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Sexting Seniors Set New Trend

While some people were surprised to learn their teens might be sharing sexy photos on phones and the Web, how much more surprising is it that some seniors are doing the same? In fact recent polls claim 10 percent engage in “sexting.”

The website Last Laugh shares this information, but it’s more than tongue-in-cheek as the phenomenon is verified by other sources as well. Suffice to say Grandma might be hoping to lure some lover through sizzling photos of herself. The Last Laugh shares the story of an 83-year-old who is referred to as Gertrude who admits to sending nude photos in order to appeal to the opposite sex.

Nudity may not be thought of as a characteristic way of sharing after a certain age, but senior calendar girls over the years have found sex sells at almost any age. A group of senior women started the craze back in 2003 with a nude calendar discussed on a senior website. These senior women found the whole thing entertaining and fun. The project was called: “A Celebration of Mature Women.”

It was done on behalf for LifeSpan Services Inc., a nonprofit senior services organization. Young women sent copies of the calendar to their mothers, exclaiming that it wasn’t too late for mature women to show their bare bodies and consider them beautiful.

The body bare naked as beauty is espoused by nudist organizations as a way of being comfortable with oneself without shame. They include folks of all ages in the philosophy but many show pictures of young bodies to communicate it. But older folk in the buff as naked using public communication devices? Sexting for seniors, according to those who have examined the issue, is something extraordinary but may be a growing trend at the same time. Some seniors, it seems, won’t sit idly by and let young beauties dominate the new way of communicating desirability, through sexting.

NBC news weighed in on the growing trend of sexting and seniors. One woman, Midge Callaghan, 65, shares her story of sexting with her husband of 15 years to maintain the spice in the relationship. A divorced fellow, Bob Wiseman, finds it a way to get into the dating game in the digital age. He maintains, according to NBC, that sexting, ” just made it really interesting,” Then he added,. “And fun!”

Sexting involves sharing sexually oriented texts and photos with other folks, usually over digital phones and computer websites. Now that Grandma and Grandpa are doing it, the issue is more than just the phenomenon of age or stage but of finding ways at all ages of communicating a certain interest and flirting in a daring way as well.. And this new way of sexual sharing seems spicy enough to continue according to those involved, including seniors.
2009.12.21 / no responses / Category: Nudist News
State Spent Over $40,000 To Fight Nudists

San Onofre State officials spent more than $42,000 battling a group of nudists who wanted to keep Trail 6 a clothing-optional beach, California Department of Parks and Recreation documents show.

Also, a public records request for all reports and complaints relating to public nudity at Trail 6 revealed only two written complaints.

A man who identified himself only as Gary enjoys the warm weather in the nude at San Onofre State Beach. Recent documents indicate that the California Department of Parks and Recreation has spent more than $40,000 in legal fees fighting the Naturists Action Committee over the issue. It was also revealed that there have only been two written complaints about the nudists at San Onofre State Beach.

Naturists are gearing up for a legal battle to keep Trail 6 in San Onofre State Beach as a clothing-optional area.

The Naturist Action Committee is fighting to keep the 1,000-foot beach a safe haven for naturists after state officials said last month that they plan to crack down on nudity after Labor Day.

On Wednesday, the group filed a lawsuit against the State Department of Parks and Recreation in Orange County Superior Court. The suit accuses the agency of violating the state’s Administrative Procedures Act when they adopted a nudity ban for Trail 6 without seeking public input.

Traditionally, park rangers have had a lax approach to nudity at the San Diego County beach, officials said. The decision to enforce a ban came after an increase in verbal complaints from the influx of beachgoers coming to the area in recent years, officials said.

Roy Stearns, State Parks spokesman, said the agency has followed the rules and not violated any policy.

“We have a perfectly legal right to go back and rescind our own policy without a public hearing, public input, without any kind of a public meeting process,” Stearns said. “But in this process, we’ve reached out tremendously to these groups.”

Since June 1, he said, rangers have passed out fliers, answered phone calls and e-mails about the change, and set up signs explaining the nudity ban.

Allen Baylis, a Huntington Beach attorney who is a spearheading the legal effort, said the agency should have held a public hearing before making changes to regulations and public policies.

