Audrey Hepburn…
… is NOT 
Katherine’s daughter! I just found that out and am having a hard time dealing with it. We’re watching ‘Sabrina’. Great flick. Not Katherine’s daughter? I’m crushed.
Warm day today, we got some mowing done finally, grabbed a little sun on the deck. Maybe Summer will really come someday.
Poor Angie was out there dying in clothes mowing when it could have been fun, nude. Mowing our privacy fenced campsite isn’t so bad, nude. Here, at home, our neighbors might have a problem with that…
We are rarely clothed in the house and often have to stop ourselves from going outside unthinkingly nekked. Pick up the mail, cook on the grill, hop in the pool, whatever. It just seems so unnatural to get dressed.
Why,oh why, we ask ourselves, are these people so afraid of the nude human body? Most of us can remember when we felt that way too, because of our programming. Something happened in our lives that freed us from that fear, and now it’s hard to understand how we could have ever felt that way.
I recently read a long-defunct blog by a woman who had discovered nudism and embraced it but had bad experiences connecting with other nudists. She tried message boards and ‘meet’ sites and kept running into creeps. She e-mailed one and asked him if his profane and sexual advances weren’t opposed to the more pure idea of social nudity? His response was ‘Hey Baby, this IS nudism!’.
How sad. I hope she found her way.
We have a struggle to separate the different factions, ideas, involved in being naked. We get bad press whenever something titillating hits the news, rarely is there anything good said about the mainstream that are simply, nudists.
It’s our obligation to keep things squeaky clean for public view and, if we have different ideas of social nudity, to keep it under wraps and separate.
The public doesn’t understand that there are sub-groups that don’t reflect the generally accepted notion of social nudity. They see what they see and assume it is all the same. It’s not, any more than all textiles are the same.
There’s a saying: A woman has to work twice as hard as a man to be considered half as good. That applies to us also. Image matters.
So, behave, OK? -Steve
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Im not sure where my textile programmng came from. I can’t really recall anything that “taught” me that nudity was bad. It was a topic that I can’t remember ever coming up. It was probably societal or something. Throughout much of my adult life I found I enjoyed being nude in private and a few social experience at spas and saunas in Europe. Being nude didn’t seem to be a big deal though I was careful not to let my kids see me naked (seems weird now).
About 2 1/2 years ago, I became a bit more curious about nudism and found some good sites and forums and discovered that the ideals of nudism fit well with many of my core beliefs. I started being nude more often, getting more comfortable with it. Finally, last summer I made my first visit to a nudist camp and discovered how natural and relaxing it really was.
I can’ t really say what even freed me but now that I’ve known that freedom, I can’t go back.
I totally agree with you on the need for us present a good image for the public. I promote the nudism in a positive way.