As you read through this site, you may find yourself asking what most of it really has to do with nudism. ~ It’s good if that happens because all we’re really trying to do is explain the lives we live. ~ That it’s no different than yours or probably most of the people you know. ~ There really is no such thing as ‘nudism’ you know. !  We’re just like you except that you think you need to deal with all those clothes you wear. ~ That’s what needs to be named... ~ So we call you ‘textiles’.  :-)

We understand that overcoming the teaching of a lifetime is a difficult thing to do, so here are some important thoughts you might consider if you really want to do that.  ~ Or to just to ‘learn something more?’



Just getting to the point where one believes there is even a reason to try is very hard to reach. ~ This in itself kills off many a persons’ introspection.

Although we always enjoyed this freer lifestyle, there were years between our initial attraction to it and a really full understanding of what it is all about. ~ I’m sure this is rather normal for most, based on the amount of negative feelings individuals have been implanted with. ~ And we know also that even the words we use may be hard for some people to deal with. ~ My term ‘negative’ for instance, to some may not be seen as such.. <g>, but I guess that is what ‘introspection’ is all about. ~ You have to want to understand or you won’t. ~ So I’ll ask you to try and take what is said here at face value, until you understand the entire ‘other’ side’s viewpoint. ~  At least my version of it, which I’m sure is close to the average. ~ For now we’ll just ask you to try not to interpret things with a ‘clothed’ mind. ~  When you have read through the entire site  I would then like to hear your comments through this feedback link, if you’re inclined to make any.  
 

If you wish to try it, you should do so...   Bring a friend, keep your clothes on, whatever.., but do visit a nudist place. You will be *very* impressed with what you see, and with yourself to boot.

Since I enjoy introducing people to the lifestyle, if you are in the WNY area and would feel more comfortable with company.., to have a ‘guide’ as it were.., please feel free to contact me and I’ll make every effort to help in this way.

It really doesn’t matter how it happens, since it seems inherent in most to want to be so, but for illustrative purposes we’ll use a scenario which is probably close to being the case for many. ~ We’ll assume that the attraction to the nudist lifestyle begins at home. ~ If you enjoy the freedom and good feeling of being nude you do it when you can; perhaps when you’re alone or even as an accepted family practice. ~  Perhaps from the shower to doing the laundry without taking the totally unnecessary time or effort to get dressed. ~ You may have a pool outside and enjoy skinny dipping. ~ This soon leads to wishing you didn’t have to confine your enjoyment of it to just your home and yard. 

It is at this point that most people seem to stop. ~ They apparently don’t realize there are many others who feel exactly the same, and that some of them are probably right there in their own neighborhood. ~ Many of those people are doing something about it, and do indeed go ‘skinny dipping’ in a social setting. ~ Recreational areas and camp sites very similar to what are available for those with clothes..., KOA’s - WNY’s ‘Enchanted Lake’ types - etc., are also there for the bare. ~ Even better in many cases. ~ They’re like private (affordable) country clubs.

What stops people from just going to these places? ~ Apparently because they are going on their own rather limited viewpoints and perspective. ~ They have never had the experience of being nude in front of strangers so they continue to question and doubt it. ~ It’s the well known fear of the ‘unknown’... ~ Boo! :-) 

Today it’s very easy to learn, if you want to do that. ~ Using the internet to access nudist parks that are listed on this site and others, or on any search service, you can locate a park in your area and call them. ~  Just tell them you want to come and walk through on a tour or an open-house day. ~ Most places will let you do that at no charge for a half hour or so. ~ Many allow first time visitors in for the entire day, at no charge. ~ You can just visit while keeping your clothes on... ~ But it is almost certain that you will instantly become conscious of having them on. ~ You will immediately think it might be nicer if you were less conspicuous. ~  Or even worse.., you may feel people are thinking you’re a voyeur or something equally devious. ;->  ~  Well, if you do, just ignore it! ~  We’re just fine with visitors. ~  Most of us were too, at one time.   

To you.., seeing will be believing. ~ You’ll realize almost instantly that you had it all wrong. ~ I can almost guarantee that. ~ It happens all the time. ~ My wife and I had the same experience in the beginning and since then have seen many people coming for that first-time visit clothed, and then staying.., nude. ~ You may say that there were probably a lot who did not stay, but we wouldn’t know that. ~ We’ve never seen a bad reaction from anyone. ~ And while I’m sure some do leave, we know that the several people, mostly women, whom we’ve introduced, all did stay...

To many who think they need to wear clothes, there is a big gulf between themselves and those ‘other’ people. ~ Those ‘nude’ people. ~ To some it is a mentally insurmountable barrier to get over and even just thinking about going there and seeing them, and possibly getting undressed in front of them.., makes them shudder. :-) ~  Unless, as you’ve been taught.., it’s a doctor... Ha!  ~ As if doctors are not real people... ~   But that’s ok...; because you’ve been taught that doctors are ok.  ~ Remember that.



Why is it ok for doctors..? ~ Because everyone knows that a ‘doctor’ doesn’t equate to ‘sex’... ~ And guess what! ~  Neither do we! ~ No more and no less than the doctor. ~ Remember how that plays back throughout the rest of this text and other pages. ~ What you’ve been ‘taught’..; what is real and what is said to be real.

Btw..; I hope everyone understands that I’m only making light of the mental barrier to try and show it really doesn’t amount to much. ~ I do understand what people go through in their minds to shake it on their own. ~ But they don’t yet have the other viewpoint... *That’s* why you must visit and see for yourself.

