Bottoms-Up! October, 2025!

A Happy Pumpkin!

In the USA, today is the Halloween, a secular observance that is popularly interpreted as a day to dress – or undress – in a disguise and threaten others through a custom known as “trick or treat.” If neighbours provide you with a treat (candy), you leave them alone (trick freedom)! This date is symbolised by a carved pumpkin. The above grinning pumpkin-face needs no additional description to reveal his place on the human body! Happy Halloween!

The above hiker is comfortable and out for a serious trip down his convenient trail in order to absorb some of the October sunshine! Buenos dias, senor!

The above gentleman is replacing the light as part of his ceiling fan. A very appropriate home improvement project for this bare practitioner to engage in on this bottoms-up! occasion! Nice job, man!

Baseball is a sport favoured outside during the springtime and summertime. Autumn is the season when the playoffs between competing professional teams usually occur. Our man above is already prepared to throw his first pitch for the bottoms-up! championship!

Warming his buttocks in the brilliant autumn sunshine. I hope you remembered to wear your sunscreen, my friend! Otherwise, you’ll be standing for 30days until the next bottoms-up! happens!

The above trio is offering a “buttocks line-up” as their salute to this October bottoms-up! commemoration!

Using his very own mirror reflection to capture his buttocks by way of his tribute to our bottoms-up! gallery! Thanks, man!

Naked hugs!

Roger Poladopoulos/ReNude Pride: Guys Without Boxers!

Author’s Note: The next post entry here is planned for Monday, November 3, 2025, and the proposed topic is: “Patience, Tolerance and Understanding!”

October’s Bright Blue Weather

A bare practitioner couple, a mountain view!

October’s Bright Blue Weather

A poem by Helen Hunt Jackson

O suns and skies and clouds of June,

and flowers of June together,

Ye cannot rival for one hour,

October’s bright blue weather.

When loud the bumble-bee makes haste,

belated, thriftless, vagrant.

And golden-rod is dying fast,

and lanes with grapes are fragrant.

When gentians roll their fringes tight

to save them for the morning,

And chestnuts fall from satin burrs,

without a sound of warning;

When on the ground red apples lie

in piles like jewels shining,

And redder still on old stone walls

are leaves of woodbine twining;

When all the lovely wayside things

their white-winged seeds are sowing,

And in the fields, still green and fair,

late aftermaths are growing.

When springs run low, and on the brooks,

in idle golden freighting,

Bright leaves sink noiseless in the hush

of woods, for winter waiting;

When comrades seek sweet country haunts,

by twos and threes together,

And count like misers, hour by hour,

October’s bright blue weather.

O suns and skies and flowers of June,

count all your boasts together,

Love loveth best of all the year

October’s bright blue weather.

********** The End **********

A tropical view of October’s Bright Blue Weather!

About the author:

Helen Hunt Jackson was born in Amherst, Massachusetts, on 15 October 1830 and died in San Francisco, California, on 12 August 1885. She was a U.S. poet and writer who became an activist for improved treatment of the Indigenous peoples by the USA national government.

Educational poetry:

My identical twin brother, Alex, and I were required to memorize the above poem in our 6th level class (primary) at the Virginia School for the Deaf and Blind. Our teacher, who was one of our all-time favourites, used poetry to improve our English writing skills as well as our general comprehension of the English language. With our school located in Virginia and this poem reflected landscape and wild natural growths common to Massachusetts.

Unfortunately, there were no American Sign Language (ASL) manual signs for almost all the items, therefore, we had to fingerspell manually virtually the entire poem. Alex loved the poem but resented the fingerspelling aspect. He still remembers his remark that he felt as a child in kindergarten learning the ABC’s because of all the fingerspelling involved. As this was our first poem to memorize, our teacher always inspected every other poetic assignment to make certain fingerspelling didn’t dominate the process again.

An October, riverside!

Enjoy your last week of October’s Bright Blue Weather!

Naked hugs!

Roger Poladopoulos/ReNude Pride: Guys Without Boxers!

Author’s Note: The next post entry here is planned for Friday, October 31, 2025, and the proposed topic is: “Bottoms-Up! October, 2025!”

Beach Memories!

Bottoms-up! view!

