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HCN's public informational meetings are held once per month in Austin to help inform the public about nudism and naturism, what we are about and how we benefit the community and society in general.
They include information about nudism-related organizations and businesses and usually provide a video presentation.
The meetings are held at Mr. Natural Restaurant, 2414 S. Lamar Blvd. on the 3rd Tuesday of the month at 7:00PM.
If you are interested in nudism and have questions, this is the meeting to attend!
Hey Guys,
We know that with all the crazy things going on and up including gas and everything, we have decided to reduce our registration fee from $ 90 to $ 60 for TUG weekend in Dallas.
We just want to have a fun weekend with a bunch of naturists guys and want you to attend.
Check out our website for all the details including the link to our host hotel for a great rate.
All details are available www.DAMNmen.org
Hope to see you in Dallas, August 11-13.
Charles
DAMN, Dallas Area Male Naturists will be hosting our first male naturists gathering in Dallas, TX, August 11-13, 2006.
The weekend will kickoff on Friday with a meet and greet, several Bare As You Dare events at our host bar, the Dallas Eagle, a day trip to Circle J Ranch and Campground in Canton, TX, and a tea dance on Sunday.
Our host hotel, Crowne Plaza at Market Center, is offering a special weekend rate of $ 69 a night for attendees of TUG.
Visit our website for all the details and registration information.
www.DAMNmen.org
We look forward to seeing you naked in Dallas.
Charles N.
President
If you have visited or plan to visit a nude-friendly spot, public or otherwise, and wish to share your experiences, please consider posting your report to TexNude. We have a special section in the forum for trip reports.
If you wish to do a more in-depth article, we would be happy to post it in its own spot on the system here in Site News. Just let the administrator know.
I've taken the liberty of moving some of the trip reports posted as comments to this article over to the forum to give them greater visibility.
We recently installed a site statistics package and are happy to report that for the month of October, 2005, TexNude racked up, in very round numbers, over 600,000 visits. This is about 200,000 more than we had in August. While it doesn't seem like much when compared to the likes of Yahoo or Google, who see millions of visits per day, we are not at all unhappy with that number.
I don't really want to put too much emphasis on numbers, however because I prefer to measure TexNude's success more by the benefits it provides to nudists and prospective nudists out there.
I hope that if you find this site beneficial that you'll tell your friends about it, and if you have suggestions on how we can improve it, that you'll let us know that as well.
ben
[This story was apparently copied from a posting at http://swiftreport.blogs.com/news/2005/01/cheerleading_py.html which was intended as a rhetorical comment about the scandals associated with a certain prison in Iraq. This piece should, therefore, be considered a work of fiction. --ed]
January 12, 2005
Cheerleading Pyramid Scandal Rocks Texas Town
Members of a Texas high school cheerleading squad are facing possible suspensions after they disrobed and created a nude human pyramid during the half-time of a football game. Their lawyer says the girls shouldn't be punished for doing what cheerleaders do all the time.
Watching the performance was 'torture,' says one outraged football fan
By Cole Walters, Education Correspondent
FORT WORTH, Tex.?Twelve members of the North Hill High School cheerleading squad are facing suspensions and may be barred from attending the senior prom after they disrobed and created a nude human pyramid during the half-time performance of a football game. Their actions have scandalized their school, and have triggered soul searching within the cheerleading community about the growing practice of nude pyramid building.
The Crusaders vs. the Rebels
Once a season, the football field at North Hill High School is home to an epic battle: the Crusaders of North Hill High vs. the Midland High School Rebels. The rivalry is intense, the history bitter. Members of the North Hill cheerleading squad say that in planning their halftime performance, they wanted to give the rebels an image they'd never forget.
"We were trying to decide what to do to really teach the Rebels a lesson," says cheerleader Ashley Johnson. "Something dramatic, like a deadman," says Johnson, referring to difficult stunt in which a cheerleader flies through the air and is caught by three or four of her team members. "And we definitely wanted to attack the crowd," she says, describing the chants and cheers used to get the audience on its feet.
