Nude by Nature: Living naturally without clothes

Nude by Nature: Living naturally without clothes

My family and my very close friends well know my decades-long relationship to clothes—I am not a comfortable carrier of textiles. The moment my feet enter my door, the clothes disappear. I am comfortable in my skin, wrinkles, imperfections and all.

I teach adult students in Southeast Asia. During one lesson I told my students I wouldn’t be around for a few days as I was going to a naturist resort and then to an island to spend the day on the beach with a naturist group. “What is a naturist?” I explained it is someone who prefers living without wearing clothes.

The students were fascinated.

“What do you do?”

“Exactly what other people do, except we do not wear clothes.”

My first nudist camping trip
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My first nudist camping trip

[scf-post-title output=”strong”] I made the decision to start my new journey and visit every nudist campground in Georgia. I pulled up a list and discovered 10 of them plus one across the border, all in the state from the north Georgia mountains all the way east to the coast. My first stop was Native Woods…

Nudism and Naturism around the World: Europe
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Nudism and Naturism around the World: Europe

[scf-post-title output=”strong”] While diving into all the content of our website for blog posts which we could include in our brand new Extended Versions of our Naturist Guides, we stumbled upon several forgotten ones from the early days. One of the first blog posts we ever published was called “Something about Cultural Differences“ in which…

The naked truth: At Conn. nudist resort, ‘You can’t hide behind fancy clothes. You have to be yourself here’
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The naked truth: At Conn. nudist resort, ‘You can’t hide behind fancy clothes. You have to be yourself here’

[scf-post-title output=”strong”] Dozens of brightly colored floats bobbed in the pond. There were noodles and air mattresses, blow-up fish and alligators, boogie boards and floating chairs. Children laughed and adults waved to friends drifting by. It could have been a scene out of any summer camp vacation, except for one thing: Everyone was naked. “Floatopia”…

We spent a day in Sandy Hook at NJ’s only nude beach. Here’s what to expect if you go
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We spent a day in Sandy Hook at NJ’s only nude beach. Here’s what to expect if you go

[scf-post-title output=”strong”] “Nude bathers may be present on beach” warned a sign near the packed parking area of Gunnison beach — a strip of sand and sea in the Gateway National Recreation Area separated from other Sandy Hook beach-loungers by grassy dunes. The presence of nude bathers is the only reason my friend and I…

Naturist couple reveal how taking their clothes off helped them find contentment
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Naturist couple reveal how taking their clothes off helped them find contentment

[scf-post-title output=”strong”] A woman who has been in a wheelchair since 2010 said being naked in social settings has helped her feel good about her body for the first time in a decade. Sixty-eight-year-old Joy Batley, from Wymondham, said she had always enjoyed the feeling of going without clothes, but had only felt confident enough…

Argus reporter puts on his birthday suit for Brighton nudist beach anniversary
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Argus reporter puts on his birthday suit for Brighton nudist beach anniversary

[scf-post-title output=”strong”] “SOCKS on or off?” I holler through high winds to the photographer. Off. I’m going the whole hog. It’s the 40th anniversary of the day Brighton decided to open Britain’s first nudist beach, and I’m wearing my birthday suit for the occasion. It’s a nippy day out on Black Rock naturist beach. The…

“From prudist to nudist: I got naked for a naturist swimming session and this is my honest review”
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“From prudist to nudist: I got naked for a naturist swimming session and this is my honest review”

[scf-post-title output=”strong”] Stylist’s digital writer Megan Murray has never been nude in public before – until now, that is. Here’s what happened when she decided to bare all for the first time ever. Everyone has had some variation of the same nightmare at some point in their lives. You know the one I mean: it…