Overview:

A brief and happy reminder of the visual delight and joy that the now rapidly evaporating Summer of 2025 (for those of us living in the Northern Hemisphere) and a planning guide for our next summer season!

For those residing in the Southern Hemisphere, a brief view of the upcoming seasonal adventure along with some thoughts. Enhance your summer and enjoy your “natural” nakedness in the sand and surf!

A shoreline with incoming surf!
A bare embrace!

The above images of the Summer of 2025 were taken from the internet this very summer to illustrate the season of sun, surf and simple pleasure the beach brings to the majority of bare practitioners the world over! As a reminder that the concept of “summer fun” isn’t a recent phenomenon, other nostalgic pictures are offered below!

Many “fashionable” clothes-conscious people always seem to be completely baffled as to why there are those who enjoy and thrive in the act of skinny-dipping (swimming naked). It isn’t anything “new!” As a matter of fact, swimsuits didn’t actually appear until the reign of Queen Victoria in the 1800s! They gained popularity and became an aspect of “fashion” in the early 1900s. For centuries, humanity would engage in the sport of swimming in the same way they had for centuries – in their skin!

They may have segregated themselves by gender after various religions entered the picture but for the purpose of aquatic activity, covering wasn’t considered a necessity. Swimming was for fun and relaxation, not a showcase for fashion!

A couple of bare practitioners, early 1950s!
Sicilians, late 1800s!
Vulnerable feet!

Therefore, before we accuse, alienate and assign blame, we should remember a little of our history and remain calm. Accept what we are unable to change; after all, we are powerless to alter what has already happened.

Our bold spokesmodel, Phoenix Fellington, flaunts himself and the incoming surf!

Thoughts:

Those of us who are bare practitioner advocates and enthusiasts have often encountered situations where we were criticized for our memorable shoreline involvement. Too often we are confronted and judged by how we relate among ourselves and to how we react and recollect our “day at the beach!”

There exists within our broader society a common ideal that “patience is a virtue.” Similarly, tolerance is considered exemplary!

The same reminder is applicable to those who harshly degrade us because of our appreciation and preference for our nakedness! Their “flair for fashion” predilection is in no way superior to our status. All of us are equally entitled to our own expressions. If our choices aren’t identical and/or compatible, we should all respect one another and our differences and move forward together.

Our acceptance and recognition of what we share – the beach – is paramount. How we engage in it is relatively unimportant!

Tranquility!

Naked hugs!

Roger Poladopoulos/ReNude Pride: Guys Without Boxers!

Author’s Note: The next post entry here is planned for Friday, September 19, 2025, and the proposed topic is: “Bare/Dare Series, 2025! #3.”

August Play-Day, 2025!

Park entrance to “The Trails!”

Prologue:

August is here! The last full month of the summer of 2025! Honestly, it feels like it was only yesterday that I was busy making notes for postings of the rapidly approaching Pride Month (June, 2025)! In reality, not only are we beyond Pride Month, 2025; July has fallen past, too! Why do summers disappear so fast?

Play-Month:

Instead of referring to an “August Play-Day,” I should rename this post entry “August Play-Month!” As far back as I am able to remember, the month of August seemed synonymous as an entirely “fun” month, a totally “play-month” despite it also being the very final full month of summer. A season that has remained my favourite of the entire year. Those “jolly and joyous” days of summer!

A Trail to Hike:

The group of bare buttocks featured in the heading image (above) are in line to proceed on a hike along The Trail through a shaded and cool local public park. At this time, before beginning the hike, I should mention that this particular trail is special as it is completely “pesky insect free!” All mosquitoes, spiders and other bothersome insects (such as fleas, lyme, etc.) were evicted from this park site years ago!

Not a surprise, our trusted bare practitioner hike coordinator is none other than ReNude Pride: Guys Without Boxers! very own unofficial “official” celebrity spokes-model, Phoenix Fellington (born: Tre` Leron Fenderson)! He has both the ability and the devotion to nakedness to orchestrate all of us “out” of our clothes whenever and wherever he so desires! One of the many reasons Phoenix has a leadership role of all of us is because the “leads by example” (clothes free)!

Footnote #1: As our hike coordinator, Phoenix determined this photograph to be the first one depicted. “In line” (one behind the other) he wanted everyone to have a full preview of exactly “who could see what” while hiking!

