Category: nude encouragement

A Sublime Rhyme!

Gio Dell: skinny-dipping!

My Naked Life

I am naked and I am me.

I am the man I want to be.

When I am naked, I am nude,

living life with a positive attitude.

When I am nude, I am also proud,

Whether alone or among a crowd.

When I am naked, I am nude,

living life with a positive attitude.

When I am nude, I am living free,

I know that clothes are not for me.

When I am naked, I am nude,

living life with a positive attitude.

When I am nude, I clear my mind,

Gone are the clothes that hide and bind.

When I am naked, I am nude,

living life with a positive attitude.

Roger Poladopoulos

5 July 2011

Swimming naked skyline!

A body and clothes freedom day near the end of the month of July. Because of the warmth of the season, it is also an ideal time of the year for swimming naked – skinny-dipping! Of course, few of us bare practitioners need temperature and weather conditions to determine our aquatic attire (if any)! The majority of us automatically adhere to the “without” option regardless of environmental conditions!

My spouse, Aaron, and I are avid and enthusiastic skinny-dippers no matter what the weather situation may be. Swimming naked involves getting wet, so the rain is no problem as water is already delivering wetness! A little more or a little less makes no difference to us!

Our preference is to skinny-dip, as often as possible together or in the company of other bare practitioner couples. There is one new trend that we’re noticing more often now, a combination of “mixed-couples” (one skinny-dipping and the other clothed). Perhaps the adage is true: opposites attract!

Aaron wonders how they cope with socially nude situations. Is one bare and one fully dressed, or do they seek a compromise, both half-dressed? It potentially poses somewhat of a dilemma, but does anyone keep a scorecard? Now that my curiosity is aroused I admit to wanting to know the results!

At functions and gatherings where clothing is optional, a mixed-couple would not offer any type of conflict or confusion. They would blend with any other variation of the assorted guests. In situations where a strict bare or clothed policy exists, the issue surfaces. Compliance with the rule likely ensures that at least one of the partners will be offended, uncomfortable and probably unwelcome.

A strictly “stay-at-home” couple does not a very happy couple create! Explore options and proceed with caution!

Naked hugs!

Roger Poladopoulos/ReNude Pride: Guys Without Boxers!

Original!

Author’s Note: The next post entry here is planned for Thursday, July 30, 2026, and the proposed topic is: “A Penny For My Thoughts!”

Our Bad!

Jogging to collect all the cash for my thoughts!

A Mid-Summer Dream!

Introduction:

Welcome to Dream Lake! An aquatic destination where harmony prevails! Patience, tolerance and understanding are daily routines adhered to by all inhabitants! Happiness and hope are guaranteed to all with an embrace of tranquility.

Assist and Help are the chief residents of Dream Lake. They are your guides on today’s visit here. Above, Help supports Assist as he floats on his back! Please enjoy your tour!

Assist demonstrates the willingness the people here offer for the good of all. Dream Lakers treat everyone equally, fairly and respectfully. Age makes no difference and old and young alike are courteous. They are attentive to every detail imaginable! Assist greets you and Help affords a secondary shadow for all!

Dream Lake’s friendliness is mirrored by Assist and Help. Often times, both are available in the event that both are needed to combine efforts and provide necessary services for all to share.

The spirit of cooperation is a benefit that Help and Assist afford to all persons. There is no task too great that care and concern are unable to overcome. Working together, they enable success to spread to all!

Careful examination of different solution possibilities allows them time to consider options and resources beyond what is readily available. Sometimes, this thinking process opens a new path that expands directions and provides opportunities!

Assist and Help are confident in their communication strengths. Through their experience in working towards sustaining an ideal and positive atmosphere, they have forged mutual bonds of accountability and dependability.

They have an extraordinary sense of trust in their obligation towards one another as individuals and as a team. They both know of their sincere and truthful natures in dealing with special and unique situations.

Assist and Help appreciate and understand the importance of reliability in supporting one another and their community. They are consistent and effective in their exchanges and suggestions for alternate responses.

They strive to present an example of equality and shared responsibility to all they serve. There is no discrepancy in their roles and obligations. They respect each other and everyone they serve.

