That is right, there is something about naturists and towels...

According to Douglas Adam's "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" the most useful thing when hitchhiking around the world is a towel.

For naturists the most important "clothing" when you are at a resort or a campingsite also is a towel. The towel is for hygienic reasons used to sit or lay on, it can be used to cover an erection and it can even be used to dry you after swimming.

So yes, naturists do almost always carry a piece of clothing when "running around naked" - it might be a plain towel or a more fancy sarong or pareo.

Very unpleasant things may happen when a naturist forgets his towel/imagesl. Read this article .

Being a naturist is first of all a matter of lifestyle, not wether you are member of a certain club. You can easily bath naked from a Danish beach, or walk around naked at home cleaning or cooking without a member-card.

But if you choose to join a club, it can give you a lot of advantages. On the one hand you will get the opportunity to meed other naturists in a safe environment, and on the other hand you may acheive rebates on different events and on camping sites.

You membership is not unimportant for the club or organisation you choose to join. Your membership fee will raise the clubs possibillities to work for naturism, and a greater number of members gives the organisation a greater weight when talking to press or authorities.

So the answer to the question is, t/imageshat although it is not directly nessecary, you should join a club in order to strengthen naturism and enhance everybodys possibillities of living the naked life.

{mosimage}The "INF-card" is a card that proves the membership of an organistaion that is associated to the International Naturist Federation (INF) . In Denmark the INF-card is issued to members of Dansk Naturist Union (DNU).

Wether you need the card or not, depends on how you want to live the naturist life. There is free access to all Danish beaches - whatever you are member of the one or the other organisation or you are on your own. On the Danish naturist campings you can also check in as a normal camper without the card, but on the six places that are member of DNU the cart will give you some discount.

If you travel abroad things looks a bit different. If you ar/imagese travelling as a family, you are welcome almost everywhere without the card, but if you are a single man without the card, you might find the gate closed in many places where you would be welcomed with the card.

If you travel without the INF-card it is always to take contact to the accomodations you want to visit before you arrive.

If you travel with i.e. Rassol Rejser, their catalog will inform you about places that demand the card.

It is not simple to answer this qustion. There is no doubt that the limited number of naturist in Danmark would have more influence if they were united, but that is not how things look like right now. On the other hand the two Danish organisations complement each other quite good.

Dansk Naturist Union (DNU)Dansk Naturist Union (DNU) is the old traditional naturist organisation, and they represent Danmark in the International Naturist Federatio/images/images/imagesn (INF). DNU is organized with a number of local clubs of which six are running naturist campings. That is why activities in DNU are closely connected to campihg.

Selv om DNU's formål bl.a. er at "at virke for accept og udbredelse af naturismens idé" ville det nok være synd at hævde at DNU har markeret sig tydeligt i medierne i de sidste mange år.

Danske Naturister (DN)Danske Naturister (DN) is not an old organisation. It was founded in the year 2000 as Danske Unge Naturister (DUN). In 2003 the name was changed to Danske Naturister while Danske Unge Naturister became the name of an activity-group inside DN. DN has numerous local clubs (all non-landed) which arranges naturist-swimming in local swimming facilities during winter. DN is not directly involved in running camping sites, but two of the largest Danish naturist campings has left DNU and is now collaborating with DN. DN is working on spreading accept and knowledge about naturism, and has amongst other things published the book "Nøgen Naturligvis!", they has participated in founding the first and only Danish travel agency for naturist recreation Rassol Travel. DN is promoting skinny-dipping in Denmark, and is running the internet-service strandguide.dk. Futhermore DN is running some open internet-forums about naturism.