South Florida's independent source of local news and culture. Liz Tracy April 23, AM. The drive out to Sunsport Gardens, a family naturist resort near Wellington, was an exercise in endurance. Finally off the Turnpike, one thunderstorm later, and somewhere near the Everglades, I passed a sign for a gun show, drove by a Starbucks and Jamba Juice.
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Tallahassee Naturally
For 10 years, young people ages 11 to 18 have gathered in Pasco and other Florida counties to swat volleyballs and sing around campfires. Mark Foley, one of Washington's leading advocates for missing and exploited kids, doesn't like the idea of a clothes-free camp for teenagers. After reading a story Wednesday in the New York Times, he decided to raise a fuss. Foley, running for the U. Senate seat held by Bob Graham, plans to deliver letters today to Gov. Foley said the camp, sponsored by the American Association for Nude Recreation, appears to exploit children to make money. The camps operate under a Florida law that allows people to be nude as long as they're not lewd. Foley wonders if state statutes should change. Thus the letters to Bush and Crist. The adult nudists who run the camps say they teach teenagers healthy lessons about accepting their sometimes awkward adolescent bodies.
Naturist camps provide for people who adhere to the cultural movement of naturism--the advocacy of private and public nudity. Naturist camps for children give young adolescents the opportunity to socially interact with others who share the naturist lifestyle as well as camping in the great outdoors. Many naturist camps believe that public social nudity teaches children body acceptance. Sunsport Gardens Family Naturist Resort has provided a campground for naturists since the late s. The resort offers a youth program each summer for children 18 and younger.
