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April 27, 2020 Volume 18, Issue 2  

Weekly Newsletter

COVID 19 Update We hope that you are healthy and safe during this time of lockdown. Unfortunately not much has changed hereǦ since the last newsletter. All of our facilities are still closed (everything from the pools to the lounge). We are following all of the San Diego County and State of California guide- lines and regulations during the Coronavirus period.

As of May 1, 2020 in the County of San Diego you are required to wear a face mask anytime you are in public. We are located in the county of San Diego. Inside this issue

We are now renting site to those with RV’s that would like to come out to enjoy the unseasona- If Was Legal ......  2 bly warm weather we are having. You must first contact the office at 619-766-4301 before ven- Connecting Through 2 turing out as that is where you will find the latest and availability. The office is open .... daily from 9 AM to 2 PM while the lockdown continues. There are some restrictions that you will ...... 2 have to abide by if you do join us for a visit. 5 Naturist YouTube Channels ...... 2 Naked Gardening Day ...... 3

Online Nudist Communities ...... 3 Friday Night Bingo via Zoom One Man's Year As A Nudist...... 4 We are offering bingo via Zoom Meeting to anyone that would like to join in on the fun. During I’m Not The Only One ...... 4 the lockdown it has been hard for people to get out and socialize and just enjoy the company of Unconventional Things To Do At others. So we have decided to host bingo online so that you can hopefully get some entertain- Home ...... 5 ment. Rules Of Going Naked ...... 6 Bingo will begin at 5:00 PM on Friday 5/1/2020. To get your bingo cards send an email to Searching for Truth ...... 6 [email protected] and in the comments section please specify how many people will be playing. We will send your bingo cards out on Friday morning along with the Zoom login infor- Naturist Lock Down Idea ...... 6 mation. Social Nudity and Social Media ... 7 Once you have received your Bingo cards print out one copy and use it for all games. If you have Who’s Afraid of the Female ...... 7 played on one of the previous Fridays please discard the card you received for that game as they and Nudism 9 will not work for the game this week......

