nudist place
i'm kinda old skool so i like to refer to the small mom & pop places which i perfer to go to as nudist camps and after my first visit to a nudist place which was more of a nudist resort andwhich was ok, i looked and found a mom & pop place and was a member for about 15 years. i have visited places like lake como ( which is a great place) and paridise lakes (ugh to much concrete) which are definately nudist resorts and a few others which again were more like nudist camps. i have run into a few newbies who call them nudist colonies and i kinda still like the term (most nudist don't) but when you talk to most textiles they call it colonies also. my favorite place have to have a hiking trail and a pool and i'm happy, i once visited a camp in alabama yes very rustic the owner had even dug a hole added concrete and developed his own pool - i was impressed. i guess some folks need all the bells and whistles i'm just looking for a place to chill in the sun.
I may be wrong, but this is how I interpret the various terms.
A nudist beach is most likely free and open to the public.
A nudist resort is generally open to the publicbut charges user fees and/or membership dues. These are also called landed clubs because they own their own piece of ground.
A nudist club is usually a non landed organization that has membership rolls with dues paying members. They meet in various locations including member's homes, Federal Lands and sometimes resorts. They don't have a permanent base like a landed club.
A nudist colony is generally a derogatory term used by non-nudists to describe nudists and their locations.
Hope this helps.
On a side note, I wonder how the term "colony" came to be. I'm thinking it perhaps dates back to "pre-organized nudism" days, where essentially a group of people would meet and "take over" a piece of land or a section by the lake. It became "colony" because of some sense of nude people having "colonized" an area with their nudity.I think that's also what made it a deragatory term. Nudists aren't "colonizing" anything; at least not in the sense of unjustly and permanently taking over something.
Nudists do not live in colonies, ants do and lepers used to.I am currently living in a clothing optional community right next to a nudist resort (also a campground as we rent spaces for trailers and tents). Because we are in a remote area the unit I live in (and the private homes adjoining the grounds here, are all clothing optional)..I have been to nude beaches a number of times, I have often visited other nudist resorts, I have attended a number of nudist events (private parties, swims), attended Festivals/Gatherings, and have even been on nude cruises.Every place/event is different, every one has advantages and disadvantages, but the thing I like best about all of them is the ability to be able to go around in comfort and not ashamed of my body or any of its many wonderful parts.
On a side note, I wonder how the term "colony" came to be. I'm thinking it perhaps dates back to "pre-organized nudism" days, where essentially a group of people would meet and "take over" a piece of land or a section by the lake. It became "colony" because of some sense of nude people having "colonized" an area with their nudity.I think that's also what made it a deragatory term. Nudists aren't "colonizing" anything; at least not in the sense of unjustly and permanently taking over something.
The term dates back some time in the USA.
It was proudly taken ( at the time ) as an analogy to the early days of the US, when we were "The Colonies" and with the same intent as that conveys.
An abandoning of the convention of the rigid ( at the time ) social constraints in Britain. A place of freedom. A place one chose to go in order to exercise freedoms not available in main stream society. Nudists were "colonizing" certain areas much the same as those early pilgrims colonized the New World, with their/our own "New World."
Over time, it came to be used and understood to have meaning different from original usage, as have several words in US English, to where it now refers to a place more like a ghetto, a place to which one is restricted rather than a place of freedom.
On a side note, I wonder how the term "colony" came to be. I'm thinking it perhaps dates back to "pre-organized nudism" days, where essentially a group of people would meet and "take over" a piece of land or a section by the lake.
There is always a segment of society who have serious social problems and live in denial of themseves. Nudists and term "nudist colony" is held as a low life lower, along with gays, niggars, chinks, indians, boh hunks, limes, frogs, kafers, kids, women, men, bastards, idiots, mental cases, and who ever else they consider lower then themselves.
Nudist colony applied to my very spiritual life style infuriated me as it would anyone else having a derogatory term applied to them. They have read too many porn magazines.
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