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David77

11-15-2003, 05:38 PM

Here is the live URL below.

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote">quote:<HR>Originally posted by Elery:
Check out this link;
http://www.madison.com/captimes/opinion/editorial/61307.php
wish this was a trend.. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>Hey Elory, The reason that your original URL appeared to be dead is because you forgot to leave at least one space before and one space after the URL.

Sol-Searcher

11-15-2003, 05:53 PM

Elery, I think soon it will be a trend, as long as we are responsible, and correct bad behavior, we will prevail. If we see any bad behavior we need to confront it. Soon everyone will understand that we are not bad people.

Your friend,
Randy
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Elery

11-15-2003, 06:21 PM

Uh, thanks for the hint. I usually just copy and paste but having it live is easier. I wondered why it didn't work tho...

Elery

11-16-2003, 04:31 AM

Poor Joe!!!! His wife thinks he's nuts for wanting to be naked. nude news (http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/living/7258166.htm)

Naturist Mark

11-16-2003, 05:05 AM

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote">quote:<HR>Originally posted by Elery:
Poor Joe!!!! His wife thinks he's nuts for wanting to be naked. nude news (http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/living/7258166.htm) <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>What a great answer 'Annie' gave! And in a family newspaper at that.

-Mark

shãybare

11-16-2003, 05:21 AM

It is too bad that Joe's wife feels the way she does but I hope she takes Annie's advice and at least gives it a go. Education is certainly the key here.
So-Searcher is quite correct in his statement about correcting bad behavior. It shouldn't matter if it is done at a club or on an open beach. It should be done, however, in a friendly manner. /infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif

11-16-2003, 07:03 AM

I think many people have the misconception that you are required to be totally nude at all times at a nudist resort which is why they won't go, although I understand some places do require it. I believe most places are clothing-optional. A person can take it a little at a time and bare no more than they want to until they're more comfortable. I see people at Turtle Lake Resort who don't get nude all day long. The teens are only nude when they're in the water. I saw one woman once who was fully dressed and stayed that way. Maybe she didn't trust her husband to go alone, but I figured she just had a bad sunburn she was protecting.

EricNY

11-16-2003, 07:09 AM

Thats the best part...be however makes you comfortable....And we can be ourselves. /infopop/emoticons/icon_cool.gif

Elery

11-16-2003, 03:50 PM

Mr. Tunick (http://www.psychologytoday.com/htdocs/prod/PTOArticle/pto-20031021-000006.asp) Nice article about our fave mass nude person.

Elery

11-16-2003, 03:59 PM

Another nice article...do you all want me to continue to post any links I find like these? Or is it not of interest?

Let's get nood (http://www.emediawire.com/releases/2003/11/prweb87509.htm)

Nude in the North

11-16-2003, 04:15 PM

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote">quote:<HR>Originally posted by Elery:
Another nice article...do you all want me to continue to post any links I find like these? Or is it not of interest? <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>I'm finding them of Great interest. I enjoyed reading all of them.
This is the sort of thing that we should be sharing on this forum. It's a great way to introduce some of the lurkers to the opinions of people other than the few that regularly post on the forums.
Keep 'em comming.

Steve

shãybare

11-16-2003, 04:35 PM

Very good interest. Keep posting them, please.

11-16-2003, 05:35 PM

Yes, Elery, many of these stories I don't get to read, so I'm glad you post them here. None of these are ever in my local newspaper or on the TV news. I do enjoy the ones I read on INA.

Elery

11-17-2003, 04:10 AM

I'm not so sure that this is exactly the image we want but at least it's getting people nude... posh CO resort (http://www.sptimes.com/2003/11/03/Pasco/No_blushes_for_nudist.shtml)

This is a long article but sort of interesting and well written. Jeez theez peeple is nahked.... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30524-2003Oct28.html)

Elery

11-17-2003, 04:38 AM

Good news... didn't burn (http://www.nbc4.tv/news/2626612/detail.html)

Vellly inheresting but. You know this is getting good. Lot's of intelligent mainstream writing being done about our favorite costume...
nude is good but is America ready? (http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/northwestlife/2001786395_jdl09.html)

There is a huge amount of attention, mostly positive, being given to nudity and human rights now...These kinds of articles were rare not too long ago.