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We look forward to you joining us for an hour of bingo fun on Friday. If Nudity Was Legal Everywhere… Are you a Naked Person? I was having my morning coffee, after my workout, naked as every day, and this idea came to me: I am in a mood those what would happen if nudity was completely legal everywhere? I mean what would happen if days. It’s true that you cannot open a anybody can chose to be nude to go shopping, go to the office, or go to the ? The first thought that came to me was that it would just be fantastic! No need to think about what to magazine or browse the web without wear to go out in the morning. No need to think about what people would think if they see you being bombarded with “beautiful” nude. No need to think about where to go on , as all places would be nude friendly. people, and as we are getting closer But of course, for us nudists, the world would be just this: a fantastic liberated world from the to summer in the Northern Hemi- constraints of , a world of free choice in which we could chose to stay nude without any sphere with messages on the next risk of legal retaliation. For textiles, it may be a different world, as many textiles do not under- diet to get a “beach body”. But hey, stand nudity and see it as a threat. This reminds me of a scene I witnessed last holiday. I was at as a nudist, I have a beach ready the , just at the limit of the textile beach. I was not the first nudist when coming from body all year round and all the nud- the textile side, but almost. People are used to walk on the sea side, and a couple with a 10-year old kid, textiles, was walking in the direction of the nude beach. Read more ists I know have a beach ready body too. Not that nudists do not care about their body, they do like everybody Connecting Through Naturism else, but they are not obsessed by it. The world can feel so vast, that exploring the whole thing would be a complete impossibility. They are not obsessed because they Well that may be true, but we sure do think that exploring as much as possible in your lifetime have too much cellulite there or too will give you more rewards than anything else. little muscle here, they are not ob- We have learned is that naturism brings people together in the most unexpected ways. It is abso- sessed by their body because every- lutely thrilling to meet new people, from new and different across the world, who share body can see their body, naked! Go this beautiful way of life. There is an unreal, instant connection that I would compare to meeting to any nudist beach and you will see someone of your childhood religion or someone who maybe happens to have the same favorite all kinds of body, fat, slim, big, small, band as you and went to your high school but that you somehow never met. It is as though there tanned, untanned, etc. Of course the is instantly so much to talk about and so much to share… Read more same will happen at a textile beach, but you will notice people wrapping in towels or covering their body with , sometimes to hide what Nude Staycations Zoom To The Top Of The they consider something they do not Coronavirus Challenge like. Around the world, people are trying to maintain their sanity through creative means in light of We all know, nudists and textiles, the current pandemic and its unexpected effects upon work, , and security. In that a body and health are related. response, people, especially on social media, have taken to performing parody songs, posing as However, the love you have with works of , ramping up their social activism, and wearing inventive forms of personal protective your body is, IMHO, far more im- equipment. In addition, apps such as Zoom have seen their membership skyrocket as the portant than the effort you are mak- need for interaction meets the modern world of technology and connectivity. ing to have a “perfect” body. No- Others are taking the unfortunate opportunity afforded them from social isolation to catch up on body’s perfect, says the wise. Learn cleaning, learn new skills, such as origami, or completing the next great work of literature. In all to love your body and to get well into cases, there is a longing to return to some form of normal, even if it is a new normal. Read more it. It’s not the look of others that should lake you ugly or beautiful, it’s yourself! You are beautiful. One 5 Naturist YouTube Channels You quote taken from the blog post I stole the title from:“ I think your view Really Want To Follow In 2020 of nakedness says more about you Remember the times when the magazines and websites of naturist federations were the only than how conventionally beautiful available source of information about naturism? On one hand it did make things pretty easy. you are”. All is said. Read more Whatever they said, was the one and only truth. Their definitions, rules, and etiquette defined naturism. Period. Of course, not every naturist had the same opinion, but there wasn’t really a platform available to share other visions about naturism.

This was one of the main reasons why we started Naked Wanderings, back in the day. We en- joyed naturism, but our ideas definitely weren’t always conformed with the often boring and 2 patronizing information that we found online at the time. Read more What? World Naked Gardening Day (commentary by Melissa Martin Ph.D)

Yes, it’s a thing. The first Saturday of May brings along a rather bizarre awareness day. And just how do you celebrate World Naked Gardening Day? Plant peppers and tomatoes in your birthday suit. Hoe dirt in the nude. Trim trees au naturel. Ouch! Avoid poison ivy. Itch!

It’s the Sixteenth Annual World Naked Gardening Day in 2020. Over a decade of bonding in the buff with bare buns. World Naked Gardening Day was founded in 2005 by Mark Story of .

World Naked Gardening Day is even featured in , the free encyclopedia. I guess that makes it official. WNGD is endorsed by , Clothes Free International and American Association for Nude .

Yes, the creative hanging loose group has a website. Warning—photos of veggie picking nude people at www.wngd.org. And the burning question we all want to know is answered, “Why garden naked? First of all, it’s fun! Second only to swimming, gardening is at the top of the list of family-friendly activities people are most ready to consider doing nude. Moreover, our needs to move toward a healthy sense of both body acceptance and our relation to the natural environment. Gardening naked is not only a simple joy, it reminds us—even if only for those few sunkissed minutes—that we can be honest with who we are as and as part of this plan- et.” Read more

Accept your natural body. Go without clothing and understand that the body is a beautiful form and being comfortable with it is a statement about you emotionally.

Why Do Online Nudist Communities Never Work? Part One

The internet was responsible for a big boost in nudism. You could search the internet for clubs and , instead of sneaking an ashamed look at the back pages of naturist magazines. You could safely connect with other nudists without revealing your name or face. Nudists have al- ways been relegated to the fringes of society, but on the internet, everyone is on the fringe.

