Summertime usually brings forth in our various cultures and societies an interesting and refreshing concoction of beverages, usually with an alcoholic content, to not only quench our thirst but to enable us to relax and appreciate the festive atmosphere the season brings. In the past, I have published several recipes for summer cocktails during the month of August; this year, my spouse, Aaron, suggested publishing this feature earlier in order that as many as possible have the chance to mix and enjoy! Quite naturally (we were both bare), he made this recommendation as he was sipping on this cocktail!
The name of the beverage is: Sex On The Beach. The recipe – I’m uncertain if that’s what the “recipe” is actually labelled – was located in an internet search for “summer rum cocktails.” A possible alternative title for this post entry: A Tropical Happy Hour!
SexOnTheBeach!
11/2 ounces rum (light or dark)
1 ounce lime juice
1 ounce orange juice
1 ounce pineapple juice
1/2 ounce passionfruit syrup
Combine all ingredients into a cocktail shaker with ice. Shake vigorously. Strain into a glass and add a lime wheel or a chunk of fresh fruit. Enjoy!
The above recipe was originally offered here on ReNude Pride under the title. That eye-catching name caught my attention. Of course, no explanation of the name was given. Also, there was no caution regarding safe sex nor urging of the responsible consumption of alcohol, especially hen operating a vehicle. I’m not able to recall the distillery that created this rum.
I do remember that the first time I tried the mixed drink, I realized the ice wasn’t necessary. I preferred my beverage at room temperature, even during the summer! Ice is cold and that fact gives me no consolation!
Naked hugs!
Roger Poladopoulos/ReNude Pride
Author’s Note: The next post entry here is planned for Friday, July 19, 2024, and the proposed topic is: “An Unashamed Tale!”
National Nude Recreation Week: July 8 – July 14, 2024!
The week in action with Phoenix Fellington!
ReNude Pride’s very own model-spokesperson, Phoenix Fellington, aptly takes the leadership role in our observation of this week-long observance of bare beautification and celebration! Let no one remain doubtful as to the happiness, joy and laughter that this occasion can offer to all of us, whether we’re fully committed bare practitioners or newcomers trying social nudity for the very first time. This is a week to remember as “something fun for everyone!”
This festival of body and clothes freedom activities is jointly co-sponsored by the American Association of Nude Recreation (AANR) and The Naturist Society (TNS). As every summer is the “season of fun in the sun” it is only logical that major national naturist/nudist advocacy organizations produce an event in honour of clean, healthy bare living. The recent tendency over the last several years is to observe this festivity during the week after the July 4 holiday.
Let the fun begin!
Nude Recreation Week involves an emphasis on the numerous activities, leisure services and past-times, both active and passive, that people may engage in or undertake while enjoying nakedness. In essence, identical to what can be done when wearing garments. This isn’t to imply this special week is the only time we bare our bodies for fun and games. We do that quite frequently! Not only during this week only, but all throughout the entire year!
The original agenda for what is now evolving into Nude Recreation Week was to encourage guests and persons with very limited experience with social nudity to visit facilities and properties that allowed clothing optional and/or nakedness in an effort to increase their audiences. The history of Nude Recreation Week is relatively recent with the earliest documented date of August 7, 1976, as being NudeBeachDay. It was first observed at Truro Beach in southern California and at Meadow Beach in Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Both sites were pleased with the public response at their facilities.
Boating bare together!
The success of the first NudeBeachDay guaranteed a repeat the following year. The repeated observance earned attention in the naked newsletters and periodicals and also gained increased participation from other clothes free destinations and resorts. The popularity of the event soon led to the expansion from a single day activity into NationalNudeWeekend.
As many naturist/nudist destinations and resorts weren’t located with convenient access to a clothing optional aquatic facility, beach availability, it was soon recognized that an additional expansion of the theme was necessary. It was at this time that the scheduling of the occasion was moved from the month of August to the month of July and the Nude Recreation Week timeline was adapted.
The emergence and evolution of Nude Recreation Week did not reflect the growth of same gender loving community adherents to the body and clothes freedom movement. In the aftermath of the Stonewall Inn Riots (SIR), the entrenchment of homophobia within the movement often increased. It remains even today although less blatant than before.
Happy Nude Recreation Week to all!
Naked hugs!
Roger Poladopoulos/ReNude Pride
Author’s Note: The next post entry here is planned for Friday, July 12, 2024, and the proposed topic is: “Skinny-Dipping Day/Bare Practitioner’s Day!”
