Version 2 - Mar 2022
Version 1 - Oct 2021
Zoom in for the details of the brands/businesses.
Categories
- Day visit attractions - These may include beaches, thermal bath complexes, restaurants, swimming pools, etc.
- Normally, beaches are not brands but one among the exceptions is Haulover beach.
- Accommodations / stay attractions - This includes accommodation rentals like Naturist BnB, hotels, resorts, backpacker hostels, parks/campsites.
- Resorts and cruises may be open for day visits and/or overnight stays.
- Backpacker hostels are a very rare sub-category. We came to know about Gazebo Backpackers, Golden Bay in New Zealand with great efforts but unfortunately, it got closed down during covid.
- Bare Oaks Family Naturist Park, Canada and DeAnza Springs Resort, USA have been our brand partners since 2021 and 2022 respectively.
- Workshops - Nude yoga is a very popular activity for workshops.
- Online workshops - Online Naked Yoga with Jessa conducts online as well as offline classes in Sydney and some other cities of Australia.
- Offline workshops - Nudismo Nude House Colombia conducts various offline workshops in Bogota, Colombia.
- Festivals - There are some which are centered around nudity and also some which are not centered around nudity but have one or two such event
- Most probably Pashut Festival, which takes place in a Desert Ashram in Israel, is of the first type.
- The naked run event in the annual Roskilde Festival of Denmark is an example of the second type.
- Advocacy organizations/awareness campaigns - The International Naturist Federation (INF-FNI) is an organisation consisting of member federations, correspondents and extraordinary members in over forty countries.
- AANR, the organization of the US, got out of INF some time back. So, currently the US does not have any. Here is the list of all the country-specific organizations.
- In addition to these, there may be additional organizations focussing a country. E.g., in addition to the German Association for Naturism, Germany also has Get Naked Germany.
- There are movements working towards body freedom/positivity like Body Freedom International, towards gender equality like Free The Nipple, towards bringing together people of particular races/ethnicities, like Nubian Nudist.
- Stores - Sillybare store is a store focussing on the Universal Naturist Symbol. It is owned by the creator of the symbol.
- Nudist accessories are available with stores like Neudies.
- There could be various small-scale stores that have nudist merchandise.
- Social networks / dating platforms - There are many social networks, with the prominent ones having various USPs. Truenudists is probably the oldest one. Then we have Naturist Hub, which is an invite-only network.
- There are a lot of platforms claiming to be dating platforms, but we cannot confidently name any of them, because there are serious doubts about the authenticity of the profiles in those. Due to the lack of genuine female members, they probably fill up those with paid members, pretending to be females. Also, many of them solicit prostitution in some form or the other.
- Magazines/directories/journals -
- Magazines -
- There are some monthly magazines which operate globally like H&E Naturist. Their magazines are available online and offline.
- Some magazines are primarily focused on a country but also cover the globe, like TAN Magazine. They publish online and offline as well.
- There are quarterly global magazines like N Magazine by The Naturist Society. N Magazine publishes offline.
- H&E Naturist had featured us in their December 2021 issue, and as such, they are our publishing partners.
- Directories - Naturist directories are listings of naturist businesses/beaches/profiles of user etc. Examples are A Naturist World, Clothes Free Life, etc.
- Journals - The Nude Journal, by The Nude Blogger is a monthly online journal which focuses on Australia.
- Reviewers / bloggers - Nick & Lins from Naked Wanderings are a famous nude traveler, who identify themselves as travelers first, and then as someone who love to be nude during their travels.
- Calendars - The annual "Happy Nude Year" by The Nudist Calendar, which was re-launched in 2022, is a calendar with one handpicked nudist destination for every month.
- Each review consists of visitor stats and key destination information in consolidated bullet points.
- Review platforms - Nudist Compass comes with its web and Android App and has nudist destinations listed on their platforms with ratings and descriptions.
- Although the destinations are added by users of the system, other users can only comment on a destination which is already added.
- The Nudist Calendar is a crowd-sourced platform which publishes hand-picked nudist destination reviews.
- Ad networks - This is a very useful and underutilized category, with only one known player - Naturist Ads by Nick & Lins from Naked Wanderings.
- Nudist/naturist ad networks provide a great avenue to nudist brands and businesses to target platforms/users already consuming nudist/naturist content from dedicated platfroms. This comes as a great relief while all the other major platforms, like Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Quora, Reddit have various kinds/levels of restrictions on nudism. More on this will come up in a blog post by us in near future.
- In addition to targeting nudist audiences specifically, Naturist Ads also charge on the CPC model, which is cost per click and is independent of views/impressions.
- We have used their services several times since 2021.
Apart from this, there could be numerous other people/infleuncers etc. who may be uncategorised. They contribute in various ways like -
About the initiative
The agenda behind this initiative is to give a comprehensive idea to newbie nudism enthusiasts (not only individuals but also upcoming/interested brands/businesses) to understand who all are the players in this ecosystem. A few points -
- Any brand/business having a brand identity (logo/tagline, etc.) or a social media presence is considered eligible to represent a category/sub-category.
- Making revenue is not a qualifying criterion to be in this ecosystem. Non-profits are equally welcome.
- There may be many individuals who could be earning but may not be having any brand recognition and hence not being captured here.
- Many brand/business owners could be having businesses across multiple segments, e.g. Nick & Lins have Naturist Ads, and Naturist Hub in addition to being independent travel bloggers/reviewers.
- We don't claim that the brands/businesses we mentioned under each category are the only such brands. However, we do try to mention those with whom we have interacted/partnered or those whom we would like to partner with.
If you would like to add your brand/business, please send us using this form.
Motivation
Since our beginning, we have been trying to connect, to collaborate with various brands and businesses. As such, we have developed a deep understanding of them. We would like to see more innovations in this field, be it by us or others. But this needs a good knowledge of the existing players. We found a single point of information missing and hence started working on this in Oct 2021.
Version 2
The version 2 of this ambitious project comes after an overwhelming response to the Version 1.
This comes with many design improvements, feedback incorporations, etc. Majorly -
- The "Universal Naturist Symbol" has been placed at the centre of the Ecosystem, after a decisive 95% voting under r/naturism.
- A white circle has been added to denote the core of nudism/naturism.
- New categories were added like "Calendars".
- New sub-categories were added to many categories, like "Day visit attractions", "Events".
- Similar items have been moved to same pointer (e.g. TAN and H&E Naturist under Print/online magazines).
Do let us know your feedback so that we can continue to improve it.
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