The best time to be alive?
 

Seeing comments about the dip in interest in the WNBR in recent years, makes me wonder when people think the best time to be alive has been, for gentlemen of our particular cultural persuasions.

I guess a lot of it will be generational, younger people won't know too much about earlier times but maybe the stories they hear here will mythologise them? Maybe for everyone it will be whatever era they lived through in their teens and 20s, when they were young and life was exciting and possibilities lurked everywhere? Perhaps the ever increasing sophistication in technology means that regardless of what we have lost, unlimited access to everything today more than makes up for it? Or maybe the very ease of access normalises and demystifies the experience of sex and nudity, taking away the excitement; mainstream movies and TV shows becoming more explicit, porn going mainstream, which leads into the over-commercialisation of everything so that even the girl next door is trying to make a buck on Onlyfans?

I don't know, so I made a poll. But I'm more interested in comments and reasoning than just numbers, which probably won't inform me much anyway. I don't want to lead people with my own opinion just yet but I'll chip in later if the thread doesn't plummet like a rock.

Did the seventies never happen? Was it all a figment of my imagination?

I've heard a lot of great things about the 60's; but I wasn't born yet so I have no personal references.

But there is not only a decade but also a geographical component for me. The 70's and 80's in Europe; primarily France and Germany.

Nudism was already prevalent in Germany by the 80's. I'd go to Germany on vacation and see naked people in public parks.
The topfree "explosion" in France took place in the late 70's and 80's. Boobs were everywhere. Even my prude Mom took off her top at the beach during that era. As did just about friend/classmate I knew; at the beach, lake or public pool.
Full nudity was in commercials, movies and adverts. Many people I knew had at least tried nudism, if not practiced it on holiday. Nakedness was openly talked about.

As a teenager, my mind was blown. All the nudity available on the internet now is nothing to me compared to all the "live" nudity I experienced back then.

Too young to experience the 70's but my Dad told me I missed out big time!

In my own experience, young pussy came easy until I turned 40 then it got a LOT more difficult.

But if you still look good after 40, you can still have fun with young babes if you offer a little financial 'persuasion'.

Regarding Europe in the 80s:

I was a guy on holiday in Brittany with parents & younger sister. They took us to a beach about 10 miles way that the holiday rep had recommended. Shortly after we arrive my family go for a walk & leave me alone, digging in the sand.

Suddenly this late 20s French BABE appears & sets up her towel about 15ft away. To my amazement she strips completely naked right in front of me, even smiling at me when she caught me looking. This was the first real-life naked woman I'd ever seen! After 5 minutes of me ogling this beauty my prudish parents & have a fit. Suddenly they realise we took a wrong turn at the beach entrance & entered the nudist section!

We leave almost immediately & never return but I know there's another beach within half a mile of the campsite. I start going down every afternoon about 4pm & enjoy all the French/Dutch/German girls getting topless or even completely naked. I distinctly remember this young STUNNER about 22 years old sunbathing completely nude face up, while much older men walked along the promenade 15ft above her enjoying the view.

She got up every 20 minutes to rub suntan oil over her body, totally comfortable being completely naked in public. The amount of nude women who smiled at me as I walked along the beach amazed me, several of them happily let me watch them strip. I do believe it was these French holidays from 1987-1990 which triggered my voyeurism.

As an American who is more of an ass man than anything I’d say the current era has been the best of my life (born in 1981). There was a time where seeing a gal in a thong was an event. Now if you want to see what a girls ass looks like just find her instagram. There’s a 80% chance she’s got a cheeky pic on there. And to be at a beach or pool these days is an ass mans heaven.

I mentioned this before but ass seems to be the thing women want to show off these days, over boobs. I'm all for it lol.

Oops! Mea culpa...

80’s and in Your 20’s
It was a pretty good combination and we had a lot of fun.
I mean as much fun as one can have with a chick in leg warmers….

Once you got through all the hair life was golden… lol

Some pretty hot looks and everyone actually “got dressed” even if you were going nowhere special. They looked good!

Too much hair! Now is the best time for sure everyone is shaved smooth..