Say hello to tan lines — San Onofre’s nude beach is about to be busted

Clothing-optional for decades, the nude beach at San Onofre is about to get a visit from the (fully-dressed, we’re betting) law. The O.C. Register has the skinny:

Trail 6 is a secluded area abutting Camp Pendleton property where beachgoers can let it all hang out – literally. The 1,000-foot beach, one of few “clothing-optional” beaches – with a lax approach to nudity, has been a safe haven for “naturists” for decades.

That might change in the next month, as the state sets out to crack down on nudity at the beach, in a move that has some longtime locals fuming and worrying about where they’ll go. State Parks will start an educational period Sunday, warning beachgoers of the change, and start citing July 1, officials said.

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For some gardeners, naked is the way to go

From Wire Reports Jessica Damiano, Newsday MELVILLE, N.Y. – Whoa! I had no idea nude gardening was such a popular pastime. I must have been living under a rock all this time. Fully clothed, of course.

I can’t link to some of the sites that have been brought to my attention because of the photos on those pages. Though not provocative in any way, for the most part, they do depict gardeners in what many would consider vulnerable states.

The Naked Gardening Association contends, “Second only to swimming, gardening is at the top of the list of family-friendly activities people are most ready to consider doing nude.” Family friendly?

A blog by Terra Cotta Inn (a clothing-optional resort) contends that Shakira “loves nude gardening.” And a British site reports on a New Jersey man’s “bold commitment to inappropriate nakedness” when he supposedly was arrested in September after “a family spotted him having a shower in his front garden.”

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German Nudist Flight Scrapped

A German travel company said it has decided to cancel a special nude charter flight that had been scheduled for this summer to a popular Baltic Sea destination despite being fully booked.

The July 5 flight to the popular Baltic Sea resort of Usedom was due to be the first of many and was aimed at East Germans nostalgic for the naturism that was authorised and extremely popular under communist rule.

But OssiUrlaub.de, the firm organising the service to a picturesque Baltic Sea island, said it has had second thoughts after “moral objections” in the media and from visitors to its Internet portal, a spokesman said.

The 50 people with tickets would have boarded the flight in the eastern city of Erfurt fully clothed, but once on the plane would have been free to undress and enjoy the rest of the journey without a stitch on.

They will now receive a full refund as well as a voucher for other products offered by the company, whose core business caters to holidaymakers who keep their clothes on, it stressed.

The travel agency created a stir in the media earlier this year with its plans for the first nudist charter flight to the Baltic Sea.

“In the former East Germany, naturist holidays were a much-loved way of spending the best weeks of the year,” the founder of OssiUrlaub.de, Enrico Hess said at the time. “We want to make that freedom possible above the clouds, too.”

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Orient yourself for a textile-free vacation

Nicknamed the St. Tropez of the Caribbean, Orient Beach is the playground of Euro-beauties and everyone else who wants to see and be seen. When you’re ready to let it all hang out, Club Orient is your clothing-optional destination at the south end of the bay.

Club Orient is the only naturist resort on the beautiful Orient Beach island of St. Martin. It sits at the south end of a beach that runs the gamut from full-out nudity to the conservative Dutch beach at the north end.

Whether you come for the day from your cruise ship, or stay for a week at the resort, this is one beach you’ll want to do more than just soak up the rays.

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Nudism push: go mandatory

A lobby group has demanded authorities make nudism mandatory at Torquay’s Point Impossible beach.

Australian Nudist Association spokesman Werner Jacob said forcing all beachgoers to strip was the best way of weeding out perverts at Point Impossible.

Replacement of Point Impossible’s clothing-optional status with mandatory nudism would stop “a lot of the hassle” over addressing concerns about deviant behaviour at the beach, he said.

“It would be better if it was nude bathing-only,” Mr Jacob said.

“At the moment it (clothing-optional status) says you don’t have to take your clothes off and you can sit there and perv but if you had to take your clothes off then people would see you.

“I think it would stop a lot of the hassle – at the moment the law is very difficult to define.”

Mr Jacob said a mandatory nude bathing policy would also help boost tourism from nudists.

“Victoria’s losing out on nudist tourism, Torquay’s missing out,” he said.

Mr Jacob suggested a nude bus could ferry passengers to Point Impossible from Torquay accommodation centres to enhance the town’s nudism experience.

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No shoes, no shirt, no worries

When Larry Massa says he likes to travel light, he means it. No need for a jacket and tie at dinner, a pristine set of tennis whites when he hits the court, or even a bathrobe to wear when heading from his hotel room to the pool or the spa.

For when Massa, 74, a retired navy commander and computer science engineer from Virginia Beach, and his wife, Darlene, go on vacation, they do it in the nude. “If you haven’t tried it, there’s no way I can tell you what a fun thing it is, what an added dimension to a vacation it can be” said Massa, who has been taking “clothing-optional” vacations since 2001 and whose most recent trip was to an all-nude resort in Mexico. “I’ll never forget the day,” said Massa, recalling the couple’s first nudist vacation at a Caribbean resort. “The place was full. We went to the far end of the pool and Dar said, ‘I’m going to take my top off.’ I thought I’m not going to wear these stupid swim trunks in the pool. So I jumped in naked. She looked down at me and dropped her bottoms and we never looked back.”

To many, the mention of a nudist resort conjures up images of isolated beach colonies with volleyball courts, hippie-style gatherings in a secluded campground or R.V. parks tucked away in the woods for vacationers who still talk reverently about the Summer of Love.

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Thousands Expected to Attend the World’s Largest Swingers Festival

Couples from around the World Heading to the Four-Day SwingFest

Open marriages, couples dating, polyamory, recreational sex; it has many names, but it is most widely known as Swinging and it has become so popular it now has its own 4-day festival.

The multi-day event, titled SwingFest 2008, takes place July 31 to August 3, 2008 and will consume the entire 5-star, South Florida, Diplomat Resort as well as the adjoining convention center. With pre-registered guests from over 22 countries and 36 U.S. States, it has become an extremely popular vacation destination for couples looking for adult fun and it is was recently rated the #1 erotic vacation by online magazine AskMen.com and one of Playboy TV’s “69 Sexy Things to do Before You Die.”

“Swinging is more popular than some would like to admit,” says SwingFest Marketing Director Greg Freeman, ” … two examples from earlier this year are when ‘The World’s Largest Sex and Swinger Personals Community’ web site was purchased for a whopping 500 million dollars and CBS television announced its upcoming summer series ‘SWINGTOWN’,” a drama about a couple in the 1970s. “[Swingers] are becoming increasingly mainstream and accepted.” Freeman goes on to predict that at the current growth rate, the annual swingers event could rival the attendance numbers of “Fantasy Fest” as early as SwingFest 2011.

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Planning a “Nakation”?

The American Association for Nude Recreation (www.aanr.com) defines a nakation as:

“1. A clothes-free interlude from one’s customary duties, as for recreation or rest; a holiday. 2. The part of your vacation you’ll brag to friends about.” Here are some of the growing nakation options.

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Nude trips strip poor self-image

With summer coming up, most people are starting to plan their vacations. For some, this includes planning a trip to a place where you only initially need the clothes on your back, a toothbrush and a few other personal items.

No, it is not a vacation at home or a local hotel. It is one of the many nude vacation resorts.

Clothing will not hold nudists back. They want to enjoy their vacation as true naturalists, just as they came into the world, butt-naked.

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Around the world without a stitch on

Why feel burdened by the oppressive weight of fabric when you can run around the world in your birthday suit?

Nudists — or naturists, as they prefer to be called —have a network of international organizations that hold bare-all experiences all over the globe.

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