Bullying
The bullying and gaslighting in the so-called naturist "community" seems to be getting worse. Far from being accepting, I find most groups of naturists to be exclusive, often agist or body-typist, and ready to bully and gaslight anyone they don't take an immediate liking to.
Certainly, internet sites, such as this, are not representative of the real world 'community'. A lot of it is fantasy for want-to-be-nudists, who for some reason or other don't actually live the lifestyle.
I can't comment on resorts since I don't go to them. Being confined to a place with someone's rules isn't my thing.
As for the beach scene, which I do have a lot of experience with, a lot of beaches do have their cliquey social group, but this is the minority. On the whole, getting out and socialising with the non-clique people has been the most rewarding thing in my life, and it's the only community which I feel really accepts me. I've met my closest friends this way. Maybe it's just different because I'm in Australia and socialise with gay and bi guys at the beach.
Even my nude hiking group has the nicest guys one could meet.
Maybe it's just different because I'm in Australia and socialise with gay and bi guys at the beach. Even my nude hiking group has the nicest guys one could meet.
This confirms my bias: nudism is not really a philosophy or common denominator for most people. Having no clothes or the same blue shirts means little. Instead, it's all about the experience of being in a particular place doing specific activities enhanced by nudity which matters.
Wherever there is people there is politics. The nudist community is not immune to this.
While I see some very specific examples (ie true to definition) bullying and gaslighting in here. I don't see a great amount of it at all
This is afterall a very public facet of the nudist community and we must all be happy have our hat trampled if we throw it into the public ring.
Yes you can disagree with me and state your view, I am happy to see that even if I disagree with you!
Sadly that's just what human nature is like. We all have those whom we choose to like and dislike in the world, and nudists are no different to anyone else.
I think you are quite on the mark with the other comments you have made regarding ageism and older people shunning out the younger ones.
A tired subject for a group of people typically seen as more enlightened, this continued pronouncement of the inevitable death of nudism.
"It's the end of [the world] as we know it, and I feel fine," says REM. Replace the bracketed words with the varied terms for nudism and it rings true. Regardless of what it is called by anyone - and we are talking labels here - the younger gen may prefer to not call what they are doing when they remove their clothes socially what we older, dying breed of folks call it, but that doesn't make it anything different simply because they're referring to it by some other name. Shared bareness has been going on for a very long time, and will be going on, even in its present waning & waxing phases, long after we're all dust.
It seems a fruitless and somewhat blindered way of perceiving the world, to keep trying to convince everyone around you (in this online community specifically discussing nudism) of something until it miraculously becomes true. My hope is that this post is not going to be seen as a form of gaslighting; though it might be outside of any singular individual's sphere of experience, in the minds of at least a portion of the world's inhabitants, there is a readiness to embrace social nudism in all its glory. The signposts are there, but the speed at which the driver is careening down the superhighway does lessen the chance of seeing that sign for the right exit.
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