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OK, Before we start, this is a very basic personal page. It's
simply a personal statement about naturism:
I'm a naturist and proud of it.
If you're looking for photos, I'm sorry, these pages will be
disappointing. My wife is a teacher and hence it is deemed 'inappropriate'.
But if anyone wants to send any pictures, I'll gladly start a gallery.
In these pages you'll find my personal views on naturism, and
the documentation of the building of a sauna, an above ground
pool and a garden naturist area.
I've been a naturist for many years - and that is brave in North
Yorkshire! Unfortunately, opportunities are limited where we live.
There are a couple of clubs around, but I really haven't the time (or
the money) to get involved in the club scene. We did have one official
naturist beach - but that was removed. Up until recently it was,
however, still used as an unofficial beach, but in June 1998 the authorities
started sending the police in. So, now there are zero naturist locations
on our coastline. In fact, the nearest official naturist beach (as far as
I know) is in Norfolk!! Another difficulty is the weather - we don't
often have lovely weather up here, and its even more rare that good weather
coincides with free time. Free time!! What's that?
so:
I've decided to work on creating a little naturist area in the garden.
That'll keep me going until we find more and better opportunities.
It's at the point now where we can put a small above
ground pool in.
The patio by the house loses the sun around 3.30 in the afternoon,
but the naturist area gets the evening sun, too. I can hardly
wait...
How did I get into naturism? I've always wanted to try it.
I have some very good friends in Bavaria. In fact they are more
family than friends. I was staying with some of them in the early
80s and we went for an evening swim in the pool in their garden.
They were already naturists and I finally had the opportunity. I've
never looked back. I just wish I had more time and opportunity now.
The three aspects which, to me, are most important are:
- the feeling of freedom
- there are no 'body police' - nobody bothers
how you look. It certainly is not about the body beautiful (a damn good job
from my point of view!)
- pretensions seem to fall away with the clothes
- most naturists are very genuine people
When we have to go to a textile beach and people are doing that ridiculous
dance behind a a towel as they get changed, we just strip off and then put
our swimming costumes - and those few seconds when we are without clothes
are the most comfortable of the day. And I hate having to wear a swimming
costume to swim. Swimming naked is something totally different.
Unfortunately, here in Britain most people seem to be far too repressed
and to be far too self conscious. There are a lot of misconceptions about
naturism. This is shown by the fact that only a few newsagents stock
naturist magazines and when they do they are kept along with top
shelf titles. This attitude was also demonstrated by the media reaction
to the Channel 5 Naturist week programmes, in particular the game
show Naked Jungle. Most of the media feedback I read took the
line about lowering of standards and equated it with pornography and
titillation. One writer in the Daily Mail even wrote something
along the lines of how it would be harder to find anything less
exciting and erotic. Surely that shows the misunderstandings with which
we have to cope - naturism isn't meant to be titillating and erotic.
Another letter writer, obviously a textile, criticised the participants
for not having perfect and attractive bodies. Yet another victim
of the body police. Sorry, I could go on about this for ages
but there are other people on the web who explain the philosophy
much better than I currently have the time to do. Go and have
a look at the link pages
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