With the long hot summer this year, you only have a few choices for beating
the heat. You can exhaust yourself shopping at the local mall for new
lightweight resort wear and spend an equal amount of time worrying how you
will look in your new, expensive clothes. Or, you can decide to pack light for
this year's vacation. Real light in fact. All you will need to wear is your
birthday suit, suntan lotion, and a smile. This is the year you should finally
try staying at a clothing optional resort.
I can hear you thinking. "What, me vacationing at a nude resort? It
sounds unusual." Not really. Europeans have been visiting naturist resorts and
nude and topless beaches for decades. In Europe, when the temperatures go up,
the clothes come off. A recent news story on Yahoo.com stated "Brits say bye
bye to the bikini for an all over tan."
There has never been a better time to take a clothing optional vacation in
America than now. Forbes Magazine reports that nude recreation is the fastest
growing niche in the travel industry. Palm Springs, California is one of the
most popular destinations as they have the best year round weather of all
cities in the U.S. You never need to worry about hurricanes while relaxing
poolside in sunny Palm Springs.
You may wonder, who goes to nudist resorts? Everyone! Democrats and
republicans, the tall and the short, thin and not thin, and the young and old
all have fun sunbathing au naturel. Baby boomers in particular have been
flocking to nudist resorts lately. They have always been an experimental
generation. It is only natural that boomers should seek out new travel
experiences and fun adventures.
"But I need to lose 10 or 20 or more pounds before I can come to your resort."
Tom and Mary Clare Mulhall, the owners of the popular Pure Nudist Clothing
Optional Resort and Kids and Family of Palm Springs CA
http://www.purenudism.com hear this comment all the time from "newbies."
The Terra Cotta is famous for being the most mainstream nude resort in
America. They are the best place for couples trying nude sunbathing for the
first time. They are a beautiful boutique resort that was originally built as
a celebrity hideaway. Repeat guests from around the world love staying there.
"The good thing about vacationing at a clothing optional resort," says Mary
Clare "is it really builds a woman's self esteem. She will see that all women
are 'normal.' So many women tell me that they hate wearing bathing suits
because they feel self conscious, but love going nude because now, for once in
their lives they truly feel free and don't have to worry how they look in a
suit. It is a great feeling knowing how happy women are vacationing with us."
So this summer, if you are looking to beat the heat, try something cool. Book
your vacation at a clothing optional resort. If you go, this will be the year
all your friends will want to hear about your new fun adventure.
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Why should I care if this tradition lives on or is killed? |
Skinny dipping is for some people only a game to be played
occasionally or perhaps only to joke about. For other people, it is an
important part of life. That visit to the hot springs deep in the
desert or that weekend afternoon at the nude beach is a vital respite
from the stresses and troubles of their work life. For still other
people, nude bathing, whether at a remote river site far from the eyes
of the causal hiker or in the privacy of a backyard hot tub, is an
activity that has to be wiped out through illegality, constant
vigilance, arrest and prosecution.
This diversity of
children in our nudist society attitude is an unavoidable part of life and is
something we will always be living with. Yet many within the last
mentioned group do not intend to honor this diversity. Rather they have
been working hard to wipe the expression of that diversity from the
face of the earth. They press city councils to pass laws against
nudity. They slip riders into Congressional bills to outlaw nudity at
traditional clothing-optional recreation areas in national parks and
other public lands. They will walk miles to get offended by the nudity
at a out-of-the-way beach so they can file a complaint with the
authorities. They claim only the worst of evils can result from people
taking off their clothes to enjoy that all-embracing sensual liquid of
life: water.
Why should you care? Because your favorite recreation or enjoyment
may be on their list. Prohibition was a grand experiment at eliminating
a practice that a limited number of active and motivated people felt
was an all-encompassing evil. It succeeded in only giving organized
crime a firm basis for entrenchment. Do you think that prohibitionists
would regard nude beaches as an "ok" thing to do? Those opposed to nude
beaches will not stop there.