Sex Positive St. Louis Tries Out “Clothing Optional” Bowling Party

Sex Positive St. Louis is an organization that is trying to shine a light on the positives of sex, and one tactic they recently tried out was a "clothing optional" bowling party.

The event, covered by the Riverfront Times (link below), was held at the now-defunct Carriage Bowl in St. Louis, which allegedly used to have naked bowling parties back in the day. The outing  looked to be an arousing success, with around 30 nude or nearly nude (but not never nude) attendees.

Co-organizer David Wraith explained the "gray area" in which nudists currently find themselves between fetishism and voyeurism thusly,

I'm not sure how I would define it in those terms. Personally, I am an exhibitionist and I am a voyeur, and I feel comfortable around naked people. There are those that say that nudism is absolutely not about sex, and I think that's kind of bullshit, honestly. I don't think it's all about sex, but I don't think you can say that anything is absolutely, 100 percent not about sex.

One Soviet-born attendee also talked about his "coming-out" as a nudist, so to speak, nearly four years ago,

"I remember it to the day," he trills, describing the transformative moment when he first disrobed at a nude beach in Riga, Latvia. "August the 31st, 2010. It was the day I turned. Once you turn, once you first take your clothes off in front of other nudists you kind of realize that it was such an artificial barrier. And afterwards, you can't go back. When you go to a regular beach or to a regular pool, you'll be like, 'Why are people wearing all this?'"

Those of you in or near St. Louis, there's no word on whether or not this will be a regular event, but it looks like these people were having a hell of a time, so it wouldn't be surprising if this became a monthly, or even weekly, occurrence.

Anyone outside of St. Louis, it looks like you'll have to settle for nude Wii bowling in the meantime, but if you've got a big enough place, and enough towels, you could at least do a close approximation.

Via Riverfront Times