Nudestock at DeAnza Springs

How about a great music festival in the desert of Southern California and in the nude too?
De Anza Springs Resort is hosting it's Nudestock festival on July 29th and they got a pretty good write up on San Diego's Channel 10 online board.

Story: 'Nudestock' To Take Place At East County Resort

Nudists continue San Onofre battle

Now there is a fight between the nudists attempting to avoid citation and arrest on state land (San Onofre State Beach) and federal land (Camp Pendleton) and state park rangers and the U.S. Marine Corp. They say this one may end up in court. Nudists claim park rangers are playing peepers in the tall grass. Geeze Louise, why not just designate a legal area where nudists may have access to the beach just like every other taxpaying citizen?

Read about it here: Nudists, park rangers battle over Camp Pendleton beach

Maryland Health Society

The Maryland Health Society (MaHeSo) has been around for 77 years in the Washington, D.C. area. They got themselves a nice writeup in the online Hometownannapolis.com news as textiles wonder how we nudists deal with the extreme heat this summer.

Story: Pool popular place at local nudist club

Canada's Topless Movement - 20 years later

Women can legally go topless in Canada and, for that mater, in the state of New York and in Austin, Tx in the U.S. The reason this is possible is because of women pioneers like Gwen Jacob who fought against the double standard laws of Canada making it ok for men to be topless but not women. In the piece below Gwen explains that while it is now legal to go topless, most women won't. Why? Because they are harassed if they do. Our laws may have changed but the Puritan ethic still maintains a stranglehold on our culture.

Article: Women's topless court victory 20 years later

German nudist members dwindling

Germany, the birthplace of the modern nudist movement, is suffering from a dwindling number of nudists. This article cites mostly immigration of non-nudist people into the country as the primary cause. It seems the author couldn't resist though, tying the reduction in nudists to the fact that everyone is chubbier these days. They seem to miss the whole point of nudism as that of accepting human body for what it is, not as what some fashion editor in Paris, New York, or Italy dictates though size zero fashions.

Article: Fatter and fewer German nudists as numbers dwindle

Five great nudist beaches

Skyscanner news has highlighted five of the best nudist beaches around the world.

Check it out: Bottoms and Bosoms: 5 Nudist Beaches

ASU files copyright claim against nudist website

Arizona State University has file a copyright claim over a domain used by the Diablo Sun Devils naturist club. Apparently the site owner is willing to work with both ASU and the company where he purchased the domain name: sundevils.com. Apparently when someone searches for the Arizona teams Sun Devils they get forwarded to the Diablo Sun Devils site.

Full story: ASU files copyright claim against nudist website

One woman's journey to body freedom

Kerry Hiatt, writing in the UK MailOnline, explains her journey from body shame and self-conciousness to total body freedom in a great article. She explains the feelings she went through in accepting the nudist lifestyle from a totally self-concious woman ashamed of her body to embracing the freedom that social nudism inevitably brings. She says it even helped revive her marriage.

Story: Nudism helped me to love my body at last

Proposed Sri Lanka nudist beach causes controversy

A proposed nudist area as part of Calido Beach in Kalutara Sri Lanka is causing the usual public outcry and shouts of indecency. The Stardust casino in the area, which has just been declared a tourist zone, believes a nudist beach will add an attraction for foreign tourists.

Read about here: Nudist Beach Proposed In Kalutara

Quebec nudist club under attack

There is a battle going on at Domaine de L'Eden in St. Lin Quebec. Someone is deliberately setting fire to homes and torching cars at the club in an attempt to intimidate the nudists there as a dispute between developers and the nudist community intensifies.

Story: St-Lin tense as dispute between nudists and developers rages

Canadian anti-nudity law challenged today

Brian Coldin goes to court today to challenge the anti-nudity law in Canada. Coldin was charged with several public nudity charges. He appeared at an A&W drive-in nude in his car and upset the attendant within. While this isn't the way I'd go about setting up a legal challenge, this case may have some good impact on Canadian law if he wins.

Story: Man accused of making naked trips to Tim Hortons, A&W to challenge nudity laws

Nude beach lurkers

Before cell phones and ubiquitous cameras became available to everyone it used to be easy to pick out sleazy lurkers at a nude beach. They'd be the ones who didn't get nude, hid in the dunes or paraded back and forth with a camera. They often got a warning or their film exposed by beach regulars. Today the problem is much different as this story about one of the U.S.'s best nude beaches, Gunnison in New Jersey, relates.

Story: Visitors of N.J. nude beach face the increasing threat of lurking photographers

Full Tan Sub Club

Channel 13 News did a nice piece on Full Tan Sun Club in Sprakers, New York. Owner, Carol Bingham, got a nice boost for her club's PR.

Check it out: Nudists hang out at camp in Sprakers