I've never been skinny-dipping due to lack of opportunity, but I wouldn't mind if the water was warm and I was either alone or with a small group of trusted friends.
my wife has done it several times....even at her hippie friends wedding... a call for a "mass skinny dip" went ignored by all except her....she still had a nice time.
I've walked "trunked" into the water and taken off my trunks.
I'll tell you, swimming nakkid is GREAT!!!!
As for europe? That place is nakkid central...all the beaches are topless. I went swimming with a friend of mine from canada who had moved there. She didn't feel comfortable with going in right down to the bucks yet but her friends sure did...
that was a surprise.
Nope, I've never tried it. Though I would try it if I were alone and had very good privacy and it was legal... like maybe say in a backyard fence with a nice high privacy fence or something. I would also go skinny dipping with only my husband in the same circumstances if I were married.
I go swimming in the ocean and at a swimming club in Brisbane.
Also, I don't understand the mentality of some people who think that nudity should only be seen by one's spouse or 'trusted friends'.
It's attitudes like this that show we have a long long way to go before social nudity will be accepted the world over. Imagine being able to go grocery shopping or going to a mass service at the Notre Dame Cathedral or the Vatican in the raw. God doesn't mind it!