Memoirs: Experiences with nude campers

[Danee]

For many decades, we've loved camping in Oregon. This is one of the
 few states, where skinny-dipping is legal. It was only a matter of
 time before the two crossed paths.
 
We once went camping at a spectacular lake, in the heat of the summer.
 It was the middle of the week, so there were no other people there
 when we arrived and set up camp.
 
It was a primitive site, so a fire pit needed to be dug, wood needed
 to be hauled in, and the many other things normal to this kind of camp
 had to be done. That was no problem, since we had the place all to
 ourselves, and would have done it all anyway, even if it was crowded.
 
We also had a lake for fishing and later, for swimming. It was an
 ideal location for our two small children and us.
 
However, it became depressing when a big pickup pulled in to a site
 just a little ways down from us, with so many other sites available.
 Still, mom, dad, and their 14-year-old daughter didn't make a great
 deal of noise, so we didn't care much.
 
There were other sites available, further away, yes, but as long as
 they didn't bother us, it made little difference, and they were
 quieter than most camping neighbors we'd had.
 
They also went through the same bit of setting up camp, digging a fire
 pit, and dragging in wood we’d gone through.
 
We first realized that there was something different when after their
 camp was set up, the woman, followed by the man, then the daughter
 stripped off all their clothes and went for a swim. We aren't prudes,
 and it was merely surprising. Even at a young age, our children knew
 the difference between boys and girls, the birds and the bees if you
 will. They were actually less surprised than we were.
 
Afterward, though, was the most remarkable part. When they got out of the water, they came over to meet their neighbor’s -us. None of them  had anything on, yet they were very personable and did and said  nothing that was bad. In fact, we've rarely met a family who was more  respectful.
 
From that time, and for a long three-day weekend, they visited us many
 times, even eating with us at one point, all while naked. They
 accepted us for who we are, and we accepted them for who they were.
 At the end of the long weekend, not one of us was the slightest bit
 shocked if any of them came over, nude. They were comfortable about
 it, why couldn't we be? We even went skinny dipping with them, the
 night before we left, at the end of an especially hot day.
 
To qualify this all, I'm a reverend. However, the human body isn't  something to be ashamed of. These people definitely weren't ashamed.  It is too bad that so many people are ashamed of so many things, isn't  it.
 

From: http://www.helium.com/items/1893109-memoirs-experiences-with-nude-campers

[Bobbert]

Thanks for posting that!  Reading stories like that and seeing pictures like those on the front page here just make it impossible for me to see why skinny dipping or simple innocent nudity should be illegal.