a try at our clothing optional swim. Essentially I just listened to their concerns

and answered them with as much information as possible, without trying to run

the conversation. I had let them do most of the speaking. As for introducing the

joking fashion. For example, at a house party where individuals are in a hot tub (Hey,

why do not we just get naked!) and then just fill people in with information from there.

Or the tradition, "Have you ever attempted or thought about trying skinny dipping?"

It was a bit weird bringing the idea up with female friends. It is kind of

Unusual to to tell your female friends to come out and try being nude with you

without seeming kind of creepy. Speaking to them about bathing nude or having a

Bare sauna and how great it feels (if they have no experience) seems to be a great

place to begin. That way they are able to get comfortable with naturism on their own

terms. Telling nudist with nudism appeared to work really nicely also. I

still can't believe that in high school I didn't feel comfortable taking my

shirt off at the beach, and now I'm forming a naturist club at my university!

Randall & Friends

My most successful efforts at getting others to

go nude with me has been at a clothes-optional

The ambience there is so relaxed regarding nudity that the women

I've taken have nearly all tried it quite quickly. Usually before going, I tell

them that it's c/o and that some nighttime a lot of people wear clothes and some

nights nearly no one does. The choice is theirs. Since there is generally a quite

Great mixed bunch, very few with a suit on, my buddies have chosen to get nude,

Also. With one, this involved a discussion where we said that we did not mind

being bare in public, but felt weird about seeing each other and agreed to merely

One other encounter

involved the woman who is now my girlfriend. We'd been emailing back and forth

as she planned a trip. Someone on the Campus-Nude listserve sent a description

I mentioned this to my friend, told her that it

sounded interesting, did not say that it was c/o, but directed her to the

website so she could learn on her own. She did, determined that it seemed

Intriguing, stopped by and said she was the only solo woman there.

Shades on for some amount of anonymity, but appreciated her first public nude

Expertise.

Strand.

Nudity

Another issue with

family pictures can be nudity.

get used to seeing our young children without clothing. Few folks see any real

Issue with photographing our own children at bath time or sprawling nude on a

rug, but the authorities may. There have been a number of cases where processing

lab staff have contacted authorities over images they have discovered. In the UK one

television personality found herself being charged by the authorities and her name

splashed over the papers, although the case was eventually dropped.

Sally Mann

Most photographers at least will be familiar with the excellent work of Sally Mann,

large-format photographs made in collaboration with her young and frequently naked

Kids.

exploitation of her kids, although I find this hard to take seriously.

Surely individuals who are behaving improperly towards their offspring are unlikely

to publish photographic signs.

Mann's work is wonderful, and shows a good deal about the feelings and love in

between them. It really is difficult to comprehend how anyone can find this offensive. It is

Strong and moving work that gives a positive and enriching view of life.

Yet http://www.tenethealthcare.us/__media__/js/netsoltrademark.php?dfkk.buzz/tag/candidnudismnudism/ do need to be conscious that there are folks around who take a more

negative viewpoint, and also laws that we need to take notice of. There are also ill

people who may view graphics of child nudity in different manners to us. It truly is an

Region where some caution is needed as to what is revealed and where.

Many other photographers also have worked with their own families. Among those

whose work appears to me to be most powerful are Emmett Gowin and Nick Waplington (see

Don't miss out

However I would believe I 'd missed an opportunity if I had not photographed the

events in my life when my children were young - and part of this are all the

Tasks of parenthood, bathing, feeding, changing and so forth. These are a part

of my photographic archive, although there are likely some that I would need

to keep private among family and friends for various reasons. Others I'm happy

to show in public.

Nudity as revealed in pictures such as this is infrequently unacceptable, as neither the

faces nor any genital regions of the subjects are shown.