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Absolute Naturists Benefits of The Non-Landed Nudist Club
| What benefits, if any, can nudists be provided by the Non-Landed Nudist Club structure? Many times here on AN we hear complaints about nudist clubs being to far away or to expensive. So I wanted to open a discussion about often smaller more local non-landed or travel nudist clubs. How do they or could they fit in world? Have you ever thought about starting one? Your thoughts please... For clarification, Non-Landed is a term used to describe a nudist club that dosen't have a permanent location. They are also referred to as "travel clubs" because their activities involve traveling, even if it is just to the other side of town. | |
| The only two I'm in any way familiar with are Travelites in SC and Indiana Naturists, although I know there are many others. Both are AANR clubs. Both offer group trips to local landed clubs but a huge part of both is year round social gatherings at member's homes. To me that's as valid a type of "social nudism" as visiting a landed club. A group of nudists can have just as much fun in a member's private back yard pool as anywhere else. I'm considering joining Indiana Naturists even though I live in Michigan. | |
| The benefits of the Non-Landed Nudist Clubs: Social gatherings with other nudists when a landed club is too far away, great way to have spontaneous gatherings with other nudists nearby, great way for home nudists to venture into the social setting and environment of nudism on a more intimate level, great way to visit landed clubs when the landed clubs policies prohibit you from visiting on your own, great way to get involved in the nudist movement by participating in non-landed club community and political functions and events... There's several! LOL | |
| They may be less expensive to start and maintain financially, but I spend over 20 hours a week taking care of Travelites, the club I founded in 1987. My husband once took note of that. When I slack off, our membership declines. I very much appreciate our members and give out tokens of appreciation from time to time such as club towels with embroidered names or lately, glass 20 oz. beer mugs. At most of the gatherings that have themes, I hand out small plush souvenirs of the event, i.e, Halloween had small black cats with different colored feet. It's as much work as a landed club but it doesn't have the public acreage. | |
| I would consider starting a non landed club IF I had the property to do so. Where I wanted to live and where we actually live are quite different. My wife prefers the tract home setting while I like a much more rural setting. She wants new...I don't mind...used! She likes lots of neighbors...I like my neighbors to have to drive over to see me! Funny though...she's not the social one...so why do we have to have so many neighbors! LOL In a couple years or more...our landscaping will be at a height where guests would feel absolutely comfortable walking all over our backyard. Currently it is not and even though I'm comfortable back there, I'm certain many others would not. It would be great to start a non landed club out here because I know we're not the only nudists out in this area and would love to have more friends/aquaintances closer to us. It might give some of those on the fence a chance to stick a toe in the water before taking the plunge at a beach or club. I personally think that the beach is the right place to start but for some...that is scary and a more intimate venue is easier. | |
| The most critical part of a non-landed club is the leadership. As Cheri said, and as I have experienced from our non-landed club, without the constant activity by the leader... member activity drops off. Something to think about if you want to start a non-landed club. Oh yeah, one more thing, you are probably not going to get monetarily wealthy from all the work you have to do. There are other payoffs though... | |
| I don't know if you can make ANY money off nudists! LOL If you could break...even...is a stretch. You never get re-embursed for your time...even at minimum wage! LOL The only reason I'd start a non landed club is to gather all the "lost" souls in the area that have no other place to go. Somewhere in there...there are some good friends and good memories to latch on to. ;) | |
| As one of the leaders of the largest non-landed clubs in our area, the Southern California Naturist Association, I’d like to echo many of the points made. From a prospective member’s standpoint, a non-landed club usually is: 1)Cheaper than a landed club 2)For many, closer than a landed club 3)Offers a smaller, more accessible environment for entry into social nudism for first-timers 4)Depending on how it’s organized, as in our case, offers a safer, more protective environment than any beach, or even landed club. 5)When traveling to local resorts as a group, restrictions on single members are usually waived, and whether at a beach, or resort, the group acts as a safe haven for those more socially inhibited. 6)Offers the possibility that you may meet the best friend you never knew you had. From a leader’s/organizer’s standpoint: 1)It’s much more work than you think. 2)Finding new party houses, or member’s willing to host a party, is a constant challenge. 3)You will make very little money, and in many cases will be lucky to break even. 4)You need to tap into your member’s volunteerism/participation as much as possible to avoid burnout. 5)If your organization also pursues avenues of activism and education, like ours, all of the above is magnified. 6)Also, due to all of the above, you must do this as a labor of love, and because you strongly believe that everyone should have the opportunity to enjoy social naturism as much as you do. | |
| My town doesn't have anything like that here. it needs some real bad. I live in West Plains Missouri the nearest nudist clubs. are up around St.Louis. if any of you would like to help set up a club here. | |
| Oh...a topic I missed... I think the greatest benefit of the non-landed club - and I think it's been brought up - is the support network it provides. This might not be a big deal if you're an experienced or solo nudist; but it can make a huge difference to someone with social anxieties or a reluctant spouse. When I took my then-reluctant spouse to a non-landed get-together, she was none too happy about it. She'd been nude at the resort before, but "on the far end of the pool", so to speak. She didn't like the idea of nudity in some stranger's home, with other nude strangers within a range that made avoidance an impossibility. She had brought her sarong and had no intention of parting with it. But what happened after she got there was tranformational. She met nudist women, not just in passing like at the resort, but much more personally. She got to know them. And as she found out about them she started opening herself more. She was wearing a sarong, she shared the reason why - her hang-ups about social nudity and body acceptance issues. The other women adressed her issues - from women's perspectives - and she received feedback and encouragement that shifted her own perspective. And her change of perspective was radical. She did a complete 180 on social nudity, becoming interested in engaging other nudists in conversation and social activities, and having no hang-ups about being nude the entire time. I've told the story before of how, that very night, I barely spoke to her bcause she was busy running in and out of the house, surprisingly comfortable nude, bringing and returning dishes, refilling cups, joking with the guests and totally giddy about it. Two years of me being understanding and sympathetic barely got her out to the resort - and nude only now and gain. Two hours with these women and she's miss nude congeniality "I don't know where I put my sarong, I guess I'll stay nude until we get back to the car!" Go figure! LOL!! She even had the opportunity to "pay it forward", with a teary-eyed fully dressed reluctant wife who responded to the nudity around her very emotionally. My wife took her aside, talking with her about kids, work, married life...anything but being nude. Relating to my nude wife on such a freindly level also shifted her perspective. Her fear turned into admiration that my wife could be talking and socializing with her nude and comfortable. When she started expressing the desire to at least try joining in by changing into a sarong, her husband didn't take it seriously. When I pointed out to him later that evening that his wife was now sitting nude by my wife on the edge of the hot tub, his jaw dropped. Another long-winded anecdotal post by Nudony to point out that the non-landed club might very well be the answer to the reluctant spouse or socially anxious/inept individual. I don't think you can get that kind of support from people at the resort; at least not on that level. It's just too bad non-landed clubs are so few and far in-between. And I think the best way to run one is by sharing duties among two or three nudist households (although in-fighting can sometimes jeopardize that too.) | |
| Besides the usual resources, MeetUp.com is FULL of legitimate nudist non landed groups. And I completely agree with Nudony, non-landed clubs are more personal, friendlier. |
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