Okay, I just responded to your dares question on the WNGD thread. Here it is in the more appropriate spot.
Nobody ever dared me to do something like that, or any other dares. I'm kind of independent and not so into recognition of others, so the dare needs to be something personal within myself. I have found personal challenges and conquering fears will expand a free range and give confidence. There are varying degrees of risk and playing with odds. Sometimes it produces a sense of liberation, sometimes a rush to go where people generally aren't nude. Mostly these short forays are just part of learning a wider stealth range and not having to cover up so often.
I believe that this kind of behavior where one quickly jumps into a shot is how the Secret Naturist Society got its start with Lookee.
There is a trap inherent for some of the participants in this dares site. Accepting that the behavior is outrageous, extraordinary, or crazy, or even naughty and rebellious, accepts that clothing is a norm. I tend to see these social and legal parameters as an injustice and therefore I feel liberated and less oppressed when expanding my range.
Then there's the matter of guts. Doing things requiring guts is necessary to expanding, to changing, making life richer and embracing freedom. These dares, I suppose could be treated that way and a rush, but there are many other ways to use guts and be alive and perhaps even producing change in others, in life. Nudity is just one way, WNBR an example of being naked daring.
Jung would be integrating the hero archetype, into this.
Being a free ranging naturist will require people to "take the plunge" "throw ones balls over ones shoulder and just go" "leaps of faith." Individuation in life, transitioning into adulthood, generally requires these things.
In the eighties, I would talk friends into walking my tract house neighborhood nude, each year on a warm summers night. Sometimes it took alcohol and even drugs to get participation in this stealth and daring crazy smuggling a nude body event. Some just needed, a justification, a challenge, an excuse. Some liked it, some ended up scared as they had ever been. Some feeling stupid to have put themselves into that position of risk in consideration of what the law might think, immediately assuming some perv had been caught. The risk in 1980 could be very high, not just brushed off as streaking, by a local cop, if happened upon. The idea was to be stimulated to as much of a sense of being alive as possible.
For some it was a warrior's behavior, as an alert challenge. I was taught in Boy Scouts how a native warrior will be aware with each step, careful how it sounds, alert, moving bravely, prepared to meet a challenge or opportunity. Each step careful to not disturb the wildlife , or leave tracks in moccasins. That was good training for a free range naturist. Still, it is nice to have a safe liberated place, that's also a part of the naturism. Getting there requires challenges, or personal dares. Even a newbie at a naturist resort must overcome challenges and find that the shadow (there's Carl Jung again) is acceptance of oneself.
Jbee
