As a practicing social nudist in both second and real life, one of my big concerns is the hi-jacking of the clothing free, or optional lifestyle. We know in Second Life all you have to do it type in the search terms, nudism, nudists, nude beach, or clothing optional and see what comes up.
With the exception of a very few, and I may be prejudice here, you get the trash of Second Life. The exceptions are Su Casa, followed closely by Naked Dreams. There are a few borderline that I will not name, but even some of these have a shady side. It seems the TOS are ignored and these places to continue on as Mature, not Adult rated sims.
For those of you not familiar with the naturist lifestyle in real life, it is the same in real life. Social nudity as a clean, wholesome, family oriented lifestyle has been hi-jacked. While I am sure there more I can give you two real life examples that exist in my home state.
First we come to a place named “Sun Aura”, which at one time was the premier family nudist resort in the Midwest U.S. After going through several name, and ownership changes, it went from the original Zorro Nudist Resort, to the infamous Naked City, now to Sun Aura. I don't have time, or room here to go into the history, but it was purchased by a fellow named Dick Drost, now deceased, that was later convicted of child molestation ( this is a matter of public record). The downhill spiral was set in motion! To their credit, they do now describe themselves as an adult only resort. You can visit their web site here, it isn't nudism people is called “Swinging”.
Next is the Ponderosa, which claims to be a family resort. Check the resort web site here, looks great huh? Now, check out their other web site here where they flaunt the once a year T&A contest they hold called Nudes-a-Poppin. Contestants are topless and nude dancers from strip clubs, and the judges are porn stars from X rated films! Ownership claims the income from this contest holds membership dues down. As a real nudist I would pay more to keep this filth from going on! Still want take your kids there for a weekend?
While, the AANR works hard at trying to distance real social nudism from such shenanigans, sadly in the eyes of the general pubic, the perception of mixed gender, family social nudity suffers.
So it seems, sorry to say, nudism has been hi-jacked by the underbelly of society in both lives.