Assist and Help are very secure in the knowledge that what they have and what they share is not only the strength of the sanctity of their relationship but also the strength of exactly what is real and valid in life!

Reality:

It is hoped that this fantasy is understood to be the reality that what this society truly needs is more of assist and help and less of what is unfortunately too prevalent today! The loss of caring, decency, honesty and integrity from our souls has unleashed a surrender to corruption, deceit, dishonesty, greed and obsession that now encompasses daily life. Gone are any sense of fairness, generosity and value.

As a people and as a society, hope, trust and virtue need to be restored. Else, the decline from justice and mediation will win. The lack of compassion and mercy will enslave us all. This indeed rests with us as there is no inspiration from our totally disreputable political lacklusters!

Naked hugs!

Roger Poladopoulos/ReNude Pride: Guys Without Boxers!

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Author’s Note: The next post entry here is planned for Friday, July 24, 2026, and the proposed topic is: “Bare Celebrity Series #10!”

Strippers!

Getting bare to enjoy the freedom and the surf!

July 14: Bare Practitioner’s Day!

Tomorrow, July 14, annually:

BARE PRACTITIONER’S DAY!

Our same gender loving (SGL) nakedness commemoration celebration occasion!

Our very own day for us all to engage and to enjoy the ability to be the person that we really and truly are: us naturally being us!

As bare practitioners, we openly acknowledge our gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and queer + sexuality (GLBTQ+) and our comfort and preference for our nakedness (body and clothes freedom). There is no need to conceal nor deny these aspects of our personality. These two qualities define us as well as our community and our culture. We are confident and proud of both what and who we really and truly are!

One question frequently asked of us is what characteristic did you determine first, your sexuality or your nakedness? The truth is that there is no standard formula for self-identification. The proverbial “if A followed by B then C happens” varies among each one of us. Some of us understood our sexuality before appreciating our nakedness. For an equal number of us, the opposite is reality. Basically, our bare practitioner status is individually determined through appreciation and awareness and not by a set formula or pattern.

It is our own personal acceptance, appreciation and awareness of these aspects of ourselves that empower and enable us to determine our identification as bare practitioners. We are our own individual “deciding authority!”

Back in January 2017, when Aaron, my spouse, and I initiated ReNude Pride: Guys Without Boxers!, there existed an unofficial holiday, “World Nudist Day” – otherwise known as “World Naturist Day.” Aside from knowing that the designation existed, I was unaware of any designed or impromptu observance ever happening. It was almost as though no one wanted to openly admit to actually being a naturist, nudist or clothes freedom enthusiast.

Even though in the USA marriage equality was now legally and officially the “law of the land,” there remained opposition to that reality which resulted to continued bias and marginalization of the SGL population. There was obviously a shortage of widespread equality and respect for SGL people as well.

This absence of equality and respect from the general population was accentuated by the same from the naturist/nudist community. The homophobia present from that culture was and remains very confusing and unsettling to a majority of bare practitioners even today and causes friction and tensions that often hinder cooperation and unity.

For many, this is the major reason for the frequent determination of “SGL beaches” at destinations featuring clothing optional designation. This segregation is preferred over a general “inclusion” into a population that is judgmental and unfriendly. As proven time and time again, people – regardless of their clothing status and/or sexual orientation – prefer being with people they perceive as most similar to themselves.

For those of us who have to professionally interact with numerous individuals far removed from our social preferences, such as Aaron and I, whenever we have the chance, we voluntarily congregate with “our” kind instead of mingling with a general crowd. Sometimes the escape from the ordinary is a welcome relief and definitely fun!

“Heat wave” relief!

“Truth is, most of us contain a splashing, giggling, squealing child inside us who knows without thinking that bare skin and water go together as wings go with air, roots with earth and the phoenix with the incendiary sun.” ~ Unknown ~

Aquatic antics!

“Being a bare practitioner in no way adequately defines us yet it indeed is a fun way to accurately describe us!” ~ Roger Poladopoulos ~

One reason for bare practitioners making the best of friends is that the absence of clothing (concealment) enables people to become honest and sincere as they lack the tools to disguise (clothing). What naked friends see – a natural body – is the reality of friendship: bare with pride and nothing to hide!

