I don’t generally write about celebrities here, even those who talk about loving being naked. It seems to be kind of a common party game on naturist blogs and forums to come up with lists of “naturist celebrities” based on some offhand comment said celebrities made. I don’t think there’s much point in obsessing over celebrities generally, but there’s especially no point in taking things they say to the press and ascribing some sort of naturist intent to them. We don’t know what they really mean, after all.

So this “celebrity likes being naked/wants to be naked” post is a little different. Rashida Jones, of the TV show Parks and Recreation, recently told Playboy that if she could be anonymous for a day, “Streaking through a large crowd has always been a secret fantasy of mine… Disneyland would be fun. Or maybe just showing up at the Apple Store naked and picking up an iPod shuffle and pretending nothing was wrong or different.” Rather than adding her to one of those lists I was talking about, or debating whether streaking is really naturist at all, let’s look at the “fantasy” angle.

I don’t have the statistics to back this up, but I’m willing to bet that a lot of people fantasize about being able to take off all their clothes and just be nude – maybe not at Disneyland, or the Apple Store, but at least in some place where they can’t be nude regularly. There’s something very appealing, after all, about casting off all that clothing and just feeling free to run around naked like so many of us did when we were kids. Maybe you don’t want to do it all the time. Maybe just having the chance to do it once and “get it out of your system” is all you need. But it’s probably a dream for a lot of people.

Naturists, if you think about it, are people who get to live this dream.They get to take the fantasy and make it reality. And, to use Rashida Jones’ words, they don’t have to pretend “nothing [is] wrong or different”. Again, a nude trip to the Apple Store is probably not on any naturist’s agenda. But a trip to the beach, or the lake, or the mountains, or some other place where it just makes sense to be nude is definitely on the agenda. And when you’re doing it with other naturists, you’re not wrong, and you’re not different. In fact, given the cases of mistaken identity Ms. Jones describes in the article, maybe even she could “blend in” in a naturist setting.

If this is your fantasy, think about making it reality at your local naturist club. It’s a nice fantasy, to be sure, but I bet you’ll find that nothing beats the real thing.