So I'm very curious to find out what people's personal ideas about nude and naked are. Me, I'm nude when I'm
working or at a nude beach; the rest of the time if I'm not sporting clothes, I reckon I'm naked. Nude, I feel
safe; naked, I feel an element of danger....


Does that mean you were naked when you wrote this and you like to visit AWAD in the nude? Congrats on your membership!

I only use nude to describe a state of undress. Naked can be used, as you said, to emphasise an element of danger or of undress by duress - stripped naked or naked truth.

Nude also has a much warmer sound to it but then again, it is French. Naked? Harsh, menacing. You have to sneer to pronounce it.