Hi peeps. Once again I’m heading out of town as soon as I finish this post. I’ve got a couple of nights in Kangaroo Valley with some friends which will be beautiful and relaxing then a night with my parents which is always great. So there won’t be any posts til I get back on Monday.
In the mean time, here’s a few videos of naked men to keep you entertained!
For those of you who do the social nudity thing I have a question. When you are hanging out on the beach nude with friends, or around a pool, camping, wherever, if one of your mates pulled out a camera would you be ok with it? Would you let your photo be taken?
A couple of my nude mates were at Turtle Cove resort in Nth Queensland last weekend and they did notice some people had cameras. Nothing was said, no permission was asked nor did my friends say anything to the people with cameras whom they didn’t know.
When I was camping nude a few months ago a couple of shots were taken but the guy taking them asked and only used the non-frontal ones anywhere public. That I don’t mind, especially if I know the people I’m in the group with and know that they won’t use the photos incriminatingly.
Every young boy has giggled over or stared at photos of naked tribes of various cultures because they, for most people are the first naked people we see outside of possibly our own family.
It raises an interesting question, that these tribes, in different pockets of the world, are still living naked as they have done for centuries, aside from those “saved” by western culture and religion. Shame about the naked body is clearly a taught response. In western cultures, or “civilised” cultures we are taught that beyond a certain age long before puberty, nudity is shameful and something to be hidden. It’s naughty, taboo and people that go nude are strange, yet somehow we teach our children that some cultures in Africa or the Amazon and lots of other places that walk around nude totally free of shame and embarrassment because they are a tribe, that it’s ok.
It’s sad to say that I think the U.S. is leading the conservative way, blurring even the most remote hint of butt crack on Survivor proving that you have to be a REAL tribe to get away with it and not a reality tribe. The U.S. sets the trend for a large part of the world in most things, fingers crossed the European attitude holds firm on this one.
Recently I posted about my need to get away for some time off. I don’t think any time off work is going to happen but I think maybe I’ll take myself off for a night’s camping. Maybe I’ll even go to the place where we nude camped but maybe not. I figure if there’s no chance of being nude due to the weather then I might just go to any old camping spot and chill for a couple of days doing sweet bugger all.
I can’t wait for it to warm up so that nude camping is an option again. It was so much fun. My nudie mates are talking about trying to get away in about October for a nude camping weekend but one couple are very hard to book in as they are busy people. Having said that, they are hosting a combined nude birthday party for one of them, myself and another nude mate. Should be a hoot.
Chris here is a reader from L.A. and someone I’ve chatted to on hangoutnude.com. He sent me these two pics from his first foray into the Angeles Forest wilderness last weekend. Looks like a beautiful spot to explore nude and Chris tells me that he met quite a few nice guys there and hung out with them all day. Perfect! Thanks for sharing Chris.
It’s amazing to see the difference in levels of prudishness and censorship around the world. In the U.S. a contestants hint of bum crack on Survivor gets blurred out, but in New Zealand they post video on official news sites of the Annual Nude Rugby match complete with full frontal action!
Thanks to James for sending me the link. If anyone has the embeddable file, please let me know!
Yesterday was a long weekend here in Australia when we celebrate the Queen’s birthday. A couple of mates and I headed off to a place called Babylon. There used to be a korean bathouse in Sydney but that closed for renovations, partially reopened 18 months later and is now closed again. Something like that is fantastic for soaking nude in these winter months so it was a bit upsetting to hear they’d closed.
Thankfully I heard about Babylon from a reader. It’s in Haymarket, right next to chinatown and it seems like it’s still largely an undiscovered secret. The clientele yesterday were us three guys, several older asian guys and a few muscled mediterranian guys but still very quiet. It’s so nice to just sit quietly, chatting a bit with mates and soaking in the warm baths.
A friend pointed me towards this place today. He and his partner are nudie mates of mine and they are heading to New Zealand early in the new year so they were thinking of heading to Autumn Farm Naked Week but they won’t be able to get there sadly.
