Most people start to participate in organised Naturism through friends. After all, although one can certainly practise Naturism alone, friends are one of the two halves of “social nudity”. While some people prefer to be discreet about their Naturism for personal or professional reasons, there are many who are keen to share their experiences but can find broaching the subject in a non-intrusive manner difficult.
Easier than talking about Naturism as a concept is talking about the things we have done and enjoyed. We share much of our lives through photos, particularly on social media, but struggle to share details of Naturist events we have attended because of the limits on photography that are necessary to protect the choices of other attendees.
Prompted by discussions with our youth members, I am proud to announce a new campaigning initiative to provide images that can be shared with friends or more widely as a means to promote Naturism.
The plan is that small packages of images from certain events will be made available to members for download and sharing. The images will be carefully selected to communicate the vibe and the fun of the event and hopefully provoke friends to think that they would like to try Naturism too. We are in the process of creating sets of 4-8 images from chosen events featuring people who are happy to have their images used to promote Naturism.
The first set of images from Bournemouth 2023 is already available and images from Blackpool and Nudefest 2022 are in production. In the longer term we plan to create sets to showcase Naturist hiking and skinny dipping so whichever aspect of Naturism you enjoy, the tools to talk about it will be easily available to members here.
I hope that people will use these tools and support this campaign so that we can promote and normalise Naturism while having a lot of fun at the same time.