“It really comes down to the parks department having chosen to ignore a key piece of their own longstanding policy,” said Baylis, a Naturist Action Committee board member.

Baylis said a 1988 letter written by then-Deputy Director for Operations at the park essentially set a 20-year policy.

“To say that this letter means nothing, when the people of the state of California relied on it for 20 years, it flies in the face of any logic,” Baylis said. “And it certainly bears weight in the court.”

Stearns said the naturists have to adhere to a code called “nudity prohibited,” which states that “no person shall appear nude while in any unit except in authorized areas set aside for that purpose by the department.”

Stearns said the state’s Cahill Policy, written in 1979, allows the enforcement of nude sunbathing regulations when complaints are received by private citizens.

Baylis countered that the complaints are not for their group but other non-naturist people who use the parking lot and the abutting Camp Pendleton property as a place for illicit activity.

“Essentially they are claiming that the nude beach is attracting bad people to do bad things,” Baylis said.

He said the Friends of San Onofre Beach, of which he serves as president, have for years helped rangers shoo away the people who spark the complaints.

“We don’t attract them,” Baylis said. “We repel them.”

A hearing is scheduled for Aug. 20.

Park officials had said a growing number of complaints were one of the factors for banning nudity at Trail 6.

The documents shed light on more than a year of legal wrangling between a group of nudists who want to keep a portion of San Onofre State Beach clothing-optional and park officials who issued a crackdown on nudity in June 2008.

The fight essentially came to a close when the California Supreme Court decided against hearing the nudist group’s latest petition.

Allen Baylis, a Huntington Beach attorney who led the fight against the ban said state officials could have saved the legal costs and grief, if they had engaged the public rather than “mandating their point of view.”

“They would have saved the state that money if they had simply decided to go ahead and work with us instead of forcing us into litigation,” said Baylis, a director of the Naturist Action Committee.

Ken Kramer, district superintendent of the Orange Coast District, said the money spent was well worth it.

“Our approach to this issue transcends dollars and cents,” Kramer said. “This is money well spent to make sure we address these concerns. We have the duty to make sure that with this type of increased popularity and visitation that we have a park where all visitors feel welcome and that there is lawful activity occurring.”

Kramer said providing a safe and comfortable environment for park employees, an increasing amount of criminal activity in the area and a growing number of complaints were their impetus for enforcing a nudity ban at a 1,000-foot stretch of secluded beach abutting Camp Pendleton.

When asked as to how two complaints about public nudity jived with the claim of a growing number of complaints, Kramer said that the majority of complaints were verbal.

The agency, however, has not documented nor kept track of such verbal complaints, Kramer said.

He did not comment about why the agency did not keep track of verbal complaints.

“It couldn’t have been too serious,” Baylis said, questioning Kramer’s reasoning. “If they took verbal complaints seriously, they would have documented them.”

Kramer instead pointed to what he said was an increased level of criminal activity in the surrounding areas of Trail 6.

A document of about 150 criminal incidents for about the last 10 years includes citations and arrests on suspicion of lewd conduct, indecent exposure and sexual assault.

While Kramer stopped short of blaming the nudists, he did say there was a correlation between the two.

“I don’t think we can ignore the fact that we have a substantial criminal activity problem where nude recreation is going on,” he said.

Baylis, who leads Naturists in the OC, said the data is not reliable.

He points out that the data includes more than just the clothing-optional beach but also surrounding areas, such as the parking lot and areas on top of the bluffs.

In some instances, he said, incidents in the data are doubled and even quadrupled

“They inflated their numbers by the way they counted them,” he said.

Baylis said the naturists have helped police the area, which had been one of the few “clothing optional” beaches for decades.

Regardless, Kramer said they are forced to enforce the nudity ban.

“We have to default to protect the interest of folks who abide by the law,” he said. “At some point, I’m sure that folks will not comply voluntarily, and we’ll be forced to take it to the next level. We’ll have to cross that bridge when we get there.”
2009.12.11 / no responses / Category: Nudist News
California Nude Beaches Take Cover

California is telling skinny-dippers to put some clothes on, and the message is sending a chill through lovers of sunning-in-the-buff across the country.
In what one national nudist organization calls “a tremendous setback” for its cause, California’s Department of Parks and Recreation has tossed aside a longstanding policy of toleration and is warning of a crackdown on nude sunbathers at San Onofre State Beach.

