Anyone here ever been to a nudist colony?

[Archae]

I never have.

A comic strip I read has a couple visiting a nudist colony for the first time, they are talking to a woman there, who introduces the couple to her parents. (!)

"Naked...parents..."

"You get used to that too."

[Waiting For Everyman]

1. No, but for a summer

I lived at (hung out, camped at) a nude-tolerant spontaneous undeclared commune in the redwoods on the Mendecino River back in the day. It was about 50/50 nude or semi-nude most of the time. There was no structure to it, or nudity agenda, or anything. What happened was, there were several instances of groups of people who knew each other from the East Coast happening to be there just by chance, and a summer-long sort of continuous mostly low-key party broke out. As time went on more people heard about it and showed up intentionally. I'd say there were about 100 people there at its high point.

Mostly colleg-age, a few kids, a few older people. So yeah, I guess there were instances of kids and parents there. It isn't something I would've chosen to do if I had kids then, but that was their choice.

[taterguy]

2. The preferred term is nudist resort

A marketing thing that began sometime in the 90s, or even earlier

[trof]

3. Kinda. A clothing optional health club in Nurtingen (sp?) Germany.

By 'optional', I mean bathing suits were 'tolerated', but I never saw anyone in more than a towel.
Members were male and female, from toddlers to grannies.
Germans have a very healthy attitude about nudity.

There was a large sauna and a steam room, plus a small ice cold plunging pool (for after sauna), a large indoor swimming pool, weight room, and a small, intimate BAR!
Nothing like a cold beer after your sauna.
Members were encouraged to 'wear' a towel in the bar.

[gratuitous]

17. My best friend in college spent a year abroad

He brought back two hilarious stories of nudity from his time in West Germany. One involved a young woman in the group, whose mother was absolutely certain she was going to get raped and left in a ditch somewhere by those awful Europeans.

As is usual in such groups, they were constantly on the lookout for phone booths where you could make "free" calls by following a prescribed sequence of taps and bangs to get a dial tone. The young woman had a lead on one of the booths, and made an appointment with her mother to call her from the booth. She borrowed a rather expensive bike from one of the locals, and rode off to make her call. It was night time, and a thick fog had rolled into the city off the river, but she found the booth, and after tapping the receiver a couple of times, jiggling the cradle, and thumping the side, she was rewarded with a dial tone. She quickly dialed her mother to have a little chat and assuage her mother's fears.

As she's into the conversation, a man appears out of the gloom and fog and stands outside the phone booth. No big thing except . . . yeah, he's naked as a jay bird. She turns away, but he begins dancing and capering around, and she keeps turning away, not wanting to let her mother in on what's going on outside the booth. Naked man spies bicycle, and hops on, riding in circles around the booth. Young woman now keeping a close eye on naked man and borrowed bike, all the while trying not to betray herself to mother. She said the last she ever saw of the bike was it rolling off into the fog, these two pale buns/thighs going up and down as the naked man rode off on it.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

4. I was at Naked City in Indiana once.

It's where the held the Miss Nude America contest or some such thing so it probably wasn't your typical nudist resort. I never stripped all the way down but I think it was more because of who I was there with. It's weird how quickly you get used to seeing almost everyone around you butt nekkid.

[NV Whino]

5. I went to one in Topanga Canyon years ago

The tennis game was, ah… interesting.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

8. Ah.......you mean, the balls weren't the only things that were bouncing?

TENNIS balls!

[kwassa]

12. Are you talking about Elysium?

I was a member for a couple of years. Early 80s.

Cool place.

[NV Whino]

14. I don't remember the name, but that could be it

Can't imagine there was more than one in Topanga.

[upaloopa]

19. I lived and worked at Elysium in the summer of '82. I helped John Paul do the orientations. If you

came that summer for the first time I may have been one of the people who gave you the orientation.

The evenings during the week was the best time for us. All the guests were gone and we would go to the fish market in Topanga and get some fish for ourselves then we bought something to share and all sat on the lawn in a circle and ate grilled fish and passed around the vegies and what ever else we had. All nude of course except for the shopping. A great summer for me.

