We just hit our 150th article, so we decided to have some fun with it... a rundown of every naturist stereotype we've ever heard (hippie communes, sunrise yoga, secret cults, you name it) versus what a weekend at the park actually looks like.
No naturists were injured in the writing of this article.
Full thing here:
https://ournaturistlife.com/2026/07/06/official-naturist-stereotypes-guide/
You've heard it. We've heard it. It gets used to explain everything from staring to comments to outright boundary-crossing, and it almost never means what it sounds like it means.
New piece up now: what the actual research says about attention, self-control, and the excuse people reach for right before they do something they already know isn't okay.
We have to tell you... the science doesn't say what the excuse-makers think it says.
https://ournaturistlife.com/2026/07/02/humans-are-visual-animals/
A man behaved badly at a nudist resort. He got removed. The system worked. So why did the court ban the category, not the man?
Courts won't ban a kid from school over one bad teacher. Won't ban club swimming over one bad coach. But ban naturism over one bad guest at a resort? Apparently, that's fine.
We checked six countries' family courts for naturism precedent. Found almost nothing except one place that genuinely surprised us.
New article is live.
https://ournaturistlife.com/2026/06/28/naturism-custody-court-double-standard/
Corin and I were sitting on the couch scrolling through a massive comment section under a post by a body freedom activist. Predictably, the replies ran the full spectrum from dismissive mockery to outright venom.
If you've been in this community for any length of time, you know that quiet, deflating feeling that hits when strangers confidently project their own body baggage onto you.
But as we kept reading, we realized something. Every single classic objection ("Think of the kids," "Only if they're attractive," "Go to a designated place") follows the exact same psychological bone structure. It's a textbook cycle of internal shame turning into external blame. They are trying to find a high-minded excuse to justify a deep internal discomfort.
We wrote a raw, reflective breakdown of these comments... not to change the minds of the critics, but for the naturists who scroll through those threads and occasionally feel rattled by how confidently the world calls us broken.
Would love to hear how you all protect your peace when encountering this kind of digital noise.
https://ournaturistlife.com/2026/06/23/social-naturism-internal-shame/
Why are they avoiding organized naturist spaces?
What are they actually avoiding?
We've been asking ourselves these questions for weeks.
So we asked some.
Turns out the data shows Gen Z skinny dipping, wild swimming, and going nude in the backcountry at rates way higher than older generations.
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Link is live.
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https://ournaturistlife.com/2026/06/17/what-is-wrong-with-gen-z-naturism/
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#genz #naturism #bodyneutrality #clothesfreeliving #nudism #bodyacceptance
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We'd like to present the following evidence for the defense of what our society considers "normal".
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We sit nude in the sunshine with other consenting adults and talk about lumber prices.
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Weird is looking pretty good from where we're standing.
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Our new article is published.
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https://ournaturistlife.com/2026/06/14/not-normal-social-naturism/
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Kevin and Corin
I (Corin) have written about my own experience with social nudity more than once... but honestly, I want to hear yours.
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For an upcoming series on OurNaturistLife.com, we are looking to connect with women under the age of 40 who enjoy social nudity. Whether you have been active for years, discovered it recently, or are still navigating your journey, your perspective is incredibly valuable.
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We want to hear from you. Reach out to us. We'd love to connect and will respond.
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Note: Nothing is shared without your explicit approval.
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If you know someone who should be part of this, send this their way.
Walk into almost any naturist space on a sunny afternoon and the reality is obvious. The hair is a bit silverer, the skin has more stories to tell, and the average age comfortably clears forty.
That's not a failure of marketing. It's a reflection of something real.
Social nudity requires a level of self-permission that most people simply don't possess in the first half of their lives. The career risks are real. The body shame runs deep. Research shows Gen Z carries measurably higher body anxiety than any previous generation. The logistics aren't there yet. And nobody hands you permission to stop caring what strangers think. You earn it.
We wrote about why naturism skews older and why that's actually a sign of a healthy community, not a dying one.
https://ournaturistlife.com/2026/06/09/naturism-does-skew-older/
Corin wrote a piece about swimsuits that started funny... the parking lot nipple tuck, the post-lake adjustment choreography, the seaweed situation... and it ended up somewhere more uncomfortable.
The part that stuck with her: the swimsuit doesn't cover insecurity. It manufactures it. It takes your body and turns it into a fit problem requiring a solution. Too much here, not enough there, wrong shape for this cut. The suit becomes the standard and your body becomes the variable that either measures up or doesn't.
