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The next instalment of “A Coordinator’s Story” will be in the feed soon. Sorry for the delay. Having some medical issues, but hopefully resolving.

The first six chapters of this story set the stage for how the Naked in School Program came to be. That is, those chapters contain my vision of how it could have originated. Did how I described how society viewed public nudity seem unlikely—or even impossible—to you? But consider this... As I mentioned in the Foreword to the story, a version of mandatory nudity for high school students actually existed, from about the late 1940s to the early 1980s, in many high schools in the U.S. and in schools in other countries too.

Nudity in those high schools was required for P.E. swimming classes, mostly for boys, but in some schools, girls were required to be naked when they attended those swimming classes too, and compliance was usually militantly enforced. As it was in my high school, where I recall that the gym teachers would allow (encourage?) other students to forcibly strip any unwilling kids. So if mandatory school nudity happened in the past, could social conditions evolve to allow it to return again? Why not? It’s very possible. Cultural changes do occur, and some changes happen with surprising speed. Witness the lightning attitude changes to sexual freedom in our society in the 1970s when reliable birth control meds became available. And the reverse shift when AIDS appeared went even faster. So, given those ideas, “A Coordinator’s Story” explores one way that a form of mandatory high school nudity could return to our society.

I hope that you enjoy your reading.

The first few chapters of “A Coordinator’s Story” contained the setup for a world where the Naked in School Program could become a reality. In those pages, I tried to show, using examples taken from our Real World, how a more open acceptance of public nudity (a decrease in prudery in the U.S., actually, more or less how things exist in Europe), could eventually result in a nudity program in the schools in my story.

If you think of it, many social changes in society eventually find those changes becoming adopted in schools in a limited way. So why couldn’t nudity in schools and the Naked in School Program become a reality too? Except that it never will, I’m quite certain.

The next few story chapters continue how Daan and his fellow teachers deal with their State education department’s mandate of teaching naked kids in school and should be in the feed soon. I hope that you’ll enjoy them.

I’ll be submitting a new NiS story soon, this one detailing how the Program got started and following the career of a Program coordinator and his family and colleagues. It’s titled “A Program Coordinator’s Story” and postings will be made a few chapters every four days or so. Please be kind in rating the story and hold off until you see how it develops, perhaps after five chapters. And of course feedback is appreciated; it’s the only payment an author on this site gets.

I'm reposting these questions since it appears that very few people saw this post--judging by the lack of replies.

If you're familiar with AI text-to-image sites or programs, I need some help or suggestions. I've found them difficult to use--the basic settings typically produce people with multiple arms and legs arising from all over their bodies, not to mention the six or seven fingers and/or toes that are common. Siamese twins are a frequent result too. And the image which results from the text prompt contains less than 20% of the requested elements. If I ask for a standing person, on 70 generation requests, I will get 50+ instances of sitting, squatting, or prone people.

So, two questions, really. What's a good reliable site(s) and how can I learn to write text prompts that actually work? I see on AI sites some real works of art and that gets me envious. I have no idea how to write a text prompt to generate such images.

Thanks for your suggestions.

I've added over two dozen images throughout the "Freedom" story. Hope that they enhance your reading pleasure.

Here's a question for those of you familiar with AI text-to-image sites or programs. I've found them difficult to use--the basic settings typically produce people with multiple arms and legs arising from all over their bodies, not to mention six or seven fingers and/or toes. Siamese twins are a common result too. And the resulting overall image contains less than 20% of the elements in the text prompt. Ask for a standing person, on multiple generation requests I will get 50+ instances of sitting, squatting, or prone people.

So, two questions, really. What's a good reliable site(s) and how can I learn to write text prompts that actually work?

My own art in these stories is laboriously assembled from multiple single images, themselves composed of anatomical parts drawn from multiple sources and pasted into the final image and graphically edited for the final form. And this needs to be done for each person in an image. Yet I see on AI sites some real works of art and have no idea how to write a prompt to generate such images.

Thanks for suggestions.