Nude Camping, It's not just for adults anymore

USA News and Views ^ | 07/26/03 | Paul Walfield

[savedbygrace]

Ticks are not deterred by clothing. They will still find and navigate to all your hard-to-see places, if you know what I mean.

[AppyPappy]

Laz,

Paul Walfield owns the copyright for the material. He decides how it can be used because he owns it. It's just like the copyright Jim has on FR.

[hellinahandcart]

Bet a million dollars that site has "Print this article" and "Email this article to a friend" buttons on it somewhere; ergo, Walfield doesn't mind the article being disseminated widely.

Emailing the article to a mailing list is no different than posting it here, or printing multiple copies to hand out at a class or meeting. It is fair use.

[Drago]

Have you read this:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/707390/posts
Especially these page #'s:
http://www.freerepublic.com/images/p13.jpg
http://www.freerepublic.com/images/p14.jpg
http://www.freerepublic.com/images/p15.jpg
http://www.freerepublic.com/images/p16.jpg
There are alot more than two here.
Some of us are just sensitive to keeping JimRob out of court.
Where did Jim post the "rule' you mention?

[kcar]

Maybe this 15 year old nudist from Texas isn't aware of the danger she is in in making herself a target of insidious predators.

[AppyPappy]

Emailing the article to a mailing list is no different than posting it here

It doesn't email the article. It emails a LINK to the article.

[garbanzo]

And again, I have to wonder about your sensibilities if you're implying that our problem today is that people just have too much of an obligation to their society and aren't paying enough attention to their own desires.

In fact much media is pretty much Victorian with a small hint of Dionysianism. It's only slightly better than the 1950s. I would suggest that your sensibilities are way too sensitive if you think that today's bland inoffensive politically-correct media represent some sort of high point of immorality.

I think some brands of social conservatives look out and see a pit of depravity, but even in comparison to recent history, say the 1970s, today's media is actually fairly tame.

[garbanzo]

I think I've seen a few people like that, but aren't they like 1% or less, and fading?

Not judging by this thread, where people simply can't accept the idea of non-sexual nudity. Or that people who grow up nude simply don't grow up to be sex fiends or otherwise have psychological problems that stem from having been exposed to nudity as a child. If Amazon tribes have kids who grow up to not have psychological problems, then I would have to suggest that much of the hysteria over naked teens hanging out with other here is cultural and stems from bad ideas about sex, nudity, and the body.

[Dutchgirl]

As a child of the "consequences free" 70's, there was a period when, nine months pregnant with what was to be a 10 lb. baby, I bared it all on a secluded beach with a friend who had invited me out for the day.

It had been suggested to me that breastfeeding might be easier if I allowed the elements to provide a little "toughening up." Something for which I had never felt the need before. Or since. While I reclined like a beached whale and she cavorted on her sail board, a rustling in the bushes alerted me to the fact that we were not alone...

A few moments later, a vaguely familiar man appeared out of the under growth.

A man I had to face every day for months until we moved...a man who greeted me by name...and appeared oddly, happier to see me than I was to see him. My mailman.

This episode has brought me to two conclusions. One: It is false to assume here are some portions of our anatomy that benefit from even the mildest of exposure to the sun.

And two: that one should only be seen naked by people who are either related to you through blood or marriage or in some other in a real and legally binding sense.

[mewzilla]

Ticks are not deterred by clothing. They will still find and navigate to all your hard-to-see places, if you know what I mean.

Too true. We've had family members who've had Lyme. And they're not nudists. But why make it easier for the little bleeders?

[AppyPappy]

My 90 year-old woman neighbor used to sun bathe in the nude. My mother forbade us to look. I'm convinced my brother looked because he is gay now

[Dutchgirl]

Did they look something like this?

this is the symptom of several forms of illness transmitted by ticks, et al. see http://www.dermnetnz.org/index.html for more info.(Somehow, I don't imagine that this is part of the brochure for camp.)

[mewzilla]

One of them had the classic bulls-eye, the other two no rash at all. Beats me why someone would want to up their risk for contracting something like this by camping in the buff. Not to mention skeeters, poison ivy...Sheesh.

[Dutchgirl]

A ninety year old sun bather, eh? Was she by chance-european? There are many valid reasons why we had a revolution in 1776.

Her counterpart would be the 300 lb. German tourist in his Speedo, usually found cavorting on the beaches here in Florida. (Eww.)In my perfect world, they would only be permitted no further west than Fire Island.

While I didn't hesitate to post a picture of some oozing skin, I do draw the line at posting pics of Speedos. Have you ever noticed that men in Speedos never know what to do with their hands?

[Quix]

Guess I agree . . . since the fall of Adam and all . . .

But I miss the skinny dipping of my youth.

And, I am reminded . . .

God set up the first nudist camp.

Don't know what the mosquitoes did until Adam's Fall, though.

I somewhat desperately resorted to Black's Beach to try and get atheist questionnaire's completed for my PhD Dissertation. Comments about blimps and whales au naturel are right. Most of our bodies do much better quite hidden. It's almost enough to make one swear off Ice Cream and other fun things for life.

[MeekOneGOP]

My pleasure. I don't know why folks excerpt when it's not required. I HATE having to deal with the WP/LAT excerpts, but at least I know there's a legitimate reason.

[Fintan]

Sometimes, when I am really feeling too good about myself, I look at myself naked in the mirror.

 

Me too, but I generally cure myself of this habit with a fifth of Jamesons...

[sauropod]

IIRC, it was with respect to the LA Times/Wash Post or any newspapers/companies they might own.

AFA "where was the rule posted?" when you get ready to post an article, a screen comes up that says as much. Anything from the LA Times or the WP must be excerpted and a link provided.

[sauropod]

He has also commented on it publically on FR.

[sauropod]

Nothing wrong with mailmen ;-).