Chapter 25: The Dog Tag Problem

Vanessa Benson found it hard to believe what was about to happen in her sixth grade classroom in the next few minutes. What was about to happen was something she had been working towards for several months now and the young Janine Carlyle was going to be the first fruits of all her labors.

Vanessa Benson had been teaching at the Pahrump Elementary school in Pahrump, Nevada for just over one year now. The township of Pahrump was a medium sized rural town just a mere sixty miles out west of Las Vegas and boasted a population of 36,000 and growing. It had several very well patronized elementary schools the newest one being this one where Vanessa was now working. This was Vanessa’s very first posting since completing her teacher training program at Blanke Schande College.

Vanessa had moved into the town with her two partners - Tracey Manning and Max (Maxina) Landers - and all three just loved the place. Tracey Manning had studied Applied Mechanics at BSC and had found work as a service mechanic at McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas. As for Max Landers even though she had qualified very highly in Sociology Studies she had decided she just wanted to be a house mom for a year or two. While Vanessa and Tracey headed off to work each day she set about cleaning the house they were renting and preparing all the meals and she just loved doing so. During the day she would also often get out and meet with other community groups and so became one of the main proponents of what was now about to take place in Vanessa Benson’s sixth grade classroom.

When this trio had arrived in Pahrump one of the first things they got involved in was a pressure group to have Pahrump officially recognized as a Totally Nudity Friendly town - like Cedarcrest in Los Angeles and Aurora Hills just out of Bakersfield. Social Nudity as a lifestyle was now legal and totally protected within the constitution of the US of A. This was all thanks to the efforts of Senator Rebecca Bartell and a group of three teenagers from Porterville in California. However despite Nudism’s now legal status it was still heavily resisted in the greater populace of this great nation. Also, coupled with that fact was the need for registered Lifestyle Nudists to wear an ID band either around the wrist or their ankle. Most people found this an imposition and the requirement only served to impede the spread of this great lifestyle. It was also one of the reasons that neither, Vanessa, Tracey or Max had registered for Lifestyle Nudism status themselves. They too were strongly opposed to the idea of the wearing of any ‘dog tags’, as people had come to call the ID bands, just because you didn’t want to wear any clothes. As a result they had stayed as textiles once their studies at BSC had finished. They had lived that way in Pahrump for the last fourteen months but all that was about to change.

One piece of legislation that was also part of this new Lifestyle Protection bundle was the ability of any town’s or city’s leaders to apply for Totally Nudity Friendly status. If this status was achieved then within the official boundaries of that town’s or city’s borders anyone could practice Lifestyle Nudism without the need for any ID bands. A person could just choose for themselves without registering or telling anyone at all that they were going to be a nudist. Or they could just choose to be topless for the day or bottomless even - it did not matter. The choice was totally up to the individual.

However, despite the growing band of Lifestyle Nudists across the country no towns or cities had yet officially applied for this status apart from the two mentioned above. Even there the freedoms gained were only partial freedoms. Aurora Hills only had Total FEMALE Nudity Friendly Status but nothing yet for the males unless you registered and wore your ID band as per the Nudism Council’s code of etiquette. What this really meant was that as yet there was still only just one area in all of the United States of America that was deemed as being FULLY Nudity Friendly for both male and female alike. That area was Cedarcrest but even there not everyone was buying into the idea even though it was still way ahead of anything else happening on the nudist front. What was happening in Pahrump, therefore, would soon change all that and quite dramatically too.