tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-83435322312904750652011-08-14T23:44:50.631-07:00Naked College Student: thoughts from a young NaturistGNI Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18305519105198211714noreply@blogger.comBlogger681100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343532231290475065.post-25680920156561362082011-06-30T12:22:00.002-07:002011-06-30T12:47:40.259-07:00

Well since the last time I blogged I frantically moved out of the dorm, started working at Dick's Last Resort in Baltimore, been interpreting regularly, and most importantly signed up for this years gathering! I was just reading old GNI informers and I came across the article written about me wining the natural man award. The article itself definitely reminded me of my goal and enthusiasm that

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Now that Summer is almost here, well in DC it feels like it already, and the stress from school is done I can focus my attention on other things. Since I moved here I have started to take on more of an adult role than the lifestyle I had in Chicago. I came to this reason because in DC I'm starting a new career, graduate school, and living a lifestyle that reflects more of a professional. One

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So since my last post, which was AUGUST, I have been living and breathing grad school. Accepting it as my full time job, I am successfully getting through it, but not without sacrifice. Other than school, I've been interpreting part time and going to naturist events here in DC. One thing that I am really enjoying about DC is the naturist community here and the GNI members that live here.

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With grad school looming around the corner, missing the gathering, and leaving my friends in Chicago I cannot help but feel scared and excited at the same time. It is ironic at that high point of my naturist life was last year and the low point is definitely this year. I guess everything has to equal out; there is just too much change for me this year to really participate in naturist events.

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I think it's funny that just after my last post about how unbusy I was the floodgates opened and I ended up being busy until I graduted. I never really thought that I would be this excited to actually be done, but it is a nice sense of accomplishment that I am feeling at the moment, and I am very excited about what's next. I have all but given up on the idea of graduating while still being in

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Ok so before I get into the subject of the blog, I want catch people up on what's been going on in my life and why I haven't updated since January. My semester has been pretty laid back, but getting my research going and applying to grad school has taken up most of my time. I am happy to report that I have been accepted to grad school, so I will be relocating in the fall. It is a bundle of

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As we are all trying to get through until summer I find myself wanting to not be in my apartment on my days off, but I soon realize how I do not want to venture outside since Chicago is not the best place to be in the winter time. I was looking through my emails one day when I found that someone had posted old GNI photographs in a yahoo group that I belong to. Now I don't know the formal

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With visions of linguistics dancing in my head and paying my bills; I would have to admit the topic of naturism had not come up. Not to say I haven't discussed the topic, infact, sometimes it is the main subject at hand. Even my friend whom I hadn't seen in a while wants to give naturism a second try and possibly wanting to put something together. That notion surprised me, because I would have

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Well I definitely had a busy summer. Although I really just worked the entire time, I got the "employee of the month" title, and I was one of the top servers throughout the summer. After all of that I go to GNI only to receive the Natural Man Award. I can't say how much of an honor it is to receive this award. As soon as I got home I told everyone about it, although they weren't as excited as

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Ok I KNOW I have updated since April. This has happened before where I make a post and the thing doesn't end up posting. Oh well. My apologies for the large gap in posts, I should keep on it more diligently. Recently I have lost my drive for getting people involved with naturism. I just feel like the current methodology is cult like and I'm not trying to show people a new, better way of life

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Ok, so in the month of me not blogging I have actually been putting together something that I want to eventually turn into a workshop. I want to title this "the future of Naturism" and basically inform people of why I think young people are not getting involved with naturism. I have basically described my theories on this subject throughout the life of this blog, but I want to take all of my

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One of the classes I am taking this semester is called "multicultural issues in interpreting." I find this class very interesting because I am always analyzing people, culture, and how I fit into the mess. In this class I am personally learning about cultural identity. The class really discusses how various cultures communicate with each other, I usually strive to get more out of a class t

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I could have swore that I updated more, but apparently I was wrong. Since I last updated I had a nice few weeks off from school, I passed all my classes, and I had a nice time celebrating the holidays with friends and family. For some reason my naturists friends in chicago haven't really been organizing anything, so I haven't seen any of them in a while, unless I just happen to see them

