April Appraisal!

Bare staging!

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!”

Bottoms-Up! Bare Practitioner History Month!

Halloween painted buttocks!

The “header” above is published in honour of today as the Halloween observance! Have a happy and safe Halloween to everyone!

Happy Bare Practitioner History Month! Bottoms-up legacy!

The above image is offered in honour of this being the very last day of 2023 Bare Practitioner History Month! Celebrating both our community and our culture and all of us being ourselves!

Since February, 2023, followers and readers of ReNude Pride were invited to submit images of their very own Bottoms-Up! in order to give themselves the historic significance that they so rightly deserve!

Anonymity was promised and below are the photographs sent to me. Happy Bottoms-Up! everyone!

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Bottoms-Up! Legends!

In the above .gif image, please lip-read my “thank you” to the above for sending in their Bottoms-Up! pictures!

Naked hugs!

Roger Poladopoulos/ReNude Pride

Author’s Note: The next post entry here is planned for Friday, November 3, 2023, and the proposed topic is: “Unlearn It!”

Purple: Spirit Day!

Purple Spirit Day!

Purple: Spirit Day is officially observed on the third Thursday of October, annually. This posting entry is offered in anticipation of the official observance!

On the Progress Rainbow Pride flag, the colour of purple at the bottom of the original rainbow field of six stripes represents the ideal of spirit. The colour also denotes pride and is considered a calming colour. It also connects us to the spiritual realm. For a great many of us, this is symbolic of our reflective nature and signifies the soul of the GLBTQ+ quest for our equality and freedom. In the United Kingdom and throughout the Commonwealth, purple is a royal colour and often is representative of the Crown.

Purple: Spirit Day is an annual anti-bullying, anti-coercion date that is held during National Bullying Prevention Month. It is particularly focused combatting damaging or threatening behaviour based on a person’s perceived or real same gender loving status. The Stonewall Inn Riots (SIR) of 1969 and the National Coming Out Day observance that commenced on October 11, 1988, reduced the suicide rate among the GLBTQ+ community and culture but it was never completely eradicated as a cause, even with the millennial transition.

A significant increase in GLBTQ+-related suicides committed not only raised the awareness of this problem within our community and culture but also in the minds of the general public. Clearly, more attention and efforts were necessary.

The commemoration of Purple: Spirit Day began on October 20, 2010, at the advocacy and inspiration of one Canadian teenager on her FaceBook social media. It is an awareness day of recent development in response to a USA suicide that gained international attention. On September 22, 2010, eighteen year old student Tyler Clementi, of Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA, jumped to his death from the George Washington Bridge over the Hudson River. On September 19, Tyler’s roommate, Dharen Ravi, had posted to his Twitter social media account a clip showing Tyler kissing another man and announced to all his followers that he is gay. All of this was done without the permission of Tyler or his encounter partner.

Purple: Spirit Day!

The resulting media explosion that followed the suicide led Brittany McMillan, a secondary school student in Canada to respond to her conscience and launch the Purple: Spirit Day campaign on her own. The concept was undertaken by the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) who immediately assumed sponsorship after consulting with Brittany.

Promoted by GLAAD, participants wear the colour purple as a visible sign of awareness and support for GLBTQ+ young people and opposition to bullying (for whatever reason) in general. It is also a gesture in tribute to all GLBTQ+ victims of suicide.

Cartoon in support of GLBTQ+ Purple: Spirit Day!

The very first Purple: Spirit Day was held on Wednesday, October 20, 2010. Later observances were on Thursday, October 20, 2011, and on Friday, October 20, 2012. After that time, GLAAD enacted the official date of the third Thursday in October as the annual occasion.

For those persons restricted by requirements of uniform, a purple awareness ribbon may be worn to show agreement with the cause. If a pre-printed purple ribbon isn’t immediately available, a plain one suffices. Use a regular safety pin to attach the ribbon to your collar or shirt.

I remember the very first Purple: Spirit Day. Aaron, my spouse and I were simply living together at the time, and there wasn’t much notice given in advance of the first occasion. We decided to make purple ribbons to distribute on our jobsites promoting the cause and spent the night before staying up late to create the awareness tokens. We assorted 150 ribbons for each of our jobs. By mid-morning the next day, we exchanged emails and we had both given out of ribbons!

Supporting Purple: Spirit Day!

For bare practitioners the event may be signified by painting a purple ribbon on the left side of the chest. It is important to promote attention to this worthy cause!

For additional information on Purple: Spirit Day! please click onto the link below:

Purple: Spirit Day

Naked hugs!