Bob Morton, executive director of the Naturist Action Committee, a Wisconsin-based organization that fought the nudity ban in court, worries that other beaches where nudity is allowed could follow California’s lead.

“There are other states in which there are sanctioned nude beaches,” he says. “They’re all looking to see what California is doing.”

Beachgoers say a secluded 1,000-foot section of shoreline here has been a popular spot for nude sunbathing for more than 30 years. It even attracts tourists from out of state who seek all-over tans.

Nude sunbathers have been coming here since the 1970s after President Nixon, whose Western White House was nearby, ordered the Marine Corps to open 6 miles of Camp Pendleton’s oceanfront to the public.

Protected from prying eyes and busy Interstate 5 by 300-foot cliffs, the section closest to the Marine base boundary “presented itself as a perfect place for a clothing-optional beach,” says Allen Baylis, a lawyer who says he has enjoyed nude sunbathing here since the 1970s.

Park Superintendent Richard Haydon began efforts to halt the nudity after receiving reports of sexual activity and solicitation for sex. Morton’s group sued the department.

Morton says the department acted illegally when it abandoned a long-standing policy of moving against nudity only when it received specific complaints from the public on the day an offending incident occurred.

The nudists won a first round in court but lost on appeal. Late last month, the California Supreme Court refused to hear the case, leaving in place “nudity prohibited” signs along the long, steep trail from the parking lot to the beach.

Park rangers have yet to issue citations. The infractions would be considered misdemeanors, Baylis says, and carry a fine of up to $500.

Beachgoers are shedding their clothes despite the ban. Half a dozen middle-aged men were sunning in the buff one recent November weekday when temperatures were in the 70s. On hot summer weekends, several hundred nude sunbathers may show up, Morton and Baylis say.

Haydon warns rangers will begin issuing citations but won’t disclose when.

“We are going to be moving forward with starting to enforce the nudity statute down at San Onofre, and basically returning that portion of the beach to all people who want to go down there without fear of running into something they didn’t think they would,” Haydon says. “People should very well be under notice.”

Baylis says nudists are ready to be arrested.

“If they really want to come down there and issue citations, we have people willing and able to be cited in order to take it up in the criminal courts as a matter of civil disobedience,” he says. “It’s a very important issue for a lot of people.”

The sex allegations are “a red herring,” Baylis says. Nudists don’t want sexual activity around their beach either, he says, and solicitation for sex takes place at public beaches, rest areas and parking lots regardless of whether there is nude sunbathing nearby.

Roy Stearns, deputy director for communications of the Department of Parks and Recreation, says that the state has never designated any place as a clothing-optional beach and that state law specifically bans nudity in state parks. San Onofre, he says, is one of several public beaches in the state that have become known as clothing-optional by practice and tradition.

“What’s happened is some people over the years just went there and took their clothes off, sat down and had a nice time,” Stearns says. “They kind of carved this place out for themselves.”

A second Southern California beach, a section of Torrey Pines State Beach in San Diego called “Black’s Beach,” remains popular among nude sunbathers. Stearns says that although the practice is illegal there, too, a similar crackdown is not imminent.

“We aren’t going to go on a campaign through the rest of the state and shake things up,” he says. “At all places, we will look on a case-by-case basis.”

The dispute comes as Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, a Republican, has been struggling to keep state parks open in the face of huge budget deficits and spending cuts. Visitors to San Onofre pay a $15-a-day access fee (which the state does not charge at some other beaches), and defenders of nude sunbathing say their dollars are supporting the park’s operation. “Now we’re going to criminalize the only group of people that has been keeping this particular boat afloat,” Morton says.
2009.11.27 / no responses / Category: Nudist News
Britney Spears Buys A Nudist Resort

The little blonde rich girl Britney Spears has just announced that she has finally achieved her life-long dream. She has just signed the papers and is now the full and complete owner of her very own nudist resort.

Ms. Spears is thrilled at the fact that she will now be able to let her hair down and just walk around totally nude and not have to worry about any paparazzi clamoring to try and photograph her tata’s, her wazoo, or her yum-yum.

