Freedom does not come without a price.
We all know this. Some of you may even know the actual entire words said by Charlie Dent.
The idea for this post comes from a tweet I saw. One I agree with.
The tweet read: NUDIST LIVES MATTER TOO! Nudist are one of most discriminated segments of society charged money to live naturally!
Freedom
Of course we all value our freedom and we all know that many people have sacrificed a lot to make all that happen. The odd thing however is that freedom is a relative concept. How free are we? As you see above, you have to pay to be free of clothes. It’s mad, but money matters more than lives, as usual.
This can also be said for the American right to bear weapons. Everyone is free to carry a gun – but they have to pay for that. The big difference of course is that we have already paid for the clothes that the greater community forces us to wear in the first place, and in many locations (think nudist resorts etc.) we have to pay (entrance fees, membership etc.) to take them off. There is something very wrong with that concept of freedom.
Action
That is something everybody wants but not many actually feel up to. It’s clear though that without action there will never be change. Read up on your local laws. Find out what’s allowed and legal. Print that out and carry it with you. 
In the US of A and also in Canada for instance it is legal for women to go around topless in more places than you’d expect. Have a look here. Understandably not many women will feel up to that challenge as there are too many predators around. The way to counter that would be to have others go along, and that is not limited to women. Also bare-chested men! And that doesn’t mean they all have to look like the beautiful specimens you see depicted everywhere in the fake glossies that insist we all have to be twenty-two, slim, clever, blond and tanned, sporting a six-pack in muscle. Plain and simple, real people will do just fine. We will have to make a stand for what has been achieved. Others will not do it for us, because those others are happily confined within their cloth.
Scenes like this one have been happening here more than once over the past month. I’m probably not the only one who starts to feel vitamin D deprived, and that’s horrible. It’s sad when we have to go without our favourite source of that vitamin.
Of course you know that one.
You might consider a visit to a sauna. Saunas are great places to be naked, at least over here in Europe.
Glass curtains can be your friend here. It blocks the view from outside quite effectively and if someone is still able to peek inside an accuse you of being an exhibitionist it won’t be hard to convince others that this person is a peeping Tom. Or Tina.
Yes. This. This stuff bothers me. Not the fact that this is a billboard like thousand others, but the fact that a company that sells online sex is allowed to do this. In public.
Naturism isn’t forbidden in my country, something I am very grateful for. It’s still not considered ‘normal’ by most people but I don’t want to dwell on that. Being naked in ‘designated areas’ is allowed, and the term ‘designated area’ is quite liberal if you look at the law.
Why would there be a movement that promotes nakedness and nudity as something normal and healthy if you can make money of making it something special?
I am on Facebook. Really. I hardly put any naturist stuff there because we all know that Facebook is very sensitive about anything that shows more skin than is needed for a beheading, a public burning, an assembly of Neonazis or lots of girls in skimpy bikinis.
is 300 pixels wide and 150 pixels high. Nothing wrong with it, you can see what’s happening – a man reading a book in a park – but hardly anyone would want to steal this for its quality.
Anthony Crowley is an award-winning author, poet, actor, photographer and film maker. Anthony has contributed to numerous magazines and anthologies, including official Haunted magazine, Sanitarium magazine, Fear Magazine and Art Decades magazine, Folk Horror Revival: Corpses Roads anthology. His works have been featured on various known media resources, such as the BBC. His novella 
The Mirrored Room was also a SEMI FINALIST winner at the authorsdB book awards. Anthony has also been featured in anthologies amongst legendary writers like, H.P.Lovecraft, Edgar Allan Poe, Thomas Hardy and Ramsey Campbell. Anthony has been a naturist for many years and he’s also a proud member of British Naturism. During the cold month of October 2004, Anthony wanted to honour people close to him whom passed away from Cancer, he decided to walk across the Shropshire Hills with nothing more than a pair of shoes on his feet. This present day, Anthony is working on many projects simultaneously while sitting at his desk as nature intended.
Anthony is working on a documentary film called ‘Nude Britannia’ and the poetry/photo book ‘Tales from the Nymph Garden’ which will be naturist related side projects.
Born in 1956, Ted discovered naturism in 2004, during a trip to the island of Menorca. After some travelling he discovered the South of France. With his wife he moved there to open a welcoming home for naturist visitors (it’s called