Conference moira::naturism

    I like to go nude around the house unless it is too cold.  It's
    far less constricting than even the loosest house coat.
    
    I like to be nude when communing with my creator.  I feel *so* much
    closer to It in that state.
    
    I almost always clean house nude.  This has a very practical reason
    for me - I can always manage to get *something* on me that stains
    fabric.  Before adopting this practice I routinely ruined things
    while cleaning house.  Now I just take a shower and voila - instant
    clean.
    
    I prefer not to cook nude because of the possibility of getting
    burned.  Obviously, some cooking techniques are more dangerous than
    others in this way.
    
    Elizabeth

    I like to exercise in the nude (it's usually in our house, 
    darn!), either stationary bicycle, working with free weights, 
    stretches, or free exercise.  Clothes are too binding plus if I
    keep seeing the subtle changes such as firming up it keeps me 
    motivated.
    
    I also enjoy eating, reading, drinking shots of tequila ... it's
    looking like most anything I'll do in the nude.  I love hiking in
    the nude!  Or at least topless...
    
    It's usually an everyday occurance.  Rarely do I take off my clothes,
    take a shower and go directly to bed.  I usually run around the
    house for at least a few minutes (hum, maybe that's why the utility 
    bill has gone up...to keep it warm enough for naked bodies!).  And I 
    would go outside that way if the neighbors wouldn't mind!
    
    Judy

    Our new house is far enough back in the woods to give us a fair
    amount of privacy.  So, last summer I assembled my daughter's swing
    set and did a good bit of the staining on our house while nude. This
    is an amazing feeling:  to be able to take your natural at-home
    in-doors nudity out-of-doors.
    
    	-Neil

    Coed volleyball is one of the most common activities on nude beaches.
    This really allows people to meet each other. If a game is starting
    up usually anyone is welcome to join in.
    
    Other activities that are great: 
    Yoga and other meditation
    Partying !
    Frisbee
    Sandcastle contests
    
    Anything that you can do on any other beach.
    
    

    Other activities in the nude...
    
    We used to get together with a couple, at each others homes and
    sit around playing card games or drink wine or shots of tequila,
    eat dinner.  While camping in the mountains (also in the nude) 
    we'd play hacky sack, hike, or mountain bicycle.  Unfortunately 
    the relationship ended but luckily it wasn't the nudity that caused
    the friendship to end. 

      
       I also enjoy tequila in the nude, that way when I get to the
    worm at the bottom of the bottle I can get sick and not have to
    worry about staining my clothes. 
    
        We used to have a nude softball game every August in Sarasota
     Fla. but the "FANS" kind of put a stop to that. The police wondered
     why there were 50 cars parked next to the field on a week night,
     they soon found out but they let us go because the arresting officers
     son was playing shortstop. It does pay to know someone...
    
    Tom
    

    re:  16.5
    
    what is hacky sack?

    A hacky sack is a small ball approximately 1-1/2 to 2 inches in
    diameter (usually made of leather) that is "juggled" between 
    players using only feet, legs, knees, elbows (in other words 
    no hands).  Usually a circle is made of players and the side of
    the foot is the most popular propellant (sp?) to "toss" the ball
    between players.  The object is to keep the ball off the ground
    and in the air as much as possible and in a controlled manner.
    Sometimes it seems that keeping it off the ground is impossible 
    to do somedays!
    
    The more players the better and the flatter the land you play on
    is also best.  We have played on cement driveways, on lawns, and
    on rocky ground covered with cactus (which is real challenging 
    when playing nude, in case you fall).
    
    My nephew had one to practice his soccer skills, (control, over-the-
    shoulder kicks, etc.).  There is a group of people at CXO that play
    hacky sack during breaks and lunches on an outside patio, during warm 
    weather of course, and **unfortunately** with clothes on... 
                                            
    Hope I was able to describe this well enough.  Hacky sacks are also
    known as "footbags".
    
    Judy
                  

I grew up on a lake.  Late one night, some friends from high school and
I were drinking beers in the backyard.  The lake was SOOOO smooth (no
other boats - a very rare occurance) we decided we HAD to take out the
ski boat.

Peer pressure solved the "I didn't bring my suit" problem, and we were
off amidst jokes about falling wrong and singing soprano.

WARNING: It is illegal to ski in the dark.  It is also dumb -- it's
very-very hard to spot a downed skiier at dusk, much less at 2:00am.

