Some nudists choose to live a nude lifestyle, some by working in a clothing optional environment (working at a nude resort, working at a clothing optional company or apartment complex – as in Naked Carpenters in California and one apartment complex that I know of in Austin, TX). Many other nudists escape their busy lives for relaxation, some go fishing, others to beaches, and still others to strip naked with like minded families. (My experience is limited to family oriented activities. I always figured to leave the sex games, risks, and exposures to other folk.) Many clubs and facilities make use of remote sites, of natural beauty on mountains (Mountain Air Ranch, Denver, CO, Lupin Naturist Resort, Los Gatos, CA., various nude beaches along California’s ocean front, Universal Life Church Camp north of St. Louis in lovely woods, etc.) or other places to help make the experience rewarding on a personal level, as well as attracting visitors and cash flow for a successful operation. Many nude recreation sites could be compared to a rustic, low-tech retreat similar to a water theme park.

For people with regular out-of-doors nudity in their life, the attraction would be meeting the kind of people drawn to naturism. For others it seems to be a combination of escape and recreation.

Anyone can find a secluded spot to strip off. For more congenial facilities you need more people cooperating. And to meet and interact with like-minded people you need organization and structure.

Hope this helps!

Welcome!

About the feeling on the ‘naughty bits’, yes and no. Even those wearing a skimpy bikini or similar scant bit of cover, there are straps, strings, ties of some kind, or glue, or whatever to hold those ‘modest’ covers in place. At what point does one say, ‘why bother’?

Nudists often refer to their clothes-free state as ‘body acceptance’. There is nothing shameful about a body, there is nothing that needs to be hidden, depending on where you are and who you are with. When responsible people agree on a clothing free area and experience, there is good reason to drop trou and all the rest of the fashion and marketing claptrap we often use to drape our body.

A woman with a mastectomy or two, a chubby person, a couple enjoying a hike with a twist. When people accept their own body, they often accept others – a synergy that helps with healing and growth. You learn that the important feature of a person is the smile. Scars, physical or emotional, age and stretch markes, lost limbs – these don’t define or limit a person. They merely give a body character.

When you take a person that spends fortunes on makeup, fashion clothes and accessories, then strip them, set them in a sauna or hot tub, shower them – they don’t look all that different from the kind lady with three kids playing quietly on the lawn. And the fashion person doesn’t have to maintain that ‘peak’ image. A revelation and release all at once, every time, in one of the more nurturing communities of people in America.

Plus, it can be quite liberating for some people to realize that being naked is not the same as demanding sexual contact. Taking off the clothes in a managed, nudist-friendly environment is about body acceptance.

As for the organized, repeated aspect – once you visit a beach, why would you ever go back? To experience the adventure again.

Where I think Honji got it incorrectly was where he concludes that nudist camps, resorts, and activities are “places that exist for the sole purpose of bringing together groups of people ..”

This was a very tongue in cheek remark, no offense intended. Regular readers of my blog (hint hint) know that I have a warped and sarcastic sense of humor.

Honestly though, I still don’t get the

the reason for going to a nudist activity is to feel the subtle sensations of breeze, sun.

Pardon my ignorance, but in the summer when we tend to run around with very little clothing anyway (allowing the above mentioned sensations) aren’t you really saying you like feeling these subtle sensations on your ummm “naughty bits”?