The glorious season of Summer deserves exceptional recognition for being the primary time of the year where an overwhelming majority of us bare practitioners relish in the almost unlimited freedom of our nakedness and our same gender loving status. ReNude Pride’s celebrity spokes-model, Phoenix Fellington, once again takes the featured role in demonstrating his acknowledged fondness for and preference for his unofficial official designation as our bare practitioner’sbarepractitioner! Confused? Don’t be! He’s hereto honoured as our bare beach soul – and not based exclusively because of his race. He’s my “soul” because he boldly and proudly poses all around without a thread of concealment over his body!
Whether he’s playing in the sand (view above) or being honoured in the foliage of the forest, his oft quoted remark, I love being naked, outside, in nature! is the summary of us nakednessenthusiasts no matter where we live or our skin colour! A man’s man and entertainer combined into one for us all to emulate!
Phoenix Fellington, the bare tree!
Phoenix, a former U.S. Marine, has the strength and, most importantly, the physique, to support a tree unaided by it’s natural trunk! And believe me, this is one active same gender loving (gay) porn-star who has the body to prove that fact!
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Juneteenth Celebration vigil!
Juneteenth Holiday!
The official name for this occasion is the Juneteenth National Independence Day and it is a national holiday in the USA. It is celebrated annually here on June 19, commemorating the official and formal emancipation from slavery in the USA. The name for this most recent holiday is a combination of the words “June” and “nineteenth” because it was on the date of June 19, 1865, when Major General Gordon Granger ordered the final enforcement of the Emancipation Proclamation in all of Texas at the end of the American Civil War.
The initial celebrations of this event began in 1866, originating in church sponsored community gatherings in Texas and throughout the south among liberated slaves often featuring a community food festival. With the Great Migration of African-Americans (descendants of slaves), these observances quickly spread throughout the country.
The day was recognized as a federal (national) holiday in 2021, when President Joseph Biden signed the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act into law. It was first observed as a federal holiday that same year. The protocol is in place when this holiday falls on a Saturday, the Friday before is the date of the observance. If the date is a Sunday, then the following Monday is the official holiday.
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Phoenix Fellington, picnic table invitational!
Summer Commences!
For this year, Summer, 2024, officially comes into existence on Thursday, June 20, 2024, at 4:51 p.m., (local time). The fun begins and lasts until September 22! For those of us living in the Northern Hemisphere, if you haven’t already done so, make the seasonal adjustments necessary to ensure a happy, safe and successful summertime of family, friends and fun!
This year is one of the times when the equinox doesn’t occur on the traditional date of June 21. However, June 21, 2024, does mark the first official full day of 2024’s summertime. Extra time for fun and play!
Summer splash!
Naked hugs!
Roger Poladopoulos/ReNude Pride
Author’s Note: The next post entry here is planned for Friday, June 21, 2024, and the proposed topic is: “Strip2Dip: Summer, 2024!”
Welcome to the end of the month of May, 2024, the final full month of Spring, 2024! The obvious benefit of the passing of this productive “natural growth” time is that the glorious Summer of 2024 is about to officially arrive here in the Northern Hemisphere! Our man featured above may indeed be “up against the wall” but he likewise loves his bottoms-up! freedom!
Log-jam bottoms-up!
Above, our man takes advantage of a log in nature to rest his weary but fit bottoms-up! anatomical asset while keeping all of us visiting his natural environment within his eyesight!
Rainy day game day together!
The couple above take a break from their “rainy-day” indoor game to exchange a kiss before resuming their play while enjoying being in the bottoms-up! gaming uniform – or total lack thereof! Way to go, guys!
Bottoms-up! catching a wave!
Our bare practitioner group above encourage us all to join in the bottoms-up! celebration and challenge the incoming surf as they unite together with their bare buttocks!
A furry bottoms-up invitation!
Bending over and inviting us all to lose the passive nature and become a bottoms-up! activist and show the rest of the world how much fun it really and truly is!
A communal bottoms-up! line up!
When the outdoor weather improves, everyone wants to get involved in freeing their buttocks for some bottoms-up! exhibitions!
Bare your buttocks and enjoy our bottoms-up! day!
Naked hugs!
Roger Poladopoulos/ReNude Pride
Author’s Note: The next post entry here is planned for tomorrow, June 1, 2024, and the proposed topic is: “Happy Pride Month!”
My spouse, Aaron, and I are eager for this three-day weekend to be finished. It isn’t one that we often get to enjoy as one of Aaron’s job responsibilities as a nursing supervisor is to ensure that there is sufficient coverage at all times. This particular holiday weekend is one of those times when practically everyone and their cousin want off from work, which ensures him of frequently having to engage in a double (back-to-back) shift in order for the hospital to provide necessary services for patients and their needs. One obvious result is that our holiday is a separate experience for us both: his is professional and mine is leisure.
