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!
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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 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!
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!”
“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.
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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!”
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.
Felipe Ferreira: early nude pose and “Pride” tattoo!
The above photograph is one of the earlier bare published poses of Brazilian-born fashion model, DJ and SGL adult film industry performer (porn star), Felipe Ferreira! My spouse, Aaron, brought this to my attention when he first encountered it back in 2018. This was when Felipe initially began appearing in the USA modelling men’s athleticwear, swimwear and underwear styles.
What caught our immediate attention was the modesty he implied using his right hand all while boldly revealing his “pride” tattoo at the base of his neck! A typical “mixed message” pose that enhanced his growing career here in the USA!
In sportswear: jock-strap!
While focusing primarily on his modeling career – and his sense of wearing what he considers fashion – Felipe carefully “bares-his-buttocks” in twirling in his jock-strap! He also very subtly gives us a quick glimpse of his bare buttocks – an ideal bottoms-up! pose!
Felipe: pride in purple briefs!
He adjusts himself in his briefs and shares his pride in being same gender loving (SGL) or gay without mentioning his personal comfort in his nakedness! Instead, we are able to access photographs of his bare body without actually seeing anything below his waist safe for his buttocks!
Felipe’s comfort in posing as a member of the community and culture of a bare practitioner increases as he began working and posing with the SGL film-great, Rhyheim Shabazz who rapidly aligned with the rising celebrity and carefully encouraged his foray into publicly posing as an openly gay man and his growing affinity with those of us who are confident and proud of our nakedness!
Soon, under Rhyheim’s guidance and patience, Felipe grew in acknowledging and posing bare with subtle hints of his pubic hair and his appearing in a film with Rhyheim as his naked lover.
This film offering proved successful and both men, Rhyheim and Felipe, receiving attention and positive commendations on their cooperative efforts. In the above image, their foreplay reminds all of us that they’re both comfortable being bare together and in front of a camera!
Finally, Felipe Ferreira, comfortable posing with his full frontal nakedness! He took his time, becoming himself and willing to share what and who he really is with not only his loyal fans, but fellow bare practitioners as well as the general public! We can also attribute his accomplishing this task with the patience of his guide, Rhyheim Shabazz!
A very proud, open and amazing bare practitioner, DJ, model and gay adult film star, Brazil’s dynamic export, Felipe Ferreira, gaming away as the man he meant to be!
Naked hugs!
Roger Poladopoulos/ReNude Pride: Guys Without Boxers!
Author’s Note: The next post entry here is planned for Friday, June 12, 2026, and the proposed topic is: “We Dip Our Skin!”
Splashman!
Running to see Felipe completely bare and to be prompt for skinny-dipping!
Every year, during the month of our GLBTQ+ Pride, the age-old debate/discussion persists: do we need to continue to observe pride? For appearances sake, some want to honestly engage in an examination of the necessity of retaining the preservation of our pride designation. Others see us as having outlived the need for that distinction. Aaron, my spouse and I both cast our votes in the yes! determination on this question!
The primary reason for our affirmation of keeping pride alive is that the need to celebrate us being ourselves is just as important and imperative today as it was in 1970 during the first anniversary of the Stonewall Inn riots (SIR). Case in point: the trumpster-dumpsters are continuing their assault on our community and culture and ourselves on a variety issues, notably the transgender concerns, identities and recognition. They are so biased and foolish that they fail to comprehend that their obsession with transgender is exactly what is underscoring the vitality of this situation!
The not-so-subtle attacks on the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark rendering in favour of marriage equality is now underway, again under the endorsement and patronage of the trumpster-dumpster imbeciles. As the GLBTQ+ communities and culture, we need to remain vigilant in preparing for defending our equality and our inalienable rights. We cannot allow the resurrection of a Jim Crow Part 2 in which all advancements are frozen in a “separate but unequal” status!
Into this foray is one basic reality for the continuance of our pride commemorations. Many of our community and culture exist in an isolated environment regardless of social media and online accessibility. If even one of those persons benefits from a pride encounter and/or experience, then an enthusiastic and overwhelming yes in answer to the question of the need of pride in our community, our pride in our culture and our pride in ourselves for being what and who we are!
If our retention of pride helps to prevent just one suicide from depression over feelings of being alone and/or totally misunderstood, then definitely keep pride alive! If our retention of pride helps two persons reunite and renew their friendship, mutual support and relationship – bromantic or platonic – then keep pride alive!
The above are not the sole justifications for pride preservation in our GLBTQ+ communities and culture. Out festivities offer us all the convenience and opportunity to network together. To reignite our acquaintances with others and to remind ourselves of services and situations that can reward and strengthen our cultural exchanges and enhance our lives.
Our involvement and participation in pride functions affords us prospects of development and growth in both our personal and professional lives. We stay aware, informed and introduced to exciting and refreshing concepts, ideas and plans that enliven and enrich our own lives and what we share with others.
In remaining active in pride events, we expand our familiarity of issues, persons and topics that embrace, enhance and impact us personally but also us being members of a variety of communities, cultures and groups. Our knowledge of people and resources is invaluable in sharing!
Additionally, there are the usual arguments for keeping pride alive. Foremost among those is the opportunity to enable us all to remain current on issues that we share as a community and as a culture. This allows us to explore the options available to us and to discuss the solutions with those whom we otherwise may not have the chance to consult.