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Now that I'm done with school and have had my time to "de-stress" from the semester, I actually can actually think about topics not related to school. It makes me feel almost normal what ever that is. I was eating dinner tonight with my friend and he was telling me about how he met someone last weekend that I almost ended up dating. The topic came up as to why I never dated this individual and

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Due dates, research projects, and Interpreting the spoken/unspoken word has lead me to drinking. I don't drink alone so while I was at the bar I was people watching and living in gayville USA I get a pretty good perspective on superficiality. Sometimes I think it's funny how we all compete with each other in trying to look better than the other peson. I always thought the older I become it

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Since I've become a naturist I've met some pretty interesting people, but mostly I've learned a lot about myself. When I went to that resort for the first time, I honestly thought that it would be just a new experience and I never thought that it would end up being a driving force in my life. For me the lifestyle isn't just about being yourself and accepting yourself, it's about being apart of a

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With school running full force in my life at the moment, it really leaves me with little energy to do anything else! Since my last post I co-hosted a naturist party. I was going to take the opportunity to promote GNI, but then I realized that half of the people that were at the party already go to the gathering, plus we talked about the gathering extensively so everything worked out well. My

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I wanted to write while I was at the gathering, but if anyone saw me while I was there, I really had no time to make a post so I decided to make a post after the gathering. This year my experience was a bit of a whirlwind of meeting new people and enjoying the limited time I had with my friends. After some reflection and what I like to call "Gathering Detox," I can happily say that the

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Since my last post I have been working to pay bills before I left for the gathering and this year I've been helping out a lot, so that means little time to sit down and put my thoughts down.In days leading up to the gathering; the word priorities come to mind. The thought process all started because recently my boyfriend asked me just how important naturism is in my life and how do I see future

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I came across this article and was very happy that I took the time out of my day to read it. It describes the Naturist experience to be exactly what it is. Normally I just copy and past a few paragraphs here and there and comment on them, but this whole article deserves to be read, and instead of just posting a link that may not work in a few weeks I'm just going to post it now.Get naked, be

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Well it really wasn't an article, but more of someone else's opinion that was expressed in a nudist forum. I found it to be very insightful and intriguing I will let people read it for themselves, then I will explain, so the message doesn't become jaded via misunderstanding."Instead of trying to attract more nudists we should be making nudity so commonplace that nudism won't be necessary any

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Well first I would like to express my gratitude for all the emails I received offering assistance to get me to the gathering. I am happy to say that I will be at the gathering this year and it will be my 3rd year. With the gathering approaching I am currently working very hard right now to get my bills taken care of for the month of August. In other news my father has informed me my website is

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I hope everyone had a good holiday and spent at least sometime with your clothes off. I on the other hand worked the whole weekend, but I can pay bills now so I guess it wasn't all bad. My work schedule has been so up and down recently that I almost forgot to post, since I haven't had a real day to just sit around and relax for awhile. I don't know if I mentioned it in my last post or not, but

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I've spent so much time in the textile world that I hadn't had the time to talk about the naturist world. I have just been working to pay the rent and looking for a second job, which has come up with no success, but I'm close to paying my bills so that rocks. With the lack of outdoor naturist things to do here in chicago; I've been stuck wearing my clothes to just about everywhere I go. The

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It's always an adventure telling people that I'm a nudist. It always starts up a discussion that I am well prepared for, but its just one of those things that either people will get it or they don't. Dating is a completely different entity, because I have this nice image of myself with someone that shares the my lifestyle with me. This means that sometimes I have to bring up the fact that I'm

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So after my very hard semester, it's very nice to take a few days and just unwind. After that I redecorated my apartment, and had a small cooking disaster which left my apartment smelling like fried chicken for a few days. It is now summer in Chicago and I am happy all except for the lack of naturist culture in chicago. If this city had a nude beach I would be planting my roots right now, but

