A man who calls himself ‘Naked Jesus’ has spoken out about running a popular nudist resort alongside his family.
Tim Kraemer, aka Naked Jesus, is the focus of a new ZANDLAND documentary about his running of the nudist park.
Indian Hills Nudist Park was opened in the US in Louisiana back in 1971 by a man named Gottlieb Kogel.
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Now though, Kraemer runs the park alongside his sister, mum, and dad, which is covered in the new YouTube doc HUMAN: Can Getting Naked Make You Happier?
While many may have preconceived notions of what goes on at a nudist park Kraemer insists it’s nothing to do with sex - public sex is actually banned, and swingers are often turned away.
Speaking exclusively to LADbible, Tim spoke about how his view on nudity actually allows him to be comfortable running the nudist park with his family – who he sees naked every day.
Tim said that this was because he doesn’t see nudity as sexual, adding: “It’s the idea of what's engrained in us as being sexual or not.
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“And that even though we can say to each other, ‘hey, we have no interest to each other sexually, we see each other naked all the time’, I can say that I can see that same thing in my family versus [others nudists who aren’t comfortable being naked around family] don't.”
Tim was brought into the lifestyle by his parents, both of whom had been visiting a nudist park in secret without his knowledge for ‘at least ten years’.
He only found out when his parents decided to move to the Indian Hills Nudist Park full time.
Rules of the park means that people can wear clothes in certain areas but for certain sections, such as the pool area, nudity is mandatory.
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Speaking about finding out his parents were secret nudists, Tim said: “I was completely unaware, so it was a bit of a shock… a surprise, I should say.
“I wasn't really shocked. I knew my parents, I knew that they were always very open people. They liked to do lots of different activities. They were very social people.
“I have three brothers and one sister, all older than me. Apparently, they all knew, I don't know how long they knew, but they all knew.
“Obviously, over time, you visit them and it's only when you're nude because the pool has a specific rule about nudity.”
He went on to say that it was only in the past five years he would consider himself to be a full ‘nudist’ when he took over the running of the park.
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Asked about the biggest misconceptions of the park, Tim said: “The extreme sex ideas are definitely mythological.
“Nobody's having sex out in the open… there are places that happens but they let you know that.
“Most places are not allowing it at all. There's definitely not orgies happening every day - not happening.
“There are sexual extremes that are definitely mythological. The idea that everybody is always naked, is mythological.”
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When asked the biggest irritant about being a nudist that people don’t realise Tim spoke about something that seems obvious the second you hear it: the lack of pockets.
He said: “Having to carry around things is the biggest annoyance… We have a lot of people who are smokers, there's a video out there of one of our residents, Josh, and he found the coolest shoes.
“They're like slides, but they have a pocket on the front of the side. They're Jordans.”
HUMAN: Can Getting Naked Make You Happier? launches on YouTube Thursday at 5pm.
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Michael Slavin