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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
It's too bad it was cancelled, but hardly surprising. The combination of having minors in attendance and being open to the public at a public facility was never going to sit well with a lot of people. If they had either kept it a closed event, or made it 18+, I have no doubt it would still be going on.
I'm still not clear on how the publicity came about. I heard an interview on CBC the other day, and the organizer seemed to be promoting the event and encouraging new people to attend. I assumed it was a publicity ploy on the part of the nudists, who are having a lot of trouble getting people to participate in their events these days. The average age of nudist club members in North America is something like 55, and organizations have resorted to offering discounts or free membership to people under 40.
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Are they? I know very little about the movement but some googling found me this.
https://www.thestar.com/news/insight...n-america.html
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You note in your book there are more nudist camps now than ever before. That really surprised me.
Nudism cleaned itself up and became about cruise ships and spa-like resorts where you could have a sauna or a massage. Older camps that were rustic and about nature started to go out of business as high-class nudist resorts were established.
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There's articles like this that indicate that membership is dropping:
http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/356531
Yet other articles like this stating that it's increasing:
http://observer.com/2015/07/naked-in...ng-it-all-off/
It seems to me that the decline in membership in the largely retirement activity based AANR is being made up by young people doing things young people like to do. But naked.