Slimmed-down Version – ALL NUDIST

All Nudist, Condensed  Narrows things down a bit.  there you’ll find a selection of postings that will enable you get a good idea of what this site has to offer without wading through hundreds of articles.   Especially good for new visitors.  You are currently on the full-featured site, be sure to come back!

Change in the Wind?

It’s not a lot, it’s not huge.  It also wouldn’t have been seen on TV a few years ago, people in underwear!

Are you old enough to remember when bra commercials featured mannequins or women wearing their bras outside their clothes?  We weren’t allowed to see  what underwear really was for (I still haven’t figured that out yet!), let alone all that skin.  Dirty, dirty.

Now here we have not one, but two commercials during Superbowl featuring partially unclothed  people in totally non-sexual circumstances!   Amazing.  Men and women mingling in the near-nude without any lewd looks or flirting, just going on about their usual workday.  The only one who notices it is the guy with clothes on, he just doesn’t get it.

Sound familiar?  Where else do we see folks just enjoying themselves while others look on and just don’t get it?

So OK, this is no huge breakthrough, but it does demonstrate a slightly greater understanding about how it works in a nudist venue, nudity without lust.  And the people were just average, nothing special.  Not sexy, just funny.

And I tell you, I’d much rather be laughed at for my lifestyle than feared and hated.  How about you? 

      Watch the videos:         Casual Friday          and           I Wear no Pants!        Unrelated but fun!      Nine Naked Men  (thanks to I Naked/I Nudist )

One Picture’s Worth…

Son Jim, with his wry sense of humor, sent us this photo.  I guess it speaks for itself!

Phone Call in the Middle of the Night

Good morning, all!  I just got off the phone with one of our sons, Jesse.  Now mind you, I’m not at my best when awakened after four hours’ sleep just to ‘chat’ so  my first urge was to hunt him down and kill him, preferably in a slow and painful manner.  But after a bit I calmed down and just enjoyed talking to him.

This is the son who was a ‘difficult’ child, a troubled teenager and who got into a spot of trouble as a young adult due to  some poor decisions.  His future was far from assured.

Now, after some tough lessons in life, a lot of long, hard work and some long, hard looks at himself, he is well on the path to a successful life.  Going to school and working full time, raising two little kids, drug and alcohol-free, I couldn’t be more proud of him.  So here I sit with a tear in my eye when I should be sleeping, thinking about how short life is but how grand it can be, if you only let it!

That’s why, after my lousy four hours’ sleep, I had to thank God (or equivalent) for the opportunity to talk with him.  This is akin to the to the prodigal son story; I felt honored that he’d call up good ol’ Dad just to chat on the way to school.  This kid, who hated me not so long ago, now comes to me for solace and advice.

I’ll tell ya, sometimes life is pretty damn cool!

How Much Jail Time is Enough?

  This fella, Stephen Gough, has spent a heap of time in jail for, oh my, being naked.  Every time they let him out, off come the clothes and back he goes.  Now, this sounds like the definition of insanity to me, but just who’s insane?  This guy who likes to be nude or the justice system that would effectively keep him locked up forever?  Maybe both.

The question is, does behavior like this reflect poorly on nudist,/naturists in the public’s eye?  Or  will it bring sympathy to the cause?  I think neither.  The general public will hear nothing but a small news bite, if that, and it’s certainly not newsworthy enough to make any difference at all.  Such a waste.

You can read about it and sign a petition  HERE .

Read more:    Naked Rambler…Life in Prison?

Alphabetical Nudist?

  Sex and sin, we’re surrounded by it.  The textile world spends most of it’s time flaunting, showing and talking about sex endlessly.  TV all day and night. from ladies talking about it on morning shows to graphic displays on afternoon soaps.  Evening sitcoms (family hour) feature every form of sexual innuendo imaginable.  Then comes late night cable and subscription services, wow.  Wake up in the morning to toothpaste promising a sexy smile, orgasmic shower gels and that little black dress sure to attract attention with that new Wonder Bra.  Sexy blonds on the sides of busses inviting you to join them on their Sealy mattress, secretaries and co-eds dressed to attract, after-shave ads guaranteeing flocks of women at your feet.