Now, I realize that yesterday was Bottoms-Up! July, 2025! publishing day, so if any of you failed to recognize our spokes-model’s buttocks above, he’s the third set of buttocks from the right!

Footnote #2: More on Phoenix’s buttocks is offered below!

Return from Play-Day hike! Phoenix is 4th from right!

Our August Play-Day, 2025! hiking crew returned to the park trail entrance once the entire course was accomplished. No one looked exhausted or overly fatigued in any manner. Our excursion event for our August Play-Day, 2025! celebration was indeed an overwhelming success for all and also 100% body and clothes free!

The halfway cul-de-sac along The Trail!

We made it to the halfway point with everyone accounted for and intact. Our bare practitioner celebrity spokes-model, Phoenix Fellington, once again proved himself worthy of all of our trust in his leadership and true to his oft quoted philosophy:

“I love to be outside and naked with others!”

In the cul-de-sac photo (above) Phoenix is facing the photographer, second from the left! Halfway finished and still ahead!

Phoenix and His Buttock’s Poses!

The above .gif image depicts Phoenix modelling his buttocks while kneeling on a picnic table in the park. In an effort to avoid any additional confusion or mistake regarding Phoenix’s buttocks. This one shows him “in action” offering himself as a special “treat” to everyone surrounding the table! Excellent job, Phoenix Fellington!

Phoenix: same park, same picnic table!

Aaron, my spouse, located another “still” picture of Phoenix in now familiar neighbourhood! Obviously, he’s thrilled with the photo-shoot! Thanks for the picture, Aaron!

Naked hugs!

Roger Poladopoulos/ReNude Pride: Guys Without Boxers!

Author’s Note: The next post entry here is planned for Monday, August 4, 2025, and the proposed topic is: “Marvelous Monday: Skinny-Dipping, 2025!”

Excessive Evidence!

A visible tan-line around his waist and genitalia!

Background:

The prosecutor mounted the steps in order to address the Court. She immediately had everyone’s undivided attention…yet, she had not uttered one single word!

Excessive evidence! Extensive and extraordinary proof that a major and serious violation of the ancient and historical legal traditions had been ignored and repeatedly dismissed. Arbitrarily cast aside without remorse or shame! A complete disregard for our system of justice!

The crime? Tan-lines! The positive confirmation that the laws against the wearing of any type of swimsuit while in public had been deliberately and intentionally broken.

Tan-line from his briefs!

Among those of us who consider ourselves bare practitioners, there are an innumerable number of jokes regarding the appearance – existence – of the tan-lines and the reason they often re-appear, year after year!

A line-up of buttock tan-lines!

Bottoms-up! Buttocks lined up on a rooftop! Easy to see that all five of them have worn swim briefs more than they have skinny-dipped this year! Pass the word along, they need to double-time it in order to even up their tan-lines! Erase the evidence and there is no need for prosecution!

The Tan-Line:

Tan-Line: refers to the visually clear division on the skin between areas that have been darkened due to sun exposure and areas that remain pale (natural skin tone) due to being covered with minimal sun exposure (if any). Certain parts of the skin surface are covered while other areas are exposed to ultraviolet (UV) radiation through sunrays.

Leaf covering!

The appearance of tan-lines on human skin surfaces has existed since the species (humanity) began utilizing fig leaves (magnolia leaves, palm leaves or oak leaves; among possible others) to conceal gender defining anatomy. The absence of sun exposure darkening skin tone is indicative of covering (protection) from ultraviolet sunlight. This covering presents the contrasting skin tone that causes the tan-lines.

In today’s post entry, there are several references to the illegality of tan lines and the criminal status of those persons in possession of actual tan lines. Most of us are aware that in our clothing-dominated, fashion-conscious world, there is no existing sanction against tan-lines (although there probably are statutes against publicly displaying one’s tan-lines as that may involve public nudity)!

The referring of the illegality/legality of tan lines is alluding to the humourous nature that the condition affords both bare practitioners and the textile (clothes wearing). Both groups offer stereotypical humour as to the situation regarding tan-lines and those who have a different clothing routine.

A tan-line varies from swimsuit designs!

There is no set standard for the type of tan-line a person exhibits. The determining factor is the type of covering. The actual tan-line will reflect the style of the concealing garment.

