I enjoy visiting a site on the internet called religioustolerance.org because it has a very deep library of information about world religions. I once had to learn a lot about Druze, a small Islamic group; in a hurry and religioustolerance.org was the best resource I could locate. It has helped me to get a clearer idea about my own beliefs as well as those of others. What brings me to mention it now is the article I found buried in a link to Nudism (check out the pictures of bare chicks they have posted!) that mentions a survey of older Americans interested in visiting a nudist resort. The older Americans were the 45- 54 year olds! I haven’t got the slightest qualm about getting your grand slam breakfast for a discount when you turn 55, I don’t even mind getting my AARP membership invitation at 50. But 45? Back when there was a nudist club in LA County the membership seemed to be split about evenly under and over 50. The president and founder was 75 when I met him and he was by no means the oldest guy there. I have also been to some places in the Caribbean where the spring break crowd were the norm, but that is a totally different milieu. My only current contact in the nudist world is a 60+ woman who reports that it is still a family recreational lifestyle. Kids and grandparents and the safest place in the world to be. “The core group is elderly.” She tells me. (Elderly usually means 10 years older than whoever is talking.) I’m not trying to encourage anyone to do anything they might feel bad about later but maybe this should be a topic at the Healthy Thursday series.