She gets to a place at the end that some people will push back on, and others will completely recognize from their own experience. Either way, it's worth the read.
https://ournaturistlife.com/2026/06/05/are-you-still-wearing-a-swimsuit/
We never really gave much thought to labels like nudism or naturism... until we suddenly did. Six years later, we run a website dedicated to this philosophy. But we’ve noticed that when people try to explain it to family or friends, eyes immediately glaze over. Defenses go up.
The truth we've come to realize is that you don't actually need to explain it. Because almost everyone has already felt that exact same sense of comfort and freedom... whether it’s sleeping nude on a hot night, an empty house on a Sunday morning, or just stepping into a warm bath.
We wrote a short piece on why understanding naturism is much easier when you look at the universal moments we all share, rather than relying on dry definitions or statistics. If you've been trying to find the words for someone in your life, or if someone just dropped this unexpected news on you, we'd love to hear your thoughts on how you handle these conversations.
Share to spread the word!
https://ournaturistlife.com/2026/05/31/understanding-naturism/
We may take naturism a bit too seriously sometimes. This article is the correction.
We write a lot of serious stuff about naturist philosophy. This one is about the rest of it. The birthday hike that ended in a broken rib Kevin didn't find out about for three weeks. The Saint Martin beach photo that became an anatomy lesson. The Roatán shoot that ended very well. The nude Poison dance routine in Manitoba.
Sometimes, you just need to laugh at the total absurdity of it all.
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We finish our three part series by working through the arguments we hear most often. Live and let live. Just don't look. Naturism is dying anyway, so maybe it needs to evolve. A cautionary view of adding sexual activity to naturist spaces.
One of those arguments made us really think.
https://ournaturistlife.com/2026/05/22/nudity-and-sex-part-3/
Frankly, out of frustration. And a bit of anger. It happened again. And we are not staying quiet and just accepting it.
We woke up to another Instagram removal today. A completely non-nude beach photo promoting an interview, flagged as "nudity or sexual activity."
Meanwhile, accounts using see-through clothing as billboards for subscription links thrive in the main feed because their traffic has economic value to Meta. Our message of unremarkable body acceptance doesn't.
There is an undeniable body double standard built into social media infrastructure, and we’re calling it out.
Read the raw, unedited piece on our blog:
https://ournaturistlife.com/2026/05/18/platform-body-double-standard/
We've written a lot about why sexuality doesn't belong in naturist spaces.
But we realized we'd never honestly asked ourselves whether our position comes from something real or just a preference we've been calling a principle.
Part 2 of our series goes somewhere we haven't gone before. Our own history. What we've lived. Why naturism felt different from everything we'd left behind. And whether that makes us right or just stubborn.
https://ournaturistlife.com/2026/05/17/nudity-and-sex-part-2/
Nobody says "nonsexual clothing." The phrase only exists because nudity got annexed by sexuality at some point and we've been using language that accepts that annexation ever since.
OurnNew article is on why nudity and sex are genuinely different things, why destigmatizing sex isn't the answer to naturism's cultural problem, and what happened when we told the French Federation of Naturism's critics that if nudity is irrelevant to what they're planning, any beach works.
https://ournaturistlife.com/2026/05/14/nudity-and-sex-part-1/
We watched another naturist advocate delete their photos and lock their X account recently. No drama. They just said the platform was no longer serving their purposes and only serving the adult industry... and walked away.
It made us think hard about our own visibility. So we wrote about the toll of being a visible naturist online... the wrong audiences, the fatigue, the question of whether it's actually reaching the right people.
Curious if others have felt this. At what point does visibility stop being worth it?`
https://ournaturistlife.com/2026/05/10/toll-visible-naturist-online/
Please share this. There's a woman in your life who needs to read it.
After six years as a woman in naturism, I wrote about what it has actually given me. Not the glossy version. The nervous, still-in-progress, menopause-arrived-uninvited version.
This is my piece on empowerment, a body that keeps changing, and the peace I didn't know I was allowed to find.
Corin
https://ournaturistlife.com/2026/05/06/body-acceptance-aging-empowerment/
We asked our community on social media a question that doesn't get talked about enough: why do so many naturists feel completely free around strangers but won't tell even their closest family and friends? This wasn't about being nude in front of them or even expecting them to be nude around us. It was just about being open.
The responses surprised us. Not because the fear was irrational, but because of the scale and rationale of it. A lot of people living a significant part of their lives in careful silence.
We wrote about what we think is actually going on underneath that. The fear of being recast, the difference between privacy and hiding, and why exile feels scarier than judgment.
There's also something at the end that we think is worth sitting with.
https://ournaturistlife.com/2026/05/02/naturists-afraid-to-tell-family/