Participation strength of WNBRs around the world

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Note - 

• Most of the data has been taken from 
  http://wiki.worldnakedbikeride.org and a few from a survey conducted by us, which is still open.
• Some of the rides could not be included because they do not have visitor info -
• All the rides from Netherlands.
• Russia, St Petersburg
• US, Arnhem and San Francisco.
• Most of the data is very old. We would love to get this updated.
• A lot of other rides like Sydney & Byron Bay in Australia are not mentioned here. We would love to get information about these as well.

If you would like to submit updated data from your own visit or some news article etc., please do so using this survey form.

Further, if you would like to submit detailed review with more visitor stats (like gender ratio, states of undress etc.) of any of the rides, you are welcome to do so from here.

Nudist sub-reddits in the US by member strength

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r/texasnudist with ~3.2k members has emerged has the largest sub reddit.

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- Right click on the interactive map and select "Enter Fullscreen" for better view.

- Data as on 20th April, 2022

User Review Submission Contest #3

 

• Contest Details
• Itinerary
• Steps to send review
• Review form links
• Filled up review for reference
• How your review would look once published

Contest Details

Itinerary

• You submit a review of a nudist destination you have visited, with visitor stats and destination information in bullet points.
• We publish your submission as a post on Instagram.
• Our followers vote by liking from the posts by all the contestants.
• The post with the maximum number of likes is declared the winner.
• The contest concludes with result declaration, payment/giveaway, delivery of winners's certificate and complementary gifts to winner(s). 

Steps to send review

• There are three Surveymonkey forms that need to filled. These are provided in the section below. 
• Please fill up all the three forms and submit them. Please provide as much specific visitor stats and information as possible. It's okay to not remember all the stats with accurate detail. Please specify how well you remember by selecting the right option next to each question. 
• Please submit a picture of the venue from your visit (picture of the venue only). Please email us the same at nudistcalendar@gmail.com. Additional pics or pics having you in the frame may also be provided and those may later be published in our blog posts.
• Please let us know by a message on Instagram/Email once you have filled up a form. 

Prizes

• Winner will be given prize money of USD 25/50 depending on the month for which the review was sent. Vacant months (for which we don't yet have any positive review, as shown in the calendar below) will be eligible for USD 50. 
• Winner will be given a complimentary gift, courtesy Sillybare (Universal Naturist Symbol Store), our first gifting partner.
• All participants will also be given invites to Naturist Hub, which is an invite-only online community for all people who enjoy wholesome nude recreation with #NoPorn & #NoHate allowed and is 100% Free to Join! It has been named The Official Social Network of AANR!

Current status of our Calendar

 

The winner can choose from a horizontal (traditional) flag or a vertical flag having the Universal Naturist Symbol.

Review form links

• Form 1 - Destination review details
• Form 2 - Visitor stats details
• Form 3 - Visitor stats contd. & other details

Note - Filling up all the three are mandatory

Filled up survey data for reference

Following is one sample review filling, of Valley View Hot Springs, Colorado, USA -

Form 1 - Destination review details

                                                        Form 2 - Visitor stats details

                                    Form 3 - Visitor stats (contd.) & other factors

How your review would look once published

Instagram post of above review.

The Nudist Ecosystem

 

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.

• Events - There are recurring annual events like - Bay to Breakers in USA, North East Skinny dip in UK.
• WNBRs or World Naked Bike Rides are a genre of their own. They happen in various cities around the world, often around the same time once a year. 
• Check out our blog post on participation strength of WNBRs around the world and a user submitted review of Bay to Breakers on our platform.

• 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.

• Entertainment - Music au Naturel by Ton Dou is a dedicated producer of nudist songs.
• Bare Body Freedom Reality TV (BBFRTV) and Nudism.TV are producers of nudist shows, music, entertainment etc.

• 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.

• Podcasts - The Naturist Living Show is produced by Bare Oaks Family Naturist Park, Canada. 

• 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 - 

• Posting own nude pictures.
• Conducting nudist events - like Attila Deak.
• Maintaining nudist groups - like Indian Naturists Members (Facebook), Thailand Naturism Meetup on Meetup.com, many on Mewe Platform.

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.

 

Happy Nude Year Calendar - 2022

 

We have released the calendar in two formats -

• Youtube Video - link

• PDF document - link (Note - It is enabled to track some analytics, and will allow us to analyse which review pages were read most by people)

You are welcome to share these widely in your select social circle, as ours is primarily a community driven/crowd-sourced initiative, running on very limited resources. 

All the Reddit Surveys we conducted in 2021-2022

From September 2021 onwards, we conducted lots of insightful surveys on Reddit, starting with the subreddit r/naturism and then also into other subreddits like r/nudism, some of which got overwhelming participation, so much that the number of participants exceeded our quota of responses available with our non-commercial SurveyMonkey plan. Here we have compiled all the highlights and links to the results of all the surveys - 

  

• Survey #20 - Will France be successful in organising WNBR rides in 16 venues for the first time in 2022? 57% majority voted that only some of them will be successful.

• Survey #19 - Universities & nudism - We received a lukewarm response on this, with some exciting information. The survey is still open and we will publish the results on reaching 10 responses.

• Survey #18 - Children and Nudism - An overwhelming 208 people participated in almost 9 days and 160 of the responses could be presented in the results, which show 81% of the respondents actively supporting raising their children as nudists.

• Revealing he/she is a nudist/nudism enthusiast - When is the best time he/she should let you know? 55% of the respondents voted initial phase. The survey was posted only on r/Arrangedmarriage (a non nudist sub) and was removed by the moderators due to the topic.

• Survey #17 - Country specific naturist organisations affiliated to International Naturist Federation (INF) / Fédération naturiste internationale (FNI) / Internationalen Naturisten Föderation (INF) - Due to low participation, survey is still open.

