SteveLorraine, Thank you so much for adding your voice! I noticed that when mentioning "predatory males" you did not identify them as single or married per se, just simply predatory. Just wanted you to know that was a point not lost on me and how right you are! Some of our unpleasant experiences have been with married men as well. Unfortunately, single men take most of the rap. Sorry guys, wish we could change that! I admire your attitude and reading everyone's posts here has been good food for thought.
But, lol, I have to say that since posting my original view point on this subject (24 hours ago) we've had over 35 single males send us a "friends request" with no email explaining who they are or why they're interested in being our friends. That's more in one day than we've ever received! Retribution for my post or just paranoia? LOL!
Jen
TX, we're pleased to count you as one of our friends and would like to meet you in person some day. In the past, we spent a lot of time around San Antonio and loved the Riverwalk area. We haven't been there in years, but plan to make a trip back there someday. Maybe we can meet somewhere along the way. We 'Deny' many of the Friend requests we get for the reasons some have stated. The profile is vague, the only photo is the one-eyed monster, or there's just a 'feeling'. OK, so you're a man who has all the appropriate body parts, but it's obvious you enjoy the outdoors and, preferably, nude. Hey, that's us! So don't worry about some of the uppity folks. There are plenty of us plain-old real people around.
Thanks, would love to meet you in person too. Yes I do love being outdoors, especially when I can be nude. The reason I have so many pictures is I like to show the things I enjoy, and brag a little on my fishing luck. LOL
Thomas
Lookn4sun.
Sorry for the tone of the message on hedonist heterosexual couples. The www.nudist-resorts.org abuse hurt me very badly and this second post was obviously affected in the language, although the points I made are correct & valid and I stand by them.
Yes guys, I am angry! Shouldn't I be?
SteveLorraine, Thank you so much for adding your voice! I noticed that when mentioning "predatory males" you did not identify them as single or married per se, just simply predatory. Just wanted you to know that was a point not lost on me and how right you are! Some of our unpleasant experiences have been with married men as well. Unfortunately, single men take most of the rap. Sorry guys, wish we could change that! I admire your attitude and reading everyone's posts here has been good food for thought. But, lol, I have to say that since posting my original view point on this subject (24 hours ago) we've had over 15 single males send us a "friends request" with no email explaining who they are or why they're interested in being our friends. That's more in one day than we've ever received! Retribution for my post or just paranoia? LOL! Jen
Jen, thanks for pointing that out, I was still waiting for my morning coffee to brew when I read Lorraine's post yesterday. Thank you Lorraine for making that point. The number of married men I have know that cheated on their wives validates that. I also know that some married men will go into chat and claim they are single to try to pick up someone.
Jen, all the friends requests are a reward for being such a nice person.
Thomas
Lookn4sun. Sorry for the tone of the message on hedonist heterosexual couples. The www.nudist-resorts.org abuse hurt me very badly and this second post was obviously affected in the language, although the points I made are correct & valid and I stand by them. Yes guys, I am angry! Shouldn't I be?
I can definatly understand you being angry. Too many people judge someone by how they are different instead of who they are as a person. I hope that you enjoy it here, there are a lot of people here that care about the person you are instead of how you are different from them.
Thomas
Lookn4sun. Sorry for the tone of the message on hedonist heterosexual couples. The www.nudist-resorts.org abuse hurt me very badly and this second post was obviously affected in the language, although the points I made are correct & valid and I stand by them. Yes guys, I am angry! Shouldn't I be?
I can definatly understand you being angry. Too many people judge someone by how they are different instead of who they are as a person. I hope that you enjoy it here, there are a lot of people here that care about the person you are instead of how you are different from them.
Thomas
What a boring place this world would be if we were all the same!
Jen
Agreed Jen. But what a better place it would be if I could just find one person the same as me to identify with LOL!
But that is the problem for the disabled. If black people or single men have a problem, they have others like themselves for mutual support. Then within minutes everybody else rallies around them with support and advice. But a disabled guy could be the only one in a 5-mile radius.
Txag is a genuine, friendly guy and a friend to me though I haven't tagged him yet (ummmmmm...... ok done), but he gave away trends in public attitudes, saying "I don't use race, color, creed, gender, marital status, or sexual orientation to deterime who I become friends with." Commendable! But no mention of "physical status"! This was just an oversight of course; but aren't the disabled always the ones to be forgotten. We just don't make up sufficient numbers to be noticed.
Every month I turn up to a naked disco and socialise with, among others, Patrick, a wheelchair-bound CP sufferer with a Stephen Hawking-style laptop. He's got more degrees than a Balinese thermometer. Amazing guy! Nobody else recognises he is there.
Nobody is being nasty. I know that! It is just that fighting racism, sexism etc is fashionable. But, firstly because there are fewer of us and secondly because we don't quite look right, standing up for the physically unfortunate does not strike the same note.
So this monster Kevin treats me as if I am John Merrick, and human nature being what it is, I want revenge. I want 200 members to leave www.nudist-resorts.org in protest. If he had picked on a black guy like that, they would have all rallied round and left. There would be a near-riot! But it just ain't gonna happen for a member of a social group that is a minority even among minorities. It will change in time. It did for women, black people, jewish people, gay people etc. But not yet!
Still I have to get on with life. I have friends in naturism who stand by me, including many here. All I know is this would never happen at TruNu, CFF, Skinbook, NudistAve, SocialNat and many more. But still..... I just wish somebody would get this guy for me.
Hugs, Will
Very good post Wily, the reason I didn't use physical status is that I couldn't think of a good term to use till I saw it here. I did not want to say it in a way that someone would be offended. BTW, I have already accepted your friend request.
Thomas