Britney said that she first found out about The Naked As A Jaybird Nudist Resort while surfing the Internet looking for a recipe for chocolate chip and avocado cookies.

She read where the owners of the nudist resort Lazlo and Layla Luxland were wanting to sell because Layla had developed some extremely noticeable cellulite on her thighs and ass (butt) and Lazlo’s wiener (dick) had begun to atrophy from too much sun.

The Luxland’s who have no health insurance, medical insurance, or dental insurance will take part of the money from the sale of the nudist resort and use it towards a cellulite (cottage cheese) removal surgery for Layla and a peter (dong) transplant for Lazlo.

Meanwhile Britney is reportedly ecstatic at the purchase of her new “Toy.” She was asked how much she paid for her nudist resort and she refused to say.

She was asked again and said that no one knew except for her, her business manager, her attorney, and Lazlo and Layla Luxland.

Wrong again “Oops who do I think I’m kidding” breath. A phone call was made to Mr. Larry King and he was asked if he knew how much Britney Spears had paid for her brand new California nudist resort. Larry laughed and asked is Rosie O’Donnell a lesbian? Is Osama Bin Laden a raghead? and is Glenn Beck a crybaby?

The answers to those three questions were yes, yes, and hell yes. Larry said that the Luxlands sold The Naked As A Jaybird Nudist Resort to Britney Spears for $13.8 million, with a down payment of $6.9 million and 60 monthly payments of $115,000.
2009.11.17 / no responses / Category: Nudist News
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2009.11.15 / no responses / Category: Nudist Books & DVD's
20 Years After GDR’s Demise Nudists Let It All Hang Out

“It has nothing to do with sex,” said Udo Schumacher, 64, as he stood, stark naked, on a bracing beach in Prerow in what was once communist East Germany.

“If you go in and experience how lovely it is to swim with a naked body, and come out without wet trunks on, you feel healthy. And if you can get over the fact that you are naked, it is great,” he said.

Freikoerperkultur (“Free body culture”), or “FKK” for short, was hugely popular in the otherwise highly restrictive German Democratic Republic (GDR).

And 20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the habit is still going strong, and has even attracted a loyal band of followers from what was West Germany.

With life so tightly controlled in other ways FKK was a rare liberty that people made full use of in the GDR. Nowhere was this more evident than in Prerow, a picturesque seaside town 300km north of Berlin.

Here in GDR times, border guards, watch towers, searchlights, barbed wire, boats and radar all made sure no one escaped by sea to West Germany or to Denmark, Doris Pegel curator of the local museum, said.

Sailing and even surfing were off limits. But one thing people were allowed to do in the shadow of Prerow’s watchtowers was to indulge in FKK.

And indulge they did, in huge numbers, as people flocked to the seaside in summer and gave FKK a try.

When the GDR was still young, however, the Politburo saw FKK as a dangerous petty bourgeois degeneracy, Josie McLellan, a history lecturer at Britain’s University of Bristol who has researched the phenomenon, said.

Such suspicions were not helped by events in Prerow, where nudists gathered on the beach at night, daubing body parts with toothpaste and wearing African-style headgear for debauched “Cameroon Parties.”

With the ministry of the interior calling nudism a threat to the “natural and healthy feelings of our working people,” the authorities tried to stamp out FKK in the 1950s.

But many nudists were also party members, policeman and even judges, who protested that “doing FKK” and being a good communist were not mutually exclusive and that nudism was non-sexual.

“Here, the woman is not an object of desire, she is a comrade, there is no bikini to excite you,” McLellan cites one contributor to an illuminating 1966 survey of nudists as saying.

A widespread campaign of popular resistance soon made the authorities relent, and by the 1960s and 1970s onward FKK was almost a national pastime.

One of the many things to flood eastwards after German unification in 1990 was a certain prudishness towards nudism on the part of the curious new Wessi (“Westerner”) tourists.

The result was an effort to regulate the hobby more, and to demarcate beaches and lakes into FKK and clothed areas.

However, the old spirit of FKK has survived.