Being nude in front of ‘strangers’ for that first time can even be considered a plus... ~  At least for a first venture into this unknown. ~ No one will know who you are. ~ If you do decide that you can’t continue with it, nothing comes of it. ~ *But* at least you will have the satisfaction you’ve conquered peer pressure, fear, brainwashing, and other challenges to learn something.., to have the ‘experience’.., and to think for yourself. ~ That’s what you will have accomplished.  ~ So you really do need to think about that first time visit you know. ~ Just come up with the courage and don’t be a wus. :-) ~ There is nothing worse than being sorry, when you’re old and gray, that you didn’t live your life as you should have..; any aspect of it. ~ You need to learn a lot of things and the sooner the better. ~ ‘Cause once it starts.., that ‘coulda, shoulda’, butt kicking stuff, goes on until you die. 

You need to understand now that when you are nude you are simply nude. ~ Nothing special, you know? ~ It doesn’t hurt to be nude. ~ If someone sees you nude it doesn’t burn your skin. ~ Eyes traveling on your body do not leave scars. ~ There are never any physically identifiable traces left on your body at all that you have ever been seen by another human being. ~ You won’t even know if they are looking.., and for the most part no one will be looking anyway. ~ Now if you get marks on your mind, you should try to have that problem fixed. ~ Fortunately and coincidentally, the best treatment for that  would simply be to continue on in the same direction we’re talking about. ~ Those mind marks will soon fade.  

When you’re newly nude and see people looking at you, you just might feel ‘exposed’? ~ But what you are noticing, because you are more ‘sensitive’ to it, is normal appraisal looking. ~ New people in any situation get looked at. ~ It goes on all the time with clothes as well as not. ~ Everyone likes to know who they are with to whatever degree that is. ~ They need to see who you are to recognize you the next time or to see if they know you now. ~ Some of it is mother nature stuff like ‘girl watching’ but that goes on all over the world too; even on crowded Main Streets and it’s no different with us. ~ So don’t dwell on it...  There’s no reason to. ~ Just remember you’re a nudist. ~ You can ignore everyone looking at you as they ignore you looking at them for the same reasons. ~ I mean, you know, it’s only textiles who try so hard to get a look at nude bodies.   :-)

The biggest assumption being made is that nudity equals sex. ~ Of course we are all told to believe that, and in the ‘textile’ portion of society that makes it a pseudo-truth. ~ Can you imagine that? ~ Because some in our society have a never ending desire for *profit* <heaven>, and others have this ‘dedication’ to eradicating *sin* <hell>,  it has created this totally false, 180 degree out-of-phase, counterproductive concept. ~ Counterproductive even to people’s real sexuality, much less nudity. ~ They have devised this heaven/hell plan so that both goals can be attained and in fact they support each other.. ~ The good guy / bad guy act. ~ Everyone knows that one, but do they understand it applies to more than movies about cops? ~  It’s the norm in most situations. ~ It is required when money and/or power is desired but there isn’t a real product to put forth. ~ You need to create something to ‘deal’ with, and then you need a ‘force’ on either side to fight over it. ~ Neither side ever wins of course, as that would end the game. ~ But during the meaningless game,  a lot of money is passed around and a lot of people make their living at our expense. ~  It almost sounds like ‘football’, doesn’t it?   :-)

All it comes down to is that we all  ‘like it’, it’s ‘good for you’, and we have discovered there is ‘no real good reason to wear clothes’. ~ That’s all. ~ We have simply become *enlightened*. :-) <My favorite word in this case.> ~ Since we don’t care to support two or more fictitious industries, it was easy to figure out. 

Please understand that any kind of ‘gender joining’ is not the purpose here. ~ We as a nation need to grow up in that respect. ~  There is no sex because of nudity. ~ Some nudity occurs because of sex but that is simply coincidental or a requirement, as it occurs with ‘textiles’ also. ~ It does not relate specifically to our lifestyle any more than it does to any other. ~ Sex involves the ‘intent’ of the participants. ~ When there is body contact for instance... ~ Two ‘textiles’ touching toes, under the table, really titillates, doesn’t it?  :-) ~  So you see, sex doesn’t need nudity to begin, build or even to culminate, and the same applies in reverse. ~ It doesn’t take much when people are in tune with it, but when they’re not.., they’re not! ~ Even a full frontal nude body-to-body hug is not sexual if neither person is thinking about it. ~ I understand that’s a very difficult concept for some textile minded people to grasp but it’s true. ~ It’s actually a well known fact that openly accepted full nudity cools off most sexual thinking automatically, as you will read more about further in these pages.

To most nudists, the ‘bodies’ of all other nudists are simply ‘invisible’... ~ That’s all one can say. ~ They are just not thought about. ~ They are not necessarily ‘looked’ at. ~ They are especially not ‘lusted’ after. 

It is our intention to focus on the positives here because they are 95% of it. ~ Obviously nothing is perfect. ~ There are those who use this venue just as they use any other venue for their own reasons. ~ If you happen to run into a person who bothers you, make them aware of it. ~ If they continue, make the management aware of it. ~ It will stop. ~ That is another thing I can almost guarantee.

You may also find those who are looking to pair up.  ~ That will happen wherever you go. ~ You’ll have to live with it here too. ~ If you’re hit on, just say yes or no. ~  That’s all I can tell you. ~ There is no complete escape from ‘reality’ but you can be sure, as the woman from Sunsport Gardens said in the West Palm newspaper in April of 2001; “There is no way or place in this country where a woman can feel safe walking nude down a road at 2 in the morning, except in a nudist park.

That has to tell you something! 

The more people who come to practice and accept the life as routine, the safer it will be for everyone...; everywhere.

And one last nice point... ~ After you have been into it for maybe two years, and you have gone to 2 or 3 clubs and parks, you will start to meet a few of those same people who also travel around, following the festival, the seasons, etc. ~ You will have automatic ‘friends’, people you already know, built into those further away places. ~ It’s a nice feeling.