All designed to create lust and, ultimately, get someone naked and ready for sex.

And we wonder why folks can’t understand the getting naked thing without it meaning sex!

  There’s a lively discussion going on about a proposal that AANR might set up a ratings system for it’s member resorts and possibly for nudist venues in general which would define just how much sexplay is allowed at that facility.  You can read more about some of the pros and cons at the websites listed below, makes for interesting reading.  Of course, they can do whatever they want, but the discussion is more about should they rather than can they, and how this will appear to the textile world.  It would, after all, be admitting to the textile public that yes, nudists like sex too.  This goes against decades of efforts to convince them otherwise.  Sticky wicket, huh?

It might actually be a good thing from one standpoint:  The public wants it’s decisions to be made for it.  It wants a Church to tell it what to believe, politicians to tell it what to do, even wants a rating system so that it doesn’t have to make a choice as to which films children should watch.  So a rating system for nudist venues would make it easier for them to accept our lifestyle, all properly labeled.  Aha!  Those X rated Hedonists (We always knew nudists were like that!),the  G rated resorts for families (Families?  Ethyl, it says it’s ok for kids, let’s go!), it makes it so much simpler to avoid learning the differences themselves if they can just call AAA, so to speak.  Maybe they could believe in ‘nice’ nudists if we admitted that other’s did exist.

Nah, they’d just say, I told you so, they’re all like that! 

Here’s a couple of somewhat related postings from sometime ago:    So, where do they fit in?    and    Sex, Nudism & Naturism

Discussion here:    Diary of a Nudist    The Academic Naturist     I Am Pedantic    Check ‘em out, lot’s of dust getting raised!

Mixed Messages?

Clothing optional resort Caliente in Florida is at it again (still), hosting swinger parties and such.  Many locals find a problem with this presumably un-healthy  behavior.    Naughty people!

Right down the road, however, it also made the TV news when the local Lingerie League football season began.  Good, clean family entertainment:  lovely lasses in lingerie engaging in another great American sport!  Gee, wonder what the cheerleaders will wear?

Now, there’s a message in there somewhere but I’ll be darned if I know what it is!

Fatties Go Home!

There’s a movement out there, a tiny movement to be sure, that would have you believe that if you’re not fit and healthy you can’t be a naturist.  Hear that, TNS? 

OK, everybody out there who’s in great shape, not too thick or thin, vegetarian, jogger and body-builder,  perpetually seeks inner truth and enlightenment and constantly strives to make their physical and mental body perfect, raise your hand!  Good, you can be naturists.  Both of you.

The rest of us poor saps who just get by day by day, living and loving, generally trying not to hurt anyone but just like having our clothes off are stuck with just being nudists.  Merely nudists, never naturists. 

This may come as somewhat of a surprise to you if you’ve actually ever been around other naturists nudists and have found them to be a pretty mixed bag of sizes and shapes.  Truth is, most of them wouldn’t pass the ‘naturist’ test.  So they’re just a bunch of lowly nudists too, I guess.

A lot of these self-appointed protectors of proper naturism tend to be, not surprisingly, pushing the same agenda that we hear from the textile world of the fit and beautiful.  Body health (appearance) comes before everything else.  Nature is beautiful, shouldn’t naturists be also?

They like to dredge up the origins of 20th century naturism, as if some lederhosen-less burghers in pre-Hitler Germany, the same testosterone-laden land that brought us WWII, are the last word on the subject.  Just forget nearly a century of change, different lifestyles, and a hugely different demographic.  Forget that throughout the clothes-freee community the terms ‘nudist’ and ‘naturist’ are synonymous and only an elite few split the hairs.  Forget reality and create a superior class of the clothes-free: Naturists.

