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Originally Posted by RamsDixon

NAP or Nudes-A-Poppin is held in July every year at Ponderosa Sun Club, Nudist Resort, in Roselawn Indiana. (Just southeast of Chicago.)

While the event used to be mainly for it's members, (the first two years) it was and is still open to the public as guests and finally contestants. They started a "Naked Beauty pageant" to help raise money to keep the "Doors Open" so to speak. Over the years it's grown to be one of if not the Biggest Nude pageants in the US. They got the idea more or less from another club near them called Naked City. Ponderosa open the doors to the public for the event while Naked City and other clubs didn't.

The event didn't go over as planned. The "guests" were meant to be people interested in the life style, hoping they would look around and join. Turned out to be mostly voyeuristic type of guests. (Like most of us here. LOL) The Ponderosa members eventually refused to join the contest and the owners invited strippers and club owners to "staff" the events after that.

Although it didn't turn out the way they wanted, (In my opinion, allowing cameras at the event is what turned it into what it has become, but good for us!) it did work out for the REAL reason they started them. $$$$ I've read reports they clear $40,000 to $50,000 per day, two day event BTW.

Although Ponderosa has always been more or less a stand alone type nudist club, by continuing to hold NAP each year and for awhile they also held the Miss Nude USA and Mr. Nude USA pageants, they aren't really considered a very "nice" nudist club to belong to. Even though 363 days a year it is just a regular nudist resort. Most people hear Ponderosa Sun Club, they think of the other two days. And NAP is not a part of the Nudist/Naturalist lifestyle.

Ponderosa only allows cameras on the site during NAP, thus the pictures you see now. The contestants are strippers, porn actors, actresses and still amateurs. Very rarely do the members even attend let alone participate.

Thanks for the history. It got me thinking - I was aware of Naked City (Dick Drost's affair) but didn't realize it was held at a different club. I just assumed it predated NAP but was held at the Ponderosa