These photos have been doing the rounds for a couple of days, but I just found a video. These guys are sexy. I love the chilled out attitude to communal bathing. They don’t even care about being nude on tv.
This weekend, some of my friends and I are off to River Island to soak up some peace and quiet nude camping in the tranquil Aussie bush.
In the hall at River Island they have photos of people covered in mud which as you know, is something I’ve wanted to do for ages. I know my mates will be up for it too. So fingers crossed we’ll find out where to find the mud and we’ll have some good sunshine to let it bake dry.
A few days ago I posted about young people being put off going to a nude beach because it was usually mostly full of older guys. I copped a few negative comments from that post saying I too would get old and fat one day and I shouldn’t be so discriminating.
I wasn’t being discriminating. I understand that I’m already seeing the side effects of a slowing metabolism and aging. My point was that people tend to hang out with people their own age. It’s the same as a 50-60+ year old walking into a night club full of 20-somethings. They probably would feel more out of place than if they’d walked into a bar or club with and older demographic.
One commenter in Canada did understand my point and even illustrated the case with a story about a gay nudist group that has become almost exclusively older because of the few older guys trying to hit on the young guys. I understand everyone has their “type” that they feel attracted to and some young guys really like older guys and some older guys really like younger guys, but it’s not a valid argument to say “you’ll be old too one day” in an attempt to pick someone up. Maybe they want to grow old with someone their own age?
I have no problem being on a beach with the older guys. I have a problem with anyone, of any age not taking no for an answer. I’m not in the younger demographic anymore, being a couple of years off 40 and I too plan on being one of those old guys on the beach comfortable in my nudity despite my expanding waistline, but I won’t be getting upset when the 20 year old’s don’t want to hang out with me.
Over the past month or so I’ve noticed that more guys in their 20′s and 30′s are joining up to one of the nudist sites I’m on. Now I realise a month isn’t long enough to gauge a trend but it’s nice to see more younger people getting comfortable with social nudity, or at least the idea of it.
Drunken party streaking or skinny dipping doesn’t count because most people have done that at least once but to see young people curious enough about social nudity to sign up with a networking site is a good thing.
The perception that all nudists are fat and old is one that self perpetuates because young people don’t venture on to nude beaches because of the old fat people. Until more young guys and girls take the plunge, it won’t change, but I hope it does.
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NAKED POWER YOGA IBIZA HOLIDAY 2011
June 11th-18th 2011
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This weekend a few nudie mates, prospective nudie mates and I were going to go camping but given the temperature has dropped and the ground is soaked from the wettest April in years, we’ve abandoned all thoughts of running around nude in the bush and sitting around a campfire.
As a substitute I’m hosting a very casual nude lunch. At this stage there are 6 of us going to be here but there are potentially 10 guys going to be all hanging out chatting in my apartment. I know the idea weirds my boyfriend out a bit but when I told him he just laughed. No, he won’t be joining us or even if he did he’d be clothed.
My flatmate isn’t sure if he’s working or not but given I am accidentally responsible for introducing two couples at nude events, he’d do well to come along I think since he does want to meet someone and he’s not adverse to ditching his clothes.
Society’s attitudes change and evolve over time, sometimes for the better and sometimes for worse. However liberal society has been at various times, nudists have been in the majority. Sure, decades ago it was normal for a lot of swimming pools in the US to have almost compulsory nudity for men at YMCA’s but I’ve not heard of that happening here.
These days you are much less likely to offend someone by revealing that you like hanging out with your junk out with your mates in the sunshine or at home than you would have in times past but the vast majority of your friends probably aren’t up for joining you.
How do you explain why you like it to a non-nudie? Quite often on nudist networking profiles you’ll see “I enjoy the freedom of being free and being a man with other men.” Sure I get that, but sometimes when read in the context of the rest of the profile, that translates to “I get horny when I see another naked person because it rarely happens but I’m not brave enough to ask for sex outright.”
Yes I would say there is an element of voyeurism and exhibitionism in a fair percentage of nudists and I know that will probably rile the purist nudies right up. It’s largely about being physically comfortable, enjoying the sensations of sun and the breeze in places that we’ve been told it’s not polite to expose. It’s about feeling comfortable with who you are and accepting your flaws. Ultimately if people see your genitals, really does it matter? No. It’s just more skin, just like they’d seen your thumb or shoulder, it just jiggles and bounces around a bit more.
