At Nude Youth Camp, Skin Is Bare but Lust Is Verboten

NY Times ^ | June 18, 2003 | Kate Zernike

[Constitution Day]

And everyone is on guard against COG's — "creepy outside guys" — who try to sneak in past the tall fences and security gates, to peek.
On Tuesday, when a suspicious-looking man arrived at the pool, counselors quickly herded campers away and guards escorted the unwelcome visitor from the premises.

Say, where is Scott Ritter these days?

[Corin Stormhands]

Where are we going and why am I in this handbasket?

[AppyPappy]

$50 says there is a video camera hidden somewhere.

[SouthernFreebird]

"It makes me a bit freaked out that people would think of nudity as a sexual thing," said Michelle Jones.

Yeah whatever would give them that idea......idiots, the worlds full of em.

[Capriole]

I feel sorry for the boys. It must be pretty embarrassing for them. "No lust," indeed! This may be one of the most stupid ideas in the history of left-liberal thinking.

[stainlessbanner]

15 will get you 20

[dead]

Florida, Virginia, and Texas.

I'm going to keep this in mind when people point out that NYC is a moral cesspool. 8-)

[dead]

"This Land Is Your Land" ends, "This land was made nude and free."

Naked Quakers?

[jriemer]

Why is it that nudists always seem to be playing nude volleyball? What is it that they have against other "enlightened" sports like nude leapfrog and nude greco-roman wrestling? Prudes...

[TontoKowalski]

I feel sorry for the boys. It must be pretty embarrassing for them.

I confess I've always wondered if getting a woodie is considered bad form in a nudist camp.

I seem to recall that during the teen years, it was difficult enough to hide spontaneous "tents" in class and so forth with your clothes on...I wonder how a teenage boy in a nudist camp copes.

[battlegearboat]

Beavis: You said "Naked"....

[Norse]

Yea, walking down the hall in High school, spotting a hot babe, me wearing sweat pants...not a good combination. Duck and run, duck and run.

[SquirrelKing]

$50 says there is a video camera hidden somewhere.

The groundskeeper is hiding a camera in his hat.

[Maximum Leader]

But 18 will get you a good time!

Sorry, a partner at the first law firm (!) I worked out would always say that.

I have no problem with adult nudists, but these teenagers seem a little naive... My favorite line in the article:

"At school, if you see a person, you just see their clothes," Jane said. "Here you have to actually get to know the people."

[GodBlessRonaldReagan]

Anyone remember the episode of Beavis & Butthead where they snuck into the nudist camp?

"Huh-huh-uh-hu-huh....we saw naked people!"

[AxelPaulsenJr]

Is Anna going to camp this year?

[hopespringseternal]

"It makes me a bit freaked out that people would think of nudity as a sexual thing," said Michelle Jones, 15, a camper from Texas.

It makes me a bit freaked out that people would think nudity is not a sexual thing.

Some people can take the fun out of anything.

[TontoKowalski]

I can relate. I know they talk about "not mixing nudity and lust." Problem is, though, that for a teenage boy, evidence of "lust" can spring up at any moment during any non-lustful activity: Math, mowing the lawn, whatever.