Alternative Lifestyle Vocabulary

These are some common terms that you’ll see referenced on our blog, for first timers the lingo may seem intimidating, so we created a list for beginners, its subject to change and will grow…

Nudists/Nudism : a nudist is someone who embraces a completely nude lifestyle as the social norm, nudists have many reasons for being nude some of which include comfort, acceptance and self confidence

Naturist/Naturism: similar to a nudist, except that they embrace nature as a part of their culture and believe that social nudism is embracing a more natural way of living

Polyamory/Poly-folk: the belief that you can love more than one person in contrast to swinging where the “love” stays within the relationship and only the sex is shared

Swingers/Swinging: a practice where married or long-term couples will swap or share partners in sexual intercourse, swingers believe that you can have sexual relations with other people but give your love to one person

Paganism: paganism is a generalized/umbrella term that encompasses many earth based religions and spiritualities and often employs the idea of animism (The doctrine that all natural objects and the universe itself have souls), some examples of cultures that have a pagan spirituality are Native Americans, pre-christian Celtics, as with most other indigenous and pre-christian cultures