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I am finally over the "hump" of schoolwork. This semester I had 3 research papers to write, so I wrote about 40 pages worth of material. I am ready to be done LOL. I worked really hard this semester and I learned a lot, I can definitely say that I am a better person out of my semester experiences. On a bright note I want to say thank you for all the kind messages that everyone has been

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With only three weeks left in the semester I'm as much as excited, but ready to kill someone because I'm so stressed out. Until school allows me to attend class in the nude, there really isn't anything interesting going on with me naturist wise, I was reviewing my finances though and it's not exactly set in stone, I may have to skip the gathering this year because of loans I have to pay monthly

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Sometimes I tend to get stuck in my own part of the country and being a young naturist I tend to feel alone often. Then I see someone that I was in youth ambassadors with or I meet another young naturist and suddenly I don't feel so alone. It's just a nice breath of fresh air to meet someone that understand that side of me, because it feels like a struggle sometimes to share it with people I

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Now I don't want to be all evangelical when it comes to introducing new people into naturism, but I can certainly see the motivation behind their tactics. Understand I don't want my methods to be related to an evangelist I can just understand where they are coming from. I like to inform people of the culture and I don't want to sugar coat the culture and make it sound like this perfect utopia

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I think I've had the busiest semester in my college career so far. It really has left me time for absolutly nothing else! With spring break approaching, My school schedule has become less hetic. Fortunantly my professors have given us the grace of actually having a vaction for a week and not load us down with homework. For one of my classes I'm writing a 20 page study on a Chicago neighborhood

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We've had a few days here in Chicago that have been pretty warm and whenever the weather does that it always makes me think of summer naked things and what not. My goal for this year is to get one person to try naturism for the first time and so far, as always, I've had many inquires but nobody actually coming along with me. My father says my website is getting more hits every week, so that

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school is definantly keeping me busy this semester. That's pretty much the reason for the lack of prompt posts. I can remember when I became a naturist and I wanted to "convert" everyone like I was an evangelist or something. Its not like I dont want everyone to try it or anything, but I've learned that its some peoples thing and other people dont want anything to do with it, so my focus now is

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It will be interesting to see the future of nudism. I always hear the foreseeable end to nudism because younger people don't go to any events, but if one does a search on websites like meetnudemen.com for example they'll find many guys interested in nudism and many of them participate already in clubs in their area already and they are all around my age. That makes me think already if in 20

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I look at websites like Clothesfree.com or loxieandzoot.com every once and a while to see the updates and I was thinking how much I enjoy anything that promotes a positive body image. we are constantly being bombarded with images that say "we aren't good enough, but if you want to me good enough here is what you have to buy." Whatever happened to being yourself and getting what you want out of

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Every time I read the nudist news I usually come across at least one article that discusses a 100 year old naked woman or the FCC giving fines because a T.V. show displayed a naked butt. I just think that people tend to make a big deal out of nothing. My father told me when I was little to stop making such a fuss when people make fun of me and they'll stop doing it. This is the same thing.

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I do realize the "televised interest" for socical nude recreation, but I wish it was in more of a positive light and not this attempt to make it into something that it is not. What really bugs me about the whole situation is the nudist is trying to make their lifestyle seems as ordinary as possible, so people watching can get some misconceptions out of their head and MAYBe try it out for

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I find it funny that some people think its completely natural to be naked and some people just think it's weird. I think this may have to do with some nature vs nurture explanation. Do people feel that being naked is natural because that's how they were raised? If so then how do you explain ultra-conservative families that have a relative that turns out to be a nudist? I was reading a dear

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I came across a post the other day. It was a naturist married couple that was my age and they wondered why they couldn't find other couples their age. This started a whole list of reasons why, but the one that struck out to me was that young people don't have the money. This reason I tend to half agree on because I know many people that take summer trips to europe or go to Florida for spring

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I was talking with my friend the other day, and he was curious as to what type of person don't I like. After I thought for along time about the answer I realized that I dont really like people who are superficial. In the gay community there are a lot of people that workout and wear designer clothes just so they can be someone's "type." Oddly enough this conversation turned into why I like