One benefit this situation presents to us is that the hospital, once the holiday is over, must make certain that Aaron’s professional schedule is standard and not a burden. Because of the holiday imbalance, in just the three-day weekend he has met his necessary schedule and now has the remainder of this week free from obligation. When he leaves the hospital this afternoon, we’re off for a trip in his new automobile (purchased back in April) with no determined destination! A planned, spontaneous adventure with no agenda aside from relaxing together! We’ll drive around and visit the sights within the area, free from any obligation besides just being ourselves!
Happy Memorial Day!
In the USA today is the Memorial Day Monday holiday. The day set aside to honour and offer tribute to those who gave their lives in service to this country. By military protocols, the national flags fly at half-mast until noon as a reminder of those who sacrificed themselves. At the noon hour, the flags are then raised to the full-mast status for the remainder of the day.
President Biden will offer a floral wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia, as part of the national homage to all this nation’s war deceased. This ceremony happens very conveniently near our home and Aaron and I have attended the presentation during the Obama administration several times.
As Aaron is working today, if the weather cooperates, I may go to the ceremony today.
To all reading here and observing Memorial Day, have a happy and safe holiday!
Naked hugs!
Roger Poladopoulos/ReNude Pride
Author’s Note: The next post entry here is planned for Friday, May 31, 2024, and the proposed topic is: “Bottoms-Up! May, 2024!”
In the Northern Hemisphere, the 2024 Summer season is now almost here! A return to the frolicking antics of natural freedom with the cooperation of both the season and the outdoor weather! A time of year that, for the most part, delights and thrills the majority of bare practitioners and others who appreciate being nature while basking in nakedness! In the SOS! posting entry published here on ReNude Pride previously, in the USA this upcoming weekend is a three-day holiday. A great number of persons consider this to be the unofficial start of the eagerly anticipated summer season, This expectation and the dream of sunshine and warm weather affords many the opportunity for an aquatic adventure, with or without a swimsuit!
Skinny-dipping (swimming naked)!
This special time of the year is perceived by many as a time of “fun and games in the sun” even though the official beginning of Summer, 2024, is almost a full month away (21 June, 2024). For the majority of Northern Hemisphere residents, the month of May presents an extended period of temperature moderation and a sudden flux of the blossoming and blooming Spring growth season. The rising outdoor thermometers are accompanied by a noticeable decline in the amount of clothing required by the textile (garment wearing) population and the obvious growth of social nakedness among those of a less obsessed covering preference!
Summertime cookout!
This Monday holiday happening is the USA Memorial Day holiday, a date established to observe and offer tribute to all of those who gave their lives in the airbourne, military and naval service of this country. Official recognition is paid by the President laying a floral wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia, at the noon hour. The remainder of the day has become an unofficial celebration of the “arrival” of the summer with cookouts, neighborhood events, social gatherings and a growing exodus of the nation’s peoples in seeking the aquatic freedom (weather permitting)!
This has resulted in a growing conflict between those who demand a more respectful and solemn occasion of national homage to those who lost their lives and those more inclined to joyously welcome the rapid approach of the casual and relaxed seasonal atmosphere.
The obvious compromise is relatively simple to both sides of the conflict. This country should abandon the service aspect of this date and combine the memorial tribute with the historically accurate Armistice Day observance on 11 November, annually. This eliminates the disagreement between the “patriots” and the “casuals.” This would align the USA with the widespread global tradition of honouring those who were sacrificed in a more dignified tribute that is more readily accepted and understood.
Best wishes for a safe and happy holiday!
Naked hugs!
Roger Poladopoulos/ReNude Pride
Author’s Note: The next post entry here is planned for Monday, May 27, 2024, and the proposed topic is: “Bare Trip!”
Canada: 1st Saturday in June New Zealand: last Saturday in October
Background:
World Naked Gardening Day was originally designed as a day for the entire world to observe, however, in reality, globally that is impossible to accomplish. Weather and growing seasons vary not only by hemispheres (Northern and Southern) but also from region-to-region. More often than not, the growing season is even different within national boundaries as well. The current practice is to continue the single date observance in order to keep “world” as an honest part of the title and to respect every country’s claim to determine what date is appropriate for their nation.
The goal is to garden while enjoying nakedness – the actual date this is done is probably insignificant. More than likely, gardeners who are dedicated naturists/nudists perform the task more than once while clothes free anyway!
Our header photograph (above) shows us all the gardening promotion of an entire nursery (floral and plants)! This is very special as aside from designated nudist colonies, there is rarely any existing clothes free or clothes optional business or community thriving on our planet!
