The Nude Life

With Dallas-area temperatures in the low 80s since the start of the month, there has been little reason to be dressed around the house this month until today. Cooler weather arrived overnight last night, but since last week, over the weekend and until now we have been able to enjoy the indulgence of nudity all day every day during the first days in November while at home.

We spent a splendid nude weekend outdoors by the pool enjoying the warm sun, and didn’t have a need to get dressed except for a few chores since mid-week last week. It certainly makes laundry day on Saturday a lot easier when you are not wearing any clothes that need washing, and your laundry basket has few other clothes in it as well!

My wife and I are both working from home this month, so there’s little need to dress at all except for errands out of the house. Being comfortably nude during the day eases the passage of the workday, and before too long it is quitting time and we are able to kick back for some together time in the splendid weather.

Our ritual for the past few days has been to retire to the back patio for some card games and adult beverages immediately after “work” ends at 5:00 PM, enjoying the sunshine and calm winds in the most comfortable way possible. Being able to leave “work,” and be outside enjoying nude relaxation in the sunshine one minute later, is a luxury we are most grateful for.

Winter will be here soon enough, and with it the obligation to wear clothes for warmth while indoors as well as outside. And so we relish the late fall days when our nudity during the day can be uninterrupted, making workdays more comfortable and relaxed — even if only for awhile.

How’s your weather? Have you been able to enjoy any nude time as fall comes to the Northern hemisphere? Share your thoughts and experiences in The Nude Life Forum.

Below is the first post from our first guestblogger on The Nude Life, Nudiarist: 

Some days I think that everyone is a nudist at heart. We’re born naked, we bathe naked, we make love naked, but as a society we generally do not socialize naked, except for the lucky few who have managed to come to the realization that clothing is not only unnecessary, but that it serves to imprison the true self.

I’ve always been a nudist but did not realize it until a couple of years ago. When I was a kid I swam naked at the YMCA, went nude in gang showers throughout high school, and went skinny dipping on several occasions as a teenager. I went to professional art school and spent countless hours drawing and painting nude models, and when I got into photography I turned the camera on myself for nude figure studies when none of my friends were up to the challenge. When nobody was around, I sunbathed nude on our private rural property.

All of that changed when I got married and we had a daughter. Societal norms had triumphed over my young Bohemian spirit.

When my daughter entered college a few years ago, I found myself alone most of the time at work in our home office, and I would strip down and work naked as often as possible.

The problem is that I did this in secret. The odd thing about the human mind is that it sometimes does not question certain traditions, customs, or habits which become part of our everyday lives. Although I had been unashamed of being naked as a youth, as a 50 year-old man the practice somehow seemed wrong.

One night I found myself searching for nudist information in the Internet. I was completely overwhelmed by all the people who seemed so excited to tell the world about their “first times” experiencing social nudism. It became clear to me that I wanted to be, even needed to be, part of that world.

When I told my wife, it came pretty much out of the blue, and while she was a little concerned at first, her attitude quickly adjusted to finding it all very funny. She knows me pretty well, having been married to me for 25 years, and once she realized that I was the same person, only now naked, she soon became fully accepting.

It was not a difficult adjustment to go from clothed most of the time to naked most of the time. At first I was very aware of my nakedness, but gradually nude became the norm, and now putting on clothes feels like the unnatural state that it actually is.

The difficult part of the process was finding a local nudist group here in Columbus, Ohio. Several e-mails to a couple of non-landed clubs in the area went unanswered, and I was a little discouraged. It seemed that a married male wanting to practice social nudism in Ohio without a wife in tow was a nearly impossible task.

Eventually I got in touch with one of the groups, which apparently had gone in a sort of hibernation for a couple of years, and went to one of their swims. I was immediately accepted into the group and am now a member.

As for my wife, on the day of the last swim she shaved her legs in case she decided to go with me, although she backed out at the last minute. I’ve never put any pressure on her at all, but I really think that she’s beginning to understand that she’s missing something by staying at home watching TV while I’m out swimming with my nude friends. Maybe next time.

There is something wonderful about being nude in a social setting that defies words. As a blogger, I try and come up with new angles and issues concerning the nude life, but unless you actually go and experience the freedom, you will not know how it really feels.

The nudist in me is finally free.

nudiarist
Diary of a Nudist

We are happy to welcome our first guestblogger to The Nude Life!

Nudiarist blogs on nudism and nudism items in the news at his own blog, Diary of a Nudist, and we’re very glad that he accepted our invitation to guest blog from time to time here on The Nude Life blog. His excellent introductory post with his “nudist biography” appears above today. We have also carried a link to his site from our blogroll since this blog went live back in September.

Watch for posts from Nudiarist here, as well as other guest bloggers coming soon! And if you’d like to post here as a guest blogger, see our invitation to guest bloggers for more information.

Meanwhile, The Nude Life Forums are attracting new posters every day, and we invite all our readers to check in there to discuss and share your experiences of The Nude Life!