I smiled like an idiot back at him, and he started talking about his ex-girlfriend, and the problems he was having with her. When he turned and smiled at me, it melted me. The type of green that even a cat would envy. He had waist long dark hair, and beautiful green eyes. And for the first time in 18 years, I saw him. Now, I had never considered myself bisexual by any stretch of the imagination, so it surprised me quite a bit when I watched Daniel, admiring his form as he tied his laces. I sat on the step next to him, and watched him. We walked for a bit, not talking much, mostly just looking around.ĭaniel sat down on the steps of an old abandoned cabin and started tying his shoe laces.
One night however, Daniel and I decided to take a walk to see if we could find anything interesting, like a snake or multicoloured frog, anything out of the normal. He would let us smoke, drink and whatever we wanted as long as we stayed in the cabin and no one else found out about it. Now you might think we were a little old for a summer camp, but this camp was geared towards art, literature, and for fun, sports. Each cabin held four guys, and a counsellor. We spent most of the time on the bus playing cards, and joking around as usual.Īs luck would have it, we got to be in the same cabin. My mother dropped us both off, gave us hugs and sent us on our way to catch the bus. In fact when I asked him, his eyes lit up and he started packing right away. He was happy to go with me, not having too many opportunities as his family wasn't getting by well at all financially. Our mothers had decided that year to send us both to summer camp, as my mother was having marital problems and needed time to reconcile with my dad, and she offered to pay for Daniel to come with me, which was bonus, as I didn't really want to spend all summer with complete strangers. We had went to movies together, played football together, done everything together, but not once had I ever thought of him as more than a friend. Six years later i took a mixed youth club to camp there, but times had changed and i already knew that the early morning swim sessions had stopped and the pool didn't open until mid-morning.I had grown up with Daniel, a close friend of mine, not even a year younger than I. But they, and the few boys who didn't want to swim nude, were able to go swimming with us on days when we all went to the pool again in the afternoon when swim trunks had to be worn. Two of my assistant leaders had sons in the Troop and were very happy for them to go to the early morning nude swim, although they themselves chose not to. Lo and behold, the majority of them were up and ready to swim at 7am every morning that week, and it was obviously popular because there were always lots of others in the pool too. I was already used to swimming naked at naturist clubs so i volunteered to go to the early morning swims if any of our boys wanted to go. In 1976 i took a Scout Troop to a large site in Kent for summer camp, and on arrival we discovered that early morning in the indoor pool was designated as male nude swimming. We may bad able to offer our experience to help you with anything that you are struggling with and better prepare you.
If you are a scout feel free to share your experiences with us. It may help bring hope back to the idea that humanity isn't completely paranoid. I would like to hear it and so might others. If you have a recent experience with this and I mean like within the past 15 years please share it. It is to sad that basically that no longer is allowed by today's standards but I would be willing to bet that if a camp were to offer it boys would go or a least the parents would. Now that would have been the greatest thing ever to go to. Other things I have read were that some camps had a time in the morning for nude swimming. If I was freeballing at the time I was in scouts I definitely would do it there.
Plus for those who are freeballing at home to is a great way to extend the experience. So it is mainly boys around so less likely to be embarrassed. There are rarely ever any girls around and usually the dads are the ones at the meetings more. I have read many stories about people that freeballed in scouts recently and it got me thinking Boy Scouts would be a perfect time for boys considering freeballing to try it. Back when I was in scouts I hadn't heard of freeballing yet.