Sniffing the blooms!
WNGD is a recent addition to the listing of events primarily observed for serious adherents of nakedness. Many bare practitioners participate in this activity but it really isn’t promoted towards the GLBTQ+ culture; part of the homophobic retention from the days of the naturist/nudist past.
The very first WNGD took place on 10 September, 2005. The early festivities attracted media attention, especially in the then-popular television broadcasts and in the printed media publications (newspapers). The second observance of WNBR was held one year later on 9 September, 2006. After the second one, it was decided to change the set date to the spring flowering season corresponding to the Northern Hemisphere; the official date for the occurrence changed to the first Saturday in the month of May, annually. Since 2007, this is the official date.
In 2018, the New Zealand Naturist Foundation adopted the last Saturday in the month of October as a more conducive gardening date for the Southern Hemisphere. Canada is now transitioning to the first Saturday of the month of June, annually, as a more productive date and have the event now entitled as Naturist Canadian Gardening Day (NCGD).
The founders and organizers of WNGD assert and insist that “besidebeing liberating, nude gardening is second only to swimming as an activity people are most willing to consider doing when nude.” In the United Kingdom, naturists are officially encouraged to engage in clothes free gardening in sanctioned select public parks.
There exists a somewhat dated, volunteer maintained website for World Naked Gardening Day at:
My spouse, Aaron, and I host a WNGD social at our condominium on the actual date for several of our bare practitioner couples. We involve those who are very similar to us: with basically indoor plants and/or balcony growing flowers. Our space is limited and we’ve had some fun-filled plantings over the past. This year is the second hosting since the coronavirus COVID-19 compelled us to cancel our WNGD for a couple of years.
Aaron prepares a tasty brunch offering and we hang sheets over the railings of our balcony. The neighbors may enjoy a revealing “showing” of our bodies but that doesn’t promise that our guests are willing models! Our goal is to observe gardening day and extend the health of our houseplants, not to offer a anatomical lesson!
This year, Aaron and I are concentrating our attention on our flowering plantings that appear on our balcony – without the coverings! We have portulacas and geraniums that we want to place along the edges of the balcony that receives direct sunlight from morning through the early afternoon. Actually, one of our geraniums from last year survived the winter inside and is due for a change of potting.
Naked gardening!
Have a very happy and productive World Naked Gardening Day! May all of your plantings be blossoming and beautiful!
Naked hugs!
Roger Poladopoulos/ReNude Pride
Author’s Notes: The next post entry here is planned for Monday, May 6, 2024, and the proposed topic is: “World Naked Bike Ride!”
May the first; the very first day of the month of May, 2024! It is the only May Day that we will have this calendar year! In the Roman Catholic Church world, the entire month of May is in honour of the Virgin Mary (as shared by my spouse, Aaron)! Perhaps that was due in part because the Vatican, the headquarters of the church is located in Rome, Italy, which is situated in the Northern Hemisphere. Where the process season of Spring is underway. A time of rebirth and renewal.
Early in the twentieth century, the Bolsheviks took control of Russia and renamed it the Soviet Union. They held a major parade on this day promoting their communist ideology as the futuristic unity of the world. On this day their celebration featured weapons of their supposed military dominance over all the world.
A modern May dance!
The traditional May Day maypole dance has been revised and updated. The current rhythm is too energetic for today’s youth who were bored with the traditional ribbons wrapped around a maypole! We all need to stay in touch with what is popular now; too soon, even today’s choreography will become “old-school” and outdated!
A floral crown!
Same gender lovers (SGL) never had such good times as May Day traditionally involved the exchange of flowers as proof of affection and devotion between lovers and spouses. And a remarkable fact about May Day: clothing is not required! Happy days are finally here!
Floral headgear!
This bare practitioner is commemorating May Day in his glorious nakedness and with a festive floral wreath balanced on his head! Obviously, he’s well into the spirit of this wondrous day!
Flowers for you!
A May Day gift, especially for each one of you in appreciation for visiting here today!
Naked hugs!
Roger Poladopoulos/ReNude Pride
Author’s Note: The next post entry here is planned for Friday, May 3, 2024, and the proposed topic is: “World Naked Gardening Day!”
The western observance of Easter was on 31 March, 2024, and featured Easter egg-painted buttocks in honour of that occasion. Hence, a posting of Spring body painted buttocks for the ending of April! We can be inclusive here on ReNude Pride!
Welcoming bottoms-up!
With open arms and confidence our man above greets everyone to yet another publication of bottoms-up! here on ReNude Pride!
Lubrication application!
