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Dump Your Duds at the Door
The nude welcome is a simple and yet profound welcome.Can there be anything as sincere as being welcomed to a friend's home and being invited to remove your clothes? Your hosts are already nude, they...
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A Better Meaning for "Open Carry"
Two men walk into an "open carry" retail store. One is naked. The other, dressed in camo, carries a gun. In less than a minute, a security guard escorts one of the men out of the store- which man?In...
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Legends of Naturism
Naturism is multicultural! Here are some pithy profiles of nude heroes and heroines from around the world and throughout history. LADY GODIVA11th-Century EnglandTruth, or dare? The truth: Her husband,...
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The Quick and the Nude
A message from beyond the grave I give, a lesson learned by one who dwelt in fear:Your body is your home. You cannot livebut through it, in it. Breath and blood hold dear!You have but one life,...
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Interview with Steve White
Steve White maintains one of the most body-positive Facebook pages and Twitter feeds you will find anywhere. Follow him, and his inspirational messages and images will remind you every day how...
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Work in Progress
My second novel is in development! It's an adventure story involving the search for lost testimonies from the 16th century. When an earthquake damages the oldest public library in the Americas, an...
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No Pockets
Ever since our hominid ancestors started walking upright, we've had the need to move things around with us from one place to another. The grip of our opposable thumbs was a huge benefit for carrying...
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A Year of Cheese and Cake
Looking back on advancements for social nudism in 2014, I think it was not a year of cheesecake, but rather a year of cheese and cake: a year of reclaiming the parts from the whole. Very specifically I...
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Dress Right
There's a connection between clothing and rights that I want to look into here. It has to do with the word origins for "dress" and for "right." In previous posts I've written about the right to dress...
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Naturist Art Double Standard
Let's say I'm an amateur painter. I paint a nude, show it in a gallery, and attempt to sell it. Naturists, in general, will support me. Let's say I'm a fairly accomplished sculptor. I sculpt a nude,...
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Disrobing Suspense: Nick Alimonos
This series of interviews called "Disrobing Suspense"* is about the idea that writers of naturist fiction (and writers who may not identify as naturists but who nonetheless write about social nudity)...
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Disrobing Suspense: Robert Longpré
The second post in this new series of Disrobing Suspense interviews with writers is a very special one, because it was the first time I was actually able to meet with my interviewee in person. Robert...
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"There's Not a Bathing Suit in Russia"
I was recently looking through The Naturist Society's naturist bibliography, compiled by Mark Storey, when I came across the title There’s Not a Bathing Suit in Russia and Other Bare Facts by Will...
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Disrobing Suspense: P. Z. Walker
The latest featured writer in this new run of Disrobing Suspense is P. Z. Walker, author of the three-title Naked Crow series. Paul (P. Z. Walker) tells me that he wrote the books "for non-nudists as...
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Nude Prophets Old and New
In light of the upcoming release of The Prophet, an animated Hollywood version that tells the story of Kahlil Gibran's 1923 classic, I'm happy to have found an original Nude Scribe piece from 2012 that...
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Naked at Lunch
Mark Haskell Smith's exploration of the world of social nudity, Naked at Lunch, is an important book for you, no matter where you are on the nudity-textile spectrum. Why? Because he wrote about it from...
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Naturist Lodge near Guadalajara
In my previous post, I reviewed the hot-off-the-press Naked at Lunch by Mark Haskell Smith. I'd like to return to the book for a moment as a way of introducing this post. Smith, in a chapter about the...
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Naked: A Cultural History of American Nudism
Congratulations to Brian Hoffman, who has turned years of dedicated research and academic presentations into a thorough yet relatively succinct and well organized history of organized nudist movements...
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Skinvitation
If you are a nudist, jump in.If you are a nudist, a nude-is-not-rude-ista naturist beacherist true birthday suit-ist,If you're a no-clothes-er, a naked nap dozer,a barefoot all over from head to your...
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Escape the Drape
A reflection on naturist massageSome people leave their underwear on, or their bra. Socks. Wristwatch, even. That's just sad. If you're receiving a massage, especially a full-body massage, it's only...
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