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The Friends of Playalinda Beach Group have been having trouble with the Superintendent of Canaveral National Seashore and the Chief Ranger for the past year.  Attempts to resolve problems by F of P have yielded no success.  Letters to the Southeast Regional National Park Service Director have resulted in no success, either.

A letter from the Regional Director to Florida’s U.S. Senator Bill Nelson, who has been brought into the dispute, contained many errors and negative innuendoes on the issues involved.

This has led the F of P no recourse but to petition its elected officials for a solution. That solution is to obtain a designated naturist beach with signage to eliminate user conflicts, once and for all time.

Please print extra copies for your club members, your friends and family members, have them sign them and mail to the address at the bottom of the Petition. They currently have over 950 signed Petitions.  There goal is 1500.  These will be delivered to Florida’s US Senators.

Thanks for your support
Richard Mason, Florida Naturist Association

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RECALL PETITION

By signing this document, I am adding my name to the list of users of Playalinda Beach, Canaveral
National Seashore who petition the National Park Service and the U.S. Government to remove Carol A. Clark, as superintendent, and Eric Lugo, as chief ranger, by dismissal or reassignment to other NPS facilities where they will not be in conflict with visitors who represent federally legal lifestyles and philosophies that differ from their own.

Signature:_________________________________________________________________________

Print Name: _____________________________________________________________________

Residence Address: _________________________________________________________________

Street and number: _________________________________________________________________

City, State and Zip: __________________________________________________________________

Email address: ______________________________________________________________________

Date signed: _____________________________________________________________________

Email to:  Playalinda2000@aol.com

Mail to:
Bob Allen
Friends of Playalinda
190 E Olmstead Drive #E3
Titusville, FL 32780

E-Bulletin August 14, 2008 - Volume 2, Issue 17

Powerade Ads Feature Nude Olympians

In the spirit of the original Olympics, when athletes participated in the buff, the new ads for  Powerade sports drink feature nude Olympic athletes at the top of their game. Coca-Cola Great Britain launched the new campaign ahead of the Beijing Olympics. The ad campaign was designed to “give people the chance to see the real make-up of an athlete and their muscle and power, celebrating the body and spirit,” said Catherine Sleight, marketing director for Coca-Cola Great Britain, which launched the ads. Click here to read more and view the photo

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Once again the State of Virginia is in the news for intolerance toward nudists.  From the State that tried to outlaw nudist sumer camps now comes another story of nudist repression.

Recently appearing on Delmarvanow.com was a story, Vocal Nudists battle to bare it on the beach.  The story gives the general background of Donn & Cindy Murphy’s visit to Virginia and Assateague Island where they were cited for public nudity.

Although they were on Federal Property, part of the National Seashore, they were cited by the Federal Park Ranger under 50CFR which allows the Feds to cite based on local laws, in this case, a County ordinance that prohibits public nudity.

Donn & Cindy are the owners of a Nudist Resort in Mexico, Playa Sonrisa, and  took the advice of some of their guests at their resort that there was a nude beach on Assateague Island.  Unfortunately, it has been years since it was common there.

Once arriving, they took many precautions to avoid offending anyone with their skinny-dipping, including a 2-mile walk up the beach, and judiciously scouting the area for others before stripping for a swim..

The web article mentions that the Murphys wrote an open letter to the  “citizens and legislators of Virginia”, but stops short of actually providing the actual letter.  Murph has graciously allowed permission to print the complete letter here.

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Last week marked the 17th anniversary of the nude beach at Haulover Park near Miami. Here is a report of the activities from Richard Mason, co-founder & President of South Florida Free Beaches, and one of the parties most influential in convincing Dade County to designate a clothing optional beach.

On Friday, Saturday and Sunday, July 25, 26, 27, BEACHES Foundation and South Florida Free Beaches had a 3 day festival celebrating the 17th Anniversary of Haulover Beach Park’s designated Naturist family beach.

All three BEACHES Foundation’s chickee huts were in use as well as 6 canopies set up for various uses.

Two chickee huts were set up as bars, serving made on the site, Margaritas, and other mixed tropical drinks, Smoothies, fresh fruit bowls and draft beer, The third chickee hut had a massage therapist soothing out body kinks.

We had one canopy with two massage therapists from Educating Hands, donating their services.

Three canopies were set up by So., FL. Free Beaches and The Naturist Society to dispense educating material, answer questions and signing up beach users to our new SFFB/FNA’s email newsletter. Extra back date N Magazines were given free to serious beach visitors.

A professional DJ played music for two days to the delight of the beach visitors. The beach was packed with in excess of 8,000 visitors.

The Miami Herald had a reporter there on Saturday and the CBS/TV’s local affiliate was on the beach on Sunday.

Neither BEACHES or SFFB had notified the media of the event, proof of the media having employees visiting the beach as naturists.  Flyers had been handed out on the beach for a week by BEACHES.

More to follow.

