During the warmer months, I will garden and water the plants in the backyard nude, and sometimes jus tlay out. I make a point to try to avoid getting tan lines.

I'm a bit envious. You seem to have a much more full calendar of social nudity.

There is a nudist group on the site.

@snytiger6 I know; I was invited to be a member...and I accepted.

@jellyfish I remember a debate on if one of the girl's character's who was a half-cheetah? Would have shaved her nether-bits. Because the girl playing this character did, but the character was half Cheetah and therefore covered in fur. How the debate ended? No idea.

I am often naked when on the computer, and I often think of writing (more than comments of social websites), but when it comes down to something like a book, so far, I am just not disciplined enough to sit down and work on writing everyday for several hours.

I endeavor to write 1000 words a day. But I admit, some days I end up with only a page. But in the grand scheme of things that's enough to get through it.

I don't think I'd care for scuba, as I am hesitant about hazards of swimming in the oceans.. there are creatures that can eat you out there.

Probably the most hazardous thing I do is ride a bike naked. I have wiped out and it was bloody, but I'd still do it.

@snytiger6 There are s'posedly about a fifth of folks that share your sensibility Sny... I am an old timey content provider in the field (you can Google my name), and well-accustomed to the oddness. Now, driving on the roads... REALLY scares me at times!

I sleep naked, and on cold nights just thrown on another comforter onto the bed. I sleep better in a coller room.

i started sleeping naked when I red how it is easier for the body to maintain homeostasis and an even body temperature if you sleep naked, whci gives you a better rest.

I have nudist pics, but don't share them. It isn't about seeing people naked. To nudists nudity is passe. People who ask for nudist pics usually are not of a mind consistent with nudist culture.

@snytiger6 Sorry buddy, it was tongue in cheek!

@Zoidburg Yeah, no worries. I have often encountered cases where emails or texts where taken out of the context in which they were intended. Because written words have no vocal intonations or facial expression to help convey meaning, there are a lot of times where things get read the wrogn way and the writer's meaning doesn't come though as intended. I think the more a person knows the other person the less likely this is to happen, but often people will say something as they would to a good friend, to someoen they hardly know, and then it is easy for misinterpretation to take place.

I often think that technology is decreasing the quality level of our communications, because of a lack of vocal intonations and facial expressions in communications, which makes it very easy to misinterpret meanings.

I tend to write longer emails, texts and so on because I want to try to be clear about what I mean and for better communication and understanding... although I tend to get complaints about my long notes.

@snytiger6 I couldn't agree more with every single word of that. It's happened to me a few times on here, already!

@Zoidburg 'tongue and cheek', is that like salad tossing?...oh wait, that would be 'tongue IN cheek'...never mind..hahaha

When hiking, I find it only needs to be 60F to be naked because the exercise keeps me warm enough.

Definitely going to the sauna and running out to the pond once hot enough!

The first time I went to Squaw Mountain Ranch, which is the oldest nudist club west of the Mississippi, I talked with some people who said they were nudists when they were younger, but when they lived in the suburbs and raised kids they stopped, then after the kids were grown and moved ttu they became nudists again.

I think for some people the need for conformity and fitting in changes under differ5ent circumstances. Mostly I think it depends on how they think other people i their lives will view them, such as other suburb parents.

I learned when studyign sociology that the most influentual thing that determines how a person behaves is hwo they percieve others will view them. Especially those they love and care about most.

So, as life changes who comes into our life and changes oru life situations our attitudes change accordingly.

@snytiger6: Very illuminating; TYVM!

@stinkeye_a You are welcome. To be honest, I was a littler concerned that my generalizing with social theories might have seemed to be presumptuous. I am glad you took it for what it was as intended.

People here are so much more open minded and thoughtful and not so quick to take offense, as they are on Facebook.

@snytiger6 actually that perspective threw an unanticipated but delightfully helpful light on an issue with which I've been wrestling, painfully, for quite a while. What a gem of serendipity! It is without a shred of hyperbole I say I cannot thank you enough.

@stinkeye_a I'm happy my words gave you some long sought insights or at least helped get pst a mental block.

Most of my thinking as far a human behavior goes, derives from ideas io learned in Sociology classes in college. That all humans belong to various groups, and they behavior is both generally dictated and influenced by the various groups they belong to, and some behaviors are let over from past group associations.

As an example of behaviors left over from past group associations, many peopel here still carry the dogmas they learned while they were religious.

Various groups I would belong to which influence my behavior are I am a male, am gay, I was raised Mormon, butan atheist, a naturist, someone who identifies more with left wing politics, I am disabled (legally blind), a state school college graduate with an AA in Addiction Studies and a BA in Sociology, in college I minored in theater and film, a member of the Screen Actor's Guild, a member of the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, a member of the United Food and Commercial Worker's union, I have a gym membership... and so on.

My behavior is mostly dictated by an amalgamation of the various groups I belong to or have belonged to and how well I fit into each group and what position I held within each group. If you want to understand a person, whether yourself or anyone else, you learn about their life and what groups they belonged to and what role they played in those groups. It is very complicated, which is why psychology is often preferred by people as a field of study over sociology, but sociology gives much more useful relevant information.

On the downside, human diversity is such that there can never be any one social theory that explains human behavior. Other than generalizing that people are mostly the products of the groups they belong to or associate with, if you get any mroe specific, then human diversity will insure that virtually any theory that is more specific theories are full of flaws and are at best thought experiments.

aanr.org has a listing of clothing optional clubs and resorts.

The rules for most clubs are that clothing is optional except in "wet areas" like the pool, Jacuzzi, steam room, sauna and showers. In those areas nudity is mandatory. The resoning being that if you mix clothed persons and nude persons in such persons, the clothed persons are more likley to misbehave or engage in inappropriate behaviors.

I don't mind the nudity part, heck other than a brief glance now and then I doubt I would pay much attention at all in a very short time. I don't want to go to ogle folks, just to see if I like the sensation of being outdoors nude.

No. Shoes don't count. I wear shoes when hiking nude, or riding a bike nude. Unless I went barefoot 24/7, to toughen up the soled of my feet, my feet wouldn't be tough enough to handle some activities without shoes.

Clothes serve two practical pu8poses, which are warmth and protection. For some things you just don't need either of those purposes fulfilled, however proper sfety is just good common sense.

Turkey bacon doesn't really splatter.

slip on a sock til done....hehehe

@snytiger6 Turkey bacon doesn’t taste good.

To me.

I lived in Los Angeles until 2010, and had never heard of Sandstone.

I just read on Wikipedia that Sandstone closed in 1976; evidently it was never profitable for the founders.