I had an article published in the last issue of “N” Magazine, the quarterly for The Naturist Society Foundation. TNS is one of two primary naturist organizations in the United States, kind of like British Naturism (BN). Their publication is excellent naturist reading, if you’d like to invest in a copy, or membership.
I sent some illustration photos with it, as usual. Then one day, I got a message. They wanted to use one of my photos for the cover! Flattery will get you somewhere quite often, “Sure, let me okay with DF.”
When I called up DF, I sang “The Cover of the Rolling Stone” Doctor Hook’s old song (written by Shel Silverstein) about a rock band getting on the mag’s cover. She had heard this before and knew what it meant. Once, or twice, she had been in a group gathering photo on the cover and I had sung it to kid her.
Gotta love the Nick Jagger parody.
One other time, my body had been edited out of a photo and that cover featured her backside in front of an Arizona vista. Each time, I kidded her with the comical song. This cover would feature her smiling identifiable face nude in Utah. It would go with the article that I wrote about nude travel in the region.
Our nude images have been in the pages of the magazine numerous times over the years. The first times that I had sung the song her alarmed eyes got big, “wha?” This time she just shrugged her shoulders with a grin, giving me a nonchalant, “sure.”
My image had also been on the heading for their website http://www.naturistsociety.com and I was like a Mr. March, or something, in one of their calendars, but still, to me, there’s something very cool about a magazine cover photo.
Here are photos of the cover and the article.
The text and those photos follow further into this post. I had to wait to publish here, until the issue was established for exclusivity. The new edition just came out. I have two more articles in the new issue; one about desert nude gardening and one addressing killer bees during naked hiking. Eventually, they will also turn up here.
From, “N”: The Magazine of Naturist Living.
Vol. 44 Issue 2 Spring 2025
Published by the Naturist Society Foundation, Inc.
“Naturally Nude in Bears Ears National Monument”
Last June/ July, we visited Bears Ears National Monument for the first time. DF and I packed my SUV to the brim and drove up from Tucson freely nude. The wide open spaces just continued to expand.
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