Category Archives: Personal experience

We are an Irish couple living in the South of the U.S. for many years and here’s our thoughts about Naturism/Nudism here: Naturism/Nudism in the South, y’all! We live in a very conservative part of the United States, in fact right in the buckle of the Bible Belt. The attitudes and beliefs that go along […]

MAINSTREAM I am looking at myself in the mirror in a changing room. I can’t help it. There are mirrors on every wall and I can see how I stand, how my body is from every angle. I realise I am slouching so I pull myself up. My face looks tired. My hair is in […]

So, how did I come to join a naturist group in Ireland at the age of 51? I’ve always been curious about naturism but have always been too shy to indulge myself. Growing up in Ireland in the 70’s and 80’s it wasn’t something that was considered normal so absolute privacy was needed and growing […]

Summer is nearly over in Ireland by now and most of our Irish followers will have enjoyed a naturist holiday this summer. Some may be seasonal naturists: Irish people who only go naturist abroad for a vacation. Indeed, the weather plays an important role for naturism and with that sense of freedom and clothes-free lightness […]

I’m your regular Irish naturist guy, I suppose. I  grew up feeling the appeal of nakedness on the beach as a natural urge to be close to nature and body freedom. I knew naturism existed as an organised movement in other countries from magazines such as H&E, but in Ireland being naked seemed to be […]

Seeing the Naked Truth nude tour advertised I thought ‘how often do you get the chance to be naked in an art gallery”. Arriving at the Crawford 20 minutes early I meet Leticia. I knew she was with the nude group as I saw her Irish Naturist Association hat on. I introduced myself and she […]

In 1978 on my first holiday in Greece I paid a short visit to the island of Mykonos. Walking around the harbour I saw a notice: “Bathing costumes must be worn at all times. By order of the Mayor.” Was there some danger of freak waves that the Mayor was so anxious for us? Then […]

  Scared to Bare It should be the most natural thing in the world. We came into this world bare. Clothes are thrust upon us by well-meaning parents and enthusiastic present-bearers, and from then on we are encouraged, actually make that forced to cover up. Today we live in a society that appears to be […]