Have a happy Bare Practitioner’s Day! 14 July 2026

Naked hugs!

Roger Poladopoulos/ReNude Pride: Guys Without Boxers!

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Author’s Note: The next post entry here is planned for Friday, July 17, 2026, and the topic is: “July Pride, 2026!”

Francois!

Competent and confident bare practitioner Francois Sagat!

Nude Pride!

Photo-Essay: Nude Pride!

Yours truly, with pride!
Obviously!

Just as his message proclaims to everyone around, he’s proud of his same gender loving nakedness and as a confident bare practitioner he is willing to share himself with others!

Arrival!
Relaxed!

No matter where we are, during the summertime, nature and our nakedness remain constant and compatible. A most definite “winning combination!”

Rooftop and preoccupied!

Welcoming the surf to the shore in the most natural way: clothes free!

Welcoming together!
Seasonal confidence!

Bare and without a single care as to what others may judge or think!

Bare expression!

For an overwhelming majority of us, being a bare practitioner is a choice that we freely make…

Desire to become bare!

whether we are alone or in the company of our companions and friends!

Bare camaraderie!

As bare practitioners, we do not intend to offend, we just want to be ourselves!

Our pride in being bare practitioners (SGL naturists/nudists) extends beyond the month of June every year. It’s an ongoing process that re-affirms our fulfillment and self-worth throughout the entire year.

“Our sense of confidence in ourselves doesn’t bestow on any of us the right of arrogance and/or the right of judgment. we, of all people, know better than to make that assumption. Most of us have been the target of judgmental and prejudicial behaviour (or worse) in our own lives and know, first-hand, how that makes people feel. Patience and tolerance of others, regardless of the beliefs and values they hold, should be our guide. Our pride in ourselves includes our pride in our actions towards others.

Being confident and proud of ourselves involves respecting the rights of others in allowing them to be proud of themselves, too. Our freedom should not entail denying the same to anyone else.” ~ Roger Poladopoulos ~ 1 June 2017

Naked Truth!

And we cordially invite you to join with us whenever possible!

Naked hugs!

Roger Poladopoulos/ReNude Pride: Guys Without Boxers!

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Author’s Note: The next post entry here is planned for Monday, July 13, 2026, and the proposed topic is: “Bare Practitioner’s Day!”

Our Bad!

I’m jogging to show my naked pride!

Nude Recreation Week, 2026!

NUDE RECREATION WEEK 2026

6 – 12 July 2026

“Only one week without clothes? Let’s stay naked the entire month and party-hearty!”

Our celebrity spokes-model, Phoenix Fellington!

Our very own, ReNude Pride: Guys Without Boxers! official, unofficial spokes-model, Phoenix Fellington, proudly poses in his glorious nakedness (above image)!

“I want to waste as little time as possible wearing clothes or trying to hide my body!” ~ Phoenix Fellington ~ spokes-model and gay pornography actor

This week-long festival of body and clothes freedom recreational (fun) activities is jointly cosponsored 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 present an event in honour of clean, healthy naked living. The recent tendency over the last several years is to observe this occasion after the USA’s 4 July holiday (USA Day).

Recreation (simple explanation) is any undertaking we engage for enjoyment, fun, improvement, relaxation and/or socialization. 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 clothes free. In essence, identical to what can be enjoyed when wearing garments. This isn’t to imply this special week is the only time we bare our bodies for fun and games. As bare practitioners, we all do that quite frequently!

This observance is a fairly recent event with the earliest documented date being 7 August 1976 as Nude Beach Day. It was first held at Truro Beach in southern California and at the Head of the Meadow Beach in Cape Cod, Massachusetts. It continued at these two locations as a single day cause for several years and eventually expanded into National Nude Weekend and added additional beaches to the locations.

As many nudist resorts weren’t located with access to a clothing optional beach, it soon became apparent that a name change and another theme was necessary. This resulted into what we know and celebrate as Nude Recreation Week.

Many clothes free destinations and resorts, looking for expansion of their financial options, now sought affiliation with the Nude Recreation Week observance. This opened the door to growth and popularity as the public no longer were as judgmental against clothes freedom as they once were.

