If you believe certain major sites providing services to webmasters, Nudist Day is an adult site. Adult equals porn. Yes, our site has a few photos of naked people, a few of which are of attractive people, but none of which could be construed as being remotely erotic. Neither do we touch human sexuality as a subject, except to say it’s got nothing to do with nudism! We will not knowingly link to, and certainly not publicize any site that has sexual content. We take great pains to stress that this is a family-oriented naturist news site, but try to convince the likes of Google!
Google has rejected Nudist Day as a news source, classifying us as being an adult site, of course! They again rejected us, for the same reason, for their Google Ads, thus depriving us of the opportunity of generating a tiny bit of income.
It doesn’t end there! We also submitted our candidacy to a half dozen press release distribution sites, including the top one, PR.com. You guessed it! We were roundly rejected as being purveyors of adult content! Additionally, sites that publish third party articles have also turned us away on the same grounds.
The curious thing is that some of our competition, including some that DO have sexual overtones, has managed to get by the sentinels of the above mentioned sites. This indicates to us that either we were victims of random judgment calls or their original policy was more reasonable pertaining to nudist sites. Whatever it is, we intend to fight it.
What all of this means in tangible terms is that Nudist Day has potentially lost tens of thousands of new visitors per month. We achieve good numbers just from the brotherhood of nudist sites as well as our regular readers, but if we’re to continue growing and for this to ever become a viable enterprise, we need to achieve wider visibility. As a free site with no income whatsoever, we simply don’t have the budget for expensive ads in nudist magazines or other venues.

Today we look at and compare two veteran nudist portals on the Internet: Clothes Free and NetNude. Neither has ever granted us an interview, although NetNude did at first give its assent.
Both Clothes Free and NetNude purport to espouse strict naturist standards, eschewing anything imbued with sexuality. This we don’t argue, however, both also sell extra features, namely photos and/or video clips and dvds. Clothes Free refers to purchasing the extra content as buying membership in its ad hoc nudist group, the INA (International Naturist Association), while NetNude likes to call it a “donation”.
While most nudists like to look at photos related to their lifestyles, not many would actually pay to see things they see regularly anyway. Nudist Day can’t help but suspect that the vast majority of those who actually buy into this are non-nudist men, many of whom are looking for a cup of titillation, thus the income generated by these two portals may be seen as “nudist prostitution” by some. Sad but true, despite the abundance of readily available pornography on the web, many men still think nudism is sexually stimulating. Of course, they’ve never visited a nudist club or their fantasy world would already be shattered!
Clothes Free produces weekly video segments with the latest “naturist news”. While the production is slick, and president Corey Mangold does an excellent job as a presenter, the same cannot be said about many of the other “nudecasters”, the term they coined for their interviewers. Clothes Free seems content on handing a microphone to whoever is naked and willing. The newscasts also suffer from a bit too much of the “weeee, we’re naked!” syndrome. California-based Clothes Free’s team doesn’t travel much beyond the continental US and the Caribbean, but still reports on foreign events and venues.
Clothes Free’s photo galleries are of good quality and generally in good taste. A number of them were submitted by members and are obviously selectively included in the collection. In NetNude’s case, the photos are submitted by the members themselves and there’s maybe a tad too many single guys posing on rocks for their own digicams!
The general look and feel of Clothes Free’s site is more contemporary, albeit a tad messy, with a few too many annoying animated gifs, pop-ups and “follow you around” menus. NetNude, on the other hand, really needs to hire a graphic artist: Their site is a pink-green-peach eyesore, with a homemade look, circa 1994. The owners, based in Canada, had told us last year that they were updating their look (the reason why they didn’t have time for an interview), but they obviously didn’t learn.
In terms of free content, both portals do a pretty good job of listing all the nudist venues and events in the world and both offer forums, but NetNude does win over Clothes Free in terms of original content, as the latter often just links into other sites content, but then again, it’s focus is on selling its core product, which is the “nudecasts”.
In conclusion, we can say that both sites perform an important role of informing both nudists and prospective nudists, but both could use a more manicured look, lest we be thought of as an unkempt bunch of naked people!

Related Links:

• Net Nude
• Clothes Free

Nudist Day’s mission is to bring you human interest stories related to social nudity. On this occasion, we bring you one of our own.
It happened in 2004, in Tenerife, one of Spain’s Canary Islands, on a stretch of rugged coastline frequented by nudists.
This author and his companion at the time, let’s call her Dee, were enjoying the sun and having a dip when far off in the rough surf appeared a poor soul clinging desperately to a drifting windsurfing board whose mast had broken. The strong current was quickly carrying him off towards the south and the open sea.
Dee, a former swimming champion and longtime aquatics instructor, didn’t hesitate and leapt into the 65 F (18 C) water and swam through the crushing waves and churning currents until she reached the exhausted young man. She then towed both the heavy windsurf board and the lad back to the beach, where a large crowd had formed to watch the rescue as it unfolded. None of the spectators were naked, the nudists having already yielded to modesty and the discomforting presence of so many textiles.
Dee emerged from the surf before them, drained of energy…and naked. The lad, a fellow from Switzerland, was so affected by his ordeal that he didn’t seem to notice that his rescuer stood before him as an Amazon. The moment he did take note, he stopped babbling thank yous and just gaped for what seemed like an eternity. He finally came back to reality and kept thanking her for saving his life.
Undoubtedly the young man went back to Europe telling all about the naked siren who pulled him out of a jam, which would of course be a better story than just “being saved by a girl”!

Nudist Day has interviewed a great number of people over the last year and a half who declared they weren’t nudists. Yet, many regularly frequent nude beaches and some even go to nudist clubs.
It would be ridiculous if it was because they’re ashamed to be nudists…whilst accepting to be interviewed by a naturist publication. It’s much simpler and much more complicated than that! First off, it’s understandable that some don’t feel like they belong to any particular group, as they engage in only casual social nudism. In short, they don’t feel it’s anything special.
We’ve also come across a lot of folk, particularly Europeans, who would never think of wearing a bathing suit at the beach, but would never be seen nude in public away from the beach. In other words, nudity is just the appropriate attire for bathing, and is inappropriate anywhere else.
However, just as there’s no such thing as “half-pregnant”, we can unequivocally say that anyone who feels comfortable in the all together in the presence of strangers, in a non-sexual situation, is in fact…a nudist in spirit. Not a member of any fringe society, just someone who’s comfortable with his/her own body. We won’t push that in anybody’s face, however!

The Mexican Association of Tourism Developers reports that hotels and resorts in that country that cater to nudists average an occupancy rate of 80 per cent. Although the total economic benefits derived from that sector amounts to only 30 million dollars (US) annually, it’s regarded as a big success story and plans are underway to build more hotels geared for nudists in areas such as Puerto Vallarta and Los Cabos. However, it should be noted that although the number of Mexicans who practice naturism is growing, the vast majority of the patrons of the clothing-optional hotels are well-heeled middle-aged Americans and Canadians, followed by Europeans. Unofficial statistics purport that the hotels located in Los Cabos and Cancun alone attract 70,000 nudists every year.