However, it’s remarkable that nudist communities don’t seem to be very successful, as a rule. There is no single nudist community with a large membership that has stuck around for more than a few years. Read more

Why Do Online Nudist Communities Never Work? (Part Two)

In my recent post, I pointed out that nudist communities don’t usually work online. I’ve never run an online nudist community before (although I do moderate one), although I’ve been a member of many of them.

But I do perceive some fundamental problems with nudist communities - not with any particular nudist communities themselves, but with the concept of nudist communities in general. And these problems mean that no nudist community, at least with the typical membership- participation , can really succeed.

On the Internet, No One Knows...

The biggest problem, and this goes back to my previous piece on the subject, is authenticity. It’s like the New Yorker comic from back in the late 90s: on the internet, no one knows whether you’re really a nudist. Authenticity is really difficult to verify. And unfortunately there are many 3 nudists on the internet who are not who they say they are. Read more One Man's Year As A Nudist

Most people wouldn't feel comfortable removing all their clothes in public, but for some it's a way of life. American writer Mark Haskell Smith overcame his nerves and spent a year immersing himself in the world of nudism.

"If you're at the airport, you don't make jokes about bombs. When you're with nudists you don't make jokes about . And God forbid, don't get an erection - you will probably be asked to leave," says Haskell Smith.

These are just two of things he learned as he visited naturist resorts around the world.

His first stop was the Desert Sun in Palm Springs, California. "I was terrified. I was there, awkward and anxious in my room, putting on layer after layer of sunblock, until finally, when I walked outside, I was a beacon of light and highly reflective. There are all these people around the pool and they all look at me and then they wince and cover their faces.

"I was really insulted, I thought, 'Hey wait, I'm 20 years younger than all of you people,' and then I looked down… and I got it, I was like, 'Oh dear.'"

After getting over his sunblock faux pas, he went to several nudist resorts in Europe. Cap d'Agde in the south of is one of the best-known. Once you get inside the security fence, which keeps out the paparazzi and curious passers-by, there is everything you would expect to find in any other town. Read more

It's time to shake off those winter blues so this coming weekend why not go for a hike, maybe a naked one weather permitting.

Water Volleyball Highlights Looks Like I’m Not The Only One. Another weekend staring at the walls Wishing I was playing Water Volleyball

The news is still full of trends In the past two weeks I have seen a lot of bodies. Bodies of water and human bodies. Keeping me away from our friends So many different rivers, lakes and that I find it hard to believe I haven’t been on the Things will get better over time road for months and months. Not quite as many naked bodies but still quite a few for only two Right now, I have run out of words to weeks. In our day to day lives we don’t often see naked people except for our sexual partners. In rhyme the last fourteen days I’ve seen eleven. With each one I’ve had a totally platonic time, nothing weird or untoward. Fancy that aye!? Eleven different, and yet all basically the same, bodies. Each one with its own qualities, quirks, strengths and weaknesses. Each one naked and free not worry- ing about what the others around are thinking of it. They have been young and old ranging from 20s to 70s and everything in between. Ranging from life long naturists to first time skinny dip- pers, but not one of them has told me they find it weird or uncomfortable. Looks like peo- ple do enjoy being naked just like me!

The bodies of water I have seen and dipped in have been some of the most beautifully clear waters I have ever seen in my life. This country should win some kind of award for the most swimmable country on earth. Almost every corner that I turn there is a new wonderland of free- dom, seclusion and stunning beauty to be played in. On the east coast I’ve walked for hours on wild beaches where my only companions are seals. In marvelous Marlborough I’ve jumped into river after river of the bluest blues. In Nelson lakes I’ve showered under the spray of a waterfall and jumped off jetty's. Now, in Abel Tasman I am attempting to escape the crowds and find some beach seclusion.

