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Nudist groups seeking younger members By CARA RUBINSKY, Associated Press Writer Sun May 13, 4:41 AM ET Here's the naked truth about nude recreation: The people who practice it aren't getting any younger. To draw 20- and 30-somethings, nudist groups and camps are trying everything from deep discounts to a young ambassador program that encourages college and graduate students to talk to their peers about having fun in the buff. "We don't want the place to turn into a gated assisted living facility," said Gordon Adams, membership director at Solair Recreation League, a nudist camp in northeast Connecticut that recently...

Los Gatos man alleged to have 750,000 child porn photos A Los Gatos man faces 10 years in prison in what law enforcement officials are calling the largest child pornography bust in the Bay Area - more than 750,000 sexual photos of boys found tucked in in ammunition boxes and then buried in the man's backyard. Michael F. Palmer, 53, covered his buried stash of explicit photos with plywood and plants in the Santa Cruz side of unincorporated Los Gatos, deputies said. Most of the photographs, Sgt. Robin Mitchell said, came from overseas. But, officers also seized non-pornographic, homemade films...

TOPEKA, Kan. - Kansas Libertarians were stopped from holding a fundraiser at a nudist camp in southwest Shawnee County, when sheriff's deputies blocked people from entering. Shawnee County deputies said they were merely enforcing a court order when they stopped people from accessing Lake Edun on Friday. Last year, Shawnee County District Judge Terry Bullock issued a court order banning "commercial or recreational activities" on the property unless the owners get a permit for such events - something the county refuses to provide. But Rob Hodgkinson, chairman of the Libertarian Party of Kansas, said a political party fundraiser isn't a...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- A nudist-colony controversy has heated up after the community ousted a man whose generator blew up and set him on fire. Paul Kuschel and his wife, Carol, enjoyed baring it all at Sunnier Palms Park, WPBF-TV in West Palm Beach reported. The natural way of life seemed to agree with the couple until two weeks ago when Kuschel was setting up his trailer in the nudist colony and his generator exploded, burning him all over. "I had shorts on, but it would have been better if I didn't because they melted to my body. I...

A NAKED man suffered burns to one-fifth of his body when he tried to burn a spider at a NSW nudist resort yesterday. The Sydney man, 46, tried to kill what he thought was a funnel-web spider by pouring petrol down its burrow and igniting it with a match, the NRMA CareFlight service said. But the fuel exploded, scorching the man's upper leg and buttocks.

Locke, Cayuga County - 52-year-old Joseph Musco, the former director of Bare Bones Nudist Camp in the town of Locke, pleaded guilty today in United States District Court to possessing and transporting child pornography. In July of last year, Musco admitted to engaging in sexually explicit internet conversations with an undercover police officer pretending to be a 14-year-old boy. US Attorney Glenn Suddaby says Musco further admitted to sending child porn to the officer over the internet. Musco faces a minimum of five years in prison. He also faces a maximum fine of $250,000. Musco will be sentenced on May...

Nearly three centuries ago, the merchants of lower Manhattan kept losing ships to the sandbars that lined the narrow channel leading to New York City.  Upset over the growing losses, the merchants banded together and built a lighthouse on the edge of Sandy Hook in order to guide ships safely to the young city. The lighthouse was so effective that the British took it during the Revolutionary War to ensure their ships made it to Manhattan.The Sandy Hook lighthouse still shines its light 19 miles out to aid passing ships, a 70-foot-tall reminder of the importance of the sea to...

Bill Van Keuren shouldn't have had any trouble selling his family's house. It's a three-story colonial with a formal dining room, thick mahogany doors, leaded-glass windows and an enclosed porch. A spring-fed lake is just steps away, past two tennis courts and a hot tub. The house sits on 145 acres of pristine Sussex County woodlands in a naturist resort. It is priced very attractively at $395,000. Still, it has languished on the market for more than a year, even as its price has been reduced from $450,000. How can such a home defy the roaring real estate market in...