“Here it’s all very mixed because people don’t have a problem with it. It’s supposed to be separated but nobody really minds,” 66-year-old nudist Inge said on Prerow beach.
2009.11.11 / no responses / Category: Nudist News
UK’s First Naturist B&B Opens In Staffordshire

A couple’s naked ambition has inspired them to open what is thought to be the country’s first naturist bed and breakfast.
Domain Farm has been opened up as a naturist retreat by Mike Howard and Margaret Pate.
They bought the former dairy farm two years ago and lived in a caravan for 10 months while they renovated the farmhouse.
The couple then decided to open a bed and breakfast to supplement their income but wanted to offer an experience with a twist.

Naturist visitors to the Staffordshire Farm at Cellarhead can stay in a new self-contained log cabin with an en-suite shower room, use of a hot tub and continental breakfast for £50 a night.

The bed and breakfast will also cater for non-naturists.
Mike and 46-year-old Margaret, who have a 14-month-old daughter Helen, launched the new business in July and have so far had half a dozen visitors.
Mike, 49, said: ‘We’ve been naturists on and off for a long time and we liked the idea of opening a B&B.
‘That’s when we came up with the idea of a naturist retreat. But we don’t want to exclude people who aren’t naturists.
‘Visitors can stay for as long as they like and we also do day passes for people who just want to come for the day and relax in the hot tub or sunbathe in the garden.
‘The aim is to build a couple more chalets but we don’t want to get too big.’

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Mike, who runs his own industrial computer system business, has recently completed a course in Swedish massage and can now offer holistic therapy to customers.
Margaret, who works as a programme office controller, said: ‘Business is starting to pick up as more people are beginning to discover us.
‘We’ve got a couple coming who aren’t naturists and just want a quiet, relaxing break.

‘We’ve made it clear that clothing is optional. It’s going well and we’ve had some very positive feedback.’

Graeme Whitehead, tourism and marketing team leader at Destination Staffordshire, said: ‘I’m not too certain there is a widespread call for this type of thing in Staffordshire but good luck to them anyway!
‘Anything that helps to keep [people] holidaying at home in whatever respect is to be welcomed.’
2009.11.01 / no responses / Category: Nudist News
Love Is In The Air Along S.F.’s Market Street

Thousands of people dressed in neon wigs, sparkly butterfly wings, tutus – or occasionally nothing at all – and danced, hula hooped and hugged their way down San Francisco’s Market Street on Saturday for the city’s sixth annual celebration of love.

Based on Berlin’s Love Parade, San Francisco’s LoveFest was renamed this year to LovEvolution to avoid legal action from the promoters of the Love Festival in Los Angeles who had trademarked their name. But potential lawsuits – or the dire economy or the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq – didn’t appear to be on anybody’s mind.

“It’s people coming together, having fun, dancing their asses off and just forgetting the world’s troubles for a day,” said Sterling Alexander, who danced wearing silver devil horns affixed to his bald head and red, feathery wings.

Also celebrating were several people dressed as hot dogs, a man in a furry pink outfit walking on stilts, a girl giving out free hugs and bare-chested men offering free kisses.

The event shut down Market Street between Second Street and Civic Center and was expected to draw 10,000 revelers. Shoppers and tourists on the busy thoroughfare looked downright perplexed, several stopped to ask what the 20-plus floats blaring electronic music as scantily clad people gyrated on them were all about. The naked man covered in gold body paint and carrying a red bow and arrow proved particularly worthy of double-takes.

Megan Lehrer, 18, and her friends had traveled from Discovery Bay for the event and looked like extras from the movie “Flashdance” in headbands and ripped T-shirts.

“It’s cracking – it’s fun!” she said. “It’s about peace and love.”
2009.10.08 / no responses / Category: Nudist News
Ontario’s Nudists Losing Place To Hang Out

By this time next month, about 150 nudists will be thrown out of the province’s oldest nudist retreat because their 100 acres of Eden is being sold to another owner.

The several dozen nudists who live within Glen Echo’s grounds on campsites got their eviction notices on Tuesday.

“We’re all very disappointed. You suddenly lose your second home, our home away from home.”

“We have to be out by Oct. 1,” said Keith Scott, a member since 1995.

The nudist movement in Ontario had its genesis with Glen Echo Park, which was founded in 1955 as a cooperative. Most in the community got their first taste of naturism at the site, which is nestled along the Oak Ridges Moraine in King Township. In its mid-1990s heyday, as many as 350 families were members. But interest in the movement has sagged across the world in recent years.

