Yes, it's been a long time since I've posted anything, mostly because I don't have much new to say that I haven't said before. I still answer questions related to nudity and nudism on yahoo answers, figuring it's a better outreach than just having a blog sitting around waiting for someone to visit. I don't have a whole lot to say today. So if you don't mind, I'll just ramble a bit.
I'm still bothered by the "-ist" thing. Why is my accepting my own form and accepting others simply as they are, an "-ist" thing, when the culture instead has developed a perverted self-loathing of what we are and what we look like? As if compulsively hiding ourselves in shame from each other is a good thing. It isn't. Sorry. No thank you. I'm tired of playing that game.
Moving on to "Dating Naked" and "Naked and Afraid", both of which I find too contrived and awkward. I dated a nudist girl for a while. Being naked with her either at home or at her club wasn't any different than when we were out clothed. We shared a few common interests, of which that was one, but it didn't work out and we parted friends. I understand that the taboo of nudity (annoyingly blurred out as it may be) draws people to watch those programs. But I think for most people the novelty quickly wears off and there's not enough left to keep them (or me) watching. Dating is painful enough to do, much less watch. Especially when they're being so weird about it.
"Naked and Afraid" is supposed to prey on the audience's conditioned feelings of vulnerability with regard to being naked. I'm sorry, but I spent many decades hiking and camping in the wilderness and I don't see how putting people who don't know how to survive in the wild out there without any training or equipment is all that entertaining. It's painful to watch them being so miserable at night when it invariably gets too chilly for them to be able to sleep without sufficient shelter and warmth (clothed or not).
In real life, even in the most primitive tribes people band together, sharing chores and building on what people have done before them. I've done a lot of long distance solo wilderness backpacking in my day, but it takes a lot of equipment (modern or otherwise) to pull that off comfortably. On hot days, it was nice to get out of my clothes, sometimes while hiking, but mostly at camp. Skinny dipping at a stream or lake was much appreciated, and it was nice to be able to rinse my clothes off (all of them) and let them dry on a rock while I stayed naked and aired out late into the day until it got too chilly to stay that way. The few people that ran into me undressed, didn't mind. Nor did I mind when I stumbled onto them. Being naked in the wild is a luxury that's frankly too nice to pass up on when it's warm out. BTW, one quickly learns that you sleep a lot more comfortably naked in a warmer bag, than clothed in a colder bag. Clothing traps one's moisture against you, leaving you feeling cold and wet. Modern sleeping bags are designed to let the moisture escape, keeping you warm and dry if you don't sabotage it wearing nasty smelly, and invariably damp, clothing inside.
Enough for now. Happy New (Nude) year!
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