I with my father and anyone else whom would like to get involved am building a Live-In artist Community just north of Tampa Florida. My father for the last 20 years or so has owned the Riverboat Nudist Resort, www.NaturallyNude.com. Upon my return to the resort and after my father had seen what I had build in Denver, He wanted me to do that here with the resort. That was what I have been waiting to hear my whole life! I have traveled all over the world and stayed at many great naturist, artist and hippy community's. I always thought that the resort would do very well like that. However we can not do it alone. We need volunteers to help us bring people together and create art! We will be building massage concrete sculptures, metal work, structures of all kinds, painting murals and more! We are looking for all types of creative minds to get involved to make a success.
Groups have been formed to live their dreams, and then split up over questions of principles. There are many examples of the differences between various groups, often resulting in two or more national organisations. Here is a non-exclusive list, taken from Descamps,[11] of the ideas that have united various naturists and become points of fierce contention for others.
* Rapport with animal life — having an ecological conscience
* Rapport with the environment — being an environmentalist
* Health — bathing in the sun, fresh air and water (balneotherapy, thalassotherapy, heliotherapy), Yoga, Tai Chi.
* Healthy food — moderation with alcohol, meat, tobacco, drugs; seeking out health foods and adopting healthy eating to prevent obesity. This can extend to teetotalism and Vegetarian or Vegan eating habits. The latter two also interface with having respect for the environment.
* Agriculture — avoiding unnecessary fertilisers and genetically modified organisms. Against factory farming
* Medicine — should be natural if not entirely homeopathic
* Psychotherapy — as a way of effecting personal changes
* Rapport with other humans — equality and respect. An anti-war, pro-world government stance
* Pedagogy — children should be respected as equals instead of being patronised
* Spirituality — man is more than an animal, and nudity has a place in religion.
* Dress — nudism, as clothes are unnecessary, unheathly and build social barriers.
* Sports — to develop a healthy body.
* Arts — should be to develop individual talents, not as a means of financial exploitation
* Tourism — to understand other peoples' culture, concentrating on camping to remain close to the earth.
Some of these ideas have become mainstream. Others have been quietly forgotten. It is generally agreed among naturists that erotism and blatant sexuality have no place in naturism and are, in fact, antithetical to its ideals.
[edit] Naturism and the Romantics
Walt Whitman American writer, A Sun-bathed Nakedness:
Never before did I get so close to Nature; never before did she come so close to me... Nature was naked, and I was also... Sweet, sane, still Nakedness in Nature! - ah if poor, sick, prurient humanity in cities might really know you once more! Is not nakedness indecent? No, not inherently. It is your thought, your sophistication, your fear, your respectability, that is indecent. There come moods when these clothes of ours are not only too irksome to wear, but are themselves indecent.[33]
Henry David Thoreau, Walking, in In wildness is the preservation of the world.
We cannot adequately appreciate this aspect of nature if we approach it with any taint of human pretense. It will elude us if we allow artifacts like clothing to intervene between ourselves and this Other.
To apprehend it, we cannot be naked enough.[33]
Naturism was part of a literary movement in the late 1800s (see the writings of André Gide) which also influenced the art movements of the time specifically Henri Matisse and other Fauve painters. This movement was based on the French concept of joie de vivre, the idea of revelling freely in physical sensations and direct experiences and a spontaneous approach to life.[34] Later this movement became called Naturalism.
VIDEO - Of my Clothing-Optional, Live-In Artist Community,
RV Resort and Campground in Land O Lakes Florida
Just North of Tampa.
A Live in Nudist Artist Community... (282 Members)