Another advantage the interaction within our community and culture with cohorts we normally have no contact. We can renew acquaintances and/or encounter new persons. This permits us to expand and explore as well as socialize others outside our usual crowd and to stay abreast of new and exciting interests and issues.
Hopefully and ideally, it makes no difference how we define, identify or label ourselves – bisexual, gay, lesbian, normal, queer+, “real,” transgender – there exists within all of us an element of belief, confidence, pride and stamina in being the individual person that we indeed are. That we appreciate and understand that throughout this global “home” we all share that there maybe (possibly) lives another similar being who perhaps benefits from the nature (sense) of community and culture inspired through a celebration of our being what and who we really are – us!
This chance (enablement, opportunity) is sometimes worth all the effort (involvement) necessary to afford and offer this person the reason to continue living another day! Keep Pride Alive!
“Our pride in being bare practitioners (same gender loving nudists) extends beyond the month of June of every year. It’s an ongoing process that reaffirms our self-worth all year.”
“This development of 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 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 or values they hold, should be our guide. Our pride in ourselves includes 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 ~ ReNude Pride: Guys Without Boxers! 1 June 2017
Naked hugs!
Roger Poladopoulos/ReNude Pride: Guys Without Boxers!
Author’s Note: The next post entry here is planned for Monday, June 8, 2026, and the proposed topic is: “Bare-Volution: Bare Celebrity Series #9!”
June: Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer+ Pride Month!
June is Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer + (GLBTQ+) Pride Month!
The Stonewall Inn Riots (SIR) happened on the early morning of 28 June 1968. In honour of that occasion, seen by multitudes of people throughout the world as the inauguration of the gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and queer + (GLBTQ+) equality movement, the month of June receives the attention of being GLBTQ+ Pride Month! Of course, we all know that our pride extends to everyday throughout the entire year! It is not limited to just one brief month in every year!
Rainbow Pride Flag!
The original Rainbow Pride Flag was inaugurated in 1978 for the San Francisco, California, USA, Freedom Day commemoration of the anniversary of SIR. The emblems were added to signify same gender love (SGL)! Yes, our flag-bearer is completely boxer-free nakedness!
The above image was the initial flag display header for our early post entries here on ReNude Pride: Guys Without Boxers! Before then, I also used the picture for my original Guy Without Boxers blog.
Progress Pride Rainbow Flag!
The Progress Pride Rainbow flag is now the current emblem for our GLBTQ+ community and culture’s global campaign for universal acceptance, equality, recognition and respect. It includes the rainbow design of our original pride flag plus the addition of the arrow to designate progress necessary to complete the inclusivity of both our community and our culture!
GLBTQ+ Pride Month 2026 is a time for us all to join in and celebrate and congregate each one of us being the basic person that we truly are! Of our community and culture being an open reflection of us and our institutions and our interests. Of our acceptance, our challenges and our joy!
Yet within this time of celebration and festivities, there are some extremely alarming realities that we are facing. These concerns and issues are in small doses now, but the potential for future expansion is very present and tangible.
The transgender community – especially the vulnerable youth – are under attack from those who seek to erase their very existence. Recently, the U.S. House of Representatives barely enacted a delay on voting on H.R.2616: a ban on schools nationally from teaching about gender identity, using correct names and pronouns, having reference materials representing transgender persons and acknowledging an individual’s transgender status and even their existence.
This conflict happened this year. In this, the halls of the U.S. Congress. The so-called “land of the free!” All courtesy of the fierce determination of the supposedly “elected” trumpster-dumpster!
The value of GLBTQ+ Pride 2026 is on the horizon and has yet to be fully realized. This is a mid-term congressional election year in the USA and the future of our freedoms is being severely tested.
There have been supposed basics of our democracy that we have been taught not to challenge or to interrogate. Yet the time is upon us now that these clauses no longer hold true or are valid. Institutions built when women couldn’t vote, when Black people were enslaved, when GLBTQ+ people didn’t legally and socially exist at all and social exclusion was theoretically baked into the very foundation of our laws and values.
If we are dedicated and serious in maintaining a democratic system that represents the dignity and will of all the people, then the time to evaluate and examine as to the structure of that system is now upon us.
Perhaps it is time to eliminate the electoral college?
Perhaps it is time to set term limits on the Supreme Court?
Perhaps it is time to rid politicians of corruption and greed?
We, the GLBTQ+ community and culture need to resolve to forge with other groups and organizations to unite and let the entire world know that not all of us residing in this country are blind followers of bigotry, greed and ignorance!
Happy Pride Month, 2026!
Naked hugs!
Roger Poladopoulos/ReNude Pride: Guys Without Boxers!
Author’s Note: The next post entry here is planned for Friday, June 5, 2026, and the proposed topic is: “Keep Pride Alive!”
Here on ReNude Pride: Guys Without Boxers! my spouse, Aaron and I are doubling our 2026 Pride Month commemorations! We’re honouring our pride in ourselves during the entire month of June and July!
June:
The primary focus and theme is on gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and queer+ (GLBTQ+) issues. Of course, clothing remains an option and we both encourage nakedness at every opportunity.
July:
The primary focus and theme is on bare (clothes freedom) especially as it concerns our GLBTQ+ community and culture!
Result: two months of social pride all in one summer!
Remove those boxers and start the party now!
Happy Pride 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 tomorrow, Monday, June 1, 2026, and the proposed topic is: “Pride Month, 2026!”
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