I’ve been doing my best lately not to pick fights with the other kids on the nudist Internet. We’re all doing our best. I’m the last person who should be throwing stones at folks who typically produce far better articles about social nudity than I ever will. I shouldn’t throw stones, but sometimes I just can’t help myself. I recently read a couple of posts written by the editor of a nudist blog called The Nude Life. Over the course of a couple of posts, the editor of that blog manages to lump single males in with perverts, pedophiles, sex offenders, swingers, and members who don’t pay their dues. Why not mention that single males are likely to show up at your next potluck dinner empty handed?

It seems like 99% of the "nudist" blogs on the Internet are really trolling pages for who somehow think that using the word "nudist" will attract the kind of people they want to connect with.

For single males who complain that we are "discriminating" against them, we plead guilty; then we remind them that our club is a voluntary social group that sets policies as it sees fit to keep the club fun and active for our members, and if they aren’t happy about that, then they are free to go out and start their own nudist club like our founders did 20+ years ago, and they can set up any kind of policies they like.

By the way, we also discriminate against pedophiles, sex offenders, underage minors, members who don’t pay our annual dues, members who don’t follow our club’s etiquette rules.

I like what they’re doing over at The Nude Life, and I really just wanted to leave it all alone, but I can’t. Despite my experiences as a former single male attempting to break into the world of social nudism, I understand why some clubs need to control the numbers of single males they admit. I would imagine that urban travel clubs get a disproportionate number of inquiries from that particular demographic, but the editor has taken the argument to a whole new level. I’ve heard of not wanting to visit a club or resort that attracts too many single males, but the editor of The Nude Life doesn’t seem pleased about sharing the Internet with the bastards either. The first sentence of the first paragraph in the first post on his blog complains about the proliferation of single male (Who he groups with perverts and swingers) on nudist blogs. I really don’t understand this degree of hostility. As I’ve said before, it would make more sense if we actually were swingers instead of nudists.

Since I do like most of what I’ve read at The Nude Life, I was reluctant to mention them by name, or quote from the articles; however, I thought the claim that nudists can be so hostile towards single males that they would lump them in with the groups mentioned above was so absurd that nobody would believe me without proof. From time to time, someone will complain that social nudism is on the decline in the United States. On more than one occasion I’ve cited the hostility faced by the demographic most likely to take that first step towards a nudist lifestyle as a probable contributing factor towards that decline. In many cases, single male is a less accurate identifier than unaccompanied male. It’s often the husband who scouts a local club before letting the wife know that it’s safe.