Elery

11-17-2003, 04:02 PM

Who??? Nude??? Nah...
Tammy not go there.... (http://www.thedesertsun.com/news/stories2003/entertainment/20031029025642.shtml)

Elery

11-20-2003, 04:36 AM

A nude experience from HELL!!!!!
Oh me willie... (http://www.news24.com/News24/RWC_2003/RWC_News/0,6880,2-1529-1530_1447846,00.html)

Elery

11-20-2003, 04:58 AM

Flash!!! Lady documentary maker sort of converted to naturism!!!
They ain't weird after all... (http://ww1.eveningtimes.co.uk/hi/news/5020518.html)

11-20-2003, 06:38 AM

Elery...Great stories ...Thanks for sharing..I believe ...for normal people...experiencing naturism is addictive...Odb /infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif

11-20-2003, 07:39 AM

Thanks, Elery. I especially liked the last one. It looks as though we may have a new convert to naturism. Another myth shot down. Nudists/naturists are normal after all.

shãybare

11-20-2003, 03:24 PM

Thanks, Elery, those are great articles that show nudism in a good light.

missouriboy

11-21-2003, 02:29 AM

Now wouldn't it be just great if we could watch the film?

EricNY

11-21-2003, 11:35 PM

Elery.....How do you search and find all these articles???

Elery

11-22-2003, 04:14 AM

My home page is Google and above the search input window is a menu including 'news'. It has input form hundreds of newspapers and other sources. Just put in nude or nudist or nudism whatever and it finds any relevent articles with that term in it...Google is great and has a custom search bar you can download that makes things ever simpler when searching.

Elery

12-02-2003, 05:13 AM

Been lean in the nude news deparrtment of late but here's one...fellah has Not a Clew.. not a clew... (http://www.tallahassee.com/mld/democrat/news/opinion/7357789.htm)

NuTex

12-02-2003, 06:23 AM

Elery,
Great articles. Thanks! The "Oh me willie" was indeed nudity from hell. Yikes! /infopop/emoticons/icon_eek.gif

But I thought the Lady documentary maker was great. I would love to see that documentary. I wonder how. Ideas anyone?
NuTex

NuTex

12-02-2003, 06:30 AM

More on the Wearing a One Button Suit Documentary. I'm still looking for how to get a copy One Button Suit (http://www.scottishtv.co.uk/content/default.asp?page=s5_4_4&newsid=1235) .

NuTex

NuTex

12-02-2003, 06:36 AM

Of course there has to be one idiot. Here's a anti-naturist commentary about the One Button Suit documentary.
An Idiot Twit (http://www.scotnaturist.freeservers.com/sundaytimes03.html)

shãybare

12-02-2003, 07:24 AM

The article by Carolyn Mills does seem very biased, indeed, especially the reference to the dance held in a "spooky basement. It is absolutely terrifying, like a nightmare suffered by the Duchess of Argyll after watching The Blair Witch Project.".
No, I wasn't there and am not sure the demeanor of the naturists at the party. I can only assume the naturists there were as kind as most of the naturists I have met in my 30yrs of naturism. Maybe I'm the one biased, NOT.

Jochanaan

12-02-2003, 01:47 PM

A quote from the article, written not by Carolyn Mills but by Allan Brown: "'Scotland is still so prudish.'

Thank the capaciously-clothed Lord that it is..."

I beg your pardon! According to Michelangelo's image at the Sistine Chapel, the Good Lord doesn't wear much at all, and his creation Adam wears not a thread!

And Mr. Brown accuses our arguments of being weak, but I didn't see any from him that were even as strong as ours! /infopop/emoticons/icon_razz.gif

12-02-2003, 02:22 PM

I must confess I did enjoy reading Allan Brown's commentary. Bear in mind he is a TV critic and witty acerbity is almost a prerequisite the job!

OK I don't think he's been entirely fair about naturists or naturism. But sometimes even a distorted mirror can force us to confront things about ourselves we would prefer to deny. Ask yourselves, for instance, what is the profile of the typical naturist (if there is such a thing). Clearly Mr Brown believes it is male and middle-aged. Is he so far off the mark? And clearly he shares my view that there are parts of the human body that are best kept out of sight.

It's also interesting that the documentary focuses on Scottish naturists. Scotland is of some particular interest to many here at the moment as it's the country in which Steve Gough has faced most of his legal difficulties.

Stu

shãybare

12-02-2003, 03:08 PM

Sorry about attributing the article to the wrong person. I really can read. No,I mean it. I really can. Really.

Elery

12-02-2003, 05:29 PM

Wouldst imagine that the only chance of ever seeing "one button suit" would be if PBS decided to purchase it. Or maybe it will be sold on one of those rare video catalogs/// Uh, does anyone here get BBC America on cable?

NuTex

12-02-2003, 05:35 PM

I get BBC America and I didn't think of that. Hmmmmm.

missouriboy

12-03-2003, 01:18 AM

An Idiot Twit (http://www.scotnaturist.freeservers.com/sundaytimes03.html)

"Their vanity is evident in their oft-mentioned relief at no longer having to be vain, which alerts us to how deeply the matter of appearance has troubled them in the past."

