What sort of people are members of STAN?
Visiting STAN is really just like going to any other social activity, like going to a restaurant or to church. You’ll meet lots of families, lots of children, and lots of singles. Nudists include every major religious denomination, the entire political spectrum, all ages from newborn to elderly; all shapes, sizes, and physical conditions including missing body parts, all educational levels, and all races, brown, black, white, yellow, and pink. We have jobs, we commute, we complain about traffic, we pay our bills and we pay our taxes, we vote, we send our kids to school and worry about their safety, we shop at the same stores you do. We put our pants on one leg at a time (but of course we also take them off one leg at a time). The one thing that can accurately be said about all of us is that we are very accepting of nude bodies — our own and others’ — just the way we are. This can be wonderfully therapeutic, especially for those whose body image is poor. People have told us that the f
