The perfect summer to take the plunge (and do it nude)
It's been a while since I last blogged about naturism - just under a couple of months, in fact. My last offering was entitled: "Will anyone take a naked leap of faith?"
It was about the scope which exists for businesses to expand into naturism if their owners are willing to take that step into the unknown and embrace what one influential figure in the naturist community used to call 'the buff pound.'
And as it happens, the last two months in the UK have provided near-perfect weather for anyone who wanted to take that naked leap of faith and try nude living for themselves. The temperatures have been in the high-70s or low-80s on most days, the Sun has shone down from cloudless skies on most days; it's almost as if we're having a proper summer such as 1976 (when I was 12 years old) or 1990 when Mrs Naked Strokie and I got married (in clothes!) and the mercury hit 90 degrees Fahrenheit as we left the church on a lovely sunny Saturday afternoon in late-July.
I have spent much of the past two months happily nude during the day (and certainly at night), we have had naturist friends to stay on a couple of weekends and enjoyed naked relaxation with them, I have given talks about the benefits of naturism and naturism has made its' way into the national consciousness, as it usually does when the weather is like this.
There was even a well-written piece about the benefits of naturism in my broadsheet Sunday newspaper at the weekend; I think the last time naturism received such positive press in the 'posh' papers was during that summer of 1976!
So will you take that leap of faith this weekend? Have you been on a foreign holiday recently and tried (or quite fancied trying) a naturist beach? Are you going on a foreign holiday and discovered that there is a naturist beach near your hotel? That's how Mrs NS and I started. We had studied guidebooks about the resort (this was in the days before Mr Google had all the answers), read that the beaches around our resort were very clothes-optional and had talked about investigating.
But brave talk is easier than action and it took a few days before we finally shed our swimming costumes. What convinced us was seeing nude people happily co-existing alongside topless women, men in shorts or swimming trunks and ladies in 'full' costumes. And that's how it should be.
There shouldn't need to be specific 'nude' areas for naturists, whether in parks or on beaches. Everywhere should be clothes-optional in the right circumstances (Obviously, I mean parks, beaches, swimming pools and the like, not your local supermarket...)
That positive piece in my Sunday newspaper talked of there being 3.7 million naturists in the UK, according to the latest survey. That's an awful lot of people - half as many again as voted for the Liberal Democrats in the last General Election. Their/our voice deserves to be listened to. No longer are naturists seen as weird old people hiding behind hedges. We are journalists, secretaries, scientists, HR managers, engineers, just to take some of the people I know. Why not take that leap of faith and join us this hot summer?
It was about the scope which exists for businesses to expand into naturism if their owners are willing to take that step into the unknown and embrace what one influential figure in the naturist community used to call 'the buff pound.'
And as it happens, the last two months in the UK have provided near-perfect weather for anyone who wanted to take that naked leap of faith and try nude living for themselves. The temperatures have been in the high-70s or low-80s on most days, the Sun has shone down from cloudless skies on most days; it's almost as if we're having a proper summer such as 1976 (when I was 12 years old) or 1990 when Mrs Naked Strokie and I got married (in clothes!) and the mercury hit 90 degrees Fahrenheit as we left the church on a lovely sunny Saturday afternoon in late-July.
I have spent much of the past two months happily nude during the day (and certainly at night), we have had naturist friends to stay on a couple of weekends and enjoyed naked relaxation with them, I have given talks about the benefits of naturism and naturism has made its' way into the national consciousness, as it usually does when the weather is like this.
There was even a well-written piece about the benefits of naturism in my broadsheet Sunday newspaper at the weekend; I think the last time naturism received such positive press in the 'posh' papers was during that summer of 1976!
So will you take that leap of faith this weekend? Have you been on a foreign holiday recently and tried (or quite fancied trying) a naturist beach? Are you going on a foreign holiday and discovered that there is a naturist beach near your hotel? That's how Mrs NS and I started. We had studied guidebooks about the resort (this was in the days before Mr Google had all the answers), read that the beaches around our resort were very clothes-optional and had talked about investigating.
But brave talk is easier than action and it took a few days before we finally shed our swimming costumes. What convinced us was seeing nude people happily co-existing alongside topless women, men in shorts or swimming trunks and ladies in 'full' costumes. And that's how it should be.
There shouldn't need to be specific 'nude' areas for naturists, whether in parks or on beaches. Everywhere should be clothes-optional in the right circumstances (Obviously, I mean parks, beaches, swimming pools and the like, not your local supermarket...)
That positive piece in my Sunday newspaper talked of there being 3.7 million naturists in the UK, according to the latest survey. That's an awful lot of people - half as many again as voted for the Liberal Democrats in the last General Election. Their/our voice deserves to be listened to. No longer are naturists seen as weird old people hiding behind hedges. We are journalists, secretaries, scientists, HR managers, engineers, just to take some of the people I know. Why not take that leap of faith and join us this hot summer?
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