• Survey #16 - A data-backed survey of naked bike rides (WNBRs and more) - Two WNBRs from US were submitted, both having a healthy number of participants. 

• Due to low participation, the survey is still open here.

• Survey #15 -  Destination recommendations for the difficult months of the year - Unfortunately no responses received against this yet. Survey is still open here. 

• Survey #14 - Naturist / Nudist businesses - Part 1 - We discovered one new innovative initiative - Western Nudist Research Library, which is a nudist library, archive and museum, which is a not for profit initiative and has raised funding eventually. Due to low participation, the survey is still open here. 

• Survey #13 - Destination review consumption behavior of nudist travelers or enthusiasts - This was repeat of Survey#7 on SurveyMonkey. Only one response, which says they indeed look for visitor stats (like gender ratio etc.) in only those reviews which contain certain keywords and they spend less than a day reading reviews in order to decide whether to visit a destination or not. The survey is still open here.

• Survey #12 - Visitor stats and some key destination info from nudist destinations - No responses on this unfortunately, but we received one from another discussion on reddit. This has been published on our Instagram profile, along with all the other entries. This survey is opened from time to time as a contest on our Instagram handle @thenudistcalendar.

• Survey #11 - Gender balance via gender-based regulations  - Almost two equal sections of opposite opinions - 48% disagreed that a gender-ratio regulated environment will promote healthier overall participation.

• Survey #10 - Online initiatives - risk of getting banned vs gender inclusiveness - 85% agreed that initiatives like The Nudist Calendar also run the risk of getting banned by Instagram/Facebook while at the same time, 69% also agreed that online platforms are more likely to attract women by being present in platforms like Instagram, rather than by boycotting them and restricting themselves to platforms like Mewe which are less known.

• Survey #9 - Ranking Nudist Destination types in terms of Difficulty level - Given a set of 14 different destination types to be arranged in order of difficulty level (difficulty to get naked), 20% people voted volunteering as a model for a nude art class as the most difficult activity while 20% also voted visiting a nude/clothing optional beach on a regular day as the most easy one. 

• Survey #8 - Secretly broadcasting in your social circle that you are a nudist/naturist and identifying others! - 87% voted that they found the Universal Naturist Symbol useful in secretly broadcasting in the social circle.

• Survey #7 - Destination review consumption behavior of nudist travelers or enthusiasts - Need to conduct this survey again on SurveyMonkey, because participation was poor via direct survey on Reddit.

• Survey #6b - Which is your home country? - USA constituted 36% and India, Canada, Netherlands 9% each.

• Survey #6a - What is your gender? - 88.7% were cis-men and only 1.5% cis-women. Non binary/trans constituted 6% and couples were only 3.8%.

• Survey - What best describes your sexual orientation? - Survey was closed mid way by the moderators, however, in many later surveys, we subtly asked this question, along with gender and collected results.

• Survey #5 - Do you agree that nudist destination reviews with visitor stats in consolidated bullet points are going to make it easier for travelers to plan their next travel destination? - 82% voters agreed.

• Survey #4 - Which gender do you think would benefit more from promotion of gender balance in nudist destinations? - 36% voted for women and 11% for men while the majority voted for both.

 

• Survey #3 - Ranking countries on Overall Nudism Index - out of a total score of 9 - UK emerged on top, followed by Netherlands & Sweden, but the number of participants were very limited for each country.

• Survey#2 - Would you support a project which focuses on providing visitor stats from nudist destinations? - 87% voted in favor of supporting a project which focuses on providing visitor stats from nudist destinations.

• Survey #1 What are some pressing concerns faced by or some causes dear to nudism enthusiasts?  - 30% voted for Legalising public nudism in their country as the most pressing concern. 

Additional surveys

• Would Twitter be more inclusive about nudism now that Elon Musk has taken over? Only 25% felt yes. And now the deal also has a lot of uncertainity. 

• Who would be your favorite lead pair for a Bollywood film on nudism? Gulshan Devaiah and Kirti Kulhari, Ranveer Singh and Sanya Malhotra came out as some recommendations.

• Revealing that one is a nudist/nudism enthusiast in an arranged marriage scenario - when is the best time to reveal? 55% people, in r/Arrangedmarriage voted for revealing in the initial phase, i.e. when getting to know each other. Unfortunately, the post was removed by the moderators while the survey was running. It's worth noting that even this survey on Open marriages, which involves having sex with other people while being married, was not removed.

• Should we launch our one-of-a-kind "Happy Nude Year - 2022" calendar in the following languages - 
• French? - 100% people voted in favour.
• Portuguese? - 100% people voted in favour.

Results of Reddit Survey #10 - Online platforms and gender inclusiveness

Due to Instagram and Facebook's policies, many nudist initiatives face issues as they get banned. We came to know that one of our dear friends, The Universal Naturist Symbol, also got banned on Instagram, even without posting any nude pics. This means not only showing nude pics, but promoting the concept of nudism could also lead to one getting banned.

As a result, many initiatives boycott Instagram and some even protest against them. They move to platforms like Mewe.

Few days back, we conducted this survey on Reddit, to look at the bigger picture of such protests and what the community could be losing out on. One such important topic is gender ratio of participants and the scarcity of nudist women.

In this blog post, we present the complete results. Following shows the gender of the participants - 

 

In the following sections, we display all the question wise results, categorised under the following headings - 

 1. Overall Response

2. Responses by females

3. Responses by males

4. Responses by trans females 

5. Responses by couples.  

1. Overall Response

        6. Which is your country?

                 2. Responses by females

3. Responses by males

4. Responses of trans females

                       5. Responses by couples