Roger Poladopoulos/ReNude Pride

Author’s Note: The next post entry here is planned for Friday, October 20, 2023, and the proposed topic is: “A Brief Synopsis!”

My Apology!

So very sorry!

I humbly apologize for the unannounced delay in posting entries here for a full week. I was given an “extra” assignment for my job that was both unannounced and completely unexpected. I have fulfilled the duty and am now prepared to resume my regular posts here on ReNude Pride. I hope that I haven’t disappointed everyone! More details later.

Naked hugs!

Roger Poladopoulos/ReNude Pride

Author’s Note: The next post entry here is planned for tomorrow, Saturday, September 30, 2023, and the proposed topic is: “Bottoms-Up! September, 2023”

August Fun: A Photo-Essay!

Skinny-dipping!

There are many fellow bare practitioners (same gender loving naturists/nudists) who relish the summer months, especially the final full month of summertime: August. Back when the days of the season were free from school, it was the “last chance” for carefree antics and spontaneous play. The 31 days of August encouraged all of us to fill every moment with enough fun and good times to last until the next summer arrived, almost a full year away!

Within two decades, a majority of primary and secondary academic calendars have adopted a year-around approach to education and summers are no longer a universal break in the scholastic routine. The recent COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic contributed to this situation. The almost three complete months of summer holiday may now be a memory from the past, but the legends of the extended vacation from knowledge and responsibility will last for years yet to come.

This posting is intended to provide a recall moment in time for many of us to ponder the days of freedom, fun and August laughter. Good times are rarely forgotten!

August theme: Get naked!

One of the infamous advantages of the month of August in the Northern Hemisphere is the ability to strip off our clothes, no matter if we’re inside or outside! Clothes freedom often created an ideal environment for unlimited adventure and excitement! There is absolutely no need to “cover-up” all the fun!

Roger and Darren!

Darren and I have been friends for years. We’re both Deaf, gay and share a preference for being proponents of the bare practitioner lifestyle. When we initially met one another, we found ourselves severely limited in building acquaintanceship with others at a clothes-free riverside park in central Virginia – our mutual home state.

Kalvin, a new and friendly acquaintance!

Darren and I first met Kalvin when we arrived back at our usual hang-out along the riverside. It only took minutes for him to show us that he understood American Sign Language (ASL). Of course, friendship happened almost instantaneously! It was fortunate that the three of us were there simultaneously!

Kalvin and I: fun pose!

Kalvin had no problems relating to Darren and I and enjoyed a similar sense of humour. We all exchanged email addresses and numbers for texting. He also relieved Darren the burden of being the “odd man out” as Aaron (my current spouse) and I were seriously becoming a definite couple by the time we all met.

Kalvin and Darren!

That particular August, we gained a certain amount of infamy from other regulars at our SGL (same gender loving) area of the riverside beach. As the month progressed, other folks soon recognized “our space” and our style of communication (manual language) and respected the fact that our interaction depended on eye contact as opposed to strictly hearing.

Adimu and Roger!

Both Aaron and Kalvin heard conversations from our SGL river neighbours that let them know that our crowd involved persons who were either Deaf and/or hard-of-hearing. They also relayed that ASL was understood and used as our primary communication tool. Other SGL Deaf men soon happened upon us and joined in our fun!

Adimu and Roger: again!

The weeks of August passed and our somewhat limited bare practitioner Deaf gang grew as we met more people who welcomed not only our shared communication ability but also our inclusive nature. In relating to some of our newer acquaintances, not all of the riverside people were favourable to our presence but were grateful to have a resource to refer others.

Aaron, my spouse!

Through all this August Fun, Aaron had his own special type of fun behind his camera lens! I’ve frequently published here of his preference for being the photographer instead of posing for pictures. However, that didn’t ban others from grabbing the camera and capturing him unaware! Notation: This image was not my undertaking!

The bare truth!

Not only is socializing friendlier when clothes free, but socializing is much easier when nude!

Naked hugs!

Roger Poladopoulos/ReNude Pride

Author’s Note: The next post entry here is planned for Friday, August 25, 2023, and the proposed topic is: “Summer Chuckles!”

Precious Memories!

What makes me laugh? Laughter is the best medicine. But it’s something we -including myself take for granted. I love to laugh. I love a good joke. I believe I have a dark sense of humor and nothing to me like stand up. Dice Clay, Chris Rock, Margaret Cho, Carol Burnett are some of my […]

Precious Memories — CROSSING THE STYX

Re-bloggers Note: I strongly encourage all of my readers to seriously consider to follow my “blogging brother and buddy” site here! The next scheduled post entry for my site is planned for Wednesday, May 31, 2013, and the proposed topic is: “Bottoms-Up! May, 2013!”

