{"id":150,"date":"2003-08-21T12:46:53","date_gmt":"2003-08-21T19:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/vacationing_in_the_buff\/"},"modified":"2003-08-21T12:46:53","modified_gmt":"2003-08-21T19:46:53","slug":"vacationing_in_the_buff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/vacationing_in_the_buff\/","title":{"rendered":"Vacationing in the Buff"},"content":{"rendered":"

Much to Red Eagle’s disgust, I use AOL to access the Internet. One day I’ll grow up and get a real provider, but until then I’ll be treated to such news flashes as the one that inspires today’s post.
\nMy day started out with AOL announcing that there is a HUGE surge in vacationing in the buff. It seems that in the past ten years annual revenue based on nudism has increased from $120 to $400 MILLION dollars a year.
\nI visited this site at CNN<\/a> to learn that people are now offering nude motorcycle rallys (Bogie, WHERE was WS??), nude hiking and camping (Gawd, think of the mosquito bites and poison ivy), and cruises. You can send your children to nude camps, or go to one of 260 clothing optional resorts in North America. The number of resorts have doubled in ten years.<\/p>\n


\nAOL ran a poll on the subject, asking “Would you ever try a clothing optional vacation?” Forty-nine percent of the 84,517 responding said “Yes,” 32% said “No,” and 19% said “Maybe.” When asked if they would allow their teen to attend a nude camp, a sensible 71% said “NO.”
\nI understand people wanting to be one with nature, communing with the beauty around us, but what comes to mind when you talk about nude camping is running like hell, with a bear hot on your trail. I bet the Forest Rangers have a LOT of cute stories to tell about the naked campers they’ve had to rescue. And the thought of sunburn on parts of me that haven’t seen daylight in twenty years is enough to make me shudder. You KNOW you’d miss places with the sunscreen.
\nAnd let my kid go to nude camp? Not a chance! It takes long enough to teach a kid to wear clothes; who in their right mind would send them off for a week in the buff? And then you have the question of whether it’s a coed camp or a same sex camp. Both are bad choices. All together too much temptation at that age.
\nApparently, nudism is a niche industry that caters to the affluent. “Naked Air” has flown one clothing optional flight from Houston to Cancun. A company called “Bare Necessities” has organized nude cruises and has filled a Carnival Cruise lines ship.
\nNow, I don’t want you to get the wrong idea. I’m not a prude, but I am modest. I’m looking at this issue from my perspective, and from my experience. I had the great good fortune to take a cruise to Alaska last year. No…it wasn’t clothing optional. However, I chose not to take my swim suit in an effort to avoid offending my fellow cruisers. I needen’t have worried. I was ASTOUNDED at the beached whales who could be found in the pool on the Lido deck each day. I’m a hefty broad on a mission to loose weight, and each of these people could have made TWO of me.
\nSo……….just because you are affluent doesn’t mean you have good sense or good taste. Nude activities should be for people who have lovely bodies. Out of kindness for the community, those of us who are no longer 34-23-34 need to reconsider communal nudity with strangers.
\nIn my own home, yes. In public, no.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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