Las Vegas likes to keep its nudity off the streets and in its strip clubs and nudie shows, where you have to pay to see it. Nor does Sin City have any nudist resorts, although guests at the gay-oriented Blue Moon Hotel were known to bare all around the pool, before the Blue Moon closed --see QoD 7/25/15. (Its days were numbered once the casino industry belatedly got hip to the LGBT market.) There used to be a nudist club called Nevada Sun Rancho in Sandy Valley, Nevada, but it closed too, backin in 2007, when owner Gloria Massey passed away.
There are, however, several nudist clubs, like North West Nudists ([email protected]), which convenes every other weekend or so for water volleyball. Another veteran nudist club that doesn’t have any place to hang its shingle is Las Vegas Bares (lasvegasbares.com). It sponsors trips out of town to nudist resorts and hot springs. Members also open their homes to clothing-optional events such as nude football and Twister (do nude Twister rules allow certain appendages to come into play, we wonder?), as well as tanning. Membership requires participating in a few events first, presumably to demonstrate that you dare to bare and aren't just there to stare. After that, it’s $25 a year for individuals, $40 for couples. When we last checked, though, the upcoming-events calendar was as bare as the membership.
Casinos have been friendly to the topless-pool concept (especially since they can hit up men with a cover charge in return for ogling bare-breasted women). A comprehensive rundown of pools where one can doff one's top can be found in our own Cool Pools section, while ToplessVegasOnline offers an overview of the whole scene, with insights into which of the so-called "European-style" pools are more about sedate sunbathing without the tan lines, and which are the jiggly party venues.
There once was a clothing-optional bed-and-breakfast called Common Ground, which featured such incongruities as nude billiards and golf putting, but it closed back in 2008. Today, the only all-nude group activity we can think of in Las Vegas is the weekly "Art of Naked Yoga" class, which takes place at the Erotic Heritage Museum each Thursday. The co-ed class runs from 7 to 8 p.m. and, while it purports to be clothing-optional, Arnold Snyder recently plucked up the courage to attend a session in order to review it, and reports that everyone is very much encouraged to get get their kit off. It's $10 ladies, $20 for men, and the only instructions before you arrive are that you must be 18+ and bring your own mat.
If nudity is scarce in Las Vegas, it is strictly forbidden in the tony suburb of Henderson, meanwhile, where even a high-end lingerie and adult-toy store was deemed too raunchy to operate last year. Green Valley Ranch briefly experimented with toplessness at its boutique pool, The Pond, but quickly ran afoul of city ordinances. Today, if women want to go topless at M Resort’s Daydream Pool Club, which falls under Henderson's jurisdiction, they’d better requisition a pair of pasties from pool personnel.
You can find a comprehensive breakdown of all the mind-bogglingly detailed and contradictory rules and regulations governing toplessness and nudity in and around Las Vegas, as far as gentlemen's clubs, adult revues, and 'toptional' pools are concerned, in the QoD Archives (6/24/14). But to give it to you in a nutshell, we'll simply quote the concluding paragraph:
"You’ve got to be 18 to see nipples in this town, but you can see breasts at 16 as long as the nipples are covered. You’ve got to be 21 to see breasts in a pool environment. But if it’s a pool party, then no one can see nipples, no matter how old you (or they) are. Nipples and pool parties just don’t mix. You can’t be naked or see naked at a pool, even if it’s not a party, but you can see naked and be naked in a show, any age from 18 up, provided there’s no alcohol served; if booze is served, then nipples are okay, but not full nudity. You can’t have alcoholic beverages served in a room in Las Vegas where there are female genitalia on display; however, if you go to North Las Vegas, Palomino Club and Lacy’s Lounge have fully-nude shows and full bar service." (Lacy's also used to boast the only -- official/legal -- fully-nude adult male revue in the nation, to the best of our knowledge, but like Blue Moon, Common Ground, and Nevada Sun Rancho, the Men of Palomino are no more, we regret to inform you.)
