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I plan to spend winter in Chaco del Palo (Lazarote, Canary Islands, Spain). I’ve looked at rental prices and they’re between sixty and 120 euros per day online. That means that six months is roughly between 10 thousand and 20k euros for six months. Either there’s a whole different pricing structure for long-term rentals (in which case, how do I get in contact with somebody?) or it starts to make more sense to actually consider buying.

Can somebody fill me in? I’m sure at least somebody here knows about the place…

I’m currently midway through a six week decompression period at a naturist resort in southern Italy (Parco Naturista del Gargano — no affiliation except that I’ve become friends with the ownership and love ‘em).

I haven’t been compelled to wear clothes for more than 22 days and I’m surrounded by likeminded folk. It’s simply glorious.

(Mainly offgrid, so less than an endorsement and/or Q&A and more of a reminder that a better way of living is within grasp.)

I’d like to provide a a review of one of the purest naturist venues in Italy.

Located within in an Italian national park (370 above sea level vertically and 3000 metres horizontally, for a grand total of less than 700 linear metres from an amazing Adriatic shoreline, Parco Naturista del Gargano is truly heaven on Earth for those of us who embrace the Naturist philosophy.

Structurally it is a campground with a few bungalows. Describing it as “heaven on earth” underplays the ‘vibe’ and experience of the place: naked all day around the pool, and then assembled around an inviting fire in the longhouse come evening.

It is truly the apotheosis of naturist communities, where sunning and bathing naked by day and experiencing total community in the evenings after communal dinners (always of the highest culinary degree) is the daily routine.

I cannot endorse this venue to sufficient degree: the mix of nationalities, ethnicities, all tempered by mutual respect because we share a common understanding in common is overwhelming.

With a historical bent, I cannot not observe that eighty years ago we were various factions at each others’ throats, and yet here we are a collective with the mere encumbrance of finding common tongues to interact.

This, my readers, is what naturism is truly about. New friends from all walks of life with whom I share this fundamental ethical substrate. I am “amongst mine tribe” [sic.].

Oh and the home-mad, food is better than your imaginations can conceive, eaten. In common, and builds community. This is my happy place. Every meal you’re treated to a genuine delicacy, surrounded by a permutated group of likeminded folk you might’ve ever been brought into contact with and language barriers melt.

(No affiliation: just that I have developed a close relationship with the managers whose philosophy I adore.)

Being an applied mathematician and economist by trade, I have spent quite a while puzzling over what makes or breaks a naturist venue; why sometimes they feel creepy, while the balance of male and female participants are rarely 1:1, why the more males there are the less likely females are to choose to attend; why an abundance of couples leads to observably qualitative different behaviour than when there are a bunch of singles; why the “no single males” seemed to work but is also being phased out.

This is my definitive draft of my attempt to answer these questions I have been mulling over. To those who are mathematically un-inclined, feel free to mumble over he equations, but the long story short is that I successfully built a bridge from both shores of collective behaviour in Section 2 and individual choices in Section 6 and proved that they meet exactly in the middle.

Maybe the parts most worthy of debate are the issues raised in the conclusion (Section 7), which is entirely discursive. I admit to savaging the “no single males” policy in closing because it is a pet peeve of mine.

Should any of you have quantitative data of attendance, particularly in the form of time-series, using the methods outlined in Appendices A and B I’d be able to put my theory to the test and switch it from (what I consider a compelling narrative) to actually supported or disproven hypothesis. I would much appreciate any assistance anybody could provide in this regard.

Thank you for reading so far on such an abstruse topic.