Thong brief swimsuit!

If the same or similar style swimsuit is worn consistently, the tan-line will have little or no variation. If instead a variety of different style swimsuits are worn, then the tan-line will reflect the differences in varying degrees based on the frequency of the wearing.

Swimsuit minority!

If there is a minimal tan line discernible, then obviously there are opportunities for nakedness available, and the person takes advantage of those chances. It is also apparent that the person is knowledgeable about the use of sunscreen.

Visible tan-line!

A warning sign that accompanies the actual tan-line itself is the need for careful sunscreen monitoring. Too often, people who habitually wear clothing generally are the ones who forget the importance of sunscreen. One of the resulting serious conditions from the failure to use sunscreen is sunburn.

A severe sunburn on his back!

Sunburn:

Sunburn is caused by the sun’s ultraviolet (UV) radiation and not heat. Heat is produced from capillaries close to the skin surface, causing the affected areas to feel warm when touched. It is important to remember that skin can and will burn even on overcast or cloudy days, cold winter days and while under shade (shelter from direct sunlight). Sunburn damages or destroys the skin, which controls the amount of heat our body retains or releases, holds in fluids (hydration) and protects us from infection.

Reactions to sunburn range from mild irritation to serious and severe pain. Sunburn may cause fevers and nausea (depending on the severity of the burn) and makes the dead skin peel away. Sunburn may lead to serious health complications later in life.

Sun protective measures like the use of sunscreen and sun protective clothing are widely accepted to prevent sunburn and some types of skin cancers. Special populations, including children and the elderly, are especially susceptible to sunburn and protective measures should be engaged to prevent damage.

Unfortunately, a large number of people make choices that are harmful to their health. Ignoring the need for sunscreen protection is one of the primary messages that many people “conveniently” fail to remember. For whatever reason, they feel their tan-lines need little or no protection from UV radiation. This deliberate or undeliberate disregard for sunscreen often causes undue suffering and possible severe health issues in the future.

The importance of sunscreen is a fact that all of us are aware. It becomes an unpleasant chore that those of us who know the benefits have to continually remind others of the need for sunscreen.

Tan-lines and sunburn aren’t the only two conditions that remind all of us of the need to regard our physical well-being during the summertime. Another factor that many people manage to forget is our need for hydration!

An empty glass: liquid consumed!

Hydration:

Maintaining our hydration (body moisture level) is another critical summer issue that often is overlooked or intentionally ignored. Yes, liquid beverages are very popular during this season of the year, but water is the most essential liquid that needs consumption. Other beverages, juices, soft drinks, alcohol, etc., are welcome but none of them can replace the vital role that water has in keeping our organs and systems functioning and sustaining life.

The increase in activity during the summer season increases our perspiration rate which depletes our water level. Regular indulgence in the drinking of water enhances our seasonal pleasures and social experiences.

Naked hugs!

Roger Poladopoulos/ReNude Pride: Guys Without Boxers

Author’s Note: The next post entry here is planned for Monday, July 21, 2025, and the proposed topic is: “Bare/Dare Series!”

Nude Recreation Week #2!

Anyone care to pose, bare?

Recreation means a countless number of activities, concepts, and ideas to an equally unlimited number of people. We all have our own set of favorite activities to engage our leisure (free, unstructured) time. Rarely are our lists of choices identical, and once undertaken, the number of favored pastimes usually expands. Invariably, a majority of us somehow “forget” how much we enjoyed cleaning closets of clutter or painting our bodies!

The title of this particular week within our bare practitioner community and culture absolutely does not restrict our experiencing leisure/recreation solely to this one week annually. Hopefully and ideally, all of us are able to participate in, at least, one fun and relaxing activity on a daily basis!

Alternate Title:

ARO: Assorted Recreation Opportunities!

A time for all of us to take a chance to enjoy one aspect we all share as bare practitioners, the removal of all of our clothing! As we savor in our nakedness, let us all preview here the pleasures we adore while recreating our body and clothes freedom!

7 – 13 July, 2025!

Some of us prefer the solitude of being nude!

Naked in the sand!

A solo beach excursion!

Reading selections!

An ample supply of books!

A special “treat!”

Ice cream and other choice desserts!

A road trip!