I am most certainly in a frenzy on this trip, darting from place to place. I arrive at one amazing swimming hole, I swim, I take some photos, I write a little, then I must move on to explore the next. So many places to go, so little time! Amongst all the beauty and seclusion there has also been plenty of wild goose chases. Times I have driven for what seems like an eternity down wind- ing gravel roads, then scrambled through bushes, scratching my legs on brambles. Only to find a rough, rocky river flowing at such a speed that if I were to jump in, I’d be swept off and never seen again. Or times when I have arrived at a place of incredible natural beauty, strolled around a 4 little, Read more About Us

DeAnza Springs Resort is the largest and one of the newest clothing op- tional resorts in North America. Situated on more than 500 acres of high desert (at 2600 feet) in eastern San Diego County, it is ideal for year- round vacationing.

The resort is comprised of 311 spa- cious RV sites with full hook-ups and plenty of spacious tent sites for dry . Luxurious rental units con- sisting of fully furnished park models, midsized RV’s and rooms.

No matter what activities you enjoy, you will probably find them available at DeAnza Springs Resort. Surround- ed on three sides by fantastic hills of the Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, Five bands and three days of a lot of fun. the resort grounds include grassy lawns, Shade trees, and sparkling pools, as well as typical desert vege- tation. Unconventional Things To Do At Home, Naked! Other amenities include two heated swimming pools (one enclosed for Everywhere you turn now someone has an idea on what you can do at home, naked or not. Sure year-round swimming), a hot tub, you can watch TV, games, workout, and even the dreaded…cleaning! Let’s be realistic, spa, well equipped gym, and there’s only so much you can do at home before you’re bored stupid. We have to find something to keep your mind, body, and soul engaged. Otherwise you just look at each other and scroll IG pickleball courts, shuffleboard court, and FB. Let’s talk about a few things you can do that won’t interfere with work, too much. horseshoe pits, lounge, café, confer- ence center, game room, large cov- Start a blog ered patio, world class , as well This is probably my preference because I have started to find web design and writing very satisfy- as children’s play equipment. We also ing. For me, it’s a great hobby to pass the time, and it’s very challenging to be creative, and learn have a large safely enclosed pet park, the technologies and how it all works. WordPress makes having a blog very easy, and if you’re not that technology savvy, then let WordPress do all the hard work for you. You just pic a theme laundry facility and Wi-Fi broadband and start writing. internet access is available through- out the resort. Naked blogging and web design

The best part is I have a place on the internet to call my own. I can post whatever I want, say Within a short hiking distance, there what I want, basically do whatever I want without any larger company telling me no. Hint FB and are vestiges of ancient native en- IG. campments, abandoned mines and Also, no one says you have to make a nudist blog. Make one on cooking, books you read, vaca- railroad camps to explore. The Anza- tion reviews, or any number of things you’re passionate about. Just write and let your voice be Borrego Desert State Park offers heard. People will follow. You can even blog about . miles of nature trails for nude hiking Photography and .

I’m very interested in this subject. I recently purchased an iPhone 11 Pro because of the camera With the friendly folks that call DeAn- capabilities. Apple impressed me with how far they’ve come, and you can take 4K photos with za home, you can socialize as much your phone!! However, if you don’t have a high end camera, they say the best camera is the one or as little as you choose. You can you have with you. Just start snapping things you find beautiful. Once it warms back up a bit, I’m going to take some walks and gather some nature pics of my own. Read more 5 The Rules Of Going Naked In Public About Us cont. If there’s one thing that Emma James really hates, it’s when she’s forced to put clothes on in share in monthly potluck dinners, order to leave the house. enjoy social hour, sing karaoke, or Because for her — and thousands of others around the globe — being naked in public is a freeing the night away in the Oasis and natural experience and one that should be totally without .

