Richard Foley (richinud)

There are a great many people who have considered being naked in a public context, but shy away from the idea. Much as there another number who have never even

You’d think that people with a common interest, such as naturism, naked cycle rides, naked hiking, naked protests, and the like, would be able to support one another’s endeavours and

Why, oh why, are there so few women on naturist websites? Is it because there are so many men on naturist websites, that the women all run away? Might it

According to BN magazine, a new naked hiking trail has been officially opened in Switzerland. In the very same country where a specific county banned naked hiking several years ago.

Fake profiles are the bane of any decent website, forum or social media network. There are various tools which can be used to help identify likely fakes. Chief amongst these

What people often mean by "compromise", is that the offended party requires whoever they find offensive to conform to the expectations of the offended party. There is no expectation that

Respect is a two-way process. The mistake many people make is of trying to make "respect" mean "do what I say". There is a difference.

Nudists will always be a scorned minority because they/we are simply incapable of working together towards a common goal: mainstream and social acceptance of the naked human body. Whenever any

No freedom has ever been freely given, freedoms have always been taken. The people who pioneer the new, (because not "normal"), views are inevitably regarded as extremists. Today, we bow

Nudists and naturists often complain that they are misunderstood by the world at large, by mainstream society. On many mainstream social networking sites, such as Facebook, nudity is banned unless

Open letter to Yvonne in reply to her blog, http://www.freedomfieldsnaturistranch.com/feedom_fields_naturist_ranch_blog_page.html I will reply just the once. That your photo was attached to my shared blog post on to FB. was

We hear a lot about sexual harassment of women. There is also sexual harassment going on towards men, believe it or not. I've been at the sharp end of homosexual

Thank you for writing. I agree that fanning the fire serves no purpose. What happened recently was, I feel, avoidable and has several sources, and those of us who are

I was accused recently of being an anti-gay dictator, on the Naktiv site, and I’m very tired of this inane charge so perhaps I need to explain this in short

People often arrive at a nudist-friendly website, such as Naktiv, skim read and agree with the mission-statement, want to share their own content, and then get upset that other people

Melvin's photo and comment thread inspired me to recall this story of our own http://www.naktiv.net/photo/7975/013-mel-440-500_510-a/albumid_976/ We lived in a very out of the way farmhouse, with no mains facilities at

The Naktiv site has a gender imbalance, (approx. 85% male, 10% female, 5% other), which might reflect all sorts of societal issues to do with nudity, but also online interaction

Ask not: "what can the Naktiv site do for me?". Ask instead: "what can I do for the Naktiv site?" What is your motivation in coming to the Naktiv site?

the Naktiv site (Naked Online OK) is the social network for naked people to discuss nude issues, post naked content, and generally annoy all the clothed people with fun posts.

I made a comment recently about how “the staid traditional club nudist venue is expiring”. I’d like to clarify that this was not intended to be especially negative towards clubs

This is an open letter in reply to Simon Bre concerning a recent thread on whether the Naktiv site is homophobic or NOT. I am unable to properly reply to

There are different ways to get what you want. One of the most insidious is using emotional blackmail, and it's ilk. At it's simplest, the tactic consists of saying: "if