What are they promoting?

[Greenbare Woods]

AANR (American Association for Nude Recreation) posted this photo on X.  It shows the officers of AANR at their annual budget meeting.  X doesn't prohibit nude pictures. 

I couldn't help but notice that all of them were fully clothed.  What kind of group are they running?  AANR is basically an organization to promote the business of nude resorts. AANR is not really a group that promotes or practices general nudity in our daily lives. 




https://x.com/aanr_nudism/status/1865076427676078541/photo/1

[jbeegoode]

I see that Arizona's New River Resort is represented. I've seen her dress during the running of her business, but then drops off garb in by pool right after quitting time.

ANNR were key in lobbying to stop and an anti-nudity attack from the AZ. State Legislature by influencing the governor. TNS was not effective. Sometimes our interests overlap. They have decided to do more for general nude freedom, not just bizness.

By the art on the walls, it looks like they are in a private home, so why ARE they dressed? It looks rather silly. I know a guy who has built several golf courses around Tucson and owns a couple still. He doesn't play golf.

Jbee

[Davie]

It doesn't surprise me. WhenI attended BN EC meetings as minute secretary the majority of meetings were clothed. One reason was the building was overlooked and in the interests of being good neighbours people remained clothed.
You may feel that was rather strange but it was being pragmatic. Away from the then BN HQs nudity ruled.

Davie 

[jbeegoode]

It doesn't surprise me. WhenI attended BN EC meetings as minute secretary the majority of meetings were clothed. One reason was the building was overlooked and in the interests of being good neighbours people remained clothed.
You may feel that was rather strange but it was being pragmatic. Away from the then BN HQs nudity ruled.

Davie 

Juxtaposition! Bassackwards perhaps? Does it seem that even with the law as it is, we are on the run in a world that takes wholesome nude human bodies as offensive? I thought that it might be that the custom of dressing in costume for business and addiction of clothing to support role playing to support attitude and facade as a silly habit had to do with these things. Maybe a dozen reasons for a dozen participants, or just plain silly thoughtless conformity.

Each month, well, when I'm in a sector with internet, I participate in a Naturist Society zoom lecture and discussion. Some of the movers and shakers going way back participate. They are all nude on screen when it is warm. Then, you can know the region of the country that they are from by their dress and steaming cold weather beverages heading toward their mouths.
Jbee

[Fellsnude]

Possibly in the AANR's defence:
1. if the meeting was recent (winter) and not in a very warm part of the USA, to be nude they would have had to heat the room more, and would then be open to attack on the grounds of environmental responsibility.
2. The R in AANR does stand for Recreation. I don't count meetings as recreation, but then I'm a bit of a pedant! Seriously, to the textile world, wanting to be nude when having recreation can seem eccentric, but holding nude meetings would seem plain weird, so perhaps this picture is a good bit of PR after all - "hey, we're just normal folks you know!"

[Fellsnude]

Following on, if they changed the date of their meeting to summer and held it outside....

[Greenbare Woods]

Seriously, to the textile world, wanting to be nude when having recreation can seem eccentric, but holding nude meetings would seem plain weird,

Somehow I don't see what is weird about nude meetings for a nudist organization.  Quite the contrary.  I would expect to see naked people at nudist organization meetings if they practice what they preach. 

If the meeting is at a hotel meeting room they could negotiate with hotel management, then close the door and put a sign saying "private meeting."   Or more likely hold the meeting at one of their many "recreation" resorts.

That's a big part of the reason I discontinued my AANR membership some years ago.  They are all about occasional pay-for-play "recreation" breaks from our normal lives.  They are NOT about nude living in our normal lives. 

[jbeegoode]

Ditto to Bob's response to "weird" to be at meetings.

Now that I think about it, AANR usually has their meetings at one of the member resorts. I've attended a few, because it is a great nude party. They have some money to throw out on bands, etc., that TNS doesn't. Because of the nude art on the walls behind them in the posted photo, it is probably being held in a meeting room of one of the nudist resorts affiliated with them.

Lee Baxendaul sic. (the founder of TNS) said that nude recreation is the way to nude body freedom. That included set aside areas like nude beaches. I think the idea goes a long way, but not far enough, as it is self limiting...and limited is wrong.

It would be appropriate for AANR to see a clothed meeting as something done in a "normal' world where nude is only in "appropriate' settings. But the news of BN acting so cowardly (I don't see the non-action as "practicality"), at their meeting seems so off to me.

AANR is a commercial enterprise for commercial enterprises, but they do have a better cash flow and are becoming more willing to collaborate with TNS.
Jbee

[Greenbare Woods]

TNS may be having financial difficulty.  They cut back magazine printing, and didn't substitute\e on-line issues.   I've been paying their dues for years, but the management hasn't been as proactive since Lee died.  They always seemed more friendly to Free Range, and nudity on public beaches.   You are right that limiting it to a few remote public beaches is limiting.  That only works to concede clothing required everywhere else.  It's as bad as "free speech zones" they tried to institute at Universities. A limited zone prohibits free speech everywhere else.  Same with a naturist zone.