Originally Posted by onesnowyowl

We call those "shower parties." Some of my female friends have been known to have them. Some people are just comfortable with their bodies. In early college, I used to shower in the open shower in the locker room with my female friends, and we would take a fairly long time at it, just talking all the while, before adjourning to the sauna (where we would also lounge nude for quite a while). From what I hear from female friends who shower with other female friends, it's much the same experience--just being comfortably nude with people you're comfortable with. Nudity isn't always sexual. In fact, the Japanese have a term called hadaka no tsukiai to describe the kind of physical intimacy achieved in these kinds of casually nude bathing situations.