 two
years ago Karl
Maddocks created
Skinbook, a website that claimed to be the world's largest nudist
social network. Thousands of people have flocked to the site that has
many of the same features and functions as Facebook — except everyone on
it was naked.
Skinbook saw itself as a safe haven for those intrigued about
stripping off in public, but without having to meet the strict
regulations of many nudist clubs. It did have some rules though. Blank
profiles were not accepted, or overtly sexual chatter. The site claims to
have had 150,000 applicants but only 10% made the grade.
But now the Skinbook experiment seems to have come
to a bitter end.
As a network set up to be apart from the
existing naturist and nudist organizations, Skinbook BY DESIGN was
divisive. In a Time Magazine article, which claimed that Skinbook was
the only genuine nudist social network, Maddocks is quoted as
being repulsed by single elderly guys in sandals and socks,
clearly drawing some sort of line in the sand between young and old,
labeling existing nudist resorts as being cultish and weird.
In addition, Skinbook only accepted 10% of its
applicants, certainly rejecting a lot of real nudists. One has to
speculate whether or not their membership, which they claimed averaged
between 35 and 40 years of age, was deliberately skewed by the
administrators.
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