Author: Paul

Promoting the clothes-free lifestyle.

De NFN

Dit is deel 1 in een aantal artikeltjes over de NFN.

nfnWat is de NFN?

De NFN is de Nederlandse Federatie voor Naturisme. Je kunt ze vinden op www.nfn.nl. Zoals ze het zelf noemen zijn ze de Belangenorganisatie voor naaktrecreatie en naturisme.

Dik 2 miljoen Nederlanders recreëeren wel eens bloot. Dat kan overal zijn; op een naaktstrand, op een verborgen plekje, in de sauna, in de eigen achtertuin. Keuze genoeg. De NFN staat voor al deze mensen. Als er een juridisch probleem is met betrekking tot naaktrecreatie, als er iets belangrijks of boeiends te melden is (denk aan wetgeving omtrent naaktrecreatie en al dan niet terechte boetes hiervoor) of als er iets leuks kan worden gedaan (bijvoorbeeld bloot zwemmen, of bloot naar een kunst-expositie), dat zijn zaken waar de NFN bijhoort.

Uiteraard gaat dit allemaal niet voor niets dus vindt de NFN het wel zo fijn dat mensen lid worden van hun organisatie. Zonder financiële middelen staat tenslotte zelfs een blote organisatie snel in z’n hemd.

Volgende keer: wat doet de NFN allemaal?

Our pornographic society

Yes, that’s what we’re living in: a pornographic society. So many things are permeated with sex or sexual innuendo, and everything (for me at least) points back to the incredible amount of sexual and/or pornographic implications everywhere around us. Look at advertising. The basic idea that ‘sex sells’ is still there. It gets worse even, I think.

Look at music videos or car ads.

How many of them show people (mainly women, as they’re the prime exploits in there) in half-dressed or even less situations to entice the viewer to keep watching?
I think that it is stuff like that which makes life so very difficult for people who just want to be naked without a fuss.

 

Women these days can get raped simply ‘because of what they’re wearing’. Again there is the influence of the overly sexualised society, the videos and the pictures that put women in a wrong light. As prey to be hunted and conquered. Because of that, woman will also be attacked when they wear nothing – because that’s seen even more as an open invitation to be groped, raped and so horribly forth.

I really worry about our society in that light. Something has to happen, and it has to happen fast. Otherwise things go out of control (I hope we’re not there yet). Nudism could be an answer to all this misconception and brutality towards women. Women should not be the victims of the horrible things that men (yes, it’s mostly men although not all women are without blame, I’m sure) have gotten in their heads. Nudism is clean. It has nothing to do with pornography, sexual exploitation and all those other things that modern society bestows upon us. I hope that nudism is the answer. That and common sense.

Nudism in Canada

Something interesting I found on LinkedIn (of all places):

In June, the results of the 2014 survey on Canadians’ experience and attitudes toward nudity and naturism were released.

Identifying the size of the naturist movement has always been challenging. While it is easy to count visitors/members of clubs and associations, that represents only a small portion of participants. So how many naturists are there? What is the market potential? Those questions were first answered through a 1999 survey. But were the results still relevant a decade and a half later?

To update the data, determine trends, and reaffirm the original conclusions, Bare Oaks Family Naturist Park coordinated the efforts of the Federation of Canadian Naturists (FCN) and the Fédération Québécoise de naturisme (FQN). A new survey was commissioned using an Ipsos panel to ask a similar but more in depth set of questions. The survey was designed, implemented and interpreted by Mark Wilkins Communications.

The results show that interest in naturism is up from 1999. Here are some of the conclusions:

  • Just over 2-in-3 Canadians (69%) claim to have engaged in at least 1 of 6 naturist behaviours tested. The exact same proportion claim to be open to doing so in future. Experience and openness are notably stronger amongst males, and, regionally, Albertans compared to Canadians living elsewhere.
  • At roughly 6-in-10 overall, experience with sleeping in the nude and openness to doing so in future outstrips experience with and openness to other behaviours to a significant degree.
  • This is followed at close to 1-in-2 by experience with / openness to walking around one’s home in the nude.
  • At roughly 1-in-5, a third tier of experience and openness is represented by swimming in the nude (not in mixed company scoring higher than doing so in mixed company particularly when future behaviour is considered).
  • Finally, experience with visiting a naturist / nude beach of resort reside at roughly 1-in-20, but rises significantly to the 1-in-10 range when considering openness to doing so in future.

Regionally, Canadians demonstrate several noteworthy differences in their openness to various naturist behaviours:

  • Albertans have greater experience with and are more open to naturism in the home setting (sleeping, walking around) than Canadians elsewhere.
  • British Columbians and Ontarians lead the way in terms of experience with nude swimming, but Albertans show the greatest openness to consider doing so in future (both in unmixed and mixed company).
  • While British Columbians have the most experience with visiting nude beaches, Albertans and residents of the Prairie provinces are most open to doing so in future – and also lead in terms of openness to visiting a naturist resort in future.

Finally, while younger Canadians (< 25 years of age) have not to-date shown a greater proclivity to naturist behaviours (their experience being generally on par with that of Canadians aged 35+), they do demonstrate a higher openness to engaging in all in future (exception: sleeping in the nude, to which Canadians of all ages are roughly equivalent in terms of openness).

When we collapse across public behaviours (ie. swimming nude in mixed company or going to a naturist/nude beach or resort), we find that 1-in-5 (21%) Canadians have engaged in such behavior and that 1-in-4 (25%) are open to the idea in future.

You can read the complete survey at:

English: http://www.naturism.ca/2014-FCN-FQN-survey.pdf
Français: http://www.naturism.ca/Sondage-FQN-FCN-2014.pdf

When you go to a nudist beach…

You may have heard this whining before:

When you go to a nude beach you see all the people you don’t want to see.

male-nudistsYes. That’s probably true for the people who go to such a beach to look at people. The way they probably also go to a dressed beach, to ogle people and try to see what they can’t see because of the wonders of modern bathing suits (although those aren’t very covering lately).

The people who go on about this don’t have a clue about nude beaches. They may not even have a clue about textile beaches, because people – as far as I understand – go there to enjoy themselves and have a good time. Not to be stared at as if they’re strips of bacon hanging in a window to make other people drool over them. And that goes for both kinds of beach: nudists aren’t there to be stared at. They are not the super model kind of folks. I think I mentioned this before: there are perhaps 20 supermodels in the world (those are the skinny, malnourished people who have to live on air and a slice of lettuce, remember?) in a world population of 7 billion. That is 1 supermodel on every 350,000,000 normal people. How big do you think the chances are to catch all those supermodels on the same beach? Let’s forget the nude part here for convenience’s sake.

I’ve been to nude beaches. I don’t go there to stare. I go there to relax, to meet nice people and have a good time. The folks whining about us (yes, I include myself here) should stop that and be satisfied with photoshopped photos and manipulated videos of people who aren’t real. I’ll even throw in a beach background for them to make them entirely happy. As long as the whining stops.

Maybe someone can show me how wonderful, healthy and fit these whiners look themselves…