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As this year comes to a close I have to stop and think about the kind of year I've had and all the interesting people I've met. Normally I have just a typical year that I can say that I've done nothing important, but this year in particular I've done so many new things that my life never really became boring. From changing schools to going to the youth ambassadors workshops in June to my second

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My major in college is American Sign Language interpreting. During my time here I have meet some very interesting Deaf people; one of which is a Nudist just like me. The problem is that for my friend can't really be that involved with the Nudist community because the Nudist community isn't that accessible for Deaf people. When I become an interpreter I'll be happy to interpret, but until then

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I literally went through almost 2 months of non nudist activity. Maybe I just needed a rest since I've been so active this past few months I dont know, but recently I've been getting back in the swing of things again. I went back to my HON account to find people interested in the nudist lifestyle and they lived in the country! On a side note on HON(hangoutnude.com) I get alot of messages from

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I cant believe this month is almost finished! Between school, thanksgiving, homework, and my job finding time to write something on here as been stretched a little thin. I received an email today about this anti-nudity article a gentleman from my generation wrote. When I read it I wanted to email him personally, but I figured I can write something of my own instead. Here is the article....The

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So last night I was talking to a guy from Toronto out at the bar and he was talking about how carefree their bars are there when it comes to clothing. That struck me as a bit envious, but what struck me that most of the world is that carefree in the bars. I do believe that America is one of the only countries that is having a problem getting younger memembers to try social nudity. I really

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So I got the AANR bulliten and I got to read an article I wrote on why the youth programs are important. The whole thing was exciting my parents both read it and they were impressed as much as they can be. They support me and everything, but sometimes think that the Nudist culture is a bit outside of normal for them. In other news I'm just been living at school, I've been invited to a couple

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As much as I like the fall I hate the fact that it's getting colder. Not that there are outside nudist things I can do in the city, infact all of the nudist events I go to are indoors. I don't know there's just something about it being warm outside and the possibility of going to an outdoor nudist event. Now I have to put up with people making comments only funny to themselves-"well isn't it a

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I meant to make a post last week, but I was scheduled 5 days and had a lot of homework to do which means I make my post now. I was reading many nudist related articles today and I randomly thought how nice it would be to have a Nudist resort located in a city. Now I know that wouldn't be possible, but the idea sounds nice. What I really don't like about Chicago is that there aren't any nude

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We all know about Spencer Tunick and his photography, which I like, but everything he does the people always just seem dead and that's kind of creepy to me. Recently I read an article of a photgrapher by the name of Alistar Devine. His work consists of nudes as well but in real life situations, like for example, the picture I saw had everyone in a bar just doing what people in bars do except

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My second week of school and I'm already tired!! oh well, there's a Naked boweling event here in chicago on friday that I want to go to, but I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to make it or not. Everyday I meet more and more people that enjoy Naturism I just have to expose them to the culture and I know they would be hooked Currently at the moment I'm on the board of the ASL club at school,

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Coming back from the gathering last year I found it hard to adjust back to my regular life and this year I found it to be even harder. With tests, Work, my dirty apartment, and getting registered for school I've had a hectic time since I returned. While I was at the gathering, I heard about high schools being built without showers because they're just not used anymore. That made me think about

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I'm about half way through the gathering and despite the weather everyone is as pleasant as ever. My first workshop went well and my other one is tomorrow. I've had a lot of time here to think about my role as a young person in this culture and I really think I've put the ideas down on paper and ready to present them at my naturism from a college perspective workshop tomorrow. I really feel

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Only a few days until the gathering and I honestly can't wait. My experience was so good last year that my future experiences can only get better. I have everything done that I need to get prepare, so that means its naked time! LOL it was brought to my attention that I may not be the youngest one this year which would be interesting if that were the case. I'm away from my computer right now so

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This weekend my friend who runs a 18-40 Naturist group is having a party and I might just have a guest to bring. I recevied a message from him yesterday I told him to contact me so we'll see what happens with that. With my unexpeced free time I got from work this week due to rain, I've managed to put things together for the gathering. For a while now I wasnt sure if I could sell the idea of