Bottoms-Up! End of April, 2023!

Bottoms-Up! Refrigerator!

No matter what the time of year, a good snack appeals to most of us! And there is no better place to search for one than our refrigerator! A nutritious and tasty treat offers us energy to parade our bare buttocks all day long!

Lounging away!

During the “transition seasons,” the Autumn and the Spring, many of us find the need to lounge and to conserve energies for the major seasons, Summer and Winter. There’s nothing wrong with allowing our bottoms to prepare for being up!

Bottoms-Up! Natural lounging!

Those of us who live near the Equator have the distinct ability to chill and relax in the bottoms-up! tradition practically all year long!

Benefits of group tanning!

An advantage of unseasonably warm weather is the freedom to go outside and absorb the sunshine and the comfortable temperatures – all while working on tanning our skin!

Floral highlights!

The growth of flowers allows us to adorn and decorate ourselves in a festive manner while being completely bottoms-up!

Fitness!

Early in the season is a great time to use exercise to tone-up our appearance when we appear bottoms-up!

Naked hugs!

Roger Poladopoulos/ReNude Pride

Author’s Note: The next post entry here is planned for Monday, May 1, 2023, and the proposed topic is: “May Day!”

Heart of a Man. — CROSSING THE STYX

Heart of a Lion Mosy in bed Being a nomad in this no man’s land isn’t always death, despair and sorrow. It also has treasures, and magical life changing encounters. That’s exactly how I’d describe my encounter with Mosy. As it turned out, we were both most battered and wounded. We immediately became each other’s […]

Heart of a Man. — CROSSING THE STYX

Author’s Note: The next post entry here is planned for Sunday, April 30, 2023, and the proposed topic is: “Bottoms-Up! April, 2023!”

Notation: I really was inspired by this posting by my fellow bare practitioner. blogging buddy and friend, Rohan, the Nubian-Ikigai! If not already, follow his site for future postings of insight and delight! Naked hugs!

April’s Fools!

An angry April fool!

April Fool’s Day, 2023, delayed due to author’s absent mindedness!

Take-A-Peek!

Nipple exposure!

This particular April Fool is exposing his nipple for all to see. Or, at least, hopefully can see. He’s “pumped” his muscles, but…

Nipple modesty?

Someone should remind him that simply undoing a few buttons doesn’t grant him automatic maximum exposure!

Fondling!

He’ll enjoy the fondling experience better if he removes his clothing entirely! A bare body is a terrible physique to waste! Happy belated April’s Fool!

Exposure!

Removing!

This man knows all-too-well that he’s got the torso to impress, however, he seems to forget that to impress we must be appealing!

Primed!

In order to convey his appeal, a smile works just as good as flexing his muscles!

Flexing!

In order to get the attention he feels he deserves, modelling his muscles is fine but without a smile, it is largely ignored!

Frustration!

With no admiring attention, acting like a primary school student isn’t the way to achieve his goal. A “dude-with-attitude” is no way to have his admirers!

Naked hugs!

Roger Poladopoulos/ReNude Pride

Author’s Note: The next post entry here is planned for Monday, April 24, 2023, and the proposed topic is: “Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day!”

Friday Footnote: Strip and Throw!

Friday Footnote!

Hopefully, a few laughs to welcome the first official weekend of the Spring, 2023, season! Best wishes to everyone for a very enjoyable, safe and pleasant weekend! Perhaps you can make undressing (removing) clothing into a game, too!

Stripping Game #1

Acquaintances sometimes ask my spouse, Aaron, and I what do you guys do when you’re at home and naked? Well, we do have certain games that we play together.

Stripping Game #2

One is a useful routine where we alternately become comfortable by stripping off our clothing and tossing the discarded garment to one another.

Stripping Game #3

It really is totally in fun and does make baring ourselves enjoyable and relaxing!

Stripping Game #4

A word of caution: removing the belt before tossing your pants is highly recommended!

Stripping Game #5

Of course, on occasions we have engaged in a race as to which one of us can “out-strip” the other!

Stripping Game #6

I’m certain that everyone can imagine a few other enlightened activities to attempt while striving to become completely free of the clothing dilemma!

An ideal finale to any clothes removal!

Get creative and enjoy your own bare competitions! Perhaps we can introduce a new category into the next summer Olympiad!

Naked hugs!

Roger Poladopoulos/ReNude Pride

Author’s Note: The next post entry here is planned for tomorrow, Saturday, March 25, 2023, and the proposed topic is: “Hellenic Revival!”