Nudist Vacations in the USA
The Folsom Street Fair is an annual leather and clothing optional street fair held on the last Sunday in September in San Francisco's South of Market district. The event started in 1984 and is California's third largest spectator event and the world's largest clothing optional leather event and raises hundreds of thousands of dollars each year for charity. read more
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Act Naturally is a new film about naturism. When two estranged step-sisters learn of their fathers untimely death on a business trip, they must travel cross country to claim his remains. Upon arriving at their father’s final destination the girls are shocked to discover he had been leading a double life as the proprietor of a nudist club. read more
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The Folsom Street Fair is an annual leather and clothing optional street fair held on the last Sunday in September in San Francisco's South of Market district. The event started in 1984 and is California's third largest spectator event and the world's largest clothing optional leather event and raises hundreds of thousands of dollars each year for charity. read more
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World Naked Bike Ride, San Francisco 2010. All photographs taken by Leif Heilberg, Viking Photography Inc., vikingphoto@earthlink.net. read more
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The original European settlers of America were the Puritans who were staunch advocates of non-pleasure and were afraid of nudity, even to the extent of not bathing themselves.
Later a free and independent United States of America developed and "radical thinkers" like Benjamin Franklin and Henry David Thoreau, publicity lauded the benefits in daily naked walks, or "air baths." Other nudists included President John Quincy Adams, who regularly bathed nude in the Potomac. Influxes of immigrants from Germany and other northern European countries also brought with them a more relaxed attitude to the body and in the 20th century nudist clubs started to be formed.
America is still split between two sections of the community - those who have strong religious objections to nudity and those who are more open minded.
Today nudism (or naturism) is a booming and is the fastest growing sector of the travel industry, nudist clubs can be found in most states. Browse through our pages to find the ones closest to you.
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