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SunCouple
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 Posted - 10/20/2005 : 7:49:24 PM
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My wife and I are relatively new to being nudists; in fact I am not sure if we could even really be called such. You can read about how we got to the point we are in under our post in the “First Time Experience” topic. But the bottom line is that although we love being nude we have three things going against us. One, we have three teenage boys. Now we understand that many of you would tell us that this should not stop us but reality for us is that none of us have ever gone nude around the house and we don’t want to put the boys into therapy. So unless we are alone which is seldom (Boys being 18, 16, and 13) we cannot walk around nude. Number two, against us is that living in the northwest suburbs of Chicago options for resorts close to home are very limited. The third problem is that we live in a small house that has neighboring houses on all sides that have high windows which have a full view of our yard. So alas, the would-be nudists that is us appear to be stuck.
My question is this; on the infrequent occasion when we are home alone we would like to be able to sun in the yard nude. Have you been or are any of you in this same type of situation? If so, how have you dealt with it? Do you have any hints or ideas of how to seclude the yard or of any places to visit near Chicago? I do know about some camp grounds in Indiana but the thought of camping in the nude doesn’t seem appealing what with mosquitoes, flying campfire embers, and the chill of the Midwest nighttime air.
Any thought or hints or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
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Seneca
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Posted - 10/20/2005 : 10:23:06 PM
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You might consider a travel club. These are non-landed clubs that have parties and get-togethers at members homes or rented halls. They also have nude swims sometimes. I believe there's one called the Chicago Sun Club that may be right for you. Take a look on the AANR website.
http://www.aanr.com/
Seneca
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NudeAl
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Posted - 10/20/2005 : 11:02:51 PM
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A non-landed travel club is the ticket. I don't know if one exists in your area though. They are hard to find but in a major city like Chicago you should be able to find something. Also there's camping and then there's camping. I bought an RV this past spring and my wife who had never enjoyed camping in a tent now can't seem to get enough of it. Also the camping facilities at most nudist Resorts are very good even for tent camping most have communal showers and bath and sometimes even a communal kitchen where you may prepare your own meals. Now the yard you can usually find quite a few fast growing shrubs to give you more privacy. You might also consider a temporary nylon wall I think the company called Cabana to go, offers these things they are a nylon sheet 6 ft high and around 20 ft long with PVC type poles that you can put up in minutes. Last, your kids already think you're out there I mean this in the best possible way. They are teenagers after all and we all know what teenagers think about their parents. So I think you should have a little talk with them about the matter the fact that they are boys lends me to think that they would have less of a problem with it than girls, at least in my family that has been the case. Just lay out some guidelines like around the house after a certain time you may find me nude. If you come home and no one else is home you may find me nude, etc. I think they can handle it the real question is can you and your wife? Anyway good luck, I hope you find a non-landed club in your area to have fun with this winter cause it's likely to be indoor nudism until spring.
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Cheri
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Posted - 10/21/2005 : 09:57:03 AM
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Chicago Sun club, a nonlanded club run by George Morrison and his wife, is your best bet. http://www.midwestsun.com/csc/index.html is their website. They are affiliated with AANR as well as TNS are are family-friendly, g-rated as are most clubs affiliated with these two national organizations.
Blue Lake in Erie,IL whose website is at http://www.bluelakeresort.org/ is closed for the season as of October but will reopen in the spring.
Regards, Cheri
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nudetoo
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Posted - 10/22/2005 : 01:29:13 AM
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my daughter is staying with me and now I just have to be careful as to when i am nude, luckly her truck has a very loud muffler and i can hear her comming.
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vealj
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Posted - 10/24/2005 : 3:24:59 PM
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Lake of the Woods in Valparaiso, Ind. is a good choice as is Ponderosa Sun Club in Roselawn, Ind. which is about 70 miles from your location (my wife and I are originally from Chicago's near northwest side). In any event, I think Ponderosa has rental rooms for overnight visitors so there is no roughing it at a camp site. Just don't visit there when they have their "nude beauty pageants" then the club does not represent family nudism ideals. Any other time they are a great friendly club.
Take care and ...
Keep it Bare !!!
