Happy Naturists: Natural Nude Living in Ukraine

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Lupakova, 47, started to explore nudism in the late 1990s when her boss asked her to join him and his family at one of the nudist beaches. She thought he was out of his mind. Kyiv’s least crowded nudist beach is located on Redkino Lake, near the Heroiv Dnipra Metro station. To reach the beach, one must start at Obolon embankment and walk north, then turn right and keep walking along the water. The nudist beach is behind the yacht club. It takes over 30 minutes of walking. When I first met my partner Steve, who was already a naturist, I thought he was a weirdo. But after talking about it I thought I’d take the plunge.

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Another way is to cross the pedestrian bridge to Trukhaniv Island and walk to the south end of the island (45 minutes) or ride there by bicycle (20 minutes). Ms Craigie accepts, though, that her's is a lifestyle choice not everyone will agree with or want to take part in. "Part of my duties as the Saner youth officer is to try to get more young people involved. But I'm not here to be bothered by anyone if they say I shouldn't be doing this. I see that as their opinion, but that I'd rather they kept it to themselves."

This nearly wild nudist beach is located on the left bank of Dnipro River, on the Obolon embankment. Heroiv Dnipra and Minska are the closest metro stations.

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Lupakova says it is not completely forbidden to take pictures at nudist beaches. However, she also says that none of the nudists appreciate being photographed while naked, especially by strangers. There’s been a huge spike in nudist events, including naked yoga, buff baking and bike rides, and skinny dips, with more and more businesses curating specialist naturist events to bring in the buff pound. She added: "Ever since I started going my confidence has gone sky-high. Now I worry about what clothes I'm wearing and what people will think about them – I'm more worried about my clothes than I am about being naked. It's really sent my confidence sky high and people there are really nice." There are also more young people at Ukrainian nudist beaches than at European ones, where the visitors more often tend to be retirees. We went to the sand dunes on Studland Beach in Dorset, and I just saw other people doing it, so I put the towel down and thought, ‘Sod it. Dress off’, and I sat on the towel in the sun.

Her own friends, who don't attend naturist activities with her, have been supportive. She added: "My friends that I have told have said it's amazing and I must have a lot of courage for doing it and they are quite supportive. They say 'good on you', but they say they wouldn't have the courage to do it." Ms Craigie, who starts her first year at the city's Anniesland College studying British sign language this autumn, said going nude at naturist camps has given her more self-confidence. Now, she has been a nudist for nearly 30 years and regularly visits nudist beaches in Kyiv and worldwide. She has also traveled to nudist beaches in Bulgaria. But her favorite one was in Crimea, where she used to go before Russia illegally annexed the peninsula in 2014.

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An Ipsos poll for British Naturism found 14% of adults – equating to 6.75 million – describe themselves as Naturists or Nudists. In a similar poll in 2011, it was 6%, or 3.7 million. The beach is hidden behind the trees and bushes. Like Dovbychka, the Obolon beach has no toilets, shops or cafes nearby. Experienced visitors recommend purchasing everything you need in advance. This beach is also clean. However, due to the dense vegetation, it might be difficult to find a place to lie down. A 2020 study by Dr Keon West from Goldsmiths University on the effects of naturism on body image, self-esteem and life satisfaction found “nudity-based interventions can meaningfully and enduringly improve body image and related outcomes.”He says: “Nudity has nothing to do with sex. It’s just about being exposed to the air and feeling free.” A: Thank you. It’s such a comfort when loved ones rise to the challenge and surprise you in a good way. I thought, ‘It doesn’t get any better than this’, and I had no embarrassment whatsoever because I knew nobody was looking. They weren’t bothered. Not bothered one bit.

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Some people also support nudism as a culture. Most often, the people at nudist beaches have no “spiritual goals” for their time in the nude. They just want to enjoy nature and relax. Moreover, nudist beaches are usually less crowded and, therefore, much cleaner than regular ones. Helen embraced her, “scars and wobbles” and decided to join her husband at a “normalising nudity” project Telford Naturist Club have approximately 26 acres of woodland which are continually managed by club members to provide a valuable haven for wildlife and fauna. Amid the maelstrom of the Trump-impeachment proceedings, Ukraine has been less a reality than a projection of America’s post-Cold War neuroses. Although we have learned something about Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukraine’s neophyte President, there has been very little said about the lived experiences of the country’s nearly forty-four million people. After 15 minutes of hesitation, Andreiev finally took his clothes off and realized why so many people enjoy visiting nudist beaches: he suddenly felt relaxed and free.But when I went swimming naked for the first time in my life, I just felt so happy and free like I had never felt before,” Lupakova says. Andreiev says he no longer feels comfortable wearing a swimsuit to beaches and rarely visits the ones where he cannot take his clothes off. To find out I abandon clothing for an afternoon at one of Britain’s most popular naturism clubs, Sunfolk, just outside St Albans in Hertfordshire. A: ALS is one of the cruelest diseases, and watching your wife slowly wither away is agony. You are in the prime of life, and it’s understandable that two years into this terrible, ultimately fatal illness, you are being torn apart by a perfectly normal desire for someone else. However, what’s happening is wrong, and the nurse, once she recognized that she was feeling an attraction to you, should not have responded positively to your feelers, but should have shut it down, and if necessary said she needed to find you a substitute. (I say all this knowing that Stephen Hawking, who suffers from ALS, left his wife for his nurse.) I understand people who are caring for a slowly dying spouse who seek the comfort of someone else while continuing to care for their loved one. But you are talking about carrying on an affair with your wife’s nurse and that’s not right. Carrying on with someone who is intimately caring for your dying wife is a violation that will taint both of you.