Autumn farm is “Home to a community of gaymen with deep roots in the artistic and environmental movements, we are open every day of the year and are ready to welcome you.” They have a few nude men only events through the year and it looks like a stunning place to go and relax, all in the buff.
Looks like my list of beautiful nude places to visit is growing! Check out their website here.
Kirill is a fellow blogger that runs a site called Active Naturists, and he loves being nude even more than me. He lives in Berlin and I would say, given my little bit of experience in the world, that if I was going to pick a country and a city that was the most nude-liberal in the world, I would pick Germany for that country and Berlin for that city so maybe it’s no surprise that Kirill is a nudist with nude friends.
He travels when he can to nude holiday destinations and blogs videos and photos of the trips. He tells me he debated whether or not to post images of himself nude on the internet but then made a conscious decision to do it. He wants to be an example to all the younger guys out there who are self conscious. Nudism has a reputation out there for only being for the older generations and a quick flick through naturist websites and magazines would largely support that theory.
I personally have thus far, stuck to my resolve to not post full frontal images of myself on this blog. There are full frontal images on the gay sites that I use from time to time and a couple of other places and maybe, just maybe I’ll be happy enough with a full frontal image to post it on here. Thanks to Kirill for flying the flag for young nudists everywhere.
If you could turn up to work on a daily basis and without fear of legal action or physical danger, do your job in the nude, would you? A fellow blogger, Peter of Narcissus Gazed, is about to go off to a nude island in France and work on the set of a nude yoga DVD. Another blog reader has said that he sits in his office at work nude all the time, but that’s not in an office where he really interacts with people. So I’m asking, if nudity weren’t a problem at your job, would you do it? I for one am actually not sure.
Something that I’ve pondered from time to time, especially at times socialising with my nudie mates, is whether I would be comfortable nude in a mixed setting? I think I would. I’ve been nude on the beach many many times with women there, but they aren’t in my group generally, although there have been times when a friend has had a female friend there who has been nude.
I’m not sure what the atmosphere would be like at one of our social gatherings if there was a woman or women there. It would certainly change things but since they aren’t sexual in nature, after a little while it would be perfectly normal.
Nude camping a couple of weeks ago there were obviously nude women around. I don’t know that I really needed to see the woman with her husband face down in her vagina near the river, but that was probably because neither of them were physically attractive to me.
Friday night saw the Sydney Skinnydipping group that I started on facebook meet for another dip at Clovelly beach at 11pm. It may well be one of the last times we get to dip because the unpredictable weather we’ve had all summer is still erratic but at a cooler level. The most we’ve managed is 10 people a couple of weeks ago and Friday night we had 7.
In a couple of weeks I’m going for a weekend of nude camping at a place called River Island, which has some nice bushland to explore nude and a river to swim in as well as the pools. Fingers crossed for some nice weather.
It’s nearly 10pm here and I’ve just got home from the movies seeing “The Blind Side”. I cried. I cry easily in movies and television shows, even commercials have been known to bring me undone. But it’s time for me to go to bed and sleep so that I can get my sorry arse out of bed to go to the gym. I’ve been relatively motivated for the last week so I’m running with it. Tomorrow is legs and shoulders. Damn squats and lunges hurt.
Over the years I’ve heard some good things about Helsinki. Sadly it’s not somewhere I’ve managed to see yet, but given I haven’t travelled anywhere near as much as I would like, that’s no surprise. Wandering around the world wide web during my lunch today I stumbled across this gem, called Yrjonkadun Uimahalli from the 1920’s tucked away in Helsinki and for the nudists amongst us, it’s hanging on dearly to it’s old fashioned ways.
Over four floors, this pool is open on separate days for different genders and up until recently, nude swimming was mandatory, not optional. If you dared wear swimwear you used to be escorted out of the premises. Now they are a little more relaxed but from what I can find online, nudity is still the preferred choice!
You can hire a personal change room or a private cabin with bathrobe, sauna seat cover and bed, where you can relax and soak up the “Serene Roman baths atmosphere” while you order from the cafe menu. Sounds pretty darned good to me!
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