[kwassa]

24. I was there in the early '80s.

I think I actually became a member about '84 or '85, though I had been going there off and on with friends since '79. I didn't keep my membership because it was too long a drive, and I didn't use it enough.

It was a wonderful place though, and it is too bad it doesn't exist anymore.

[RebelOne]

6. No, but I did know a guy who skydived into a nudist colony.

He and a friend jumped into the nudist colony. They were only wearing boots. He said that of course they were arrested. But the police laughed all the way to the police station after they were picked up.

[Honeycombe8]

7. There are two things I will never do: participate in nudism, and participate in the state fair...

that game where the carnie has to guess your age and weight. Now, if there are two things I spend any effort concealing from others, it's my age and my weight. Why on EARTH would I pay someone at a fair to guess them?

[mahina]

9. Naked people started showing up at a great bodysurfing spot on Maui at one point.

It was pretty funny from the water.

[TrogL]

10. I'm a member

It's mostly old guys sitting around in the sun or the hot tub talking philosophy and theology.

[Curmudgeoness]

11. Honey, I've never even skinny-dipped!

I guess I have body issues.

[kwassa]

13. I belonged to a nudist resort for a couple of years.

In Los Angeles, Topanga Canyon, a place called Elysium. A beautiful piece of land up in the hills. Very counter-culture.

People of all ages naked, from little kids to seniors. All kinds of body types.

It was a spin-off of the sixties, when many if not most went skinny-dipping.

Nobody believes it, but after one has been in such a setting for about ten minutes they will have seen everything they are going to see, and it seems totally natural and no big deal.

[upaloopa]

20. When were you there? I live there for a while.

[corksean]

15. Not a colony as such, but a nudist beach

At least once a year I go to Maspalomas on Gran Canaria (Canary Islands) and spend a lot of time on the nudist beach. Almost exclusively middle-aged and elderly Germans, all very relaxed.

[RushIsRot]

16. Yes, several. Plus a nude beach. Was a member in a Texas resort while in college.

Got questions?

[HeiressofBickworth]

18. Way back in the late 80's

I was dating a guy who was a nudist. He asked if I would go to the resort with him. I told him that I had no objections to such things existing, but for me no, thanks, I reserve my nudity for more intimate moments.

[upaloopa]

21. I met my wife at Glen Eden. Her family were members. I met my future in-laws in the nude.

I seems kind of silly but I wondered what she looked like with clothes on. I had only seen here nude. When we first met we got dressed and went to Tom's Farms for a burger so we could see each other dressed.

Before that, back when I looked good, I was in a couple of Mr & Miss nude California pageants at Tree House in Devore.
I was a hard core nudist at that time. I lived in a clothing optional apartment complex in Highland Park in Los Angeles and was on the ASA public relations team.
I ended up in several videos from Tree House and Blacks Beach in San Diego.

[dr.strangelove]

22. Not a "colony" but to nude beaches

Rooster Rock Park in Oregon has a clothing optional section. When I was living in Portland, my then girlfriend and I would hit it a few times. I'm far from a nudist though. I just thought it would be cool. But in typical Oregon fashion, everyone there was very cool, laid back and seemed more preoccupied with which micro-brew beer someone was drinking then about that person being naked. I will say I got to see some great tattoos that I would never get to see anywhere else.

[TrogL]

27. I've been to Wreck Beach in Vancouver a couple of times

Be prepared for a long walk down a hill.

[RiffRandell]

23. No, but I've been to a nude beach. n/t

[UTUSN]

25. I wish nudity could stay "innocent." There was a place, started out nature-loving, "natural"

But that phase didn't last long. It turned into a sexual pick-up place. There's also a wasted botanical garden that has been closed with chains because it turned into a sexual pick-up place. Now nobody can see the botanicals.

[lastlib]

26. All this reminds me of a joke....

Who's the most popular guy in a nudist colony(/camp/resort)?

The guy who can bring two cups of coffee and a dozen doughnuts to breakfast.

Who's the most popular girl in said nudist colony(/camp/resort)?

The one who can get the last doughnut.