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Getting Nekkid
I signed on to AOL this morning to start blogging and was confronted with this big link to the rise in nudist activity on the Welcome page, so I guess I'm safe to write about it here. Apparently the business of catering to people who like to run around naked on their vacations has doubled in revenue in the last year to $400 million a year. That's not much compared to the overall $455 billion we all spent on travel and vacations last year, but it's still more people running around without pants than before. Nudists take pains to note that it's not about sex, it's about (among other things) body and image acceptance. The latter is a not insignificant deal in a nation where 60% of the adults are technically overweight, so it's entirely possible that nudits are healthier than the rest of us, and not just because they're getting a whole lot of fresh air and exercise.
I don't think I'm up for a nudist vacation myself. On a philosophical level I don't have a problem with nudity -- it's an instrumental part of my daily shower -- but on a practical level I worry about sunburns and getting interesting wounds from inappropriately-placed branches and end tables. Maybe I'm paranoid. The nudists among us will have to let me know.
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Nudity is too funny to have a sexual aspec to it -- especially if it results in a burnt butt. That's probably why it is usually done in low light -- sex that is.
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I have to include myself in that category of carrying a few too many pounds. Hell, if I decided I had to wait until a day when I was slim again like I was in my twenties and thirties, well...
People who have not gone to a nude beach or resort always seem to think there is a sexual aspect to it. That is not the case, at least most of the time of course. Any overt or untoward sexual activity will get you booted in a nanosecond.
For something different--give it a try, lots of info on the web. -
It is fun to be able to go nude, especially when going swimming. I have always thought it ridiculous to have to wear a piece of clothing into the water, besides, once you are in the water you can't see body parts anyway. On the weight thing, just like in the rest of the world, most of the folks who do it aren't gonna win any beauty contests.
10/30/07 5:25 AM