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naturalgar
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 Posted - 05/29/2004 : 12:28:26 PM
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Seems like I have heard that nudism is very widespread in Croatia. Is it more accepted there? Are there many nude beaches? If so, how did it become that way.
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Admin
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Posted - 05/31/2004 : 10:31:06 PM
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Thanks for the trip report, Grunt, but please post it in the Cap d'Adge thread so folks can find it when they need to. 
And that question about Croatia would make an interesting new thread in the "Nudist Attitudes in Various Countries" section.
This thread is about "Do you take nude photos? Is it porn?"
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nude_explorer
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I really don't see whats the big deal, whether you are male or female of posting pictures as long as they are not sexually sugestive, good grief, we go to nude beaches, and resorts where there are hundreds, maybe even thousands of people we don't know can see us from virtually any angle. Most people that go to porn sites are looking for sexual arousal, if I post a tasteful "non sexual" picture and it some how ends up on a porn site, I doubt it will get viewed all that much, and it certainly won't arouse anyone unless they are a pervert, and if they are, they can get just as aroused seeing us clothed, a little fabric isn't going to prevent that. In fact a provocativly dressed person is much more erotic than a tasteful non sexual person.
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Ned Adams
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Posted - 07/12/2004 : 08:15:24 AM
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I think that their policy is the same as that of any other photo shiop, because I believe that it is state law in most states.
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I try not to shop @ Wal-mart or Sam's Club anymore because of that issue, plus the issues with them being the morality police with covering Cosmo's and other magizines with provocativly Dressed women on the cover.
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Live Body Proud, Live Clothes Free
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Ned Adams
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Posted - 07/13/2004 : 02:44:11 AM
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My wife and I took nude photos of each other with a specially purchased polariod camera because we knew that photo shops would not process them. We put them in a album and continued for some time. However, she began to be concerned with what would happen if we were killed tragically and our children found it. Since we are both widowed with several children each, it was more complicated. We kept the album in a secure place, but one day I could not find it. She probably made a wise choice. What do you think?
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nude_explorer
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Posted - 07/14/2004 : 01:12:10 AM
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Wise Choice?
What would have been wrong with writing something like a letter to your children telling
them who you really are? I have searched the scriptures and have found no condemnation
of non sexual nudity, why should we be ashamed.
How do you know some of your children haven't already become Naturist, and are afraid
to come to you about it.
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Ned Adams
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Posted - 07/14/2004 : 09:53:47 AM
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I read a note from a man who said that he did that very thing, namely, write a letter to his children. I read it, and it seemed very good, because they now had his reasons in his own words. Have you done anything of that nature that you are willing to share?
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teddyj
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Posted - 10/02/2004 : 5:30:18 PM
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As parents we have always been honest with our 5 children who are now married and have children of their own. We believe it is a parents duty to bring up their children to be honest. To do this a parent must never misslead them and be false. They must always be themselves. To do otherwise is to set a bad example to them and bring them up to be dishonest. This dishonest attitude will only serve in perpetuating the stigma and guilt often attached to nudity.
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teddyj
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Posted - 10/02/2004 : 5:42:45 PM
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Sorry I slipped off the subject there. What I was going to say is that pornography is in the mind of the beholder. If you believe there is something shamefull about being nude then the question arises. Why are you a nudist? We have many pictures of us enjoying ourselves both nude and otherwise. Our children (who currently choose not to be nudists) and our grandchildren have seen our albums as have many friends. If someone regards our nude pictures as porn then that is their problem not ours. We are proud nudists and see nothing shamefull about our nudity or beliefs.
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FireProf
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My wife and I have told our children and their spouses about our lifestyle a few years ago. They are well aware of our enjoyment of the lifestyle, that we are always nude at home and that we go all over and visit and stay at nudist places.
We have told them that we have kept a travel log and album. It isn't someplace out in the open but if something should happen to us and they find it...it will not be a shock to them that we are nudists and we took pictures of each other and had pictures taken of us together should the album/travel log be found.
We have even given them the website address to the various message boards and organizations we belong to so they can look at them and learn more about the nudist lifestyle if they choose.
It may shock them if they looked at any of the nudists sites we visit and post on to see our picture. My wife isn't ready to do that, that is why we don't have a picture of us on this or other message boards we post on.
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smoothcouple
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Posted - 10/04/2004 : 06:39:55 AM
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There is a difference to us, porn is a photo, or film of sex, and/or related acts. A photo of someone nude is not porn, it is simply a pic of the human form. We take pics of each other quite often. We as of yet do not exchange photos.
Regards, SmoothCouple.
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nynudistcpl
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Posted - 10/04/2004 : 1:44:59 PM
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We agree with smoothcouple. The human body is beautiful! Throughout history, artists have tried to capture this beauty on canvass, clay, sculptures, photography, etc. Nudity is not pornography!!! We see nude art on the walls and ceilings of religous institutions throughout the world. Is that pornography?
In our opinion a nude photo is not pornography!
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and this beholder thinks that it is a beautiful expression of nudity captured on paper.
NYNudists
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Sloboy
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Posted - 10/04/2004 : 3:08:01 PM
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My answer is a plain and simple no! I have taken and have a photo album at this web site. Porn to me is something that is sexually explicit and is intended to evoke carnal interests. I enjoy nudity for its honesty and simplicity. Nudity is a true expression of the nature of being a human. Nothing to hide and a natural statement of "what you see is who I am."
SLO
Everyday is another reason to be yourself.
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Tyson
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Posted - 12/29/2004 : 01:39:55 AM
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I'm a nudest, photographer and Imodel nude in life drawing. My opinion when people complain about nude photography or nudity in general and call it porn they are miss guided. Nudity in general has been hammered into peoples heads for over hundreds of years that it is taboo and should be hidden. I don't mind being photographed or drawn in the nude and that is not porn!! The skin the God gave me is another est of clothes to me. I think if people could be nude in more things in life if they want to. There would be less crap that is porn and more nude photography that is art. Look at people we are the only dam animal the covers up 90% of the time and that is stupid.
I will believe this to the day I die!!!!!!
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JoMulholland
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Posted - 12/29/2004 : 07:36:44 AM
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An expression that I grew up with, is, roughly translated (from Dutch): Just because he / she can see me, doesn't mean she/he's got me.
I wish I had not started that - but am trying to explain that, once I committed myself to naturism/nudism and promoting it, where possible, I needed to show that, where appropriate, I should be happy to be nude, whether on the beach, in a resort or (sometimes) club and in cyberspace, where it is in context. Just like I like to have myself in the picture when I have been somewhere as a tourist (Otherwise I might as well have bought a postcard), I like to be in the picture if I want to show that I enjoyed a swim in a river, or pool, or a walk on a beach.
Seeing my body can be hardly excciting........although, I must admit that I received an email from someone, with a number of my pictures in it.
That was a bit of a surprise but then I am back where I started here: Just because this person can see my picture (body)........
Naturism is for every body.
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