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JKFedWay: Social Nudity Enjoyable

Posted by DFO

Aug. 3, 2011 8:20 a.m. • 3 comments

JKFedWay: My wife and I have been nudists for quite some time, and thoroughly enjoy social nudity. For those who are interested, but think they’d be too shy to participate—trust me, nobody cares what you look like. Your shyness will disappear within ten minutes as you realize that you’re no different than anyone else. Contrary to what is stated in this article, nudists don’t “check out” others (unless you’re wearing clothes—that just looks very strange in a nudist setting). Nudism isn’t about beeing seen, it’s about being, period.
Every person I’ve ever known who has tried social nudity has said the same thing— “why didn’t I do this XXXX years ago?!?” (SR file photo: Developers Linda and Tom Janson at Sun Meadow Resort in 2007)

Question: Interested?

Three comments on this post so far. Add yours!

Cindy_H on August 03 at 8:52 a.m.
Nope.
Sisyphus on August 03 at 9:23 a.m.
Uh, wrong. I do care what they look like. Moreover, I’m misanthropic with my clothes on. I don’t need incentive. Having said that, I have little problem with nudity.
fortboise on August 03 at 2:56 p.m.
I wear clothes more for function than modesty. Where I live, if it’s warm enough to run around naked, you probably need sunscreen, and I’d just as soon not have more area to apply it to. (And I don’t like the consequences of missing a spot.)

I did some artistic (as opposed to “social”) nudity for hire once upon a time, back when $5/hr was good pay for holding a pose for a drawing class. I forget how “shy” I was before that, but the estimate of how long it’ll take to dissipate shyness is overstated by a factor of 10 or 20 compared to my experience.

(But then the classes were uniformly—ha!—polite. If they’d taken to pointing and laughing, I might’ve been embarrassed after all.)

At remote and adults-only hot springs (or swim sites), I’ve never had a problem with “social nudity.” But I’m also fine with wearing a swimsuit if it makes others more comfortable.

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D.F. Oliveria is a columnist and blogger for The Spokesman-Review. Huckleberries Online was judged the best 2008 Idaho newspaper blog by the Idaho Press Club. And the best 2007 news blog in the Pacific Northwest by the Society for Professional Journalist. Print Huckleberries is a past winner of the Herb Caen Memorial Column contest by the National Association of Newspaper Columnists. The Readership Institute of Northwestern University cited this blog as a good example of online community journalism.