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Not sure what to give that special someone for the holidays this year? Splash Magazines Worldwide has a few suggestions in its just-released gift guide Holiday Travel & Leisure Gifts for 2009–including AANR’s popular Nakation in a Box.
The description reads: “Thinking about giving nude recreation a try, but not sure where to begin? The American Association for Nude Recreation’s (http://www.aanr.com) new Nakation in a Box is a great way to start.” The guide then directs readers to the Nakation page and lists the contents of the box.
This is yet another example of the mainstreaming of nude recreation. Splash Magazine’s gift guide includes everything from spa retreats, luxury hotel and vacation packages, high end sports equipment and miscellaneous gifts for all budgets.
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In September, MSNBC travel columnist Christopher Elliott interviewed AANR Executive Director Erich Schuttauf about the state of clothing-optional travel for an article titled “Nude recreation is fun.” This week, a new, more in-depth article about nude recreation titled “5 reasons to bare it all on your next vacation” was posted at MSNBC.com with a variety of interactive features.
The MSNBC website features a YouTube video, “The skinny on clothing-optional vacations,” a link to the original “Nude recreation is fun” post plus links to other articles of interest about nude recreation. Also included is a poll, “Would you ever strip down for a naked vacation?” So far, out of 1,610 respondents, 64% voted that they “absolutely” are intrigued by the idea of a clothing-optional vacation.
Click here to read the articles, take the poll, view comments and more.
This week, two television shows promoted the joys of skinny-dipping. Nudists, of course, have long known the pleasure of swimming in the buff while feeling the coolness of the water and warmth of the sun against bare skin. Hopefully, after watching these shows, there will be some new converts to skinny-dipping who will wonder what took them so long to try it for themselves.
Channel Canada will air a six-part series “Skinny Dip,” beginning November 18 on Travel & Escape. Following the success of last year’s hour-long special, host Eve Kelly travels the world in search of the best locations to skinny-dip, challenging unsuspecting strangers along the way to try swimming au naturel. Episodes include travels to the Canadian Yukon, Costa Rica, Australia, the Bahamas, British Columbia, and New Zealand.
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Wednesday’s “Oprah Winfrey Show” was themed “Step Out of Your Box,” and challenged four women to try things they had never tried before. A mother of four, a woman who just lost her husband and job, a neonatologist, and a single mother of two boys were urged to break from their daily routines. Ali Wentworth guided the women through a roller derby, skydiving–and skinny-dipping.
After the women disrobed and ran into the ocean, one contestant remarked, “Who cares what we look like? We’re just going to literally get out of our skin and be a bunch of gals naked in the ocean.”
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