This should not be a problem. Pool is pool. Unless it’s a swimming pool.
Sunday Noon Nudist
Sunday Noon Nudist
Nude fitness, stretching, yoga.
Isn’t it odd that textile people don’t see that for what that is? Fitness, stretching and yoga, without clothes on.
Everyone has a body
“Everyone has a body. I have yet to meet someone who doesn’t have one.”
I heard this in a podcast from the Dutch naturist federation NFN.
It was a fascinating listen (link to podcast, make sure you understand Dutch) and when the above sentence came by, I laughed out loud. That made several people turn their heads, as I was out on a walk while listening.
The lady that was interviewed, Roos Schlikker , was very funny in her expressions.
The talk covered many different topics, ranging from being naked at home, visiting nude beaches and resorts, and going to nude saunas (there are saunas with specific ‘bathing suit only’ days here in the Netherlands).
Advertising was also a topic they talked about. They mentioned an advertising campaign from a soap and shower-gel company that had a television ad with a naked woman in it, and no one batted an eye:
A TV ad like this is absolutely impossible these days. I think this is a sad thing.
Because everyone has a body. It will not “live up to the expectations” that the beauty industry imposes on us (as I have talked about many times before e.g. [1] [2] [3]).
Something Roos Schlikker said in the podcast was that she had no qualms about walking around nude in her house. “If the neighbours see me, so what? They will look once and that’s it.”
And I agree with that. If people see me naked, I don’t care. So many already did, and many more will follow. If they don’t want to see me, they should look at something (or someone) else.
Another thing happened on twitter “just now” (as I compose this tweet).
Someone shared a tweet stating he would post more ‘shirtless selfies’. Someone responded with the words: “Just go ahead. I won’t. I don’t have the body for that.”
I had to jump onto that and sent him: “As long as you have a body, you can do it. All you need is no shirt.”
Because everyone has a body.
Sunday Noon Nudist
I bet she’s proud that she got the tent set up on her own!
Home office, nude office
I’m sure that many of you (us!) have been working from home for the most part, the last year. How did you like that? Were you able to get into the swing of ‘home office’ easily? And did you have the opportunity to make it ‘nude office’ as well?
I’m a lucky one in that respect. I work in IT, specialising in Cloud technology. That means I can do about 98% of my work with a computer, from anywhere, as long as there is some internet connectivity. Just occasionally do I have to pack up and head out to a customer’s site. Some things require hand-on hands.
COVID-19 now seems to be mostly contained in many parts of the world. That means that offices are opening up again. I really wonder how you feel about that. Especially the ones who are required to head back into the office.
I heard from several areas, e.g. even Google and Apple, that their employees have asked if they can please keep working from home. I fully understand that. Maybe many of them are naturists who appreciate that they don’t need to get dressed to get to work. People who also don’t have to flood the highways and join the happy commuter’s traffic jams.
On the other hand I heard that people are glad to escape their homes again. Glad to drive their car, bus or train to and from work, as if that is a portal into the work-mode and back to home life.
Which tribe are you in?
Sunday Noon Nudist
When no one seems to have a clue which is the right direction. LOL!
Wednesday post. I’m on time. Nude.
Hopes. Up. Or Down.
Now don’t get your hopes up, this won’t be a big, fabulous post, so if you’re looking for that, move on, nothing to see here, get an ice-cream at the nearest sales point and thank you for stopping by.
Nude?
Yes, I can do nude. I didn’t stuff that in the, admittedly, very weird blog title for no reason. But it’s not just about the image. It’s about…
Space
Okay, I admit, this gets weirder and weirder. Bare and bear with me: I’m very tired and I still have 2 days to work before I have a week off.
Space, however, is happening a lot on my computer these days.
You may recognise this cover, on the right.
Nude In Space.
One of the earlier naturist science fiction books I wrote. A while ago I heard people asking for more of this. Now I could recommend buying the book again and reading it again, but that would be a weird shortcut, right?
Well, let me tell you a not-so-secret.
Nude In Space 2 is growing.
It’s far from done yet. I’m on chapter 13 at the moment and wasting precious writing time by telling you that it’s not done yet. I can already hear the boo, hiss, get y’all naked ass back to writing calls, but that’s fine. I’ll get my naked ass back to writing after writing this.
The story is over 32000 words long at the moment, which means there is a lot more to come. As soon as I get this post done.
But since it’s Wednesday and I didn’t want to leave you without a blog post, I wrote you this.
Have a happy day, everyone. Bare it all if you can. Talk to you again. Cheerio!
Sunday Noon Nudist
Enjoy the weekend as much as you can.
Wish I could do this! Unfortunately there are no waterfalls here.
Freedom.
One word. A lot of meaning.
What I’ve seen over the many years I’m alive, is that freedom is precious. And unfortunately, there seem to be more and more laws that limit our freedom. All for the greater good of course, to protect us from bad things (even when it’s entirely unclear what those bad things are, or when those bad things only seem to live in the minds of an unhappy few, a.k.a. the lawmakers).
I’m not going to make this a political thing though. There are plenty of blogs and other sources that dip their toes and more in that area of life, and this is a naturist blog.
What struck me, the other day, is that some people in the textile world seem to be so ‘happy’ with limiting (or limited?) freedom that they happily will reject our rights to enjoy our version of freedom.
Here in the Netherlands and, I’m sure, in other places in the world, it’s fine to be nude in certain places. In the UK, for instance, being nude isn’t rude / illegal / officially offensive as long as the nude person is just nude, i.e. not displaying any sexual urges like masturbating in the road and things like that.
In the Netherlands we can be nude in places that aren’t close to the ‘main roads’. There’s even a specific law article dedicated to that (Article 430a for those from the Netherlands who don’t know). And yet, when I’m naked in such a place, some people have the nerve to tell me that it’s not legal to do that, or that it’s offensive, rude and whatever other words they like to throw at that.
Luckily there aren’t many, but those that have these objections are the least open to reason and debate, and they don’t even want to hear about the legality of nudity in such places.
And that is the kind of closed-mind, happy to limit other people mindset I’m referring to here.
Why do people have those tendencies? Do they feel threatened by us? Do they think our nudity is taking some privilege or right away from them?
I’ve been thinking about this, and I’ve asked people that on occasion, certainly the ones that don’t ‘want’ others to be nude in safe spaces.
So far I haven’t found a satisfying answer to those questions…
Sunday Noon Nudist
This is the best way to work out. More gyms should adopt it!