Tony and Lenore Fox, owners of The White Cockatoo Resort.
The owners of The White Cockatoo Club in Queensland Australia- once billed as the nation’s top-spot for group sex and swingers -are planning an adults-only month of hedonism for March next year in a bid to increase dwindling tourist numbers.
Tony and Lenore Fox said the resort was close to being booked out.
“Tough economic times call for stiff measures,” Mr Fox was quoted as saying. “We’re not using the words sex or swingers, but it doesn’t take rocket science to work out what it means.”
Since taking over the resort some years ago the owners have attracted a certain amount of controversy and this isn’t the first time the resort has hit the headlines.
Three years ago, it put a ban on swingers’ parties after a string of out-of-control romps between couples and groups.
Although the plan has the support of Cairns Regional Mayor Val Schier, it has enraged Australian nudists.
“This is going to fly in the face of years of campaigning,” said Lindsay Parkyns, president of the Australian Nudist Federation. “We try to get beaches to be clothes optional but unfortunately that attracts the wrong sort of people – particularly single guys looking for sex – and [the resort's party] will keep reinforcing that problem.”
I share Mr Parkyns concerns but with respect I think he is trying to hit the wrong ball and in doing so has made matters worse.
The White Cockatoo Club doesn’t claim to be a “nudist” club. It is not affiliated to the Australian Nudist Federation, the INF or any other official naturist body. Its website makes it clear that it is a commercial resort catering to three distinct markets, nudist, family and adults only, (which is an interesting business model but a potential source of great embarrassment should you get your dates mixed up!), and to call it a nudist resort because it sometimes opens up its facilities to nudists is like calling the US Air Force a charity because it sometimes drops aid parcels to the needy.
In fact the only people calling the White Cockatoo a nudist resort are the press,and, inadvertently by implication, Mr Parkyns.
The problem is that we’ve lost control of the words nudist and naturist. Nearly every sex and swingers club on the Internet calls itself nudist, as do sites featuring explicit nude photos, exhibitionism, voyeurism and who knows what else. Neither the media nor the general public draws a distinction between them and genuine nudist resources. “Nudist” has become a convenient peg on which to hang all sorts of deviant behaviour, and genuine nudists have suffered by association.
Instead of railing against those resorts who are merely trying to stay in business in difficult times, we should distance ourselves from them and make it quite clear that though they, or the media may call themselves nudist, they are in fact nothing to do with us.
It’s high time time we reclaimed the term “nudist’ for ourselves.
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That man peeved me so much. I totally enjoy being free of the clothes that make people different from others. Some years back .. I was in a relationship with a woman who was very nervous. We lived in FNQ .. so .. I thought … why not go a nude resort? I have regretted it since. My girlfriend was very very nervous about getting naked in front of others but … she did it … FOR ME. Just a day trip .. but … HE TURNED INTO A NIGHTMARE. I can not believe this but he .. ridiculed my partner’s body. ‘With a body like that it should be covered” … his words. Suffice to say we left and words were exchanged. Upon getting into the car I informed Mr Fox that I would be advising the ANF of the incident and .. get this .. he literally chased my car as we drove off, throwing rocks. I wish him all the … WORST !!!!!!!!!