Going Bare!
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I have always wanted to try naturism and in August 2012 I got my wish as my terrified wife and excited kids joined me as we went to a naturist resort in southern France for a few days.
This book offers a light-hearted look at our first family holiday in five years, when I persuaded them to go bare in public for the first time.
The book is short - around an hour of reading - and details everything from when I first decided naturism appealed to me, to my thoughts after the holiday.
John David Harding
I am a married father of two who lives in Cheshire, UK.
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Going Bare! - John David Harding
Going Bare!
John Harding
Copyright 2012 by John Harding
Smashwords Edition
Credits and License
Copyright © John Harding 2012
John Harding has asserted his right to be identified as the author of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1998.
This piece of work is fiction and is released under the Creative Commons license Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0), the full text of which can be obtained from the Creative Commons website. The work may be freely distributed unmodified and with these credits attached. The story may not be reproduced for commercial purposes, or for profit, without explicit permission from the author.
I offer my sincere thanks to Turbo, my proof-reader, and to all the members on the British Naturism forum who helped correct the considerable number of errors in the draft text. My special thanks go to Col, Emma, Davey, Nick, Pat, Duncan and Hantsnat.
Please note that this book is written in British English.
The front cover for this book is by Dirk De Keyser and was purchased through 123RF at http://www.123rf.com/photo_14912162_warning-sign-naturist-resort-in-south-of-france.html
Chapter I: Introduction
There is nothing extraordinary about me or my family. My wife – known in this book as E – and I met at University when I was studying for my Computer Science degree. We are both thirty and have two children, a boy who is nearly eight and a girl who is four. We live in a small town in North West England, both working full-time, and have two cars and a mortgage: in essence, quite unspectacular. There are many hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of families throughout the UK who are comparable to us.
This book details our first taste of naturism as a family, when in August 2012 we packed our suitcases and travelled to France to stay for four days at the naturist resort of La Jenny, not far from Bordeaux. Naturism is something I have always wanted to do – and I talk a bit about this in the book – and something that my wife was quite reluctant to do, at least initially. We both grew up in conservative households and while we had both shed some of our programming
and are reasonably liberal in our views now, I was far keener to ditch my clothes and run around naked than my wife.
I have tried to keep this book light to read, and fairly short. These are our experiences as perceived and recollected by me, they do not represent the thoughts of anyone other than myself and are told as candidly as possible. A large proportion of this book was written at La Jenny or shortly afterwards to ensure some degree of accuracy.
I hope that you get some enjoyment out of it and please let me know what you think. If you are a member of British Naturism then drop me a message to john1981
on the forums.
Chapter II: The Appeal of Naturism
I cannot define any point of my life where I can say that it was then that the naturist beliefs first appealed to me. When I was younger, I had always liked to be without my clothes, especially when on my own and used to get sent to bed by my parents dressed in pyjamas. I would take great delight in removing the stripy clothing the moment my bedroom door closed and would climb into bed feeling the naked cotton sheets close to my skin. First, I remember removing my top and sleeping topless
but as I got braver I would always like to sleep with nothing on, especially during the warmer months. It felt liberating and ever so slightly naughty. Even walking around my room unclothed felt more natural but I never understood why.
When I was nine or ten, I remember going to PGL – a week-long summer camp for kids from seven to sixteen – to engage in various activities and sleeping in a dormitory with around a dozen kids of a similar age. It was inevitable that we wouldn't go to sleep at the set bedtime and I remember a challenge being set to run around the dorm naked in the dark, illuminated by the weak light from the underpowered torches. Most of my peers completed it topless to howls of derision but I was one of two that did complete it every night and we even ventured outside the dormitory later in the week; it was a thrill. We were even dared to visit the girls
but never did. I am not sure what they would have made of it!
I remember everyone being secretive in the shared showers or getting dressed under the duvet covers but it never worried me. I was fairly shy as a child and didn't just talk to new people easily, but I had