What Loneliness Will Accept When Naturism Leaves Them Behind The while ago now, I saw a post that made me put my phone down for a minute. A man I know from the online naturist community, a genuine longtime naturist, posted a photo out hiking nude of himself and a beautiful young nude woman. He…
The Bodies We Don’t Talk About: Periods, Pregnancy, and Menopause in Nude Spaces Part 1 of this series stayed close to the cycle years, puberty, periods, and the strange limbo of trial-and-error birth control. This part covers different ground in women’s biology: pregnancy, the messy stretch right after giving birth, and menopause, which I’m living…
The Bodies We Don’t Talk About: Periods, Pregnancy, and Menopause in Nude Spaces Naturism sells itself on a simple promise: come as you are, and you’ll be accepted. I believe that promise. I’ve watched it work, on myself, on nervous first-time visitors, on people who spent years hating a body that turned out to be…
Attention isn’t the problem. What you do with it is. There’s a phrase that comes up almost every time we talk about naturism with someone who’s new to it or abusing it: “Well… humans are visual animals.” It’s delivered with this little nod of finality, like it’s settled the matter. Like four words just explained…
Internal Shame, External Blame There is a very specific, heavy feeling that comes from sitting in the quiet of your own home and reading a few hundred strangers express absolute contempt for something you truly enjoy in life like social naturism. It isn’t quite anger, and it isn’t quite sadness either. It feels a lot…
Sometimes the Best Things in Life Take a While to Find If you walk into almost any naturist club, resort, or beach on a sunny Saturday afternoon, the reality is immediately obvious. The hair is a bit silverer, the skin has more stories to tell, and the average age comfortably clears forty. Yes… naturism does…
Sometimes you just need to laugh at the total absurdity of it all. Every so often, we find ourselves in a moment that reminds us we may not be doing this whole naturism thing the way people expect. We spend a lot of time, both in our writing and in our heads, justifying this lifestyle…
Now We’re Asking Ourselves If We Actually Believe It. This is Part 2 of a three part series. If you missed Part 1, start here. It sets up everything that follows. Part 3 lands in a few days. As we noted in Part 1, when we use the word “sex” in this series we mean…
Why treating them as different volumes of the same thing gets everyone in trouble This is Part 1 of a three part series about nudity and sex. Part 2 will be published in a few days. If you find yourself wanting to argue with us before you get there, good. That’s exactly what Part 2…
Why some advocates step back… and why we continue to stay. Back in February, we watched another naturist advocate announce they were stepping back from posting photos online. There wasn’t any drama or a big “I quit” speech. They just sounded… tired. The audience they were hoping to reach wasn’t the one showing up anymore….