Naturist

2022-09-01 We’re camped in the mountains of New Mexico. It has been some lovely walking out here. No cell reception can be found, the rest of the world will have to wait. But we are surrounded by the influx of hunters at our campsite. We’re leaving today. Before sunrise, a generator comes on. It is just 75 feet away. It wakes me.  I lay here realizing that I can’t pack in the dark.  A blanket over my head helps and I get another hour of sleep. The guy...

We’ve been publishing blog posts for more than 6 years now, and for the last 2 years, we also dove into creating videos. The one thing that put us in newspapers around the world though were the pictures that we shared on Instagram. We never really considered this, but our concept of self-censorship was exactly what the media loved. Nudity sells, that much is sure, but full-frontal nudity is something for magazines on the top shelf. We gave mainstream media the opportunity to illustrate stories about naturism without...

Photo by Tara Winstead on Pexels.com For those who are interested in artificial intelligence (or not), the company OpenAI has released ChatGPT a few days ago. ChatGPT is a conversational chatbot that interacts in a natural way, based on an advanced machine learning model called GPT3. I could not but ask ChatGPT about nudism and naturism. Below are its answers to my questions. The text has not been corrected in any manner. It’s the exact transcription of the bot’s answers. Can you write an essay about the benefits...

I don’t even know where to begin. It’s been a rather trying few months to say the least. There have been a number of personal struggles, balancing a professional life, dealing with website and email issues, and even deaths in the family close together. I’m generally a glass is half-full kinda gal, but there hasn’t been enough sweet tea donuts to keep things tasty. A lot of you have reached out to me via email, twitter, and comments on my site, but I seem to have had issues...

I have already visited many Greek islands, now it’s Kefalonia’s turn. In the travel reports, you hear about many naturist options on the island. Countless beaches are described, all of which are supposed to be secluded. Although there is no official nudist beach, it is supposedly possible to swim without a bikini on almost all beaches. We’ll be leaving next week. I’m travelling in the off-season and have chosen a hotel in the south of the island, where the many beaches are supposed to be. I’m really looking...

Music is an incredibly powerful form of expression and feelings, and speaks to you in ways art or literature cannot. I was on my way in to work yesterday morning (Yes, it’s as awful as it sounds. I have to get dressed and go in two days a week now), when I heard the beautiful voice of Evanescence vocalist, Amy Lee, come across my AirPods. I have always found her voice and lyrics to resonate with my emotions and soul, but yesterday morning was a bit different in...

The world is great to be a nudist one. I want a nudist world. Nudism benefits humanity. I would love nudism to make naked shame obsolete. We should make naked cities and towns, naked countries, naked territories and a naked world. Cap d’Agde may be considered nudist, but it also has a lot of swinger stuff. Public nudity to legalize should be a lot in non-sexual nude stuff to do as much as possible. Charco del Palo in the Lanzarote island of the Atlantic Ocean is a nice...

OK. So you’re not a nudist. You’d just rather keep your clothes on, thank you very much. Maybe you have had quite enough traumatizing public nudity in your high school gym class locker room and you have no interest reliving that experience. Maybe you feel a little uneasy about your shape, your imperfections, your psoriasis, that large mole, or a noticeable birthmark, and you’d rather keep those things tucked away. Or maybe you just don’t have any interest in getting naked—much less around other random people who are...

By: Stephen Bosbach This is an overview and critique of the 2018 Hiking Oregon Naturally Annual Tour. My hope is that others will follow some of these ideas and create their own natural hiking tour in their area. To that end, I’d like to share some of the things that worked, and some that didn’t.       As a backdrop, my wife Crystal and I participated in the 2016 NEWT, or Nude European Walking Tour. The NEWT has been going on for 13 years now (see nactiv.net), and this...

Naturism has always been promoted as a family-friendly thing, best enjoyed when you take your partner and your kids. For the large majority of naturist resorts around the world, families are still the preferred type of guest. But for a couple of years, we’ve been seeing a rapid increase of resorts that’ll ask you to leave the kids at home.   In the mind of the cautious naturist traveller, this immediately sets off a number of alarm bells. What’s happening at those places that my children are not...