practice exhibitionism, I was always torn about this. For one, as I’ve said in pretty much every other post I’ve made on this forum, I am terrified of being recognized / people I know finding out I do this as a hobby (or at least “used to”), so the idea of just taking photos, let alone sharing them online, always put a pit in my stomach.

On the other hand though, one of my favorite parts of exhibitionism was flaunting my body in places I definitely wasn’t supposed to be, and that usually involved striking and holding some very provocative poses, slapping my ass, and of course, masturbating. The thought of “mmm I must look SO HOT right now” was a huge turn on for me when naked in public, and having since come to terms that exhibitionism was basically just a kink for me, getting turned on was the ultimate goal of it for me. That said… I was always just limited to “thoughts”. I could only “imagine” how good I really looked, for all I knew, the pose I was hitting might’ve been really unflattering from a third person perspective, and with that in mind, sometimes I did consider snapping a few photos while I’d be out streaking at night if just for myself, no one else. I’d probably stash them in a super secret folder hidden in the deepest recesses of my computer, but I’d have them to admire myself. 

Even then though, when I was feeling braver and “considered” the thought of taking some photos or videos, I didn’t really have any method of doing so. In my story, I made a point to mention that when I get naked in public, I leave everything behind so I could roam truly untethered. I almost always went barefoot since I didn’t really feel “naked” if I was still wearing shoes, but that sensation also applied to if there was anything in my hands. I never wanted to be holding anything, I wanted to be able to wander with no concerns for anything, and that meant I almost never had my phone on me, and no phone meant no photos. If I wanted to take any, I’d have to carry my phone or a selfie stick with me, and that would really take me out of the experience, carrying those pieces of reality with me would diminish that liberating feeling of being detached from society and exploring the world in nothing but the skin I was born into. If I was a porn star who practiced exhibitionism with the intent of creating content then this obviously wouldn’t matter to me, but that’s not who I am. I practice exhibitionism because I like it first and foremost, and consequently, I do it in the way that’s most fun for me. That means bringing no extra accessories along. The only other option would be to bring someone along with me to handle the camera, but uhhhh yeah, if “holding my phone” took me out of the experience and made it harder to feel “detached from reality”, having someone follow in me around staring at me nonstop would be unbearable.

I swear I don’t mean to talk this much in these forum posts, but to circle back to the issue of hypocrisy… I don’t think it’s hypocritical to enjoy consuming exhibitionist content if you yourself don’t create it? Everyone’s situation and approach to nudity / practicing exhibitionism is different. Some of us do it with the intent of sharing it with others, some of us do it for ourselves, and some of us don’t do it at all and just enjoy it from the sidelines, and that’s okay! So long as everyone’s engaging with this interest on their own terms and everyone’s respectful of each others’ terms, I think that’s all that really matters.