LIFE WITHOUT SHAME
I am passionate about my heroes, Xandr and Thelana, because I share their values, and attitudes, regarding communal nakedness. Since clothing is utterly unknown to their people, the Ilmar, they have no sense of body shame, no understanding, actually, of what it means to be "naked". The Ilmar manage this without any of the problems... Continue Reading →
Mykonos is basically sex island, my Greek friend tells me. Once you get off the boat, a random girl will grab you and take you to bed. Sure, I say, rolling my eyes. I didn't believe his promises for a minute, but I'd heard plenty of crazy stories about Mykonos. Yes, it was a place... Continue Reading →
Today was going to be a great day. After FOURTEEN years, my wife and I were taking a trip to Land O' Lakes to visit one of the three nudist resorts in the area. We'd been to nude-friendly islands in Greece and to Hidden Beach Resort in Cancun, but hadn't been anywhere else since we... Continue Reading →
As I was searching through YouTube looking for naturist content, which is quite a rare thing to find, I might add, even on a video sharing platform that seems to have an infinite amount of everything, I came across some unexpectedly interesting "naturist" content. I put "naturist" in quotes here because for most viewers, I'd... Continue Reading →
Millions of people were infected with herpes after a recent law lifting the ban on public nudity. The national death-toll currently stands at 500,000 and counting. And yet, despite this horrible loss of life, nudists have been refusing to put on clothes, demanding that they have the right to frequent public places, like restaurants and... Continue Reading →
So, I am driving down this narrow, rocky road---a road so rocky you can barely call it a road---along the edge of a cliff in my rented Audi with my wife and two kids. Now, I am not a religious person, and I no longer believe in God, but I sure was doing a whole... Continue Reading →
I've recently come under fire for comparing aspects of nudism to the LGBTQ+ community, which you can read about in two of my posts, Heroes of Naturism and Nudity, Censorship, and Discrimination. More than a few Redditors accused me of being insulting, and several "fuck yous" were lobbed my way. Now, social media has never... Continue Reading →
Misconceptions about nudism and nudists are ubiquitous these days, which makes it more difficult for nudists to express themselves, to let their friends and family know who they are. They provide the naysayers of the world a strawman target, and the ammunition to ridicule a minority they know nothing about. In debunking these misconceptions, I... Continue Reading →
Just as racism and homophobia exist to varying degrees around the world, so does bigotry against nudists. It might seem offensive to equate the two, but in countries like Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan, women who refuse to cover their faces can be jailed, beaten, and raped. Becoming a nudist is a choice, and yet that choice... Continue Reading →
I was born with a cleft lip. If you’ve never seen pictures, let me just say it can get pretty ugly. Basically, it looked like a mugger took a knife to my mouth as I exited the womb. The doctors did their best to sew me up, but the scar remained. As a result of... Continue Reading →
Being and Nakedness 