The new voices of naturist commentators. Five years ago I alerted our readers to the emerging naked content creator class. These are online content creators also called social influencers who sell access to their naturist life for a price. I call it pay per view nudity not because their is anything bad about nudity or photos of the naked body. But rather because of my conviction that as a means of promoting naturism this approach was fraught with issues. In my opinion, it made the association of naturism and nudism with the porn industry more likely. In the eyes of the uninitiated and uninformed, it seems an easy connection. Furthermore it was and is my contention that there isn’t enough money to go around in the online nudity community, to sustain all the potential content creators. This proved to be prescient as an internet search for the word nudism is more likely to return a host of porn links and few actual nudist links. It is necessary for a searcher to dig through a lot of porn to possibly find any actual examples of non sexual nudity and naturism. We at clothes free life stuck to our focus and mission and continued to call out the drift towards nakedness and bare skin photos as the best way to promote the naturist way of life. I think we made the write decision.
Now the new voices of naturist commentators have emerged. Maybe it is a natural counter balancing force at work in the universe. Maybe it is just the emergence of new technology. A new crop of naturist writers and commentators have taken to the online stage. Some of them are naturist bloggers, who are using new media technology platforms to community with a broader audience. Others, find these new platforms more conducive for sharing their perspective and opinions than blogging or social media. Still others, are social media refugees who are eschewing generalized microblogging social media platforms (Twitter, Instagram, Reddit for example) for more long form tools (Medium, Subtack) to reach a more targeted audience. There are differences and similarities between this new class on online naturist creator and the aforementioned naturist social influencer. One difference is the focus is less about photos and videos and more on words and commentary. That not to say there NO photos just they aren’t the focus. One similarity is both have a monetization option. It is however, more subtle among the naturist commentator group.
Jillian Page, a Canadian journalist and naturist started trend with her Substack newsletter The Naturist Community. In the last few months several new newsletter have also been initiated. The content from these writers is varied and broad. New Zealander Bob Badger shares his take on naturism at A Comfort of Naturists. Naturist fiction author Robert Longpre shares updates from his current writing through Naturist Fiction by SkyCladTherapy Naturist historian Evan Nix naturist stories and reviews with a historic bent on Planet Nude. The historical retrospective video maker Nudistory shares stories related to their retrospectives. All on use the Substack platform.
The medium platform has also seen a resurgence among for this kind of longer form commentary and opinion based writing. Some long naturist bloggers post there, as well as new voices in nudism and naturism. My favorites include established bloggers like Dan Carlson | Meandering Naturist and photographer James Griggs as well as new discoveries Kate R and Robert Payne. Clothes free life has added our own Substack and restarted our Medium posts to share some of of writing over the past 12 years. If you want similar deliver our new and current content, we encourage readers to sign up for our paid newsletter
Where do things go from here? Is the day of the naked content creator past? Are these new voices of naturist commentators engaging? Will the world of ideas and discourse be sustainable in the world of photos and visual bytes? These are all unknowns and I suspect too early to tell. I for one do appreciate the thoughtful interesting subjects and diversity of topics being generated by these writers. It takes naturism online beyond just pics. Though not everyone is appreciative of this. Recently I saw a reference to this trend as something like "keyboard jockeys" the exact phrase escapes me. Inferring that the believers of naked photo as naturist promotion feel they still hold sway.
What do you think? Bare your thoughts. Finally we extend an invitation to anyone who resonates with this to join our team of writers.
https://clothesfreelife.com/2023/03/the-new-voices-of-naturist-commentators/?_unique_id=641ccd7936570
Thursday, March 23, 2023
The new voices of naturist commentators
The new voices of naturist commentators. Five years ago I alerted our readers to the emerging naked content creator class. These are online content creators also called social influencers who sell access to their naturist life for a price. I call it pay per view nudity not because their is anything bad about nudity or photos of the naked body. But rather because of my conviction that as a means of promoting naturism this approach was fraught with issues. In my opinion, it made the association of naturism and nudism with the porn industry more likely. In the eyes of the uninitiated and uninformed, it seems an easy connection. Furthermore it was and is my contention that there isn’t enough money to go around in the online nudity community, to sustain all the potential content creators. This proved to be prescient as an internet search for the word nudism is more likely to return a host of porn links and few actual nudist links. It is necessary for a searcher to dig through a lot of porn to possibly find any actual examples of non sexual nudity and naturism. We at clothes free life stuck to our focus and mission and continued to call out the drift towards nakedness and bare skin photos as the best way to promote the naturist way of life. I think we made the write decision.
Now the new voices of naturist commentators have emerged. Maybe it is a natural counter balancing force at work in the universe. Maybe it is just the emergence of new technology. A new crop of naturist writers and commentators have taken to the online stage. Some of them are naturist bloggers, who are using new media technology platforms to community with a broader audience. Others, find these new platforms more conducive for sharing their perspective and opinions than blogging or social media. Still others, are social media refugees who are eschewing generalized microblogging social media platforms (Twitter, Instagram, Reddit for example) for more long form tools (Medium, Subtack) to reach a more targeted audience. There are differences and similarities between this new class on online naturist creator and the aforementioned naturist social influencer. One difference is the focus is less about photos and videos and more on words and commentary. That not to say there NO photos just they aren’t the focus. One similarity is both have a monetization option. It is however, more subtle among the naturist commentator group.
Jillian Page, a Canadian journalist and naturist started trend with her Substack newsletter The Naturist Community. In the last few months several new newsletter have also been initiated. The content from these writers is varied and broad. New Zealander Bob Badger shares his take on naturism at A Comfort of Naturists. Naturist fiction author Robert Longpre shares updates from his current writing through Naturist Fiction by SkyCladTherapy Naturist historian Evan Nix naturist stories and reviews with a historic bent on Planet Nude. The historical retrospective video maker Nudistory shares stories related to their retrospectives. All on use the Substack platform.
The medium platform has also seen a resurgence among for this kind of longer form commentary and opinion based writing. Some long naturist bloggers post there, as well as new voices in nudism and naturism. My favorites include established bloggers like Dan Carlson | Meandering Naturist and photographer James Griggs as well as new discoveries Kate R and Robert Payne. Clothes free life has added our own Substack and restarted our Medium posts to share some of of writing over the past 12 years. If you want similar deliver our new and current content, we encourage readers to sign up for our paid newsletter
Where do things go from here? Is the day of the naked content creator past? Are these new voices of naturist commentators engaging? Will the world of ideas and discourse be sustainable in the world of photos and visual bytes? These are all unknowns and I suspect too early to tell. I for one do appreciate the thoughtful interesting subjects and diversity of topics being generated by these writers. It takes naturism online beyond just pics. Though not everyone is appreciative of this. Recently I saw a reference to this trend as something like "keyboard jockeys" the exact phrase escapes me. Inferring that the believers of naked photo as naturist promotion feel they still hold sway.
What do you think? Bare your thoughts. Finally we extend an invitation to anyone who resonates with this to join our team of writers.
https://clothesfreelife.com/2023/03/the-new-voices-of-naturist-commentators/?_unique_id=641ccd7936570
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