Category: Commentary

One thing I don’t like much is pictures with unnatural or “porny” poses. This last submission gave pause, but I think I came up with a pretty good justification for it. There are a few exceptions, like phenomenon of “spreadies” or the “newd etiquette” thing. I don’t think I’ve made any posts that really explain it recently, so to refresh, Newd Etiquette is “the new etiquette for nudity”. It’s not official or anything but many permanudes subscribe to it. The core idea is that when you’re permanently naked, it’s more comfortable for everybody, and thus more polite, if you don’t make any attempt at modesty. Just project the idea that you’re you’re completely comfortable naked, and other people will be comfortable around you too. Some take this a little further and say you should make some effort to remain fully exposed, especially by sitting with your legs apart. And a few people, like this guy’s boss, take it to extremes. So that’s an example of an unconventional pose that has been adopted as part of the setting. But still, in general I prefer pictures that look like people just going about their lives normally, only naked.

This was originally going to be a quick reply to a comment, but I might as well go into more detail and put it where more people will see it.

I figure there are three basic scenarios for nudity in the NWO setting, not counting oddball stuff losing your clothes while skinny dipping or registering by accident somehow. But first let me back up a step and talk about the legal framework. The main plank of it is of course so-called Permanently Naked status. You can either sign up for it, or it can be imposed as a punishment for a crime. (Then there’s Permanently Topless and Bottomless, which are an alternative voluntary status and punishment, respectively.) But also parents and schools can impose nudity on their children and students. And this is more flexible. It doesn’t last any specific length of time and they can make up whatever rules they want. Also note that this includes adult dependents and students in any type of school, so feel free to assume all characters are 18+.

OK so #1 you’ve got voluntary nudity, where someone registers on their own. This also includes some cases under parental or school authority where they ask to be naked or willingly sign up for a class that requires nudity etc. #2 is nudity as a punishment, either for a crime as above, or when parents and schools use it in lieu of the more traditional grounding or detention. In any of these cases it’s intended to be embarrassing.

Finally #3 is nudity that isn’t voluntary, but isn’t meant as a punishment either. It would include nudist parents who want the whole family to be naked, or schools that believe it’s beneficial (either in general or in specific case) for students to experience nudity. In these cases it’s not intended to be a method of humiliation or presented as a bad thing at all. Even though they don’t have a choice, that could have a big effect on how someone experiences it. Although, of course they might still be embarrassed, especially the the first few times they have to do it. The version of this I’ve referred to most often Body Comfort Week, where a school requires all students spend a week naked both in an out of school, probably once a year. As the name implies it’s meant to encourage a healthy body image. It’s probably not very widespread, but it has its proponents and it wouldn’t be shocking or anything to find a school with that policy. Schools that use nudity as a punishment are less likely to do it of course, as the two policies would be working at cross purposes.

So anyway, to directly answer the question I got, this post here is an example of something like that. Evidently they have a more flexible system where students have to spend a few days naked per year (probably one a semester or something) but they can pick the days. I’m inclined to think having everyone naked at once is a better idea if the goal is to get everybody comfortable with it. But maybe this school has a different purpose in mind, it could be intended more as a challenge to build confidence or something. So that’s the third kind of nudity, it’s probably the least common (in my captions anyway) but I’m sure it will continue to come up from time to time.

When you click a tag, either below a picture or in the tag cloud on the right, the page that comes up now has a short description at the top, in addition to listing the posts with that tag. For example “car” explains “Most pictures are tagged “indoors” or “outdoors”. I decided cars (and other vehicles) aren’t quite either one, so they get this tag instead.” Some of these also give you a little background info on how it fits into the setting like “In the Nude World Order universe, bottomless status is normally reserved for use as a punishment.”

I always like posting seasonal, holiday, or otherwise timing captions. I did OK on this last one, but you may have noticed the pictures tended more towards cosplay than typical Halloween fare. Lately I’ve been having a fairly hard time finding suitable pictures (I guess there aren’t all that many out there) so I just want to mention that any submissions of pictures related to an upcoming holiday are always welcome (with or without captions). Obviously Christmas is the next big one coming up  so please be on the lookout for naked Christmas pics! (Or Thanksgiving I suppose, but I’m not sure there’s much that can be done with that one.)

So “mixed by default” won, 3:1. For those of you who don’t want to see the commentary mixed in (or ever), all you have to do is bookmark this link. That’s the “Content” category. The side blog type stuff will be in the “Commentary” category. There are now links on the side bar for showing either one alone. Otherwise you’ll see both. Thanks to everyone who voted. At least 72 votes so far, and I’m fairly pleased with that. It’s not in the same ballpark as the number of followers I had on Tumblr, but who knows how many of those accounts were even active. Seventy real visits (by people engaged enough to vote no less) over a weekend is fine by me.

Anyway, this isn’t necessarily final, if anyone really doesn’t like this setup, I’m open to other ideas, so please let me know. But that’s the plan for now, we’ll see how it goes. I guess this is the first official “Commentary” post. I’ll have to think of something more fun to talk about next time.

Hehe, no I didn’t plan this when I posted the other one, but I’ve got a question for you guys. A while ago, someone asked if I had considered bringing back the “side blog” like I had on Tumblr, where I would talk about background details on the world, or blog business that I didn’t want to clutter the main thing with. (Like this would probably go there, if I had it.) I’ve posted some of this kind of thing as comments on pictures, which is fine, but it’s not very visible or good for random thoughts that aren’t about a picture.

Thing is, WordPress works differently, so setting up a completely separate blog isn’t as easy and may not be the best solution anyway. WordPress has “categories” which are kind of like tags, but usually broader. So what I’m thinking I’ll do is post the “side blog” stuff right here, but in a separate category from the captions. This way you can read both together or go to the category view and see them separately if you prefer. The main question is whether people would prefer it together by default (slightly easier) or separate by default.

TL;DR are you interested in seeing commentary and discussion posts, and if so, how separate from the captions should they be?

Here’s the poll.

This will also give me an idea how many readers I have, which I’m curious about. So I included and option you can use to let me know you’re here, even if you don’t care about the side blog stuff either way.

Thus far I’ve basically been working to recreate the functionality I had on Tumblr. But here, finally, is something that’s actually better. On the right side of the page, below the tag cloud there’s a box where you can enter a combination of tags and see only posts that have all of them. For example work+school will get you naked teachers (currently only two), willing+unhappy for captions where people who registered voluntarily but it didn’t go as planned, or new+humor for funny captions that are not reposts from tumblr. Currently this blog’s catalog of pictures is small compared to the old one, but I expect this feature will become more attractive as the collection grows larger.

Also new, between the archive drop-down and the tag cloud, there’s a text search. Not super useful since the blog is mostly pictures, but one thing you could use it for is to find pictures submitted by a particular contributor.

As you probably recall, a little while ago I found out my submission form doesn’t like zips for some reason. To give people another option if they have several pictures to share, I set up a new form where you can send up to 10 pictures at once. This is accessible from a link at the top of the Submit page. Emailing submissions is still fine too, of course.

Someone posted a poll on IndianOutlaw’s Stripping Naked Discussion Board about Permanent Nudity (although they call it “Registered Nudism”). It includes some  kinkier elements too but you can always skip that part if you’re not interested.

Anyway here it is if you feel like filling it out or checking the results.

I know tiny text is annoying, but sometimes I or a contributor has an idea that just needs a bit of explanation and we can’t resist. But there’s good news, most of the pictures are larger than they’re initially shown. Previously the full size version was hard to get to, but I’ve changed it so all you have to do is click one to blow it up. That should make reading the text easier, and hey, you might want to admire something else in the pictures more closely too.