Richard Mason

SFFB/FNA

E-Bulletin July 31, 2008 - Volume 2, Issue 16

It’s Convention Time

It’s less than two weeks until the 77th annual AANR Convention and Annual Meeting, August 11-17, at Turtle Lake Resort in Union City, Michigan. The event will be jam-packed with activities, sports, great food and seminars, as well as Association business. Can’t make it to Convention this year? Stay tuned. We’ll have details in an upcoming issue of the E-Bulletin and the October issue of The Bulletin. Click here for more information about Turtle Lake Resort or call 866-321-4710.

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Caliente Resort recently was dropped from AANR membership for it’s connection with a swinger’s group and for allowing the group to host parties on Caliente property.  Many of the Caliente residents and members are upset at this turn of events and are considering several actions, including legal action.

What I see as the major conflict is that the original concept of Caliente was to be the pinnacle in nudist resorts, and has changed those standards as time passed.  Since the ground-breaking 10 years ago, the ownership/management has changed several times, and with each cycle, the rules changed.

Under the original concept, Caliente was to be a high-end traditional nudist resort meeting the standards of the American Association for Nude Recreation (AANR) and offering a nudist destination for vacationers and homes for those wanting to move to Florida and live or retire in a nudist environment.  Due to the changes in club policies, Caliente is no longer a nudist resort, but instead, is a clothing optional resort, trying to become another high ticket, sexually charged destination such as Hedonism II & III, Desire, or Sea Mountain Spas.

Caliente says they are trying to attract a younger clientele but a more reasonable assumption would be that they were trying to attract more people, of any age, to spend even more money in the resort and make even more profits.  There have been comments that Caliente invited the swingers because they were losing money and on the verge of having to close.  Suggesting that Caliente is losing money is like saying Exxon is failing in the oil business.

There are a lot more swinger’s clubs than there are nudist clubs.  I’d be foolish to deny that there are some who share both the nudist and swinger lifestyles, but there are many more nudists who have no desire to associate with swinger activities. By allowing these activities occur within the confines of a club known by the general public as a nudist resort can do nothing but make the unknowing assume these two very diverse lifestyles are similar, which is far from the truth.

This is not what the original nudist members and residents contracted for.  They invested a large sum buying homes in a place where they could practice their non-sexual nudist lifestyle. Imagine if your nice middle class neighborhoods suddenly decided that it would be nice to have a porno shop and strip club open next to the local park.  If swingers want to enjoy the nudist lifestyle, we welcome you, but don’t swing in our backyard and we won’t be nude in yours.

International crowd boosts ‘nakations’ to Orlando area

Eloisa Ruano Gonzalez |Sentinel Staff Writer

July 22, 2008

“It’s easy packing. You don’t need a suitcase,” said Harrie Canhout, 44, from the Netherlands.

Canhout, his wife and three children, ages 18, 13 and 11, are on a three-week nudist vacation at Cypress Cove on Pleasant Hill Road. It’s the Canhouts’ second trip there after learning about it online a few years ago.

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Monday an article, appearing in the New York Post, about things to do nude in New York made the talk shows.  On Regis and Kelly, guest host Bryant Gumble and Kelly Rippa discussed the article and then went on a side conversation about visiting nude beaches.

Later in the day the story appeared on the United Press International website, so I’m sure it will be making the rounds this week.

Unfortunately, there was no mention of the local nudist clubs and no mention was made of the nude beaches at Fire Island and Sandy Hook.

Here’s the original article

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At the 2004 Super Bowl halftime show, as Justin Timberlake sang “Rock Your Body” onstage with Janet Jackson and reached the last few lines of the song — “Let’s do something, let’s make a bet, ’cause I gotta have you naked by the end of this song” — he reached across her body and pulled off part of her bustier, exposing most of her right breast:

The response was immediate… While a few expressed outrage, the majority were rewinding their tapes and TiVo’s to see it over and over.  Within hours, the internet was filled with close-ups of Jackson’s breast and nipple shield she was wearing.  Sales of nipple shields skyrocketed.  This was not the outrageous event that the detractors wanted to make it out to be.

However, the Federal Communications Commission decided to take the “family values” route, even though previously, it was required that something much more outrageous was required to warrant such a fine.  The police drama, “NYPD Blue” often showed completely nude actors, tastefully depicted, with no major fines.  In this case, the FCC bowed under the minority pressure and fined CBS $550,000.00.

This Federal Appeals ruling rejecting the FCC fine against CBS is a sign that not all beauracuries are in the pocket of the vocal minority.  While it’s not a major victory for nudism and naturism, it is a glimmer of hope that the repressed attitudes of the USA are on their way to becoming more in line with the rest of the world.

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With all the hype about the aging of nudism, here’s a treat for the young and young at heart.

Ask a Puppet - part 3 - Ralph promotes nudism
Ralph the puppet fields yet another question about his fabulous fur and why people have this bizarre urge to cover their bodies.

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