OK, ok, maybe I’m blowing this up a bit but to see such a great bunch of folks, nudists, naturists, whatever, who have reached a place where tolerance is the norm and acceptance raises the spirits of so many, a step or two higher than society in general, I hate to see that vision damaged by a small group that would create ‘castes’ among us.  Or perhaps as our ‘founders’ might have put it, a ‘Master Class’.

A healthy body and mind are worthy goals, just please don’t try to make them admission requirerements to the naturist community.

Related:     What is a Badger Naturist?         Healthy Naturist Revolution

Politics

It’s sooo hard, not doing it.  Politics, that is.  There’s a lot of temptation to stray from our intended purpose here and use this site as a bully pulpit to express our personal political ideas..

And there’s so much out there to write about, inequities to condemn, figures to poke fun at.  But drat!   This is a nudist site, not political commentary and as such must get political only when it affects us.  Even then, there’s an endless stream of court battles over this beach or that, nudity being the issue.  This stuff is important but tends to be dry and they all sound alike.  That’s why you won’t hear about every legal battle going on here on Allnudist,  just the noteworthy stuff.  We have listed links to other sites that follow these issues for those seriously interested.

So we’ll try to leave politics to the political writers and stick to naked people and their peculiarities.

But by by the way, did you hear what Obama did the other day…?    

No 1st Ammendment in Australia

 USA, Canada, S. Australia, Latvia, Argentina, Russia, Sweden, Hong Kong, Switzerland,Saudi Arabia, Poland…

A quick check of incoming visitors included folks from all those countries, all around the world.  Pretty cool, huh?

If we were selling Democracy, for instance, we could potentially reach billions of people to spread our message.  The same goes for any other political or religious thoughts we might have.  Or that anyone else with a computer wants to espouse.  This is the incredible freedom of the Internet, this ability of a rural Wisconsin couple, or anyone, to reach nearly the whole world with their ideas.

This freedom is essential to a growing world with tensions running at fever pitch.  Everybody’s got a bomb, just itching to use it on someone.

Wait a minute, not everybody wants to kill their neighbors, in fact most people would be happy enough to live and let live.  So who does want to drop it?  Governments, politicians, leaders right down to your town mayor, anyone with power and a desire for more.  Businessmen, arms manufacturers, military leaders (regardless of what they say).  Religious leaders.  They all want to drop it on someone. 

This is not most people, it’s just those who want something and will do anything to get it.

And that’s why the Internet must be silenced, at all costs.  There’s ‘way too much sharing of ideas and information, it becomes difficult to fool people enough to swallow your leadership if they can compare and discuss alternatives.  People must be kept ignorant and unable to share those ideas.  Our side is right, so everyone else must be wrong.  They must be, otherwise it might be difficult to start wars to kill them.

And that’s one thing all governments have in common:  They reserve for themselves the right to kill anyone who doesn’t agree with them.

 Back to those visitors from around the world.  Does anyone think any of them want to kill each other?  Of course not.  But you know damn well that they would if their government, without Internet interference, convinced them that they’re not quite human, they’re the ENEMY.

  Well maybe I’m too optimistic but I think the Internet is going a long way towards that day when we are truely a global community, a community of fellow humans, people, not the ENEMY.

So it’s with sadness that we see that the government of Australia has created a system of internet control designed to quell anyone who dares step away from ‘accepted standards’.  Whatever those standards might be.  But don’t worry, just trust the government.

RELATED:   Internet Censorship and Freedom of Speech

Here’s a Thought…

We’d like to welcome a new (to us) blog to our group of nudist/naturist websites.  At  The Thoughtful Naturist you can expect to exercise your cranium and maybe get some good insights into our lifestyle.  Don’t look for a lot of flashy graphics, just solid,well written essays dealing with subjects affecting the nudist community.  In our eyes, The Thoughtful Naturist  is one of the good guys!