We all had so much fun it became a semi-regular event. :-)

Dave

    How about whitewater rafting.  I spent 5 summers as a guide. Every
    spring and fall we would do a "friends" trip for 1/2 price with
    just friends and friends-of-friends. These would be 5-7 day trips.
    I've gone a week wearing nothing but a hat, life jacket, tennies
    and sun-glasses.
    
    It was always interesting to watch the group dynamics evolve. First
    it would start with one or two people and then by the 2nd or third
    day 95% of the people were also nude (except for the above mentioned
    equipment). It was always a casual thing with never any atempts
    at coercion or ridicule. It just sort of happened. Although i do
    recall one trip on the Salmon in idaho when on the fisrt day a couple
    got up in the front of my raft and said something to the effectof
    : Ok you all let's show the rest of these people - they may not
    like our style but they sure know who we are"
    For the rest of the week my raft was know as the naked nine.
    
    I could go on with dozens of stories of the nakeds meeting the
    non-nakeds.Most of them quite humorous.
    
    tm
    

    Yesterday in the Merrimack Shaw's I saw a guy with a T-shirt that
    said "Merrimack Coed Naked Lacrosse".  In big letters.  Unfortunately,
    he got away before I was able to get more info.

        While on vacation last week a saw a woman wearing a different
        T-shirt each day on the same theme. Besides a "Merrimack Coed
        Naked Lacrosse", she also had a "Harvard Coed Naked Lacrosse",
        and about three others. Never did get a chance to ask her what
        they meant. 
        
        Anyone else know anything about this "movement"?

			 SAIL NAKED

		     Bare-Assed Cruises
		        *mumble* Bay
		  St Thomas, Virgin Islands

		Put Some Color in Your Cheeks

    RE:.11 and .12 "Merrimack Coed Naked Lacrosse"
    
    I am a summer employee at DEC and a full time student at Merrimack
    College in North Andover. Tee shirts with the slogan, ".......  Coed 
    Naked Lacrosse" are currently being sold at many college bookstores 
    in the area. Many students have been trying to determine what exactly 
    the meaning of this slogan is. From what we have been able to gather, 
    it is simply a marketing scheme to sell tee shirts.  I can vouch for our 
    "small little Catholic school" when I say we do not have a coed naked
    lacrosse team. We're lucky we have coed dorms! :-) 
                                            
    FYI-If anybody wants a shirt (about $12) the college bookstore 
        is open 8 am -4pm Monday through Friday. It is located in 
        the basement of Gildea Hall on the Merrimack campus.
    
             The address is Merrimack College
                            Turnpike Rd.(route 125-114)
                            North Andover MA
              
 hope this helps-Joe
         
        
            
                
    

             
    Nudes things: cleaning house,dancing,tag football
                                              
    
             

    We do all our things during holliday nude, within the borders of
    the camping site and the beach.
    
    At the house, sometimes spending the evening and all that belongs
    to it! Indoors ofcorse!
    

    THINGS TO DO IN THE NUDE AT HOME AND IN NEW ENGLAND
    
    My wife and I have designed our home and yard to allow us to go
    nude outside anywhere in our 2 acers.
    We have a small inground pool 4' deep 24' across so we do a lot
    of raft sunning.
    We play yard bad mittin nude
    croquet, frisbe, and basket ball all nude.
    
    I am a bare back packer and do a lot of nude back packing in the
    white mountains of New Hampshire. Any one wishing to join me or
    find out more about what trails I use just VAXmail me USWAV1::REID
    
    Club meds, Club Orient, Moonstone beach, Guana beach in St Augustine
    Florida.
    We try to live our life style
    John

RE: < Note 16.4 by VOLGA::MACKAY >
    
>>  Yoga and other meditation

I have been doing Transcendental Meditation regularly (twice a day most days) 
since autumn 1969.  I usually put on clothes to do so for several reasons;
	a)	it is easy to get chilled while in deep relaxation for up to 
half an hour.
	b)	if it is hot and I start to perspire while meditating I find 
that sweat trickling down is profoundly disturbing.
	c)	I find flying insects profoundly disturbing and far more 
attentive if meditating naked.

RE: 16.0

I do anything else naked if it is warm enough, if it is safe to do so (I too 
don't fry sausages naked), and if there is no one there who would be offended 
by it.

