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Abricó Beach, Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro's Praia do Abricó nude beach lies far away from the famous Christ the Redeemer statue and Sugarloaf Mountain, but it is well worth the effort to get there. Abricó is located just to the...
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Phenotype Dreams
One of the great liberal and liberating messages of our time is that we should not be judged by the color of our skin but by the content of our character (Martin Luther King, Jr.). Thanks to social...
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The Naked Eye
One of the big attractions of naturism and social nudism is the exhilaration of moving naked through space. It's all that "frolicking" that nudists seem to be universally known for. One of my earliest...
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Freedom of Dress
Today is a day to celebrate freedoms here in the United States, freedoms such as those depicted by the celebrated mid-20th-century American realist painter Norman Rockwell in his series called the Four...
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WHEREAS human beings manifest bodies that occupy physical volume in space as a necessity of existence;WHEREAS human beings are born naked into these bodies and thus begin, naked, the basic acts of life...
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Flankbook
Facebook has become Flankbook for naturists who brave its censorship vagaries. I haven't even tried to accommodate the Nude Scribe site or its message to Facebook, but many intrepid naturists and...
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The Tailor
(in which a man "of the cloth" experiences a seam-splitting epiphany)The tailor plied his trade for years -a craft he chose o'er all careers -and kept his shop on Fashion Streetwhere loyal clients he...
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Because We Are Not Ghosts
Take an old bedsheet and throw it over yourself - voila!, you are a ghost, easiest and maybe the oldest or most basic Halloween costume of all. Why do ghosts wear sheets, anyway? Maybe because the...
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Beautiful Nude Remedies
She is one of the most memorable characters from one of the most beloved books in the world, and it's time to recognize her for what she is: a nudist. I'm referring to Remedios la Bella from Colombian...
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Fishing for Nude Insights
Fellow naturist blogger Robert Longpré has produced a volume called Naked Poetry by the Sea and on the Prairies. The polished, succinct poems of his collection guide us to the naked core of truths both...
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Happy Nude Year, Baby
There's an ancient allegory of the seasons, with spring as birth, summer as youth, autumn as maturity, and winter as old age. Even though the start of the year in the Western calendar - January 1st -...
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Public Health Advocacy for Nudity
Nudity is a public health issue, but not for the reasons many people might assume. It is not because of the need to shield bus seats from bare buttocks, or to protect diners at restaurants from pubes...
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Why Get Mad About Naturism?
Don't get mad, get naked. On NPR.Lately there have been some elevated agitations regarding online petitions and organizational leadership in the naturism community. Let's recognize that there are...
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Populate the Nudescape
I'm driving along an avenue in town, one I drive frequently, and I'm noticing these small green areas every so often along the sides of the avenue - areas bigger than yards but not big enough to be...
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Naturist Trolls?
Disney's über-popular Frozen debuted months ago, but I didn't see it until this weekend, and there are a couple of quick pro-naturist points I would like to make about the film. The story is set...
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Epitaph for an Undershirt
Here is hungan old undershirt. I knew it well, or it knew me well. It was not a bulletproof vestnor a shirt of chainmail, yet in its way it was designed to protect me;it swaddled my heart,it soaked my...
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Lift
She restrained herself. Daily.One hemisphere for each heft.A strap on the right, a strap on the left.A clasp attached at the back.She felt a bit tight. Pressed.But contained. Supported.A place for...
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Naturist Family Values
Naturist families face any number of questions about how to deal with making known their naturist values. Do you tell the neighbors? Co-workers? What about close friends and family?What about if your...
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A Nipple For Your Thoughts
The function of women's nipples in lactation makes sense. But why do men have nipples? It's a great question. And there are many who have given their two cents: science, religion, ancient myth...But I...
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Introducing the Family, part two
In three years on this blog, the most popular post that I've written is Introducing the Family from October 2011. Evidently a lot of people would like some tips on how to get the whole family to...
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