Camming on Strong!

By     In which I enter a "nudist" web-cam room and see more than I bargained for!

You know me. Your intrepid reporter. Always ready to bare all for a good naturist story. Not that it doesn't get embarrassing sometimes, even for a dyed-in-the-wool nudist like me.

There was the time, for instance, when I was stranded on a Spanish beach, alone and stark naked whilst a boat full of astounded holidaymakers slid slowly past. I effected a nonchalant wave, whilst cameras flashed and videos rolled and gleeful cries of "great jugs, girl!" echoed around the rocks.

And I'll never live down the occasion when I was arrested for cycling round a village green in the early hours, clad only in boots, knickers and a Santa hat.

Both events are chronicled in past "Nude Perspective" articles somewhere. You may remember them.

But one of my most excruciating experiences happened right here, in the office. And I didn't even lose my clothes.

Diane and I had been considering how new technology could be used to further the naturist cause. We had heard of web-cam rooms -chat rooms in which you can see and be seen by other members of the room with web-cams - and as these seem to offer opportunities for world-wide nudist contact we decided to check them out. After a little research we found one which, after registering and downloading a small piece of software, we joined.

For the sake of brevity I'm going to assume that you're all familiar with chat rooms. A web-cam room is a chat room with camera access. Users who are broadcasting their cams to the room have a camera icon next to their name. If you click on this icon you'll see the user. If you have a cam installed on your system, you can click on a button and broadcast your web-cam to the group, who can then see you by clicking on the camera icon next to your username.

All clear so far?

OK. On with the tale. We register our user name as Li_Di (LI z and DI ane, gettit?) and enter the room. There are about 45 "roomies" online, most of who are on camera. We view each of our new chums by clicking on their camera icons.

There is one female, who calls herself "Alicecam". She is middle aged and quite attractive. She is certainly topless, and seems to be naked, but as she is seated it is difficult to tell.

All the others are male, some of who are dressed, others apparently nude and several have cameras pointed at a specific part of their anatomy (and seem to be rather excited at the situation, if you catch my drift). We wonder if things are going
to be quite what we expected, but decide to see this thing through. After a final check of the hair and make-up, we start publishing our cam to the group and enter the fray. 

Below is a very brief transcript of what passed. I've changed the names slightly, corrected the spelling and grammar, and edited out superfluous dialogue, otherwise it's pretty much as it happened. I've shown our contributions in capitals (remember we are LI_DI) and for additional clarity I've added some comments in
parenthesis.

This is how it went...

Sad isn't it? The way that those who think that naturism is just another name for exhibitionism and pornography have hijacked such a fabulous platform for real nudist communication and turned it into a peep-show. 

I've said it many times before, and I'll keep on saying it. We're losing the battle against these people, and it's time we fought back. Maybe we should set an example. Perhaps the Nude Cafe crew should open a web-cam room for subscribers where we could all meet face-to face, as it were. It could be great fun. Mind you, Shamus_106 and the others raised an interesting point.

Supposing we did open a nudist web-cam room, should we expect the participants to be naked?

Personally I can't help thinking that it comes close to exhibitionism and voyeurism. If you were on the phone with a nudist friend, you wouldn't undress just because you were discussing naturism would you? So why get naked just because you
can see each other?

On the other hand, we undress at our clubs and in other social situations precisely because we are together, don't we? So why not? 

Hmm .. I'll have to think about that, although I can already see that being nude on cam offers one clear advantage.

It would stop all the questions about my underwear!

'Til next time,

Liz

Related links:
Anywebcam webcamrooms.  An active, online community web site where real people interact in real-time with live video text and voice chat. Try it if you want, but BE WARNED from our experience - you are liable to  encounter much "adult" stuff!

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