Ian.

    
       Well, here's another one to add to the list. While at the beach
    yesterday I noticed a group of people approaching and two of them had
    fishing poles with them. The group picked a spot and the two poles were
    planted into the sand.
    
       A little while later, a flock (?) of seagulls gathered just
    offshore, over what I assume must've been a school of feeding bluefish.
    Well, the two folks with the fishing poles jumped up, grabbed the
    poles, went wading into the ocean and starting casting their lines
    toward the area where the seagulls were circling. Voila: Nude
    surf-fishing.
    
       Now, when you think about it, this makes perfect sense. If you're at
    all familiar with "traditional" surf-fishing, you generally get dressed
    up in these plastic coveralls and only go into the water until it's
    about hip high. But these two guys at the beach went in until the water
    was up to their necks (I'm not kidding). This gives them a chance to
    cast out a little further than your typical surf-fisherman.
    
       Unfortunately, they didn't catch anything.
    
    
    Frank
    

Being a devout fisherman, I've considered this option many times.  Having had
hooks imbeded in my legs on occasion (and past the barb no less!), I can think
of a *VERY* good reason to wear shorts or a suit when surf casting.  These
people were indeed fishing for bluefish.  Bluefish are known to be voracious
feeders and when in a frenzy, behave much as sharks, biting anything they can
see.  Wading upto my neck (or above my hips in particular) in a school of
frenzied bluefish could result in a major mishap.  One thing bluefish love to
eat are sand eels.  Need I say more?  Much as I love to fish, if I do it, I
do it clothed.  The exception would be for flounder and other bottom fish who
aren't likely to let go of a large plug with trebble hooks.  This is how I've
gotten the hooks in my leg.  A blue let go and the rod yanked the lure about 
100 MPH right into my leg.  Didn't have time to duck or move or anything.

(note the personal name: Bluefish are known as CHOPPERS as they chop up anything
They don't even eat it all, but kill for killings sake)


Tim

I've done that. Caught a few, too.
							John.

    
    
    	Every day around the house I'm nude for some period of time. Some
    of my favorite activities:
    
    	Early mornings on the weekends, making fresh coffee and sitting out
    on the side deck. This is for summer time, in the winter I have to settle
    for letting the sun warm me thru the glass door.
    
    	Sunbathing on the back deck and then diving into the pool.
    
    	Working in the garden.
    
    Most household chores are done nude.
    
    Would like to mow the lawn this way, but it's in the front of the
    house, so I settle for the thong.
    
    ed

    	And an obvious reason to be nude..... getting a massage. 
    Incidentally, I give massages too (had my own business), and strange
    as it may sound to a "normal" person, I would prefer to GIVE massages
    in the nude.  The opportunity has only come up with my SO though.
    (and of course I'm sure it would never be accepted in a business 
    environment -- at least here in North America).
    

    
    I saw a cute license-plate frame this morning...it said 
    
    
    		BICYCLE NAKED!!!!!
    
    Don't ya love it!!!

    There's a bumper sticker on a truck in the CXO parking lot that says:
    
    				ENJOY THE OUTDOORS
    				    FISH NAKED

	This Sunday was very sunny and relatively warm (for New England). I 
decided to take a break from the snow shoveling and relax on the back deck. 
There was only one problem, the deck was covered with snow. So I grabed the
shovel and not bothering to grab anything else except footwear, cleared the 
deck of snow. The sun and the exercise kept me quite warm and it felt good
to be looking forward to sunning weather.

ed

    I just spent a week on Lake Erie having the time of my life! Sailing
    could easily be made the 'sport of nudists'! (Well, perhaps not during
    a thunderstorm) ;)
    
    My friend and I had the most lovely adventure in clear clean waters. We
    visited little uninhabited islands and soaked up the sea and sun. We
    dressed when we docked, but the rest of the time we were as natural as
    can be. We even rigged a bosun's chair to swing out from the boat as we
    tooled along and my friend got some terrific photos of the boat in
    sail. Then I got some photos of him swinging around on that bosun's
    chair over 45 foot of water. ;)
    
    We are talking about taking a month long sail next year. It was
    absolutely incredible!
    
    Bright blessings,
    Serenity

    
    	This weekend, gardening and cleaning the pool. Hopefully most of
    the weekend will be spent without clothes.
    
    ed