Want to swim in some of the cleanest pools around?
Go to a nudist club.
Swimming without a suit is one of the most popular clothes-free pastimes, for good reason. Regardless of your gender, wearing something to get in the water is just bothersome.
(I’m referring to water which is conducive to swimming, floating, or just plain splashing around. Surfers in some of the Pacific Ocean coastal areas wearing wetsuits makes perfect sense to me. That water can be chilly cold practically year-round.)
You can do an online search and find numerous articles or blog posts about the benefits of swimming nude so I won’t rehash any of those points here.
There are, however, two more benefits to using the pools or spas at nudist/clothing optional/AANR places.
Any club worth its salt will require that people shower before they enter the pool. Many people may think about this and come to the conclusion that it makes sense. A brief shower will remove sweat, oils, and lotions off one’s corpus delicti and consequently yours and other peoples’ crud don’t wind up in the pool water.
Yet there’s more to this. A very important reason more.
Warning to overtly-sensitive readers: The next paragraphs may be considered quite gross.
To borrow from the title of a well-known book: Everyone poops.
Here in civilized society, after we poop we use toilet paper or perhaps even flushable wipes to clean up after doing our business. However…these don’t always get…everything.
And so, should people get in a swimming pool without showering first, it is highly likely that minute amounts of fecal matter and associated residue (I warned you this would be gross) wind up in the pool water.
That is concerning. Now some of you might be reading this and thinking: “The pool is chlorinated, that should kill anything harmful to me.”
Not necessarily. If you’re curious you can do an online search and learn that while chlorine is good for neutralizing quite a few baddies, it can take some time to kill others, such as crypto parasite. Best to just shower, including washing your genital and anal area to keep the water as good as it can be.
The second thing that keeps nudist-resort pool or spa water pristine is no detergent residue. Often swimsuits get washed and the resulting soap that remains will inevitably wind up in whichever body of water the swimsuit-clad person uses. I remember staying at a hotel some years ago, which had an indoor pool and hot tub/spa. (This was a higher-end hotel, with nothing that would be considered “sketch.”) The spa had what I thought was a significant amount of foam, more so than you’d expect. The suds even stayed around when the jets were off. It wasn’t until much later that I realized this was very likely the accumulation of many days’ worth of detergent from people’s suits.
Kinda gross.
So rest assured, come to Oakwood and enjoy a great swimming pool experience! You’ll be glad you did.
But please shower first.
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