As the public acceptance of clothing optional facilities increased, the commercial and membership restrictions against same gender loving (SGL) people remained deeply within the opinions and policies of the mainstream naturist/nudist societies. Homophobia and exclusionist policies remained in place and the largely growing SGL community of nudists took their cash elsewhere.

This resulted in the emergence of convenient, modern and new facilities that catered to the needs of the SGL community. The older and restrictive facilities soon began to notice a decrease in business and in finances. Initially, they refused to alter their policies and procedures while watching their numbers decrease and customers complain. Gradually, some of the more progressive establishments reversed and welcomed SGL customers and members.

Unfortunately, even to this day, there remains some bias within our body and clothes freedom world. As this is now the 21st century, the days of separation should be deep into the past for all of us.

Reading and writing!

Footnote:

In 2019, the American Association for Nude Recreation (AANR) designated the second Saturday of July as International Skinny Dip Day. Personal experience for both Aaron, my spouse, and I as well as documented confusion over the meaning of skinny dip offer some hesitation as to the acceptance and annual observance of this event.

Logo for the first observance!

Naked hugs!

Roger Poladopoulos/ReNude Pride: Guys Without Boxers!

Author’s Note: The next post entry here is planned for Friday, July 10, 2026, and the proposed topic is: “Nude Pride!”

USA Day! July 4!

This year marks the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence! Happy USA Day to all! Remember to vote for change and hope in November, 2026, so that we can enjoy another 250 years!

Naked hugs!

Roger Poladopoulos/ReNude Pride: Guys Without Boxers!

Author’s Note: The next post entry here is planned for Monday, July 6, 2026, and the proposed topic is: “Nude Recreation Week, 2026!”

Our Bad!

Jogging forward to Nude Recreation Week!

Canada Day!

Canada Day: Proud pose!

HAPPY CANADA DAY!

King Charles III addressing Parliament in 2025!

This kilted couple guarding the border to prevent the illegal entry of any trumpster-dumpsters into Canadian soil!

Happy Canada Day! Enjoy your felon-free environment!

Naked hugs!

Roger Poladopoulos/ReNude Pride: Guys Without Boxers!

Author’s Note: The next post entry here is planned for Friday, July 3, 2026, and the proposed topic is: “USA Day!”

Our Bad!

Jogging north to Canada!

Bottoms-Up! June, 2026!

Bottoms-Up! on a rainbow park bench!

To be sure, there are numerous pairs of buttocks that earn “pride.” However, at this moment, this is the only image I have of one resting on a park bench – publicly! Obviously, he’s very proud of his buttocks as he rests on a bench decorated in a rainbow flag (GLBTQ+) pride design!

Balanced bottoms-up!

Our muscled man (above) confidently balances his bottoms-up pose while carefully posing along a very comfortable sandy shore!

Beached!

“The line-up starts here!” as these friends embrace to share their pride together for posterity!

His buddies encourage his demonstrating his personal pride as well as his cooperative buttocks!

Encouraging him to bare with pride!

Exposing is his destiny!

Sunbathing preparation!

Our celebrity buddy Daymin Voss is very comfortable and relaxed presenting his bottoms-up! view for all to admire!

Enticing hygiene all over his rear!

Naked hugs!

Roger Poladopoulos/ReNude Pride: Guys Without Boxers!

Author’s Note: The next post entry here is planned for tomorrow, July 1, 2026, and the proposed topic is: “Canada Day!”

Strippers!

Briefs off, bottoms-up! freedom!

HIV Testing Day!

NATIONAL HIV TESTING DAY (NHTD) IS SATURDAY, 27 JUNE 2026!

Prologue:

National HIV Testing Day (NHTD) was first observed in the USA on 27 June 1995. This was during the height of the global HIV/AIDS pandemic and all around the world, national, provincial, regional and state and local health agencies were frantically considering methods to try to reduce the international transmission (spreading) of this often fatal communicable disease. This observation was designed to encourage all persons to get tested for HIV, know their status and to seek appropriate care and treatment.