Glen Echo’s owners, Mary and Edward Todorowsky, are approaching 80. Since 2005, they’ve been trying to sell to someone within the nudist community, who would keep their sanctuary open.

But after fours years of trying and several failed offers, the Todorowskys gave up. The property was sold for a rumoured $2 million.

“Losing a club is not good for naturism,” said Stéphane Deschênes, who owns Bare Oaks. “It just means there’s less space. So many people have grown up in Glen Echo. It’s just really sad.”

There are three other nudist resorts in and around the GTA – Four Seasons, Ponderosa and Bare Oaks, which is not far from Glen Echo.

Four Seasons, which is located just south of Guelph, does have campsites available for $350-$450 a month. Like Bare Oaks, it has been undergoing a massive transformation over the past few years.

Hoping to attract a younger crowd, both resorts are moving away from the old “roughing it with nature” mentality by installing plumbing, electricity hook-ups for trailers and satellite television.

“We just added Wi-Fi,” said Four Seasons manager Tom Landers. “I’ve been talking to the owner of Bare Oaks and both of us feel that this market is in its infancy.”

The pair even discussed launching joint marketing to promote the naturist lifestyle, which Deschenes explains is about being at one with nature and not about being naked.

Reached at Glen Echo, it’s apparent Edward Todorowsky isn’t thrilled about losing the camp.

“I really have to go,” he said. “We only have a short time to move.”

“It’s very short notice. I don’t know how I’m supposed to move everything out of here in a month,” said one member, who has built a permanent cabin on his site that will likely have to be abandoned.

Meanwhile, Glen Echo members are crossing their fingers the deal will still fall through.

“Then – where are any of us supposed to go?”
2009.09.23 / no responses / Category: Nudist News
Clothes Were Off At San Onofre Nudist Rally

Joelle Budzynowski wants to preserve what she calls her “Eden before the apple.”

“The water is like 70 degrees and the sun feels warm on my nude body,” the 47-year-old said, wearing nothing but a straw hat. “The wind plays in my hair. The sea rocks me. Some of my happiest moments are here.”

The nudist rally comes nearly a week after officials started enforcing a ban on nudity. For more than a year, the state Department of Parks and Recreation said they would start citing nude sunbathers after Labor Day weekend at the traditionally clothing-optional beach.

The state’s move came after more than a year of legal wrangling and an appellate court ruling in its favor. The nudists have appealed to the state’s Supreme Court, asking the court for a hearing.

More than a hundred nudist gathered on the beach Sunday with signs denouncing the state’s crackdown on public nudity at Trail 6.

When asked whether the protest may make an impact, the group’s leader answered.

“It shows the Parks Department that we’re not willing to go away,” said Allen Baylis, who is a Huntington Beach attorney.

Veronica Carlson, who enjoyed the beach with her husband, 3-year-old twins and 18-month old, said she sees nothing wrong with nudity at Trail 6.

She said her children are not fazed by the naked body.

“You’re born that way. There’s nothing wrong with it,” the 35-year-old Lake Forest woman said.

Carlson said she goes nude at the beach but keeps her children’s clothes on because she’s afraid of the sun’s toll on their sensitive skin.

“I think it’s small-minded,” she said of the nudity ban. “It doesn’t hurt anyone and if it’s something you don’t want to see, don’t come here. There are 4 miles of beach. … If we get a ticket, we get a ticket. We’ll fight it.”

State rangers didn’t issue any citations last Tuesday – the first day of enforcement. While state parks spokesman Roy Stearns said officials have the authority to cite nudists at the 1,000-foot stretch of beach, some of the nudists at the beach Sunday said they hadn’t heard of a ticket being issued all week.

The nudists’ attorney Elva P. Kopacz contends the state would violate California law by issuing citations. She said a Superior Court ruling that sides with the naturists will stand until the state’s Supreme Court decides to hear an appeal.

Stearns disagreed. The state Attorney General’s office says rangers are within their rights to start writing citations, according to Stearns.

Still, he said, park rangers will attempt to seek voluntary compliance before handing out citations at the beach.
2009.09.21 / no responses / Category: Nudist News