National Nude Day

These silly random holidays always have a way of sneaking up on me when I least expect it, and today (July 14) is apparently National Nude Day!

I don't widely publicize it, on this blog especially, but one of the 'two main pillars' of my life (in terms of how much time I spent invested in it, and the things I am the most well-known for in some circles online) -- besides for example my interest in chatbots and my RiveScript chatbot scripting language -- is that I am a nudist.

Don't worry: I won't be linking to any of my nude socials from this site, though I do the opposite quite regularly. My friends in the nudist world have the privilege to see a much fuller and more authentic version of me (mind, body and soul), and I do frequently link to my personal websites like Kirsle.net from over there, even with my real full name attached to these pages!

Despite being a social introvert, I am not shy about my nudism and in fact I found the lifestyle to be extremely beneficial towards building up my self-confidence and tearing down my anxieties. Back when I was a teenager, I was so self-conscious and reserved and anxious for days to even exist in the world, and I owe a ton of my progress towards self-acceptance to my experiences with the online nude communities.

Speaking of shyness (or lack of), one of my most successful side projects in recent years is a social networking site I built for nudists & exhibitionists called nonshy. I launched it back in August of 2022, and without even doing much to advertise it, the community grew purely by word of mouth to over 12,000 members now. After I was laid off from my day job in Big Tech early this year, I established a business of my own in order to monetize nonshy and that has been going very well! I wrote my story about this project recently, in "high level" and generic terms, on my previous blog post if you'd like to read more about that!

Let me know if you'd like to hear more about this from me! I could talk more about it (again, in 'high level' and 'safe for work' terms here on my blog), about my experiences with anxiety and how everybody important in my life came to find out about this at varying points in time (and about how nobody actually really cares at all about it -- even when I've had co-workers stumble upon these profiles of mine online!) I write a lot about personal topics like this as well on my other blog, which I don't mind sharing a link to if you ask me in private!