Reality:

HIV – human immunodeficiency virus – is the virus that causes AIDS – acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. AIDS is a direct result of HIV infection.

This is a basic fact known to humankind, with the probable exception of the current felonious and idiotic president of the usa – intentional usage of all lower case letters – proof positive that I can be just as pretentious as he is!

Our community and culture – same gender loving (SGL) – remain among the primary groups of people impacted by HIV. We have never been the sole recipients of infection with this condition but we are considered a “target audience.”

The Naked Truth:

Medicine and science have evolved since the onset of HIV/AIDS in the early 1980s. The sexual transmission of the disease is no longer considered the death threat it once was. Knowledge is indeed power! Knowing one’s HIV status and following treatment protocols provides us the gift of living life and enjoying ourselves! Take charge and take control! Have fun!

Naked hugs!

Roger Poladopoulos/ReNude Pride: Guys Without Boxers!

Author’s Note: The next post entry here is planned for Friday, June 26, 2026, and the proposed topic is: “SIR! Behold 57!”

Strippers!

Skinny-dipping (swimming naked) is for everyone!

We Dip Our Skin!

The above graphic was shared with me by Aaron, my spouse, when we first began publishing ReNude Pride: Guys Without Boxers! in 2017. It depicts a man swimming with his swim briefs/underwear briefs held high above his head – and confidently displaying his hairy armpits! Need I note anything else?

Skinny-dipping:

A once popular colloquial American term referencing simply the act (art) of swimming naked. The only equipment (supply) needed is a source of water and clothes to discord (strip off). The expression (idea) was very popular throughout the rural American south: the former Confederacy. Perhaps the origin of the phrase is the skin (bare body) immersing (dipping) into the water.

Remember: the swimsuit (garment) for men and women didn’t become a fashion choice until the reign of Queen Victoria in the middle 1800s. Prior to that time, practically all recreational (leisure) swimming was always nude, although often segregated by gender.

Skinny-dipping can either be a planned event, such as a fund raiser for a charitable cause, a social gathering, a special occasion, etc. It also may be spontaneous – a spur-of-the-moment decision by a few that rapidly is engaged in by many. Often, it is just done solo – alone – either for comfort or relaxation.

The increasing acceptance of skinny-dipping/swimming naked is due to the rise in public acknowledgement of clothing optional and/or naturist/nudist destinations and resorts in general.

There are a number of new or remodelled facilities that offer facilities with specifically designated areas for textile oriented as well as for natural oriented guests.

In catering to both types of audiences, these facilities are broadening their base of consumer operations as well as expanding their margins of profitability.

There is no established process or standard for skinny-dipping. The procedure is based on each individual or situation specifically.

Primarily it is determined personally by individual according to their own comfort level removing their swimwear.

Clothing optional swimming occurs in all types of water, man-made or natural. For the majority, it is basically based on availability and precisely the level of heat!

In classic American literature, Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain) popularized swimming naked (skinny-dipping) in his highly successful and notorious classics, The Adventure of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. These two characters inspired American youth to swim without clothing as often as possible – despite the emerging trend of wearing a swimsuit!

There is no mandatory procedure for water entry while skinny-dipping. The approach to swimming naked and the actual entry into the body of water is entirely up to each individual. Everyone follows their own level of comfort. Of course, peer pressure – the urgings of comrades and friends – also serves as a determining factor.

The same conditions apply to the strategy for exiting from the aquatic adventure. There are no established protocols so everyone leaves according to their own comfort and style.

Whatever works best for each skinny-dipper (naked swimmer) is good! The important accomplishment is to be safe and to have fun! A happy skinny-dipper is a repeat skinny-dipper!

Below is an important sentiment to keep in mind while enjoying swimming naked. The experience can be relaxing and rewarding for everyone involved. However, we should all keep in mind that for some people, swimming naked can be a very stressful and/or uncomfortable situation. Support all in their quest to enjoy their summer experiences!

Naked hugs!

Roger Poladopoulos/ReNude Pride: Guys Without Boxers!

Author’s Note: The next post entry here is planned for Friday, June 19, 2026, and the proposed topic is: “Juneteenth!”

Francois!

There is no posting planned for Monday, June 15, 2026.