Lounge. Enjoy a meal at the Cactus In fact the devoted naturist from Buckinghamshire, UK, tries to do everything possible in the Flower Café or an invigorating game nude, from swimming to playing volleyball, modelling and even theatre performances. of water volleyball. At the end of the The 53-year-old is so passionate about the benefits of her lifestyle that she started the web- day you can retreat to your own site Socks Off in order to encourage other more reluctant people to take the plunge and get out space to experience the peace and and about while in the buff. solitude the high desert has to offer. Here she tells news.com.au about the unspoken rules of being a naturist and reveals her most We have many planned activities for memorable moments so far. you to enjoy every week, such as WHAT ARE THE DOS AND DON’TS OF BEING NUDE IN PUBLIC? bingo, karaoke, trivia, water volley- “There are a few rules which are unofficial codes of conduct in the community. The primary one ball and social hour. Our activities list is the importance of a towel. From a hygiene point of view, naturists always sit on towels and also include events like Nudestock wander around towel in hand, whether on beaches, clubs, abroad on holiday. Musical Festival, Bare Booty 5K Run “Towels also provide a useful screen if a man does get an erection. It’s very rare in a naturist and Naked to Goat Canyon Trestle. environment, it’s just not an environment people feel (excited) in. There’s a relaxed, comfortable All activities are open to everyone. feeling to being in a naturist environment or around other naturists.

Nude recreation can be a getaway “Another rule of thumb for most clubs seems to be the mandatory stipulation; no swimwear from the pressures of everyday life. allowed. We consider swimwear unhygienic, quite apart from the fact it feels so unnatural and if you’re in a naturist environment and someone stoically keeps their clothes on they’re regarded The relaxation you will discover is a with suspicion. Naturists will suspect them to have ill intent or to be a journalist/researcher so result of the healthy trend toward you’d feel out of place with clothes on. Read more accepting ourselves for who we are and feeling comfortable with our bodies. Searching for Truth about Naturism: If you have not yet experienced the freedom and fun of , You never know who’s reading your blog. Could be a seasoned naturist. Could be the clothing- you are in for a wonderful and liber- optional curious. Could be a worried or confused spouse who’s trying to figure out why her hus- ating experience when you visit band refuses to get dressed on Sundays… or pretty much, ever. DeAnza Springs Resort. Regardless, let’s say that a human goes to the computer and types the word “nudist” in the Google search bar. God help them if they click through to the associated image page which Those who enjoy nude recreation would make even the most open-minded people wince at what they will find there. Seems any come from all walks of life. DeAnza terminology related to nudism/naturism/clothing-optional recreation has been co-opted by Springs Resort welcomes singles, the for sale establishment. We live in America, the land of the free, and with that comes the couples and families of all ages. You freedom of expression, but that’s a good bit less than helpful when it comes to finding substan- tive information about social nudity. Read more will quickly find that being comforta- ble with your body and those of others has nothing to do with age, size, shape or condition. Naturist Lock Down Idea – Have a Nude Cof-

DeAnza’s magic is yours to discover! fee Chat over a Video Call Come and stay for a day, week, There was a time, having a coffee with a good friend was a normal activity, whether at the coffee month or… shop or at home. Unfortunately, it may no longer be possible for the near future, neither at the coffee shop, nor at home and not at your naturist club. So, shall we forget it completely? Fortu- nately technology allows us to talk and see our friends whenever we and they are available. So having a coffee over a video call is a possibility you can consider. Another activity that can be done in the nude!

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Whether you have a personal computer, a smartphone or a tablet, there are chances you have all 6 that is required to carry video calls. Read more Social Nudity and Social Media: Two Great Tastes… So I’m a blogger.

As far as I can tell, there are two reasons to blog, both legitimate, but depending on who you are and where you are in life, maybe not of equal weight. 1) You blog to get your thoughts out into print. A sort of catharsis. An exercise to see if you can formulate your thoughts into a coherent sentence. If not, maybe your thoughts were actually… nothing. (Brian, Family Guy, c.2012).