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Mic
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Posted - 10/25/2005 : 01:20:41 AM
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I would ask what are your intentions. Is your goal to be a nudist family or a nudist couple?
If your choice is a couple, sneaking off together is only option. The idea that you could sun in the backyard (forgetting the neighbors) without three teen age boys seeing you sometime is somewhere between slim and slight.
If your objective is to enjoy naturism as a family, then your first step is to eliminate your reluctance to be nude in front of the boys. In this case the mother will set the standard. I would suggest that you set up inadverdant viewing of a nude mom. Obviously teen age boys will be fascinated seeing a nude woman even if their mother. Once this fascination is passed and seeing mom is normal, then the mother must go the next step which means setting a standard that nudity is OK within the family. My wife did this with our son and daughter by simply not making a big deal when they came into the bathroom after she had showered. Essentially, she did yell for them to leave and simply stood facing them while conducting a normal conversation.
After these bathroom incidents (about a month a part) the daughter talked to mom about what was normal. Mom explained, "do what you are comfortable with. If you or your brother intentionally or accidently see me naked it is OK. Conversely, if you don't care if your brother or your dad sees you naked it is fine just as maintaining your modestly is OK."
At that point things changed in the family. Since our backyard was private, my wife sunned topless and made no effort to cover up when my son arrived home. At the time the daughter was still not completely developed and was not yet endowed with sufficiently breasts.
After being caught sunning topless several times, my wife started to eliminate all her tan lines. The second time, I joined her and my daughter and then our son saw us. Subsequently, nude sunning was the norm for us. The next summer we came home and found our son sunning au natural. We simply undressed and joined him while making no big deal of it. Finally, our daughter joined us in the backyard. Afterwards the family was sometimes nude in the house.
The third summer, we were on vacation and noticed that a nearby beach was clothing optional. As a family, we decided to check it out. After 30 minutes we were all naked in public for the first time.
In closing, the adults (especially the mother) set the tone for the family. If the adults have no reluctance, the kids will probably follow mom and dad's lead.
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Cheri
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Posted - 10/25/2005 : 10:24:42 AM
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Mic, The only problem I can see in this is that it may seem to be exhibitionistic to the teens.
Would it not be better to get some brochures from the national organizations and leave them laying around the house?
Cheri
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old hippie
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Posted - 10/25/2005 : 1:39:24 PM
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Mic annd Cheri, either of these apporaches could be successful, but I think they both share the same deficiency: a lack of the open, honest attitude that naturism should espouse.
Would it not be more straightforward to begin with skinny-dipping, at least. Explain to the boys that there is no shame, and some benefit, to nude swimmng; if that meets with strong resistance, there is a problem that needs more attention thatn either subterfuge or booklets will handle. But if they will at least accept swimming as a family nude activity, it is much less difficult to extend that comfort to other venues and activities. I agree that it is best to teach by example; but it might be more comfortable for teenage boys to start skinny-dipping in Dad's company. But the key point here, IMHO, is to open the topic with clear and honest discussion. The boys might surprise the adults with their response, who knows?
Of course, we still have no answer to Mic's prior question: "couple or family"; all this advice may be quite moot.
Just trying to smooth some of life's rough edges,
Old Hippie
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SunCouple
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Posted - 11/12/2005 : 11:09:00 AM
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Thanks for all the advice everyone. As to the question, couple or family, neither my wife nor I have any desire to make this a family activity. For us, at least at this point in our lives, are simply enjoying nudist activities as a couple. We love going to topless or nude beaches. We are going to Terra Cotta in Feb 06 and we would love to be able to be able to enjoy being outside in the summer nude in our own back yard. I guess I was simply looking to see if anyone else was ever in the same kind of circumstance as us and how they handled it. I guess for now we just keep it confined to our vacation getaways, the bedroom and the bath room.
Thanks again everyone for all the input.
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tigerlady45
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Posted - 11/13/2005 : 1:44:38 PM
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If you don't mind the drive you need to check out Turtle Lake Resort in Union City, MI.. My husband and I have been nudists for 1 year. We decided to try something different on our honeymoon and found ourselves at Turtle Lake. We have now becomes members with a trailer on campground. We call it our little piece of heaven...There is web site for Turtle Lake....
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