Sure, there are friends that I would feel awkward stripping off with, but having been in that situation before, that awkwardness lasts about 5 minutes tops. Really, if you can’t be nude in front of your mates without judgement, who can you be nude in front of?
By not being able to understand the dialogue in a video it completely changes the meaning of the piece. I’m guessing from the title, which translates to “Anatomy of Failure” that the dialogue is quite dark, that’s just a guess, yet the video to me was a fun video of fairly liberated people sharing a shower cubicle with one or two other people, sometimes of the same sex, sometimes of the opposite sex.
I like that they are all very “real” bodies. There are a couple of muscle guys in the far right shower later in the video but by and large all the people in this video are just regular people of a variety of shapes and sizes.
This weekend my boyfriend is heading out of town, so given that he isn’t a nudie, I’m planning on heading off to go camping with a few friends who are also nudies to have a break from the city and chill out. Unfortunately the weather isn’t predicted to be very good this weekend. We’ll make a decision on Friday about whether we go or not.
This summer has been very disappointing and there is a very Autumn feel already. If we go camping through winter it will definitely not be nude.
I have no idea where this is but it looks like great fun. Whenever you see photos of a naked surfer there only seems to be the one amongst a handful of other surfers on beaches like Black’s Beach in San Diego but here all the surfers in what looks like a surf competition are nude. Looks fantastic. I’m still yet to try it.
Gabriel Colello is a young man who wants people to live their life to the full. “Life isn’t so serious to take yourself so seriously”. Gabriel believes that nudity creates a form of freedom and purity within one’s self. To prove it he’s created a book called “The Exploration of Nudity” which shows him and his friends, their nudity and their freedom once those restrictions and insecurities are done away with.
Order your copy through www.colellopublishing.com
I love the idea of this and agree that letting go can really help with body image issues and lots of other insecurities. I’ll keep you posted on the book when my copy arrives.
My friends probably wouldn’t be so willing to be videoed while snowboarding nude but doesn’t this look like a whole bunch of fun?
You all know I love seeing guys enjoying relaxed nudity together. What I like even more is when it’s in a slightly out of context together. Firemen all showering together after a long day fighting fires isn’t that out of context at all, but doing it outdoors using the fire hose as the shower makes it really cool, although I have to say that the pressure might be a bit much for li’l old me.
There’s one point in this video where the guy being hosed is bending over. That made me shudder at the thought of a super douching. Cool video though.
Naked Austrian Firemen
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I am a member of several nudist yahoo groups, stemming back from the days of the public nudity challenge here on the blog and they are a great source of images for Aussielicious. A reader recently emailed me about one of our common yahoo groups and some of the content.
He and I are both a little concerned that the group sometimes has a tendency to quite young guys in photos. I know that some of you were concerned with a video I posted on here which I promptly removed. The nature of the photos that are being circulated themselves is very innocent, but the comments made on them by some group members has me quite concerned. One photo this morning was of three young men who would have been 16 at most. The photo was the three young men nude standing innocently together. Their age was a concern for me, but one group member commented “how erotic it was” and that it was “such a shame they have to get old”.
Sure, aging and losing ones looks is a bit rough at times, but talking about the eroticism of the photo which he was projecting onto an otherwise innocent image, and immediately associating that eroticism with their youth immediately rang alarm bells for me.
I wholeheartedly believe that children should be brought up to feel no shame about their bodies, but with people commenting like that about something that is perfectly innocent, it’s no wonder that there is a backlash against any kind of communal or social nudity.
In my mining the clouds post below I mentioned a young 19 year old in the U.S. that contacted me about the video that caused so much scandal last week. I have to say he sounds like a very down to earth and level headed young man.
He was shown this blog by his college roommate who is also a nudist. Hi guys! From his emails I’ve gathered that they are both very sporty and active and apparently sports teams are still, even in these increasingly prudish times, prone to getting their clothes off without much provocation.
While male bonding involving nudity can get people in trouble, just ask the St Kilda AFL club today, surely it’s healthy for young guys to see each other nude. Especially in a non sexual way. If young guys, and girls, don’t see other people naked it’s got to lead to very warped views on what is normal or strange. The world we live in is putting so much pressure on us to look a certain way and creating a lot of body image issues, that I think we really do need to see the real world.
It’s really nice to hear that there are 19 year olds out there not doing strange acrobatics to get dressed under a towel at the gym and in their dorm rooms. The guy that emailed me actually told me that their dorm is getting more nude with he and his room mate there to inspire them.
