Nudists having trouble recruiting younger members

A change from the dreary and boring world of politics.

So if you're young, why would you want to hang out with fat, old people wno don't wear clothes?

It's a San Francisco newspaper of course …

Old nudists struggling to recruit nakedness-averse millennials

"It's an older group, and I don't know why, but it tends to stay an older group," nudist Linda Kent, 65, told CBC News. "People who join tend to be older."

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The naturist movement has been dealing with declining membership for some time. In 2007, the American Association for Nude Recreation estimated that 90-percent of its 50,000 members were over the age of 35. Many nudist colonies have tried marketing specifically to 18-35 year olds, but their numbers are still faltering.

An article in Tan, an Australian naturist magazine, speculates that Gen X and Yers don't like "formal, group activities" and are afraid of being outed as nudists on social media. 

But most importantly, a lack of young people has caused a real manpower crisis in nudist colonies.