In the changing room of his fitness facility, our man above is serving a double purpose of lubricating himself after his shower and sharing his personal bottoms-up! anatomy!
Bottoms-up! indoors!
Oversleeping!
The couple above have mixed sleeping patterns. One is slumbering away while his partner is reading a newspaper: totally old-school!
Bottoms-up! skinny-dipping exit!
It is the time of year for us to attempt aquatic adventures! No better way than a bold skinny-dip (naked swim) to help bolster our circulation!
Bottoms-Up! for the month of April, 2024!
Naked hugs!
Roger Poladopoulos/ReNude Pride
Author’s Note: The next post entry here is planned for tomorrow, 1 May, 2024, and the proposed topic is: “May Day, 2024!”
No matter where we live, Northern Hemisphere or the Southern Hemisphere, April is always a month of transition from one season into the next. The exception being for those who reside in the Equatorial region – along the Equator, the dividing line between the two hemispheres – where the extremes of the two are less pronounced. Yet even along the Equator there exist differences not easily detected.
As routine as April may appear: anticipated, gradual, predictable, it simultaneously is also erratic, surprising and unique. One day may very well follow the previous but they can both be different, exceptional, exciting and inconsistent. Transitional? Yes, but hardly routine!
To enrich April experiences and to ensure our happiness and satisfaction with this particular month, an advisory reminder for all is offered below. A friendly message for fun and joy as we progress from one season into the next!
Let’s all strive to make this a momentous and special day, discarding our unfashionable and unnecessary fabrics and experiencing body and clothes freedom! It is early in this new month of April so many of us need to remain inside but still indulging in the festive merriment of the ending of our wintry hibernation is a worthy commemoration!
Our new season started on 19 March. We’ve already determined that April is the first entire month of Springtime, 2024. The time for rebirth and renewal is rapidly descending upon us! We can all rejoice and rejuvenate together as we march forward together in our nakedness!
There are no limitations and/or restrictions on what is allowed or permitted for this glorious occasion. Each person or persons decide the appropriate, best and convenient action to undertake. No effort is being judged and there are no maximum or minimum numbers of participants to involve. Everyone is free to choose works best for themselves!
Our goal or our mission is essentially to do something naked today. Of course, in order to do something naked, we must first and foremost be naked. In a sincere effort to make certain that all of us comprehend the guideline, a graphic chart is provided below. Under the chart, .gif images of how to become naked are published to ensure understanding.
Step-by-step graphic!
The doorway on our ability to be naked has now been opened for us all. The task itself is relatively simple. Now is the time to abandon our insecurity and/or our modesty and embrace the unlimited and unrestricted liberation our nakedness affords us! Practice makes perfect!
Fully clothed!
Removing is like dressing in reverse!
Eliminating our inhibitions and misgivings on finally acquiring the knowledge and the skills to enter into the world as a bare practitioner! A resource of hope and rejuvenation that is reliable for us all to enjoy throughout the world in which we live!
Implementing these fine talents that we’ve discovered and learned provide us choices and options to improve our daily lives. We can now determine the direction to proceed into in improving and rewarding not only ourselves but also those around us!
In satisfying our commitment to do something naked today, none of us are challenged or hindered by any predicament or situation. We can be home alone or involved with a group. There is no time restriction that must be followed. Clothes freedom for five minutes or for five hours isn’t a concern or issue. Without clothing, therefore bare, is our sole qualifying factor.
Something is inclusive. Anything is a possible accomplishment. Basically, walking as a bare practitioner from one room into another solves the necessity of do something naked today. Easy! Simple! Uncomplicated! Drink a glass or water or a can of soda – without wearing any type of clothing – and we’ve achieved our goal!
Walking from room to room!
Performing without clothing helps us in our self-acceptance of what and who we are as an individual. It also encourages us to become self-reliant and comfortable with ourselves and others. Doing something naked while alone permits us to relax when bare in the company of others.
Naked with a friend!
Social nakedness or social nudity allows us to interact together in ways that we might always normally pursue. It enables us to enjoy the time together and helps to raise our level of not only self-respect but of communal respect.
Brothers reading!
Doing something naked today can be with acquaintances, family, friends or even total strangers. Body and clothes freedom know no restrictions on who we may engage. Possibilities are endless on who may participate. Our nakedness helps to create our bare practitioner sociability!
Join in and do it now!
Have a wonderful time as we all plan to enjoy ourselves and do something naked today!
Naked hugs!
Roger Poladopoulos/ReNude Pride
Author’s Note: The next post entry here is planned for Monday, April 8, 2024, and the proposed topic is: “A-Months!”
ReNude Pride: Guys Without Boxers! 