We weren’t interested in a singles pick-up scene like Hedonism II in Jamaica, nor a totally family-oriented retreat like Cypress Cove near Orlando — Nikki needed a break from contact with teenage angst. Well in today’s American society, normally one can only be nude in isolation or with their significant other.

By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions.So, when the words “nudist colony” come to mind at 4 in the morning, they have a significant meaning, to me.

Two summers before, when she was freshly widowed herself, my mother had been set up with someone new by Francois, whose achievements as a matchmaker rivalled those in his career as an architect. No one said a word, until a little girl said to her Mommy, in a barely audible voice, 'How come that man has his clothes on? I've never been to a nudist camp yet, I am aware that members are obliged to carry a towel at all times. In the privacy of his bungalow he was kissing us and then reached down and started massaging me between the legs. But as it turns out, living naked in a French nudist paradise, when your life is shattered, doesn’t really feel all that different from living clothed in civilisation.Later, when he was awake enough to receive visitors at the hospital bed where he spent 68 days – on the good days, the ones when he wasn’t in a coma or anaesthetized from one of 10 (seven brain; three spinal) surgeries, the ones when his cognitive impairment made for hours of loopy fun – he’d kick the sheets off and let his mint-green geometric-print gown splay open.