Saturday, May 26, 2007

How to encourage people.....

For centuries straight people have been burning gays at the stake; I mean where do you think the word faggot came from? Now it seems that gay people are burning other gay people at the stake. Every time we walk into a bar, dance club, or bathhouse we get sized up and judged. Just the other day one of my friends went to a wet boxer contest and the man being made fun of on stage was just a few pounds bigger than me the only problem was that he wasn't ripped, and when my friend approached him to say "hey don't worry about it there's a lot of people here including myself that think your hot" and his simple reply was "it's ok, it's just motivation for me to work out even more." I think our culture put so much pressure on each other to look a certain way that it’s really no wonder that I'm usually the youngest person at naturist resorts or gatherings. People always ask me "why aren't their more people your age coming to events like this?" And after a lot of thought the reason is this, gay people are so used to being made fun of and judged for the way they look when they're in there 20's that the last thing they want to do is take their close off in front of anyone especially gay men, so how do we change this? How do we convince people that naturism is ok and we won't judge them? I think the first step in bringing a "younger crowd" into the lifestyle is to some how show people that we don't judge in the same sense that a gay bar will. As a naturist I've heard the same line again and again that naturism is an equalizer and as much as i think that word is annoying, it's so very true and it's very hard to think that there is a group of gay men none the less that actually don't size up and be mean to other people by the way that they look. If start at this issue we could get some interest. From there we may get some guys wanting to go to the gathering. These are just my thoughts; what are yours?