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Bare-abouts
The woods that day were fairly wet;thick fog hung in the air.She'd left before we'd eaten yet;we did not know her whereabouts...Although her coat lay on the rail,her boots upon the stair,we guessed she...
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Threadbare
(A short story, based very-loosely-not-too-tightly on Acts 9:34-42)In the city of Joplin there lived a widow named Dory, who was always doing kind things for others, especially the poor. She was a...
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Freedom
One encouraging result of the Fall Arts Festival at Oaklake Trails is that one of the artists who attended has decided to make naturism the topic of her research paper in a sociology course. She asked...
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Asking Better Questions
Naturism FAQs: Just because the questions in red strikethrough below are the frequently asked ones, doesn't mean they're the best ones...Moving from: What if I see someone I know at the naturist park /...
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The Birds and the Bees
Birds and bees, flowers and trees: about as natural as you can get. I find it very interesting that "the birds and the bees" works as a euphemism for explaining sex, because ithides the idea of...
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Frostbite, the Snow Nude
♪ Frostbite, the Snow Nude, ♪is a jolly, happy soul,with a goofy smile and a runny noseand his nipples hard as coal!Frostbite, the Snow Nude, is a crazy guy, they say.When he runs through snow...
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The Empire's New Clothes
Of 2012's Events reviewed,a rhyming Tale of Royals Nude.There lies an Isle across the Seathat hosts a Royal Family:a Queen, her Son, two Princes - Heirsand Scions of Celebrity. The Family’s known in...
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No Real Nudity
Want to practice your life drawing skills? Here's what the ad says: "Bare Talent. Come hone yours at the Museum, Thursday January 3 at the Life Drawing Studio." Sounds fine, perfectly normal. Life...
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Exposed to Learning
Those of us who are educators as well as naturists / social nudists often ask ourselves how to bridge the two: What are good ideas for structuring a naturist education? What would be the practical...
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New Brazilian Naturist Community
Just north of Salvador, capital of the Brazilian state of Bahia, there is a new naturist community under construction. It's called Ecovila da Mata, which is like saying Eco-Town in the Jungle. Ecovila...
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Primal Magic
The "soundtrack" of naturism is the sound of nature: birds, water, the breeze in the branches, etc. But at a naturist park or nude beach, you'll hear every kind of soundtrack from folk to rock to...
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The Fig Leaf Fetish
Someone told me recently that naturism kills eroticism; in other words, that so much constant nudity eliminates the thrill of sexual anticipation. I don't always agree--context is everything--but I...
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Brazilian Naturist Pioneer Luz del Fuego
A reflection for today by my friend Jorge Bandeira, fellow naturist and artist, and co-founder and current president of the ten-year old naturist groupGRAUNA based in Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil. My...
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Benevolent Exhibitionism
A couple of well-written and fair-minded recent articles in the Montreal Gazette have brought renewed attention to the intersections between nudism and exhibitionism. The latter term, most of the time,...
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Don and Doff
Don and Doff were leprechauns who lived beyond the rainbow's end.Don scrubbed his shoes and cleaned his coat:Saint Patrick's Day was 'round the bend."Hey Doff! Get off your duff and washyour clothes!...
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Nude Physics 1: Surface Area to Volume Ratio
Naturism and social nudism involve the exposure of voluminous parts of our bodies that are obsessively covered by the norms of Western society. No matter what size your breasts, genitals, or buttocks,...
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Nude Physics 2: Torque
When we move our nude bodies, we experience a range of motion greater than when we are clothed. It might be a difference of just a few millimeters in the range you can rotate your shoulder when not...
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Nude Physics 3: Luminosity
I'm neither physicist nor physician, so it's only with a bit of creative license that I'm exploring, in this series of posts, certain physical properties of our bodies when nude. The first two posts in...
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Nude Physics 4: Vibrations
I believe that our bodies interact with the space around them in ways that are more complex than simply "taking up space." I don't think these interactions are mysterious, necessarily, just little...
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Out/Fit
Your outfit was outsourced. I found out.Folks packed in a factory, many more than should fit, were making your outfit. Then a fire broke out, but they were locked in. Making your outfit they couldn't...
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