The Naked Strokie

'You wouldn't want to look at my naked body after all it's been through'. That comment was posted on social media this week in a discussion about a nude dining evening staged recently at a restaurant in Bristol. I have a number of friends in Bristol; they are all aware of and tolerant of my naturist tendencies and one of them posted a link in a Facebook group to a story in Bristol's local paper about the event. They asked: ''Would you attend this event?''. Of course, I said I would and I was pleased by the number of respondents, both male and female, who agreed with me. But one of the respondents, who admitted to being more mature in years, posted the comment above. Someone else said: ''I'm a grandma, for goodness sake!'' But does it matter how old you are? In fact, from a naturist point of view, the comment at the start of this post is wrong on so many levels. For a start, who's looking? As I have said before, staring a...

I recently read a blog post on the much-discussed subject of male erections in a naturist environment. The post took the stance that having an erection in a naturist environment is always unacceptable, completely against naturist etiquette and will probably result in the person involved being asked to leave. However, in doing so, it also acknowledged something which is often forgotten - that younger men, in particular, can get involuntary erections, which should be seen as a natural bodily function and that the man may not be able to control his erection. In nearly 30 years of involvement in naturism, during which I've seen thousands of penises, I can only recall a few instances where I've thought 'he's got an erection' and been concerned about it. And I have NEVER come across an instance of a man masturbating an erection in a naturist environment. I know it happens and I have heard of men being thrown out of naturist events for doing so, but I have always taken...