The Nude Life

Although single male nudists decry the apparent low numbers of single female nudists, we haven’t found that to be the case in our local club. By carefully maintaining some simple standards that make sense for a social club like ours, we have been able to retain and attract a healthy mix of both single males and single females as a complement to the majority of our members who are couples. Currently, for example, our roster includes four single females and six single males, and 75 couples.

What kind of simple standards? Easy: singles (of either gender) are not admitted without the recommendation of an existing member. That simple policy statement allows us to decline the huge number of inquiries we get from single males who find us on the Internet. If not for that policy, we’d have a huge and disproportionate number of single males in our club, which would not be desireable for the majority of our members who are married couples. The single females who do inquire about our club are usually already practicing nudists or know one of our other members, found out about our club through those channels, and can then be recommended for membership by one of them.

We’ve heard first-hand of other local clubs that fell apart because the male-to-female ratio went too far in the male direction because they had either an “admit-all” policy or no well-conceived policy at all on the question of how to maintain a good social mix of membership.

For single males who complain that we are ‘discriminating’ against them, we plead guilty; then we remind them that our club is a voluntary social group that sets policies as it sees fit to keep the club fun and active for our members, and if they aren’t happy about that, then they are free to go out and start their own nudist club like our founders did 20+ years ago, and they can set up any kind of policies they like.

By the way, we also discriminate against pedophiles, sex offenders, underage minors, members who don’t pay our annual dues, members who don’t follow our club’s etiquette rules, people who don’t want to take their clothes off at our events, and so on. Discrimination, after all, is what makes any club what it is: a group of like-minded folks who wish to associate to share a common interest.

The long string of horrible, rainy, cloudy weather here in North Texas broke clear for this weekend, giving all of us pale nudists a glorious couple of days to get back out into the sunshine.

Saturday was wonderful. As mentioned earlier, we visited a local resort to celebrate the wedding of two nudist friends. The weather for their special day could not have been better, and the warm sun brought out a big crowd of friends to help them celebrate late into the night. Everyone was delighted to be back outside, soaking up the warmth of the Texas sunshine, and relaxing with our nudist friends once again as we should be doing all through the hot Texas summer.

It turns out that the bride is a relative newcomer to social nudism, having just discovered it less than three years ago. Needless to say, she loves it, and found a sweetheart who also loves the pleasure, friendship and freedom that nudism brings to everyone who tries it. They love it so much that they wanted to spend their wedding day with all of us, nude and enjoying the beauty of Nature in all its forms.

We are lucky to know such fine people, who share our love for this simple pleasure, and who aren’t afraid to enjoy life in the nude, unashamed and free of the hang-ups and pretensions society tries to burden us with.

We nudists have found something special. Saturday’s nude wedding day celebration is just another example of what a great life-changer it can be when people discover all the delights that social nudism brings.

After the wedding, Sunday was another fine day and there was no reason to get dressed all day, save for a short run on errands in the early afternoon. Aside from those 90 clothed minutes, we were able to return to the typical weekend mode here of sunning, swimming, relaxing outdoors and indoors, without the bother of clothing to disrupt the pleasure of a beautiful day.

Two days of perfect weather, spent in the nude and with friends and loved ones, is like two weeks of vacation for the clothed set. Now let’s just hope the sun stays with us for the balance of the summer so this wonderful feeling can continue — and we can keep our tans in shape!

Two friends from our local club are getting married on Saturday (as many people are on that special day), and like most of the rest of them, our friends will be having their marriage ceremony while fully clad.

The extremely wet and rainy weather we’ve been having here in Dallas since the end of May has really put a damper on the sunning and frolicking of the area’s nudist population, ourselves included. Rather than relaxing in the usually blazing June and July sunshine of North Texas every weekend, as well as most days and early evenings during the week, we’ve been relative shut-ins, with a scarce few fine weekend days so far all season.

That’s taking a toll on our usually well-developed all-over tans — as well as our usual extraordinary abundance of life-saving Vitamin D, produced automatically by our bodkins when flesh is exposed to the Sun’s rays. Although thanks to a well-balanced diet and a daily multivitamin, most US residents don’t have to worry about getting their RDA of Vitamin D, we still bemoan the drought of sun we’ve had here lately which provides us the very most pleasant and natural way to obtain all the Vitamin D we can use.

The forecast still calls for gloom and more rain through the weekend, so there’s literally no end in sight to this weather pattern which has stalled a giant low-pressure system over Texas for most of the past month. With no seasonal steering winds present to blow this low out of here, we’re wondering when we’ll ever see the sun again — and be able to get back to our health regimen of Vitamin D production through nude sunbathing.

Happy Independence Day!

Today is the day our local club usually celebrates the American July 4th holiday with a pool party, which we dub the “Clothing Independence Day Party,” offering our members a few hours of freedom from textiles, a release from the tyranny of tan lines, and other such frilly language as a way to justify another excuse to get naked and enjoy life with friends on a hot summer’s day.

Because of the mid-week date of July 4th this year, we don’t have a full-blown party planned, but there is an informal “sun and loaf” invitation from one of our members to relax by her pool and soak up some rays, without all the usual party attributes of a big catered meal and so on. But with the dismal rainy weather we’ve had in the Dallas area for the last six weeks, even that might not happen as it seems the clouds and rain will be with us again today.

However, the term “Clothing Independence” is worth contemplating for a moment, on this day or any other, as it affords a chance to think of the freedom that nudism brings to nearly everyone who tries it: freedom from pretentiousness, freedom from hang-ups over class and status, freedom from bad self-esteem, freedom from judging people because of immutable attributes such as age, size or shape.

Those are the freedoms we have found in social nudism, along with many more benefits large and small, and we wish the same to all our fellow nudists and those many millions who will follow us into the wonderful, liberating lifestyle.