The Naked Strokie

I had a conversation earlier this week with a female naturist friend about body-image issues. About those people who think they would like to try naturism but won't because ''I haven't got the right body for it." Of course, this is one of the biggest stumbling blocks to encouraging new people into naturism. Not everyone has the relaxed attitude to their body-image that I have had for my whole life - or that my  friend has - and not everyone is as comfortable with the way their body changes as they get older,  something I discussed in my last post. It takes a certain amount of courage and self-belief to be comfortable with your naked body. As my friend said: "I chose to be happy in my own skin. Are there things I would like to change? Sure! Most people have things they would like to change and that's OK. There is no such thing as the perfect body and we should all be doing what makes us feel good, inside and out. "Neighbours can be a problem if t...

Are you one of those people who has always felt that in order to look sexy or be desired, you had to have your hair properly done, be shaved in all the right places and (depending on gender....) have to be wearing the right amount of aftershave or have a full face of make-up on? Well, thankfully, as someone who has been comfortable as a naturist for my whole life, the above doesn't apply to me. But it does for too many people, especially young people. And I'm happy to say that a good friend of mine, Rebecca Lowrie of self-alchemy.com, addressed this in a recent social media post. She said that she used to have that attitude. But after many years of learning to love and accept herself, she now knows differently. In her post, she included a picture of herself without make-up, with her hair up and the word SEXY on the wall behind her. She encouraged her readers to look in a mirror, right now, as they were and say to themselves that they are gorgeous, sexy and desirable RIGHT...