Author: Paul

Promoting the clothes-free lifestyle.

De Delftse Hout, het voorlopige vonnis

En aldus sprak de rechter gisteren over het naaktstrand in de Delftse Hout:

“De kantonrechter in Den Haag oordeelde op dinsdag 28 januari in driekwart van de behandelde zaken ten gunste van de naaktrecreanten: ze hebben afgelopen zomer volkomen legaal naakt gerecreëerd in de Delftse Hout.
De rechter kwam met een verrassende uitspraak dat vooral het aantal geklede bezoekers in het recreatiegebied bepaalt of het strand geschikt is voor naaktrecreatie. De NFN en de recreanten zijn blij dat de rechter met het vonnis in feite aangeeft dat de gemeente Delft het naaktstrand niet zomaar kan sluiten. Of een plek geschikt is voor naaktrecreatie hangt helemaal af van de omstandigheden, en niet van een beslissing van de gemeente.” (Bron: website NFN. Volg de link voor het hele artikel.)

Het is wel een bijzonder vreemde bedoening op die manier. Als er 150 geklede mensen aanwezig zijn (inclusief kinderen) is het strand opeens niet meer geschikt voor naaktrecreatie. De bedekte meerderheid heeft het dus opeens toch weer stilzwijgend voor het zeggen. Heel vreemd. En hoe is dit te handhaven? Wordt er dagelijks een nudist van dienst aangewezen om elk half uur geklede mensen te gaan tellen?

Het is in elk geval positief dat een groot aantal bekeurden hun boete niet hoeven te betalen. Het is zeker positief dat de NFN voor de niet zo fortuinlijken waarschijnlijk in beroep gaat over hun vonnis.

Nude beach Delft and court. The first results.

The first results are in. The court has looked at the fines of the Dutch nudists from the Delft nude beach.

Ruling: the beach is not fit for naked recreation when more than 150 dressed people (including children) are present.

Most people who were fined don’t have to pay. (I don’t know how they decided on that.)

The city of Delft has announced they are going to find a better place for the nude sunlovers. Many people fear that this will be a remote, hard to reach location where there is far more opportunity for sexual harassment than happened at the present location. A number of nudists plan to appeal, as on the same morning a large number of people were treated differently for the same ‘offence’.

Naakte meditatie

Naakt mediteren
Misschien heb er ervan gehoord. Of het gedaan. Of heb je met geen van beide ervaring? (Naakt zijn, mediteren.) Ik ben lang geleden begonnen met mediteren. Deels omdat ik nieuwsgierig was, deels omdat ik afstand had genomen van het christendom omdat me dat niet aansprak. Na verschillende meditatievormen te hebben geprobeerd (Zen, Yoga) vond ik Transcendente Meditatie. (Geen zorgen, dit is geen artikel om je te ronselen of over te halen.)

Het interessante met de meeste meditatievormen is dat men benadrukt om geen knellende kleding te dragen.

Naake Yoga

Wat is er minder knellend dan helemaal geen kleren? (Tenzij je hersens je opdragen om iets aan te doen omdat bloot fout is? In dat geval moet je toch eens met je hersens praten vind ik.) Dat besef had ik toen ik met nudisme/naturisme begon. Na een keer proberen merkte ik dat naakt mediteren de allerbeste manier voor me was. Er is letterlijk niets om je heen. Geen kriebelende stof, geen knellend elastiek.

Er is maar 1 nadeel. Als ik met een aantal andere mediteer die niet van naakt zijn houden dan doe ik iets aan. Meditaties op die manier zijn echter lang niet zo goed als de naakte.

Wil je meer weten over naakt mediteren dan zijn hier nog twee (Engelstalige) links:

Naked meditation

Naked meditation
You may have heard of it before. Or done it before. Or have no experience with it or either (being naked, or meditation). I started meditating a long time ago. Partly because I was curious, partly because I had stepped away from Catholicism and Christianity as those didn’t appeal to me. After going through several kinds of meditation (Yoga, Zen, etc.) I found Transcendental Meditation. No, don’t worry, this is not to convert you or drag you into something.

