Jul
25
2007
Can wearing less — less clothes, that is — add more to one’s life?
That is certainly the case with our experience, and with that of many of our closest nudist friends. As nudists, of course, we wind up wearing the literal minimum of clothing as often as possible — meaning we enjoy life nude whenever practical and possible. But does becoming a nudist, or practicing the nudist lifestyle, really add more to one’s life? And if so, why?
We and many of our nudist friends would argue strongly in the affirmative. In fact, nearly everyone we’ve met through nudism has remarked at one time or another that they never would have met and made friends with so many wonderful people as they have through social nudism.
We agree. The bonds that being nude socially with others brings is something special, something which we can not find a parallel for in any other social setting. People from very different backgrounds, professions, levels of income and education are brought together through nudism and the liberating, equalizing effect that being unclad with others brings.
When we mention to non-nudist friends that we spent the weekend at a party with 70 or so good friends, they blink in disbelief. Yet, it’s true: all of our close friends, and nearly everyone we consider good friends, are folks we met through nudism — and it is a number far greater than the friends we had before becoming nudists.
So yes, less is more when it comes to friendships and meeting a wide range of great, easy-going people — less clothes, that is!
Jul
24
2007
The blog was neglected last week as we were on vacation out of town — our lone non-nudist vacation planned for this year. As such, we were obliged to spend the bulk of our time clothed.
However, each day began and ended nude in our hotel room, where we could enjoy the freedom and serenity that nudity offers to all people. A nude nap in the afternoon, a nude e-mail session on the computer, or enjoying a cup of coffee while reading the newspaper while still nude from the night’s rest are all possible and perfectly pleasant while on the road.
Tonight finds me on the road again, in another hotel room, and nude of course after a long day of work. Nudity and solitude, even when away from home, make even business travel a little more tolerable. I wonder how many thousands or millions of other ‘road warriors’ like myself enjoy some naked time of their own in the hotels and motels of the world.
I find that quite often, the evenings spent in an ordinary hotel room nude can nearly make up for the drudgery and the countless humiliations that comprise business travel these days.
There’s nothing quite as refreshing when on the road as returning to the room after a day’s work, luxuriating in a long hot shower to wash away the day’s tensions, and then spend the night relaxing nude with a little wine as bedtime approaches.
All of which makes the thought of returning to the full freedom of peaceful nudity in the comfort of home all the more appealing. Yet were it not for the nights of comfort and relaxation possible on the road by being able to enjoy them clothes-free in the hotel while on the road, travel would be much more miserable than it already is.
Jul
12
2007
Two of our good nudist friends moved to the US after several years living overseas. Knowing no one in our Dallas/Ft. Worth area, but as active nudists in their former country of residence, they knew they’d be welcome and meet a lot of fun people as soon as they could find and get involved with a local nudist club.
They got in touch with our club very soon after settling in, and started participating immediately. Being easy-going, fun-loving folks as most nudists are, they had no trouble at all meeting and making friends with everyone else in our club. Just a month later, one of them remarked that they knew that after moving to Dallas, they’d have to find a nudist club to join, because it meant “instant friends.”
It is so easy to make good friends from nudists you meet. The converse is not true: it is very difficult to make nudists from existing non-nudist friends. One of our members puts it very well when she says, “It’s easier to make friends out of nudists than nudists out of friends.“
We never had so many friends as we have met from nudism. When I tell folks at work that we had 60 or 70 friends over at our house for a pool party, the blink in disbelief. I doubt any of them has more than a handful of people they would consider friends; even fewer if work-related acquaintances are excluded. Nudism brings people together like no other pastime or lifestyle I know of. That alone makes it a wonderful way of life, because what is life without the love of friends?
Jul
12
2007
We find that one of the greatest attractions the nudist way of living affords is also its most obvious: the simple state of being nude. “Simple nudity,” as it were.
Besides a perfect description of the state of unclothedness itself, “Simple Nudity” is also a term at law, as it is mentioned frequently in legislation meant to ban sexually oriented forms of nudity while making a distinction, and usually an exception, for the nudist approach to the state of being nude.
Simple nudity for nudists is the natural state. Being unclad, whenever and wherever appropriate, affords the freedom and comfort that make simple nudity one of life’s most sublime pleasures. Enjoying everyday life in the state of simple nudity, without shame or pretension, is what social nudism is all about. Best of all, every person on Earth is equally well-adapted to give it a try. And we have found that in the proper setting, and in the company of other lovers of this wonderful way of enjoying life, nearly everyone who tries it, loves it.
Jul
11
2007
Years ago, before anyone knew what the Internet was, we online nudists had to scrounge to find each other and learn more about this wonderful lifestyle.
CompuServe was where we found it most reliably — back in the early 1990s. They had an active Nudist discussion board and a weekly live chat. Both were crude, text-only systems, of course, but at the time it was the best thing going. Dial in at 1200 Baud, at $8.95 per hour, and you can have all the nudist chat room you want!
Although it was slow, clunky and expensive, it was all there was at the time. And for those of us just learning about the world of social nudism, the chat nights were great. You’d be able to exchange questions and answers with ‘real’ nudists, including several regulars who lived full-time at Paradise Lakes, which at the time was the nation’s largest and nicest resort.
The information and tips from those chats are what got us to try nudism, and take our first nudist vacation to Club Orient in St. Martin, back in 1993. Now, it seems that the nudist chat room scene has suffered from the decline of the commons, with just about every one I’ve tried really a front for a sex chat, a porn operation, or worse. If there is a good nudist chat out there, I’d like to know about it (and post a link to it on this blog).
Which is a shame because I wonder how the next generation of nudists will be able to connect, discuss and learn from other ‘real’ nudists, which was all possible before the ‘Internet revolution.’
