August 3, 2020 Volume 20, Issue 6 Weekly Newsletter The Peyote Trail by Scott Schmitz De Anza Resort held its first nude 5K on March 14, 2015. The “Run for the Border” race started at the clubhouse, went up past the Dog Run and routed up Old Carrizo Road. The course went by the Chimney Track and further up the road to the junction with the Walker Canyon Trail where there was a refreshment stop and signs to turn left. The race went west on the Walker Canyon Trail to the railroad tracks. There were no signs there but at the beginning of the race partici- Inside this issue pants were told to run back down the railroad tracks to the Carrizo Creek Trail. Runners sur- prised some bicyclists and hikers along the railroad, but as the participants were busy racing they The Scientific Reasons ................. 2 just waved and ran by. After taking the Carrizo Creek Trail back to the Resort, the course took Swimsuit Optional ....................... 2 the road down past the gate and over to the motel. The participants turned right at the motel Can You Get Covid ...................... 3 and followed the road along the edge of the resort until they got back to the clubhouse. As the course was just shy of 3 miles at this point, Read more Thorpe Park's Nemesis ................ 4 The Ongoing Battle .................... 4 Black’s Beach .............................. 4 Nude Cover That Never Saw The Light Of Day Fight Over Nude Swimming ........ 4 The year is 1981. The month is August. On the cover of what is meant to be the precursor to The Nudism Could Be Good ............... 5 Irish Times’ now-familiar Saturday color supplement are two bare bottoms. They belong to two Can You Run Naked ..................... 5 people shopping in a supermarket in Cap d'Agde's, a naturist resort in France, which was then the largest such resort in Europe. The name of the magazine is The Irish Times Color Supplement. Freedom Of Going Nude ............ 5 The cover story, about the “naturist movement”, which features said unclothed posteriors, was Untold Story ............................... 6 by journalist Jeanine Crowley, with photographs by Tom Lawlor. The Nudist Colony ....................... 6 That magazine, of which about 82,000 copies were printed to be included with the newspaper Naked, Healthy Truth .................. 7 one Saturday in August 1981, was never distributed. The entire run was ordered pulped once it was seen by Maj Thomas Blakeney McDowell, the then chairman of the Irish Times Trust. As the Naturally Carolina ....................... 7 paper did not have the facility to design or print color at the time, the magazine had been printed Topless In The Park ..................... 8 off-site, by Litho Universal in Bray, Co Wicklow. It was not seen by anyone until it arrived back to D’Olier Street, where the paper was then located, as was its printing press. Nudity In Music Videos ............... 8 “The Major went ballistic when he saw it,” recalls Seamus O’Neill, who was then advertising manager. “He took one look at the nudes on the cover, Read more Activities Schedule The Scientific Reasons Why You Should Just Always Be Naked Show a man with a gun... it’s called action. Show a man with a dick... it’s called indecent. There’s something wrong with the way Americans have come to accept almost every aspect of the human condition except for the most natural one. We’ve accepted guns, drugs and violence, yet refuse to accept bare breasts and genitalia. Put a man killing and raping women in a movie and it may go on to win an Oscar. Put a naked woman on the screen, and it won’t be allowed a nomination (take “Blue is the Warmest Color” for example). We’ve become so desensitized to everything, but the one thing that makes us human. We’ve come to accept almost every negative aspect of human nature, yet refuse to condone the most natural state a human being can be — the nude. With the recent craze of the health benefits of sleeping naked, I couldn’t help but wonder if there were more benefits we’re missing out on by always covering up. Are nudists colonies onto something? Are we depriving ourselves of essential nutrients and ben- efits due to our perversion to the human body? 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. Swimsuit Optional: The Spontaneous, Liberat- Freedom In The Park ing Joy Of Skinny-Dipping It’s beautiful out in NYC these days — maybe a touch too hot (yesterday was Like her granny before her, Rosie Green has plunged into sun-warmed seas, freezing lakes, something like 95 degrees), but very, moonlit rivers – all completely naked. She reveals here the spontaneous, liberating joy of skinny- dipping very beautiful, with the sky a gorgeous shade of blue and home to fluffy white My grandmother loved getting naked. Not when grocery shopping or gardening; she wasn’t some clouds. The trees are a green so vi- kind of eccentric or deviant. In fact, the only kinks she had were in her garden hose. But she did love skinny-dipping. brant you’d think they’d been sweet- ened in Photoshop. If you asked a When confronted with a pond, lake, river or pool she couldn’t wait to disrobe. Her preferred tactic for maintaining maximum modesty was to get in up to her neck then, with skillful treading painter in darkest Finland or coldest of water and Houdini-like contortion, wriggle out of her costume and fling it to the bank. As a Siberia to imagine summer, they’d family member you knew to remain alert to the possibility of being hit by a water-sodden cossie. paint it like this. Alongside her bobble nose and penchant for garibaldi biscuits, I’ve inherited her love of skinny- And amid all this unnatural beauty and dipping. On my first Teletext-booked holiday with friends we ran stark naked into the Mediterra- thermometer-busting heat, what nean. When we emerged, we had gained a welcoming committee and lost our clothes, but that could possibly feel better than strip- didn’t put me off. I’ve plunged into freezing lakes, climbed over fences to swim in hotel pools and splashed in rivers at moonlight. All naked. ping off as much clothing as you possi- bly can? Best of all would be to get What’s the appeal? For my granny, I suspect it was laced with rebellion, and there’s an element of that for me, too. Fiona Murden, psychologist and author of Mirror Thinking, says swimming in naked — let’s be honest, as the tem- the buff goes against a social norm. ‘We expect people to walk around with their clothes on and, perature approaches 100 degrees, any if they’re going swimming, to wear a swimsuit. In that sense skinny-dipping is resisting conven- clothes at all are too much to be wear- tion.’ ing. A G-string might as well be a Remember the ‘Will patrons kindly refrain from’ swimming-pool signs? No bombing, no running down parka. But we’re good citizens and – my personal favorite – no petting. Getting naked was obviously so off-the-scale naughty it and prefer not to violate the Read wasn’t even included. more Skinny-dipping is in the same category as smoking behind the bike sheds, creating cocktails from 2 your parents’ drinks cabinet or going to the pub underage – 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 camping. Luxurious rental units con- sisting of fully furnished park models, midsized RV’s and motel 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 Photo from Twitter the Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, the resort grounds include grassy lawns, Shade trees, and sparkling pools, as well as typical desert vege- Can You Get Covid-19 Again? It’s Very Unlikely, tation. Experts Say Other amenities include two heated swimming pools (one enclosed for Reports of reinfection instead may be cases of drawn out illness. A decline in antibodies is nor- - year-round swimming), a hot tub, mal after a few weeks, and people are protected from the coronavirus in other ways. spa, well equipped gym, tennis and The anecdotes are alarming. A woman in Los Angeles seemed to recover from Covid-19, but pickleball courts, shuffleboard court, weeks later took a turn for the worse and tested positive again. A New Jersey doc- horseshoe pits, lounge, café, confer- tor claimed several patients healed from one bout only to become reinfected with the corona- ence center, game room, large cov- virus. And another doctor said a second round of illness was a reality for some people, and was much more severe. ered patio, world class hiking, as well as children’s play equipment. We also These recent accounts tap into people’s deepest anxieties that they are destined to succumb to have a large safely enclosed pet park, Covid-19 over and over, feeling progressively sicker, and will never emerge from this nightmarish pandemic.