Traffic or public consciousness of the store the

Skinny-Dipper Shop is still open for walkin customers. Approximately once a year
an undercover police officer steps into the
store to see if the public outside can see
any pictures containing nudity. So far, these
visits haven't resulted in any problems for
TNS.

TNS started in the early 1980s as what
seemed to many to be the younger---and
Maybe estranged---sister to the elderly and
Bigger American Sunbathing Association
(now AANR). In its first decade however,
TNS matured to take the leading part in
America on the problem of nudity on public
Acreages. As AANR and TNS enter the year
2009, both recognize that they and
other naturist organizations must work
Collectively if they're to continue to grow
and be successful.

TNS has, from the earliest years,
other like minded groups. The attempts
to form inter-organizational coalitions like
the Naturist/Naturist Leadership Council
are an example. https://s3.amazonaws.com/q-naturist/beach-girl.html has also, when the

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Separately Lee Baxandall and I came to comprehend the link between
the right to privacy, my forte, and naturism, his specialty.
we told each others' work and philosophies. I saw his social
activism as a model for mine, but I understood that I did not have the
Fearless bravery that he did. Moreover, Lee's activism improved
my private joy in skinnydipping and made more opportunities
available.
In the early stages of his sickness, he rose before several attorneys
His shoulders slumped a little and he had
A couple of tremors. He was nude. "I always said, 'It Is about body
Approval. And so here I am. I never said it was about body
Approval only when your body is exactly how you need it to
be!"
the U.s..

On June 14-18,1986, TNS representatives and two dozen others from the
U.S., Greece, Chile, the Netherlands, the
United Kingdom, Germany, Denmark,
International Conference on Nude Beaches,
held at Antiparos, Greece.16 Angelos
Mimikopoulos of Greece suggested the
years to bring the convention to fruition.
variety of issues relating to free beach philosophy and history.
the series of meetings.

https://s3.amazonaws.com/q-naturist/beach-fucking.html following year, Mimikopoulos,
Baxandall, and Johanna Moore replied to the proposition of photojournalist
Leif Heilberg, arranged a second
International Conference on Nude Beaches,
which happened in Hungary from June 27
A third
such occasion was organized by TNS for June
31-July 7, 1990 in the Provence area of
France.18

The Naturist Society Network:
Policies Support Inclusion
of Singles, Gays, Families,
Women
What distinguishes TNS from other naturist groups in many people's heads is the
organization's commitment to inclusion.
Freely admitting that its members are
Varied in opinion, interests, and lifestyle,
and that many of them WOn't agree with
everything they see reported on or praised
in N, TNS nonetheless has a distinctive
leaning on specific issues that are sometimes just obliquely related to naturism.
https://s3.amazonaws.com/q-naturist/young-nudist.html of these problems have to do with the
acceptance of others.



TNS created the Naturist Network
as a way to encourage those naturist clubs,
resorts, and strand-support groups that
Conform to TNS' fundamental philosophy. These
groups consent to support TNS and permit
TNS members to participate in their actions; and their policies and activities must
not be in disagreement with the TNS Statement
of Naturist Worth, which says, in part:
"The Naturist Society doesn't acknowledge

groups or clubs which promise or think of accessibility to club or group activities. Singles
Mainly to promote intercourse, or lead as many invaluable resources
which practice a policy of exclusion based to a group as do married people. They
Sex."
Supply needed income for the group;

TNS acknowledges that a private club and they help the group more closely fit
or group has every right to choose its the demographics of society.
associates. A club could limit its member-
The population outside the boundarship to left-handed, middle aged, Chinese ies of the club walls or group functions
astronomers if it wanted to. However, to isn't 100 percent wed.
and groups must practice a high degree of black and white, rich and poor. Since TNS
inclusiveness.
claims vigorously that nudism is natural