Woman sparks debate after going topless in front of her friends at nude beach.

Remember the FUN song? 'F is for friends who do stuff together. U is for you and me. N is for nudity in front of those friends and their spouses?'

On Reddit's 'Am I the As*hole,' one woman has sparked something of a conversation on the politics of stripping down at a nude beach. The thing about a nude beach is that, while the police wont arrest you for indecency, your friends might throw you into nudity jail themselves.

'AITA for going topless at a nude beach in front of friends?'

I was invited to a 3-day vacation with 3 of my girl friends and their husbands plus 2 of the husbands' single guy friends. On the last day we were exploring the city and came upon a beach.

It looked nice and fun so we hung out there for a while before stumbling on an adults-only nude section of it. There weren't many people overall but I did see a few other women in the distance without tops on, so I felt it was clear to take mine off as well. It was great! Nobody else joined me though.

We all continued to talk and joke in a circle for a while and I thought we were all having a really fun time. Then one of my friends said she felt sick so we left abruptly early, and our conversation on the way back was basically uncomfortably silent with the exception of low talking (that i wasn't part of) and some of the guys goofing around.

Later that night at the main room I find myself avoided by almost everyone until I'm confronted like it's an intervention by the three girls about how it was inappropriate for me to 'expose' myself in front of their husbands. I was shocked and told them I didn't mean anything by it

They said isn't it obvious that you don't just go naked in front of your friends' husbands and were like 'notice how you were the ONLY ONE and you didn't wonder why??'

This exploded into a further argument with me calling them insecure about their relationships until it culminated eventually into them all saying they don't trust me to be part of their friend group anymore.

All I thought I was doing was enjoying myself at a beach, not 'exposing' myself to their husbands. AITA???

Usually, the internet jury looks at a situation like this and says hey, rules is rules — you went to a nude beach, you got nude, what's the problem? But certain details of the case have exposed OP — to a more critical line of thinking. Here's how the discussion shook out:

Ill-Conversation5210 said:

Yeah, I'm going to go with YTA. You were with friends, and probably should have asked if anyone wanted to join in. If not, maybe don't. And maybe leave the area.

It's one thing to see strangers topless, but standing there topless in front of a group of friends who are not is kinda weird. Now every time they look at you, they're gonna remember the awkwardness.

trixxievon agreed:

Yall stumbled upon the nude beach. Yall did not go on purpose. And seeing random woman topless once and never seeing them again is 100% different than a close friend randomly ripping off her top.

I am in an open relationship, my friends are off limits as are his, but if one of my girl friends randomly ripped her top off in front of us I may question why that friend is doing that.

But Normal-Height-8577 pushed back:

Do you think that the nudists at nude beaches only get nude around strangers, and never go there with their friends? The whole group of friends collectively decided to stay at the nude beach instead of going back to the main part.

Staying implies that you're fine with nudity. Anyone choosing to take part in that isn't doing it randomly, but because they think it's acceptable in that place - because it is.

If you aren't ok, then maybe you need to say that - and also that you'd rather return to the regular beach with the non-nudist expectations. OP isn't a mind-reader.

Karamist623 speaks for the marrieds:

I can see both sides of the fence here. Since the nude beach was not a planned excursion, I would have asked the other ladies if they wanted to go topless as well before doing so. When you are with a group of married people, I think it’s in bad taste to just strip. YTA

All in all, a pretty good vacation?

Right or wrong, sounds like OP should head back to the beach and make some more like-minded friends.