Try as we may to let the world know that “nudist” is all about a healthy family-oriented lifestyle, there are scores of misguided, if not unscrupulous, individuals that have indelibly tied the word to “sex”. Recently this author came across an article that spoke of a “nudist” suing such and such, written by a major computer technology blogger. What he really meant to say was “porn star”, but to him “nudist” was synonymous. In the Internet age, this isn’t so surprising.
Try googling the word “nudist” and right in the first page of ten results, already we find 3 sites that are just disguised attempts to peddle racy pictures and videos. The “nudists” portrayed on these sites go from women with legs wide open, through couples having sex on a beach. In that bunch you’ll also encounter a Russian site that sells movies featuring under aged nudist girls engaged in various day to day activities. The creeps who produce this trash use domains containing the word “nudist” and of course use every keyword related to nudism in order to rank highly in search results. Smart people will surely understand that these aren’t real nudists…or will they?
The problem is that a number of people who consider themselves nudists also are other things, and unfortunately don’t separate this and that on their web sites. Thus, one popular blogger suddenly decided to sell sex toys on his site (but later had enough sense to remove it), while a young female’s personal “nudist” site features provocative photos of herself and links to porn sites. On another web site, this one proffering nudist holidays in Portugal, you’ll be treated to scores of sexually charged photos of a past-her-prime British ex-pat, who informs you she’ll strike poses of a similar nature for your camera if you stay at her bed and breakfast. Then there’s the scores of sites that rank other “nudist” sites, most of the candidates being soft or hard core porn venues. Need we mention FemJoy or Donai, profitable photo archives of beautiful young women in mildly erotic poses, which countless “nudist” sites link to and even feature their photos. We shouldn’t forget the “peeping Tom” sites like Coccozella which have thousands of “nudist” photos, the majority of which were shot by perverts stalking nudist beaches. Unbelievably, we’ve found an assortment of other “nudist” sites also linking to the latter.
We could go on for pages with other examples, but most of you already know that anywhere nudism is present, sexual themes aren’t far away. True, everyone is free to express themselves in any way they see fit, and no one is forced to visit these sites, but many nudists themselves are acting irresponsibly in blurring the line between their sex life and their chosen lifestyle. They may like their kinky sex, or their sex kinky, and that’s fine and dandy, but if they also love knitting, must they make a site about knitting while having sex? For that matter, would they go to a nudist club and pull out a vibrator at poolside and give a show? Is the Internet really the “anything goes” medium?
The web is today’s principal source of information about nudism. You can’t expect the uninitiated to discern between good and bad in a social group that is still eons from being mainstream, and if one takes as a whole what is labeled “nudist” on the web right now, one could easily get the wrong idea. The vast majority of nudists separate their sexual life from their nudist life and don’t take too kindly to a few bad apples strutting their stuff out there. Perhaps it’s time for the rest of us to start boycotting these sites…or is a “Nudist Approved” seal system not too far off, since it’s unlikely many of the perpetrators will voluntarily stop labeling their vulgar sites as “nudist”. Only then will the quotes start to come off “nudist”.