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Ok this is weird I made a post, I published it, and its not up here. Oh well what I had said on there that nobody saw apparently was the letter I wrote had positive impact. Another youth ambassador wrote a similar letter and the directors of the program blended them into one big article which is very nice. This whole thing made me excited because I want to see more people my age involved with

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I was asked to write a letter to the American Association for Nude Recreation to defend the Youth Ambassador/Nude U programs. I just finished writing my thoughts down and I thought it would be cool to share with everyone what I wrote down.I recently finished the Youth Ambassador program and suddenly I dont feel so alone anymore. Through this program I found Nudists in my generation. For once I

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With work and my other obligations I havent really had the time to sit and think about naturism. The AANR convention is going on the same time as GNI and this is an important event for the Youth Ambassador program because it's at this convention that the board decides if its worth spending money for this program, So the leaders of the program asked me to write a letter for the buliten to let the

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So this past week I have been in contact with Dalton the GNI Event Coordinator and I have been asked to host 2 workshops. I accepted the offer so now I am hosting the Sign Language workshop and the Attracting Younger Nudists workshop. I am very excited about these tasks and I hope they will be informative to all that attend.

Nakedgnomehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16719714250347865036noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343532231290475065.post-10882541742998125122007-07-07T13:21:00.000-07:002007-07-08T12:01:36.806-07:00

With all the planning for GNI and trying to get Vita Nuda (new group the youth ambassadors are trying to create) off the ground bringing new people into naturism has really been the only thing I've been doing. I even got a girl at work saying she wanted to go to a resort the next time I go. The thing is about all of this I can get people interested, but to get them to actually go is another

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This past week has not only been filled with me working, but brainstorming with the other youth ambassadors to create a group and come up with a name. The name we picked out is "Vita Nuda." I'm pretty excited about this whole thing because there is a group of mixed young naturists brainstorming to make this community stronger and I can't wait to see what comes out of it. Since my trip to

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Saturday I just got back from the Youth Ambassador program for the American Association for Nude Recreation (www.aanr.com) and it was AMAZING! I met 21 people that were my age and want the same goals. Now I don't feel so alone anymore and I have to say it feels good to not feel so alone. I received training in promoting naturism and I even got practice in talking to textiled strangers on the

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I was very happy that the World Naked Bike Ride (WBNR) in Chicago had such a good turn out this year. That event seems to get bigger and bigger each year and it always suprises me. Actually, I think it would be a very interesting experience, but I have a two things preventing me from participating is that I dont have a bike and I dont want to be in trouble with the law. I've heard it's pretty

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Something that I've been curious about is what the average gay male that's my age thinks of naturism. From reading the agenda for my upcoming trip, one of the things we have to do is write questions to ask young people about their opinions on naturism. After I read that I got the idea to do that for gay men and compare the answers to see if there's any differences between the answers. I think

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I got the chance to read a blog the other day from a guy about my age that's a naturist with some interesting opinions about how to get youths involved with naturism. First, I want to say what a great writer he is you should look at what he has to say cause its worth reading, the site is www.gynophiliac.com. From reading what he has to say has certainly gotten the wheels turning in my head

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Well, I just registered for the Gathering today so now I'm excited. I can't wait to go back and see everyone. I had such an amazing experience the last year that I'm pretty sure this year will be better. I'm going to try and participate more this year like, for example, maybe sing. But I haven't really picked anything yet so I don't really know at this point. The whole year people have been

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Recently I got accepted into the youth ambassador program for the American Association for Nude Recreation. They basically said they like my ideas, so I'm very excited to go and see what it's all about. From what I've read I'll basically learn how to bring younger people into the naturist lifestyle, how to start a college group, how to speak to large groups about the topic, and how to run a

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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

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Hello, everyone. Welcome to the GNI blog. I was very pleased when GNI asked me to contribute to the blog since it's such a great organization and they inspired me to make a website about Naturism, so weekly I will write about my thought on the subject of Naturism; I just wanted do a little introduction first. A lot of people were shocked to see me at the Gathering last year because of my age. I'm

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