When we first hit publish on our naturist blog, OurNaturistLife, nineteen months ago… we hoped a few dozen people would find us. My mom, a couple of friends, and maybe one confused guy who typo’d his way here from a search for “naturalist”. We were two ordinary people at a kitchen table in Manitoba, trying…
Why the sentence most of us lead with is working against us, and what to open with instead In Part 2 we told you about the day a repost of our article on X sent 134,000 views to our website. Most of those visitors may have never read a word about naturism. They showed up…
Decent, well-meaning naturists can still be the reason a club starts needing more rules. A reader named “a useful idiot” dropped a comment in Substack on our recent article, “Part 2: Every Woman Is a Ticket”, that is really worth talking about. We spent a good chunk of the article talking about door policies, gate…
Naturism’s couples-only rule, ratio caps, the math behind them, the money behind that, and everyone it still fails. Quick recap if you’re just coming into Part 2. Part 1 laid out why naturism’s couples-only and ratio policies exist, the demographic math, the behavior pattern behind them, and why we don’t think the rule is simply…
There’s a funny thing about how naturism is represented online. It is almost always looking like a vacation or an escape. It looks like turquoise water, white sand, palm trees, infinity pools, warm sunsets, and beautifully framed bodies strolling down beaches or on cruise ships somewhere very far from home. It looks like resorts with…
Ten questions, nine failures, and the one thing underneath all of them. We use a lot of words to define the things we do, switching between terms and labels like nudism and naturism, or living clothes-free. But the vocabulary doesn’t actually matter. Somewhere along the way, after chasing the boundaries and philosophies in circles, you…
“Being comfortable with my body does not mean that my body becomes available to other people.” When we published Part 1 of our conversation with Gabby Quinn, we said we could not have asked for a better conversation to open the Women of Naturism series. We truly meant it. The response from readers confirmed what…
My follow up to Corin’s article and the comments that followed Corin wrote about how men can help women feel welcome in clothes-free spaces. When I read the draft, I knew what potentially would come in comments. I thought about the reactions from some men, and started writing this in advance. Corin finished the article…
Corin put clothes on. It was read as more sexual than being naked ever did. We get asked some version of this question sometimes: “Is that naturism, or is that something else?” Usually it’s asked kindly, out of genuine curiosity. Sometimes it’s asked as a challenge, a way of testing whether we actually believe what…
Why it gets heavier the longer you wear it. Many of us spend a big portion of our lives collecting armor. We don’t really do it on purpose. It just sort of happens as we try to navigate the world without getting hurt. Every time someone gives us a weird look, every time we feel…