Get on your knees and pray
When the Crusaders took the field at half-time, the audience knew it was in for some fireworks. The Crusaders have won state and regional championships, and are known for executing their moves with military precision. The Rebels had chosen the battle with the Crusaders to debut a new cheer:
What do you do to a Crusader you meet?
You get down on your knees,
you can't pray on your feet
You ask a mighty Crusader for his mercy to give,
and maybe, just maybe (2 claps) he'll let you live!
The 12 girls ran through the cheer twice, as Crusader fans rose to their feet, applauding wildly. Then, a fateful decision: before the crowd seemed to realize what had happened, the cheerleaders had removed their skirts and monogrammed sweaters, their sport bras and undergarments known as "spankies," and formed a pyramid, a traditional cheering formation in which young women?and the occasional young man?create a human base that gradually narrows until a single cheerleader stands atop the stack.
Is it torture?
Naomi Shelton has been attending battles between the Crusaders and the Rebels for the past 15 years, and was in the crowd that night. "I was shocked to see naked bodies piled up that way. I never want to see anything like that again," says Shelton. "You want to see the Crusaders beat the Rebels but watching that performance was absolute torture."
The lawyer for the North Hill cheerleading squad, Guy Womack, has launched a spirited defense of his clients' conduct, arguing that their bare half-time performance is no different from what squads across the country do regularly. "Don't cheerleaders all over America form pyramids six to eight times a year? Is that torture?"
Support our troupes
For their part, members of the Crusaders squad say that their captain, Lori Leydon, was the brains behind the nude pyramid performance. So badly did Leydon want to humiliate the Rebels, say her fellow cheerleaders, that she abandoned standard cheerleading protocol. "She said she'd gotten the idea from TV," says Kerri Pacheco. "She said it was a totally valid thing to do since we were taking on the Rebels."
Captain Leydon isn't talking; North Hill High School officials say that Leydon may face stronger sanctions than the other cheerleaders since she appears to have been the ringleader of the halftime scandal.
Source: World Naked Gardening Day web site.
The inaugural World Naked Gardening Day will be taking place on September 10, 2005. Join fellow gardeners across North America and tend to your indoor or outdoor gardens without bothering to wear your clothes. It will be fun to "just be different" and you'll also find out how being nude can add a newfound element of joy to your daily gardening activities.
Why should you do such a crazy thing? Because it's not such a crazy thing. Just ask the owners of the Abbey House Gardens in the UK. They have received very positive feedback about their preference for gardening whilst nude. And once you look at their gorgeous gardens, you'll realize there really may be something to it!
There's new and exciting changes here at TexNude! If you been to our site before a few weeks ago, you probably have noticed that we've undergone a major revamp.
Firstly some things are not changing. We are continuing to feature listings of Nude Recreation sites in Texas as well as listings of Texas Nudist Organizations.
But now there are a lot of new features. Firstly we are starting up a Blog section where registered users can post their ramblings about this and that. Feel free to post your thoughts and feelings about current hot topics.
If you prefer a more interactive way to communicate, you might want to check our our new Forum. No one likes to chat more than nude people (for evidence of this, just visit the hot tub at just just about any Texas nudist resort!), so we now have our very own discussion forum where you can easily chat with your fellow Texas nudies! We want to encourage you all to contribute ideas about what topics and/or categries you would like to see in there, so please let us hear from you.
We also have a cool new section where you can post your trip reports or other informational articles that fellow nudies would benefit from. The TexNude admin staff will review them before posting so try to keep them on-topic.
For those of you that have the knack for writing and wish to contribute articles to the site, please contact the editor at ben@texnude.org.
If you're planning a trip to your favorite nuding spot, you may want to check up on the weather. Our weather section contains links to weather information about many different locales in Texas, so the latest information about where you're headed is available a click away.
More improvements to the site will be taking place as time permits, so check back often!
The TexNude Staff