The Nude Life

It’s been over two weeks since the last post here on The Nude Life. Readers are left to wonder if we have run out of things to write about.

Well, with the colder weather here in the North Texas region, things have slowed down a bit for us full-time nudists. We still spend most of every day and of course all of each night nude, but regrettably it is all done indoors because of the cooler weather. There hasn’t been any lack of nudist activities, though.

We have enjoyed several days of nude relaxation with nudist friends, at indoor nudist parties and at a Thanksgiving dinner with some good nudist friends who welcomed us over for the day and a nice traditional dinner. Clothing was optional at the Thanksgiving dinner, and everyone was perfectly comfortable regardless of what they chose to wear or not wear. The two nudist parties we’ve enjoyed since the last posting were likewise very enjoyable, and it is a great pleasure to be able to “unwrap” and unwind with good friends, free of clothing for a few hours despite the cold weather.

Also in the interim, we managed to sign up for a trip of a lifetime: the 15-day nude cruise to Hawaii and back slated for 2010. Bare Necessities is chartering a magnificent mega-cruiseliner for the idyllic tour of the Hawaiian islands for some 2,000 lucky nude cruisers. We’ll be among them, in some 840 more days, along with at least a handful of our nudist friends from here in North Texas who have already also signed up.

We’re looking ahead a week now to the big annual Holiday Party held by our home nudist club, which is always a lot of fun and is always well-attended. The following week provides two more dates for nude parties, including a nude Christmas get-together on December 25 and a very much anticipated “Nude Year’s Eve” party planned for December 31. It will be the 14th year in a row we have spent the New Year’s night nude, either with our nudist friends from home, or aboard a nude cruise ship as we did for the Millennium in 1999-2000.

What are your nude plans for the holidays? Are you staying home, visiting a local resort, or heading out to a resort or other nudist destination for some nudist relaxation during the holidays? Discuss your plans, or get tips and advice from other nudists from all around the world in The Nude Life Forums!

Our local nudist club has themed parties and events throughout the year, with nearly every weekend offering another opportunity for nude relaxation and fun with lots of great nudist friends. During the cooler winter months when necessity forces us indoors for the season, we often schedule themed parties that have a potential for “costume nudity” where we can add to the fun by “dressing up” to fit the theme of the party. Halloween is the obvious example, but we also have themed parties for Valentine’s Day, St. Patrick’s Day, Christmas, and several others, where quite a few folks go out of their way to put on more (or more often, quite a bit less!) of a costume to fit the theme.

As has been mentioned earlier, nobody knows how to dress up more than nudists. But even at our annual Halloween “Un-Costume” party, which features some of the most inventive and hilarious Halloween costumes you can imagine, several attendees decided not to bother with any costume at all, and simply enjoyed the evening nude. Nude is always in fashion and always acceptable at our club’s parties, and dispensing with a costume no matter what the theme of the party is an excellent — and often-employed — option.

It is such a pleasure to not have to worry about not only what to wear, but that you needn’t wear anything at all to be perfectly in style among your fellow nudists. Non-nudists will never know the sublime comfort that comes from simply disrobing and being among friends, nude and unashamed, enjoying life and friendship without the pretension and complications and artificiality that is part of the textile world.

Nude is always an option among nudists. We found the same thing on all of the many great nude cruises we have enjoyed over the years. We’d spend the evenings at sea enjoying the ship, the casino, the shows in the show lounge, the cocktail lounges and dance clubs, in whatever state of dress or undress suited our mood — with hundreds of other nude cruisers alongside us — and no one paying the slightest mind to what, if anything, anyone was wearing. Naturally, nude was always in style aboard the nude cruises, and we along many of our shipmates took full advantage of that luxury by being nude as much as possible during the cruise.

This weekend offers another themed party in our club, and we are probably going to go “the nude route” this time since we haven’t had the time to gather and organize a proper “costume” for the theme. We expect to have a wonderful time — and that all of our fellow guests will quickly join us by ditching their costumes as the party goes on. Although nude is always an option at the start of the party, we’ve yet to attend one where everyone didn’t wind up nude by the end of the party! That is, after all, the one great advantage of attending a nudist party!

What’s your preference for a nudist party with friends? Nude, costumed or clothed? Discuss and share your experiences with other nudists from around the world in The Nude Life Forum!