Or 2) You actually have this delusional perception that maybe your thoughts, once committed to cyberspace, might actually sway the masses, or maybe even a few people on the fence, to con- sider for a moment the absurdity of the textile industry and how the entire human race has somehow decided that certain anatomical parts are dangerous, while others are simply… func- tional. A may get the credit for perpetuating the human species, but when I imagine life without elbows or opposable thumbs, I get pretty sad!

To be sure, the airing of one’s thoughts in a public forum is cathartic, especially when it’s some- thing you believe in, like naturism, for example! While some people can get a bit evangelical about this whole thing, I would be pretty happy if the “whole thing” wasn’t actually a thing. This blog is my third attempt to normalize the ideals of social nudity, so that people might even say, “That’s not for me, but there are things way more offensive than that to sit up and worry about!” Read more

A nudist is someone who doesn’t think people should feel a sense of shame about being naked or seeing others naked!

Who’s Afraid of the Female Nude?

Male wonder whether they can work with the female form, while the world questions what their intentions were in the first place. By Michael Slenske

The western art canon is in no small part a parade of famous female nudes, from Praxite- les’s of Knidos from the fourth century B.C. to Manet’s 19th-century prostitutes (notably the recumbent, unamused Olympia) to John Currin’s -meets-Fragonard women — and almost all of them have been made by white male artists. Of course, as art historian Linda Nochlin famously observed, it was difficult for women to paint nudes when historically they weren’t even allowed to attend figure- classes because of the naked people necessarily present.

While feminist art critics have for decades pointed out the shortcomings of the “male gaze,” the post-#MeToo reckoning with the art world’s systemic sexism, its finger-on-the-scale prefer- ence for male genius, has given that critique a newly powerful force. And the question of the moment has become: Is it still an artistically justifiable pursuit for a man to paint a naked wom- an?

To answer this question, I reached out to a number of prominent male artists known for doing just that (as well as for nude men). But most of them — including Currin, Carroll Dun- ham, Jeff Koons, and the young Mexican-American painter Alex Becerra (some of whose nudes are drawn from escort ads) — declined to talk about their work’s relationship to the current social climate. Presumably, they worried about unintentionally saying the wrong thing that would then echo endlessly across social media, damaging their reputations. For emerging artists, there is the fear of a possibly career-derailing gestalt fail. “I’ve been in conversations with other [male artists], and they were just like, ‘I quit working with the figure. I’m only doing abstract work, because I don’t want to touch it,’ ” says Marty Schnapf while walking me through his recent solo show “Fissures in the Fold” at Wilding Cran Gallery in Los Angeles. He thinks we could be living through “a new Victorian age” — or at least that’s his explanation for the mixed responses he’s received for his gender-confusing neo-Cubist nudes, Read more 7 Mark Your Calendars Are Exhibitionism and Nudism the Same Thing? Not at All! Many people outside the nudist lifestyle consider a nudist and an exhibitionist to be very much the same thing. It is true that both are without clothes, but that is the only similarity between them. 

In fact, there are many differences between nudists and exhibitionists. The most important dis- tinction that helps differentiate them, though, is their intent. Unfortunately, the nudity compo- nent has led textiles to assume that nudism and exhibitionism are the same, giving nudism a very negative connotation.

How Do We Define “Nudist”?

In its purest form, nudism is the preference to be “open and free” with oneself, and encounter the liberation and exhilaration that results from not wearing the cloaks that society, which can come across as very shallow at times, forces us to wear.

It is about being:

“Open” - allowing others to view your genuine true self and not shielding yourself with artificial facades that mask who you honestly and genuinely are.

"Free" - because it feels like you are as free as a bird flying far above the horizon when you shed the shell of clothes that bind and restrict your body.

Hence, “Open and free”.

If you have found for yourself how pleasurable and exhilarating nudity is, you already appreciate how freeing it feels. If you feel fantastic while not paying attention to what others perceive, you are a nudist without dispute. Read more



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