The Nude Life

“A child who has never been allowed to see his parents and brothers and sisters naked sees nudity as something shocking.”

- Dr. Helga Fleischhauer-Hardt,

Quoted in Show Me (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1975)

And expressing the same sentiment from the other point of view: “I didn’t grow up with a mother telling me what was under my clothes was bad or evil.”

Academy Award-winning actress Charlize Theron, quoted at imdb.com

Ok, fine. You folks in Dallas and Tampa are probably bemoaning the fact that it’s only (ONLY!) 68 degrees right now (5:30 CST, Sat. the 9th). Poor babies.

Here in the Frozen North we are enjoying a balmy 27 degrees and snowstorm (again!), dropping down to 7 below, with 30 degree below wind chill. The pic is our house, today, now.

Now, just who are the real nudists? How about the guy on a local Mazo Beach message board asking if the parking lot at the beach is plowed! 13 inches of fresh snow. That’s a die-hard nudist!

This is just a reminder for you to thank your lucky stars, and maybe remember why some of you fled South. We’re sure gonna someday. In the meantime, high heating bills and survive until Spring.

Be warm, be naked, be happy!

- Steve & Angie

My thanks to Steve and Angie for keeping some posts coming here on The Nude Life over the past week or so. As he says in his post below, we’ve been away, scouting for our new home in Florida at Cypress Cove. And the past week has been busy, but we have some good results to report.

Along with totally enjoying our week at Cypress Cove, we managed to get more accomplished than we had expected. We met the General Manager and got our prospective resident interview completed (we passed!), and we settled on two different homes on which to make purchase offers. We made one of the offers while we were still at Cypress Cove, and after some wrangling during the past week over price and terms, we have been able to reach a purchase agreement on the home we really wanted, out of more than 20 we looked at during our visit.

Although the home is a little more money than we had wanted to spend initially, we know we will love it. It has a lot of nice ‘bells and whistles,’ in the form of improvements, upgrades and additions, and it has been beautifully maintained by an owner who obviously loved living in it. It is on one of the lovely, lushly treed streets shown in my earlier post, and the rear of the home looks out onto a large, quiet wooded cypress grove.

Now we have mortgages to arrange, and a house here in Texas to sell and empty out, as well as packing and moving to our new home at Cypress Cove. We can’t wait for it all to be done, which we think will take until July. But the wheels are already in motion, and I’ve gone so far as to put a Cypress Cove bumper sticker on my car — so now we’re committed!

The dream of living nude full-time in a beautiful nudist resort will be coming true for us later this year — we can hardly believe it. We’ll try to share the interesting bits of this big adventure of our as time goes by.

Our hosts seems to be busy on vacation (lucky them!) so I’ll just drop this little piece of fluff in for your perusal.

Like a lot of you, Angie and I are clothes-free all of the time at home. Exceptions are when company is over that is uncomfortable with it or when our kids are here. It’s always fun when the doorbell rings and we have to scramble to become ‘decent’!

Now, being re-married folks with a mess of kids, things get a little complicated. Two of my three young adults have been exposed to nudist environments and survived, though they did not leap into the lifestyle. One of Angie’s has been to camp with us and been around me (Angie is not prepared to be nude in front of any of our kids), I think he’ll come over this summer. Maybe her other son and wife too. We’ll see. No push.

Then there’s the grandkids. Little kids say things in school and the next thing you know, Child Protective Services is knocking on your door. This not an uncommon situation. Has anyone out there had to deal with this? How do you explain that being a nudist is not an evil thing? We’re harmless but perceived as somehow evil. And that’s unfair.

So, we’re not an extended nudist family, yet. We have hopes.

Anyway, we survive Wisconsin’s horrible winters by tolerating high heat bills for the comfort of being natural at home. There are area nudist club events that help break up the long cold season, and we count the days until we can get to camp and hit the beach again.

Angie has recently gotten a new job which give us a lot of free air travel so we’re hoping that will ease winter-pain until we can move to a warmer clime.

Just survived a blizzard and more nasty weather is expected. Whoopie. This time, two years ago, I took Angie to the beach for her first time. Not this year!

No more to say other than we wish we were in Florida or Texas or wherever our hosts are sunning themselves right now. I tell ya, it just ain’t fair!

-Steve

So, when it was The Day, the Man and the Woman awoke to the Dawn and beheld each other in God’s clothing. They saw beauty and were not afraid. The birds of the air sang and the animals rejoiced that Humankind had found their way to Paradise!

Then the Serpent, always watchful, whispered into their ears “You’re naked! What if someone sees you? Naked means sex with anyone and anything that approaches you! God hates you for that! Quick, cover yourselves lest you be led into sin!”

So they donned scratchy fig leaves and covered some parts of their bodies, seemingly at random.

This went on for a few millennia until some of their children began to wonder why they had to wear scratchy fig leaves. The most daring decided to try life without, and discovered that God’s world was wonderful, the way He meant it to be!

They tried to tell others about this wondrous thing and found themselves scorned and ridiculed. They were forced to hide from the public view. Friends and family would look askance upon them for simply following that which they felt to be a natural way of living.

Many truly evil things were acceptable in the name of Society, and God, but the simple enjoyment of God’s gift was declared to be an evil brought on by the Serpent.

Our society seems to feel that waterboarding prisoners is OK, nudity is not.

Which of these brings us closer to God…?

- Steve