A woman who works on a 2,000-person naked cruise has explained what advice she gives to passengers who feel themselves getting aroused while out on the deck.
There are definitely times and places that would be considered more appropriate when it comes to feeling randy, but let's be honest - the body doesn't always limit its desire to the bedroom.
It's easier for women to hide these kinds of feelings; much less so for men. Strip yourself off and plop yourself on a cruise ship surrounded by hundreds of other people, and it's pretty much impossible.
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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."
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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.
A third rule relates to the one place where clothes must be worn - the formal dining room.
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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: Life, Travel, Cruise ship