The interesting bit is that for meditation it is always emphasised that it’s important to wear clothing that doesn’t feel tight or restrictive.

Nude YogaNow, what can be less restrictive than no clothes at all? (Except for when it comes to your own mind that tells you to wear something because being naked is wrong? In which case you should retrain your mind, but that’s my opinion.) That is the awareness I had when I started into nudism and naturism. After trying it, I decided that meditating in the nude was the ultimate way to do it for me. There is literally nothing that is ‘around’ you. No itching from fabric, no restraints from elastics.

I only discovered one drawback to this. When meditating together with others who are not into meditating in the nude, I don’t want to make those people feel uncomfortable so I wear something as light as possible. Those meditations are never as good as the nude ones, though.

If you want to read more about nude meditation, here are a few links to other blogs:

Mass trial for nudists in the Netherlands.

Press release NFN 22 january 2014:

Mass trial Delft touches core rights of Dutch nude recreationists.

Tuesday January 28th will see a unique fact in Dutch history. Then the court in The Hague will look at the 43 fines that have been handed to nudists in the Summer of 2013. 20 nude recreating people did not pay their fines because they think they’ve been fined unjustly in the area where they were at that time. The NFN (Dutch Federation for Nude Recreation) agrees with these people and will support the right for nude recreation in the Delftse Hout (name of area where fines were written).

Rain of fines creates unrest.

In 2013 the city of Delft decided to ban nude recreation in the Delftse Hout and fine people who were there anyway. The ruling was an attempt to reduce harassment in the area (especially in the evening). The daily checks at the nude beach led to large unrest and irritation among the visitors, so many of them stayed away. Some felt so intimidated that they decided to put on some clothes. A large group of nudists refused to to accept the ruling of the city council and let themselves be fined. All those fines are now seen by the judge in one large trial.

(Source: NFN website – original text in Dutch)

Free the Nipple – Censored in America

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Question: What is the legal penalty and fine for a woman walking topless on the streets of New York City?

 

 

  • 3 days in jail and $1,000
  • 1 days in jail and $5,000
  • 5 days in jail and $1,500

Answer: It’s a trick question, because, according to statute 245.01 per the Appeals Court of The State/City of New York, it is completely legal for a woman or a man to opt not to wear a shirt (or bra) in public. Of course, a man wearing a bra will get more stares than a woman wearing a bra (thank you, Madonna) and a woman going bare-breasted will draw more stares than a man doing the same, but why? Why is a woman’s nipple so controversial? I decided to tackle this subject with my new film — Free the Nipple.

http://vimeo.com/80495306

More, if you want, at Why I Made a Film Called Free the Nipple and Why I’m Being Censored in America.

Naked Online [is] OK. The NOOK.

The nook? What’s the nook? No, this is not an advertisement for a specific e-reader. If you’re looking for that, Google again.

The NOOKThis post is about a very nice place on the interwebz called The NOOK. A place that nudists and naturists can join, where they can be themselves and don’t have to be afraid to be stared or laughed at. The NOOK (which stands for Naked Online is OK) has members of all ways of life, and it’s safe to discuss all facets of the naked life. This does not mean you can throw anything into a discussion, there are some rules and guidelines. (Have a look at the NOOK’s Mission statement.) Here is the first part of it:

The Nook is provided as a safe place for people to post Naked and Active content, images and text, to discuss these issues, and how they work, or not, in our modern society. In part, the site is a counter-reaction to the highly succesful, but reactionary, social networking monolith known as Facebook which, with it’s judgemental, hypocritical and puritanical, censorship rules, imposes a stringent sexual code of conduct on it’s membership. The Nook aims to be a decent alternative, by definition non-PC (not politically correct), social networking site.

There is more, hit this link for the page with the whole mission statement, but this section described The Nook very well.

Note that you can’t always be 100% safe 100% of the time – there are always people who come in and start making trouble of kinds. Luckily the NOOK management (owner and moderators) are on patrol frequently to keep these occurrences to a minimum.

Seen enough? Curious? Ready to take the plunge?

The NOOK(The image will take you there when you click it.)