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I want to thank you for something that I don't think that you intended. You keep triggering further introspections. I like the photos but I now consciously verbalise that I relate to them as frozen microseconds, moments now dead and gone, never to be repeated. The brief video clips feel more to me like fleeting memories from someone's life. I own it as part of my internal psychology.

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21 hrs agoLiked by Clint Collide

Wooow Clint, another corker montage, another Gus Kenworthy, a straightforward everyday looking bloke (note to self: Google Gus Kenworthy) and lots of other studmuffins. Looks like an image at 5:51 of the Naked Bike Ride day. I worked at one time with a trans girl, no bottom surgery at that time, who usually took part in my cities NBR day. Cheers DougT 🇫🇴

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Thanks, Doug...I gotta admit I don't know much about Mr. Kenworthy either, but wowsa. He definitely caught attention. As for the NBR photos, I love them. Have witness a few in person and love the diversity on display...like your former coworker. Sometimes I wish I was that uninhibited, but I'm happy to cheer folks who are on. And cheers to folks like you too!

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19 hrs ago·edited 19 hrs agoLiked by Clint Collide

Clint, nudity in Europe and less so in 🇬🇧 isn't such a big thing. Most Spanish coastal towns have an agreed area for naturists. Vera Playa in Almera is a community of 2000 properties and a beach of 2.75 km The naturist zone started officially in 1979. There are naturist hotel and cafe and shopping in the community. No one needs to be part of a recognised Naturist club or organisation to live or visit there. In the zone your free to walk the roads naked. French Mediterranean and Atlantic coasts also have residential/visitors naturist communities. Nudity is common in Slavic/Baltic recreational activities. Imagine the Orange ones and MAGA reactions 😎😎 Cheers DougT 🇫🇴

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Thank you for raising these points, Doug. They, among other things, underpin my great discomfort about US prudity of innocent nakedness or sights of body parts, whilst secretly eroticising the same things in a porny way. Maybe I am being too critical.

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Hi Ray

No your not being too overly critical of the double(?) standards of 🇺🇸 morality to the human naked body. So many folks just need to wind there necks in a bit more out of there anus. Having said that the 🇫🇴🇬🇧 press/media are as two faced as the 🇺🇸, it's just that 🇬🇧🇫🇴 are more willing to call them out.

Try not to loose sleep about it Ray, Cheers DougT 🇫🇴

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I had no intention of losing sleep. [Grin] I don't like to criticise individuals when they are choosing to conform to their culture's [oops, I typed vulture's] expectations and conformity pressures. I was merely assuaging my own discomfort. [Hug]

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