I assume most of the posters in here are Aussie since this is an Australian website. I also notice there’s a fair amount of you who sleep nude based on what’s written in various places. My question: is this a normal and widespread practice in your country - that is, do you pretty much all sleep totally naked from childhood due to the hot climate? If you sleep that way, what age did you start and what was the motivation?

I’m American and have slept nude most of my 45 years, but didn’t start until I was 12 years old, and at the time, it was purely associated with my desire to masturbate each night and morning. For that reason, I viewed sleeping naked as purely sexual and would have therefore been embarrassed if anyone found out I did it back then. I often wonder, had I been raised to sleep nude from an early age and seen my parents and siblings doing likewise, whether I would have understood it as something natural and innocent rather than “naughty” or weird.

Of course, I eventually progressed through my teen years and into college, where I learned that many other people sleep that way just for comfort, etc. But I’m wondering if the idea of sleeping totally nude carries with it the same stigma in other cultures that it did with me during my adolescent years, or if it’s really just an American thing stemming from the historical puritan influence.