LOCKE, NY--The owner of a nudist camp in southern Cayuga County has been charged with trafficking in child pornography. Joseph N. Musco Jr., 51, of 1090 Route 38, Locke, has been charged with promoting an obscene sexual performance by a child, possession of an obscene sexual performance by a child, and first-degree attempted disseminating indecent material to minors, all felonies. He also is charged with fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon, a misdemeanor, and unlawful possession of marijuana, a violation Musco's residence is also the address of his Bare Bones Camp. The investigation began when a police department in New...

NEW YORK - The diners arrived at a nice Manhattan restaurant on a cold February night and stripped off coats, hats, gloves and scarves. They didn’t stop there. Skirts, shirts, pants, underwear and stockings all ended up stashed in plastic bags by the bar as the patrons got naked for the monthly “Clothing Optional Dinner.”

The ACLU is now suing for the right to allow people to operate nude camps for teens. The group filed a motion in Richmand, Virginia to invalidate a state ban on such camps. The state had imposed the ban because White Tail Park had attempted to operate a camp last year for kids aged 11-18. The ACLU is attempting to make the argument that lawmakers over reached and over reacted to the camp by passing such a ban. The ACLU is also arguing that such a ban "interferes" with the "right" of a family to raise and nurture their children....

HUDSON, Fla. -- Piles of trash, dirty lakes, racist property deeds and pedophiles living nearby have not deterred one man's dream of creating a Christian-themed nudist community. Bill Martin has purchased about 240 acres of land about 30 miles outside Tampa for a little more than $1.6 million, much of it on the site of an old nudist colony that had fallen into disrepair, which he and his business partners hope to transform into a modern-day Garden of Eden. "The Bible very clearly states that when Adam and Eve were in right with God, they were naked," said David Blood,...

Hundreds to gather for nude volleyball tournament Tools Print this article E-mail this article Subscribe to this paper By The Associated Press Friday, September 5, 2003 BEAVER FALLS -- Thousands of volleyball players will gather in Beaver County this weekend for a volleyball tournament in the buff. The 105-acre White Thorn Lodge nudist park in South Beaver Township will host the 33rd annual Volleyball Superbowl tomorrow and Sunday. As many as 1,700 people are expected to attend -- some to watch, some to play. Nude & Natural magazine once called it "the most unique event in nudism." "You don't sweat...

PHOENIX (AP) -- Arizona's House speaker said he's worried about a nudist summer camp for teenagers and is urging an investigation. Jake Flake said he would encourage the Maricopa County Prosecutor's Office to investigate the camp at Shangri La Ranch, a clothing-optional resort just north of Phoenix. He said he's concerned about adults seeing the children and teens naked. "I have to think that they are breaking some laws somehow. Indecency or something," Flake told The Arizona Republic in Friday's editions. State law allows nudity on private property, even among minors with parental permission. About 15 youths, aged 11 through...

UTZ, Fla., June 12 — On the third-to-last day of summer camp, the temperature has risen to 98 degrees, and even the troupers have begun to whine. "I don't want to play strip volleyball!" complained Jane Jeffries, 13, her sunburned shoulders sagging. "I want to play regular volleyball." Halie Nelson, 14, agreed, "Yeah, I'd rather get all the clothes off, and keep all the clothes off."

An 8-year-old boy died Friday morning when his family's camper caught fire at a Wharton County nudist resort, authorities said. The child, identified as Lonnie Williams III of Presidio, was vacationing with his family at the Natural Horisun Inc. Family Nudist Park, a private, gated resort near Boling, said Lt. Daniel Marek of the Wharton County Sheriff's Office. The cause of the blaze was not known late Friday, Marek said. The boy and his family were regular park visitors who were well-liked and respectful, said Gregg Alden, one of the park's owners. "We're all heart-broken," Alden said. Alden said a...

If you thought the 2002 election cycle was interesting, wait until you hear who's thinking about stirring the pot a bit by mulling a Senate campaign for 2004. Crystal Dueker, a Republican nudist-rights advocate who briefly ran for the Senate in 1998, tells HOH that she's considering a challenge to Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.) in two years.Dueker said she will defer to former Gov. Ed Schafer (R) if he decides to run for the Senate, but she will not let Dorgan get a free ride if Schafer bows out. "If no one will run, I will be running," she vowed....