From: middleto@poincare.ucsd.edu (Tom Middleton ; System Manager)
Newsgroups: rec.nude
Subject: Seattle Swims and Computers
Date: 12 Jan 1993 23:26:27 GMT
Organization: Institute for NonLinear Science, UCSD
NNTP-Posting-Host: poincare.ucsd.edu



This is being posted for the anonymous (not his real name) Mark Allen.

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>1-206-424-6833. It is the number of Lake Associates in Mount Vernon, WA.
>It is a message tape, so you can call late at night or early in the
>morning when long distance rates are lower. Leave your name to be put on
>the mailing list. The next nude swim is at Seattle Athletic Club (Northgate)
>Jan 9. Please call 1-206-424-NUDE to confirm details or get last minute
>changes. The swim sponsors ask that we DO NOT call Seattle Athletic Club.


Ever wondered what kind of effect computers can have on nude swims?  Let's
take Seattle for instance.  For over 20 years now, a group of 20 to 50 people
have gathered every Saturday night for an enjoyable swim in the nude.  Most (or
all) of those swims were held at the Aqua Dive Swim & Health Club.  The Aqua
Dive is a nice place with a large pool divided into swimming lanes with another
section for water volleyball.  There's a large hot tub, steam room, sauna, a
nursery for infants, and a large room for square dancing instructions which
were held while we had the pool.

The facilities were closed to members at 8:00 pm Saturday nights, and were
reopened to those who wished more freedom of movement at 8:30 for the next
3 and a half hours.  I recall the first time my wife and I attended a swim.
We were members of the club that sponsored the swims, but we preferred being
at the club.  One evening we decided to give the pool a try.  I asked another
woman who was a friend of ours to come along to keep my wife company in the 
women's changing room.  (I always disliked going to a pool and having to wait 
outside the women's dressing room for my wife to show or visa versa.)  

The three of us arrived at the Aqua Dive, talked with our friends who were
running the swims, paid the entrance fee, and then asked where the respective
men's and women's locker rooms were.  I was so used to going to swimming pools
(or any public facility for that matter) where you leave your wife or other
female companion when you use the lockers or restroom, that it came as a bit
of a shock when we were told that we could all use either locker room as the
facilities were now nudist facilities (for the next few hours anyway).  It was 
a real pleasure to be able to share the same locker with my wife, shower with 
my wife, and YES! walk out of the changing room with my wife.  No more "just 
hanging around and wondering what the heck she was DOING in there all that 
time".  It was great!

Things went on for years like this until this past fall when someone, whose
name I won't mention, posted the time and location of the swims on some
computer bulletin boards in the Seattle area.  The swims increased in size
over 600%.  We were now getting 350 to 400 people showing up.  EVERYTHING
became VERY crowded.  EVERY locker in the place was taken.  The chemicals in
the pool and hot tub were trashed every Saturday night.  The day folks at
the Aqua Dive (some of whom didn't even know there was a nude swim) were 
getting more calls about the swims than they were from their pool members
or prospective members.  We were FORCED to look for larger facilities.  All
this because of computers.

The new place is HUGE.  You get lost just walking around in there.  We may
have to change the name from "nude swim" to "nude athletics".  There's plenty
of parking, lots of sports courts, lots of everything, and the place isn't
crowded any more.  

                                                    Mark Allen

When you think about the rainy Pacific Northwest, remember that Seattle Swims!
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