Girl Not Gone Wild
All 18 of us were supposed to get naked.
Sort of.
Everything off except our bikini bottoms.
I was with a group of women at a topless beach in Mexico and we were receiving a Mayan clay treatment. You apply the clay to your body, let the sun bake it onto your skin (giving it time to pull out toxins), and then wash off in the ocean.
It sounded fun, but I’m really not one of those “let’s get naked” type of girls, especially when the resort’s male staff was milling around the open kitchen. Still, for this, I thought, Oh, fine. I’ll strip.
But just as I was about to untie the strings of my bikini top the woman leading the clay treatment said, “Everybody bring your cameras!”
Cameras? In a day and age where digital photos can be posted on the Internet and spread like wildfire?
I’m really, REALLY, REALLY working on trying not to be so uptight, but cameras?
If you come across a picture floating around the Internet of a bunch of topless women on a beach in Mexico with clay smeared on their bodies – I’m the one in the back. With my top on.
posted by Jenny at 1:27 PM
11 Comments:
I don't blame you.
If I were there, I'd probably would have walked away if I couldn't leave my bikini on.
Cameras (and videocams?)Scary.
11:48 PM
Take it off Jenny! Take it all off!
Kidding. I probably wouldn't have done it either, even without the cameras!
7:09 PM
Your post brought back memories for me. In 92, I joined a bunch of women for a 2-week horsepacking trip. On the third day of riding, we came across a river and every woman save me, stripped off her clothes and jumped into the cool water. I really, REALLY wanted to join them, but mmm couldnt make myself get naked even if it was justa group of women out in the middle of nowhere! Hey and that was long before phone cameras! Thanks for the post!
2:08 PM
Skinny dipping sounds fun. I've sorta been regretting my decision, but then someone did e-mail me a picture of the topless moment today...so it IS "out there"
Should I post the picture on my blog? Just kidding!
By the way, Sand Gets in My Eyes, do you have a blog? I'd love to check it out if you don't mind e-mailing me the link: jenny.rough@jennyrough.com
3:15 PM
Such a great story--so Jenny.
We are who we are--I would've been the first one with my top off-and the first one who couldn't believe it would ever get to the internet! I just never think ahead-talk about regret!
9:01 AM
Damn those digital cameras! I probably would have done the same thing, now, but if memory serves...it feels amazing to rip that thing off. Still, what an amazing experience either way!
10:58 AM
I'd be in the back with you, Jenny. That paranoia about just who might be analyzing that photo on the web would send me over the edge if I'd taken my top off.
12:37 PM
Had an experience years ago with a roommate in Aruba. Promotional video being filmed on the beach where we lay. We agreed to be in it, then saw other women agree and display themselves on lounge chairs--topless!. After minutes of squirming, the film maker came over to tell the two uptight American girls that it was OK to have 2 pieces to the bathing suit. Whew! Never could have done it!
And what kind of assignment takes a girl to Mexico alone to sleep in a hut with candlelight and a dirt floor and then bake herself in mud topless anyway?
Dying of curiostiy!
1:12 PM
But aren't you "wearing" mud? I iimagine mud makes good nipple coverage.
Sounds like fun.
5:01 PM
Nancy, I'll spill the beans when the article is in print.
Oh, and Ziji, the clay was SO see-through.
6:43 PM
Love this story, Jenny, and everyone's 2 cents! I would have kept the top on, too, definitely!
5:18 AM
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