Driving to a preferred location!

A flight on a nakation!

A nakation is naked + vacation!

Others of us prefer the community of our solidarity of our unity through social nudity!

Gaming together!

Our competitive nature!

A dancing engagement!

Drifting in movement!

Encouraging him to get bare, too!

Many of us enjoy the camaraderie of ourselves and others!

Playing games naked!

Engaging in games with our friends offers both fun and relief!

Hiking nude along a park trail!

As bare practitioners, we often use the opportunities presented to us through social nudity to build a bond that lasts beyond the need for clothes!

Equal opportunity for all!

Our relaxation and satisfaction that we attain through experiencing and enjoying social nakedness and leisure recreation events is not restricted to simply one short week during the month of July. We should all strive to participate as often as possible!

Naked hugs!

Roger Poladopoulos/ReNude Pride: Guys Without Boxers!

Author’s Note: The next post entry here is planned for Monday, July 14, 2025, and the proposed topic is: “Bare Practitioner’s Day/Gay Nudist Day!”

Skinny-dipping (swimming naked)!

2025 Date: Saturday, 12 July

Nude Recreation Week #1!

Racing into the ocean to skinny-dip!

Introduction:

The purpose of this post entry here on ReNude Pride: Guys Without Boxers! is to provide the history leading into the celebration of National Nude Recreation Week.

This week-long festival of body and clothes freedom recreational (leisure) activities is jointly co-sponsored annually by the American Association of Nude Recreation (AANR) and The Naturist Society (TNS). As summer is the “season-in-the-sun,” it is only logical (natural) that two major naturist/nudist advisory organizations proclaim and promote an event in honour of clean, healthy bare (nude) living. The recent tendency over the last several years is to observe this occasion the week following the 4 July holiday.

Celebrate the occasion naked!

National Nude Recreation Week involves an emphasis on the numerous activities, leisure services, and pastimes, both active and passive, that people may engage in or undertake while clothes free. In essence, almost 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. We do that quite frequently!

The race to the beach!

The history of National Nude Recreation Week is recent with the earliest documented date of 7 August, 1976, as being Nude Beach Day. It was first observed at Truro Beach in southern California and at the Head of the Meadow Beach in Cape Cod, Massachusetts.

The Nude Beach Day was continued at the same locations and by the end of the 1970s decade, it soon expanded into the National Nude Weekend in order to expand the time of the clothes free event. As many traditional naturist/nudist camps, resorts and other facilities weren’t located with access to a clothing optional beach it soon became apparent that another name change and another expansion of the theme was necessary.

A memorable Nude Recreation Week!

Many existing clothes free businesses, facilities and properties were first-hand witnesses to the rapidly growing numbers of people now taking advantage of the weekend event. They sought to grow their own markets by affiliating with the already established destinations. This new interest helped the popularity of the event to grow even more and added additional incentives for development and growth.

In the early 1980s, the weekend then evolved into the current event known as National Nude Recreation Week. This extended time period encouraged even more people to explore social nudity and to try new opportunities.

Expand horizons!

Author’s Advisory:

Rest assured that even without an “officially” declared National Nude Recreation Week, the ever-resourceful bare practitioner community and culture would need no excuse to strip out of clothes and stroll about in proud nakedness. After all, our nudity is firmly implanted in our DNA! Besides, none of us would ever want to change!

Strolling together!

Naked hugs!

Roger Poladopoulos/ReNude Pride: Guys Without Boxers!

Author’s Note: The next post entry here is planned for Friday, July 11, 2025, and the proposed topic is: “Nude Recreation Week #2!”

Bottoms-Up! June, 2025!

A park bench full of bottoms-up!

It is obvious that our bare practitioner community and culture isn’t the only organization observing June as a month of Pride! This rainbow coloured park bench is indicative that this same distinction is shared by this local recreation and parks agency also! This rainbow park bench serves as a reminder to us all that celebrating Pride is not limited solely to the month of June nor just to the GLBTQ+ population!

Even in a shallow water level, relaxing while enjoying nakedness is still considered the all-time favourite aquatic activity known as skinny-dipping (swimming naked)!

A bottoms-up! hairy pair of buttocks is all that’s necessary to mark the closure of Pride Month, 2025!