Having been a nudist in a large and active nudist club for more than a decade, it starts to get routine: the very first time you meet many of your new friends, they are nude. Attending their first party, they enter through the front door, meet the hosts, get some quick introductions, and then are dispatched to the ‘undressing room’ where they make that huge — but very simple — step of taking off all their clothes — and then they walk out to the pool or hot tub or the kitchen or the family room or wherever the rest of the group is congregating at the moment. And then, their big moment: they make their introductions to the rest of the assembled group, waving and smiling, totally nude and unashamed.

They must cetainly feel a little self-conscious, if they are “new” nudists. But if they are used to the the whole “being naked with a bunch of total strangers” thing, they seem and in fact are a whole lot more at ease. Everyone waves and smile back, and then go back to schmoozing or yakking or whatever they were doing the moment before these two new nude folks showed up. Very shortly thereafter, the noobies will be busy meeting and making friends with their new nudist pals.

If there is a quicker or more certain way to make friends, I am unaware of it. Being nude drops all barriers to meeting and chatting up new acquaintances. No telling how many of our current friends we have first said hello to while standing, floating, soaking or sitting around in the altogether. As we have written before, there’s a good chance we’d barely (excuse the pun) recognize many of them if we saw them dressed on the street — since we have spent much, much more of our time together nude.

The point? Nude doesn’t matter. As nudists, we accept each other immediately through our shared experience as being a part of the nude life. We recognize that being nude reveals the person and cloaks the pretentions and artificiality of the textile world. No doubt that we never would have met or made good friendships with so many of our nudist friends had we not met them through nudism. It’s the equalizer. The experience that brings us all together as humans.

How has nudism changed your perceptions of friends — or helped you meet new friends? Share your experiences in The Nude Life Forum.

Since joining and being active in our local nudist club, we’ve made more friends among them than we ever made outside of nudist ‘circles.’ It is very true that it’s easier to make friends out of nudists than make nudists out of friends, as one of our (nudist) friends often remarks. And since we spend so much of our leisure time, especially during the long summer, relaxing and partying with our nudist club friends, we feel that our best and closest friends are all nudists.

So when we are chatting with our non-nudist friends (all of whom have no idea of our other, ’secret life’ of nudism), they are always astonished by both the vitality other activities we are always busy doing (pool parties, vacation trips, out-of-town outings to visit friends, etc.), as well as with the number of friends we refer to in conversation. It was quite evident, for example, that our non-nudist friends and co-workers were astonished when we said we were going on a group trip to Cancun with 20 other friends…they simply cannot imagine how people can have so many good friends and feel so comfortable with them to spend a week’s vacation together with them.

Friendships among nudists are true, deep and genuine, I think, because as nudists, we see all of each other, with all our blemishes and imperfections, and relate to each other as people, not because of social status, possessions, and other outward materialistic markings. Being nude together with others in a purely social setting is really a great equalizer, and has brought us (and everyone we know who has tried it) many great friendships because of the barriers and artificiality that disappear when we see ourselves and each other in the natural state.

How has being a nudist changed your circle of friends — and what effect has your nudist participation had on your non-nudist social life? Discuss it in The Nude Life Forum!

The meteorological muse was good to those of us in North Texas again this past weekend, and we were able to enjoy the whole weekend with our nudist friends. A pool party under the warm sun on Saturday let us luxuriate once again free of the clammy bathing costumes that feel so unnatural now on the rare instances when we are compelled to wear them.

That happened Friday night when we stayed the night at a hotel with an outdoor hot tub and pool. After dinner with two friends, we made our way to the hot tub and hit the switch for the bubbles to start the warm water circulating. Noticing that our hotel had very few guests in-house for the night, and that the hot tub and pool area was out of plain view of nearly everything else around, we quickly dispensed with our bathing suits and enjoyed the half-hour in the hot tub together nude as we all preferred. There was an audible “Ahhhh!” as each of us shimmied out of our swimsuit and felt the warm water tickling our bodies all over.

We struggled and groaned when the time came to wriggle back into the bathing suits for the short walk indoors to the hotel room. What a bother — and so totally unnecessary! Nudism is not only much, much more comfortable, but also much more convenient!

At the pool party on Saturday, things felt much more ‘normal:’ glorious warmth and relaxation free from the clammy constraints of soggy, chilly and clingy bathing suits we had to use (albeit briefly) the night before. And since there is no wet bathing suit to try to towel off after leaving the pool, beach towels stay much drier than when you have to soak up all the water absorbed by the superfluous textiles of a bathing suit.

So to the long list of great reasons to try nudism, add this: convenience! And just a whole lot less to worry about and fuss over when enjoying a fun day outdoors.