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Skinny-Dipper Shop continues to be open for walkin customers. Approximately once a year

an undercover police officer steps into the

Shop to see if the public exterior can see

any pictures containing nudity. Up to now, these

visits haven't resulted in any difficulties for

TNS.



TNS & Nude

Networking in Europe

TNS started in the early 1980s as what

seemed to many to be the younger---and

perhaps estranged---sister to the older and

Bigger American Sunbathing Association

(now AANR). In its first decade nevertheless,

TNS developed to take the leading part in

America on the issue of nudity on people

Properties. As AANR and TNS enter the year

2009, both acknowledge that they and

other naturist organizations should work

Jointly if they're to continue to grow

and be powerful.



TNS has, from the first years,

sought out opportunities to work with

other like minded groups. The efforts

to form inter-organizational coalitions like

the Naturist/Nudist Leadership Council

are an example. TNS has additionally, when the



Clara Bailey playfully painting Lee.



44 | Nude & Natural 28.3



Separately Lee Baxandall and I came to recognize the connection between

the right to privacy, my forte, and naturism, his forte.

Luckily for me, he tracked me down in the early 80s, and collectively

we told each others' work and doctrines. I saw his societal

activism as a model for mine, but I knew that I did not have the

bold courage that he did. Moreover, Lee's activism enhanced

my personal joy in skinnydipping and made more chances

available.

In the early stages of his sickness, he rose before several lawyers

defending naturists rights. His shoulders slumped a little and he'd

young nudists pictures of tremors. He was naked. &I always said, 'It's about body

acceptance. And so here I am. I never said it was about body

acceptance only when your body is just how you need it to

be!&

Robert Ellis Smith, Publisher, PRIVACY JOURNAL



opportunity has presented itself, actively

sought ties with naturist groups outside of

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,

Finland, and India met for the first

International Seminar on Nude Beaches,

held at Antiparos, Greece.16 Angelos

Mimikopoulos of Greece proposed the

idea to TNS in 1983, but it took three

years to bring the convention to fruition.

Attendees offered position papers on a

Assortment of topics relating to free beach philosophy and history. Lee Baxandall chaired

the chain of meetings.




<img src="http://www.knowphuket.com/beaches/Photos/full_beach_MaiKhao_1.jpg" />



The following year, Mimikopoulos,

Baxandall, and Johanna Moore replied to the proposition of photojournalist

Leif Heilberg, organized a second

International Convention on Nude Beaches,

which happened in Hungary from June 27

to July 5, 1987.17 This again drew naturist leaders from around naturism gallery teenage . 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 differentiates 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 will not agree with

everything they see reported on or praised

in N, TNS still has a distinctive

leaning on certain issues that are occasionally only obliquely related to naturism.

Many of these problems must do with the

Approval of others.



TNS created the Naturist Network

as a way to encourage those naturist clubs,

resorts, and shore-support groups that

adhere to TNS' basic philosophy. These

groups agree to support TNS and allow

TNS members to take part within their activities; and their policies and activities must

not be in disagreement with the TNS Statement

of Naturist Values, which says, in part:

&The Naturist Society doesn't acknowledge



groups or clubs which guarantee or think of accessibility to club or group activities. Singles

Mostly to boost sexual activity, or contribute as many invaluable resources

which practice a policy of exclusion based to a group as do married people. They

on race, religion, age, sexual preference, or offer help in volunteer endeavors; they

gender.&

provide needed income for the group;



TNS admits 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 restrict its member-

The inhabitants outside the boundarship to left-handed, middle aged, Chinese ies of the club walls or group functions

astronomers if it needed to. Yet, to isn't 100 percent married. There are sinbe part of the Naturist Network, clubs gles and married people, young and old,

and groups must practice a high degree of black and white, rich and poor. Since TNS

inclusiveness.

claims vigorously that nudism is natural