A serious yet solemn stare as he provides a full viewing of his very personal contribution in commemoration of this Bottoms-Up! June, 2025!

Aquatics Bottoms-Up! celebrating Pride Month, 2025! in a very fun inspired posing while taking a dive into the neighbourhood pool skinny-dipping (swimming naked)! Seasonally appropriate, comfortably cooling and very inviting!

The bromantic (brother + romantic) bare practitioner strolling duo: same-gender loving (SGL) and nakedness enthusiasts bottoms-up! at a clothing-optional resort.

Their bare practitioner relationship is apparent and obvious to all as is their bottoms-up! appreciation and comfort! Free from any evidence of embarrassment, guilt or shame! Proud to be what and who they are all year long!

A graphic adaptation of an original artwork by the late gay artist, Keith Haring, who died from complications with AIDS.

Naked hugs!

Roger Peterson-Poladopoulos/ReNude Pride: Guys Without Boxers!

Author’s Note: The next post entry here is planned for tomorrow, Tuesday, July 1, 2025, and the proposed topic is: “Canada Day, 2025!”

Summer, 2025!

My season arrives!

Summer, 2025, is here at last! Make every moment count in fun and in memory!

Enough sand, surf and sun for everyone!

This season won’t last forever! Enjoy it while we all can!

True! Summer comes once every year. A time to slower our pace in life and to savor and appreciate the beauty of our environment and of the joy and fulfillment of our family and friends! Relax and bask in sunshine as well as the freedom of outdoors – natural in our body and without the burden of clothes!

Rejuvenate and renude (renew) ourselves so this special season of “fun-in-the-sun” lasts us until it returns next year as the Summer, 2026!

A good book in the sun!

An important reminder: responsible alcohol consumption, sunglasses and sunscreen!

Skinny-dipping antics!

Guidelines for water safety urge all of us, no matter our aquatic abilities and skills, to always enter the water in the company of others in order to reduce chances of emergencies.

Enjoying a fun day at the beach, embracing the freedom of summer. Our site’s spokesmodel, film actor Phoenix Fellington!

Our very own official unofficial (unpaid) spokesmodel, adult film actor Phoenix Fellington, endorses our safety reminders and reiterates his pleasure in being naked while in a natural environment!

Happy Summer, 2025!

Naked hugs!

Roger Poladopoulos/ReNude Pride: Guys Without Boxers!

Author’s Note: The next post entry here is planned for Monday, June 23, 2025, and the proposed topic is: “Stonewall Today!”

WNGD!

Indoor plant garden!

WORLD NAKED GARDENING DAY!

Saturday, 3 May, 2025

This is observed annually on the very first Saturday of the month of May. It was first celebrated in 2005 on 10 September and the following year on 9 September, 2006. After the second event, it was decided to change the date to the month of May. The first Saturday of the month was determined to be the best time for gardening.

Since the beginning, it has always been identified as World Naked Gardening Day – a simple and self-explanatory title. Now, it has evolved to International World Naked Gardening Day. Redundant? Yes! Necessary? No!

Aaron, my spouse, and I have hosted a WNGD “planting” for indoor houseplants in our condominium since we began living together. We didn’t hold them during the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic and resumed in 2023. Initially, we invited acquaintances and friends, and our small condo unit would be quite congested. Since the coronavirus concerns, we now only ask a few other bare practitioner couples to join us. Aaron serves as chef, and I take responsibility for cleaning afterwards.

Indoor gardening!

World Naked Gardening Day maintains a website and the link is:

world naked gardening day

Visit the site for additional information on World Naked Gardening Day. When I was composing this post entry, the site the last update as being 2017. The webpage does contain links to other naked gardening applications.

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The Evolution of a Bare Gardener!

Based on the poem: “Seasonal Interchange” by Michael Aitkin, World Naked Gardening Day webpage.

In Winter, when the trees are bare,

We mortals don our winter wear.

In Spring, when trees begin to dress,

We mortals then start wearing less,

Until, for some, with Summer’s heat

The role reversal is complete.

Happy World Naked Gardening Day!

Naked hugs!

Roger Poladopoulos/ReNude Pride: Guys Without Boxers!

Author’s Note: The next post entry here is planned for Monday, May 5, 2025, and the proposed topic is: “Mayhem!”