Re: Recruiting new members for these newsgroups

It would be nice just to have genuine naturists and naturist
sympathetic contributors.  Groups like these however are not likely to
spread the word to the wider community.  To do that you need to join
other more general groups, write to the media and elected
representatives.  I've just joined a general forum and posted to a
thread about "embarrassing moments" a note about my belief in
naturism.  I've had a number of replies from both naturists and
textiles, not one was in the least hostile and I specfically asked
them to be hostile if that was they felt to get a balanced set of
views.

The great majority of the general public in most countries has no
objection to dignified nudity in the appropriate place.  The problem
is with the MPs, Councillors and Editors who are too concerned about
the adverse reactions of a small minority.  From the replies to my
post in the other forum (a UK website not a Google group) I believe
that there are many "textile naturists" waitng to come out, they only
need encouragement and reassurance.  I remember how apprehensive I was
before my first time.  The cultural change cannot come until the legal
status is both achieved and clarified. Once people see for themselves
that it is OK then more and more will try it for the first time, we
know from personal experiences that the first time is rarely the last
time in naturism.