No, twit, it reveals how the matter troubles YOU, not us. When told the truth, you refuse to hear.

Truly an idiot. /infopop/emoticons/icon_rolleyes.gif

aunaturelone

12-03-2003, 10:07 AM

This is a fabulous thread!

Some very important information picked up from the "I See Naked People" article. <BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote">quote:<HR>A survey conducted by the marketing firm Claritas Inc. and sponsored by the American Association for Nude Recreation, found that most renewing-AANR members tend, like Transparenti, to be upper-income Republicans with hobbies common to suburbanites, such as golf and hunting. Nudists are a growing bloc. Nationally, they pump about $400 million annually into special resorts and cruises, and their membership numbers have climbed from about 40,000 in the early '90s to more than 50,000 today. Most members are married, with children. That is the case at MAHESO, where the ratio of families to singles is about 60-40. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>That tells us a LOT about organized nudists.

NuTex

12-03-2003, 03:33 PM

Missouriboy,
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote">quote:<HR> No, twit, it reveals how the matter troubles YOU, not us. When told the truth, you refuse to hear. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>So you agree with the writer calling naturism "uncommon behaviour of a quasi-sexual nature"?

Or when he puts naturism in the same category as "foot fetishism, pole-dancing or wife-swapping"?

Or maybe you agree where he refers to the naturists as "weirdos".

No wait. Maybe you agree that we are "flaunting that which should be concealed or surgically removed."

Those are all statements he made about naturism, not landed clubs. But all of us naturists.

So tell me what in the above you agree with? And who "us" are you refering to?
NuTex
PS I see from your profile your're a member of AANR, which is makes your response seem even more odd to me because that often is a landed club org.

Naturist Mark

12-03-2003, 05:32 PM

NuTex, I think you misunderstoond the context of Moboy's comment. The 'twit' he was referring to was Allan Brown, the clueless reviewer of the documentary Wearing The One-Buttoned Suit.

-Mark

missouriboy

12-04-2003, 04:08 AM

Thanks, Mark, you're exactly right.

NuTex, sorry if I didn't make it more clear, but my comment was specifically about the words of Allan Brown, which I quoted directly above my own. That sentence of his rubbed me wrong, since I AM one of those who "often remarks" about the shedding of such vanity.

Cheers. /infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif

NuTex

12-04-2003, 02:49 PM

I'm sorry missouriboy. I got thinking later that maybe I had misunderstood you. And it appears that I had been in error in my previous post. As I've said before, sometimes I'm not the brightest tool in the shed.

Please accept my apologies.
NuTex

Naturist Mark

12-04-2003, 03:59 PM

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote">quote:<HR>Originally posted by NuTex:
As I've said before, sometimes I'm not the brightest tool in the shed. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>I think you mean the 'sharpest' tool ...

oh nevermind. /infopop/emoticons/icon_razz.gif

NudeAl

12-04-2003, 04:45 PM

Or the brightest bulb on the tree.

NuTex

12-04-2003, 05:17 PM

*Sigh*. See I told you so. /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif

NuTex
"Drawing on my fine command of the language, I said nothing."
~ Robert Benchley

hairyhomer

12-04-2003, 06:05 PM

hairyhomer

12-04-2003, 06:17 PM

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote">quote:<HR>Originally posted by Jochanaan:
A quote from the article, written not by Carolyn Mills but by Allan Brown: "'Scotland is still so prudish.'

Thank the capaciously-clothed Lord that it is..."

I beg your pardon! According to Michelangelo's image at the Sistine Chapel, the Good Lord doesn't wear much at all, and his creation Adam wears not a thread!

And Mr. Brown accuses our arguments of being weak, but I didn't see any from him that were even as strong as ours! /infopop/emoticons/icon_razz.gif <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> <BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote">quote:<HR> <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>Sorry about the last post I wasn't sure how this worked. Michealangel's image at the Sistine Chapel had the Good Lord not wearing a thread. The Church had it repainted years later as they thought it was wrong to show God naked. Which doesn't make much sense, when God created us in his own likeness and image.

missouriboy

12-05-2003, 03:11 AM

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote">quote:<HR>Originally posted by NuTex:
I'm sorry missouriboy...Please accept my apologies.
<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>Accepted, pal. But none were really needed, because I didn't blame you for misunderstanding my post. What I've learned about myself from hundreds of attempts at posting on fora is that I am far, far less than expert at making my own writings 'perfectly clear.'

Hmmmm, now I'm not even sure I understand what I just said! /infopop/emoticons/icon_eek.gif

Oh, well. Carry on! /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif