The Bare Necessities cruise is due to set sail from Miami this year
The cruise offers a more immersive and communal experience for those who enjoy embracing a more naked way of life.
But with thousands of potentially completely-naked individuals onboard a boat, awkward moments are bound to happen.
Of course, it’s much easier for women to disguise these kinds of feelings, but for men – circumstances are slightly different.
And as a cruise organizer for the nudist-cruise company Bare Necessities, Kat Whitmire is familiar with this problem.
Whitmire works as part of a team which plans two cruises; a February trip which takes 2,100 passengers on a large cruise on the ‘Big Nude Boat’, and a smaller cruise in the summer.
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, ahem, hard 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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