Behind the $400 million-a-year nudist vacation industry in the U.S.

Last year, a bubbly Realtor named Jackie Youngblood earned one of Keller Williams Tampa Properties' highest grossing commissions: more than $150,000. She earned the lion's share of those sales from an unorthodox clientele: nudists looking for homes around Pasco County's clothing-optional resorts. Nudist enclaves and cruises are a $400 million-a-year industry, according to the American Association for Nude Recreation, and Pasco is one of the lifestyle's core communities. Home to sprawling nudist resorts like Caliente, Lake Como and Paradise Lakes, the county even voted in December to spend nearly $4,000 on tourism advertising in international nudist magazines. Potential buyers often contact one of the half a dozen local real estate agents who specialize in nudist realty. Resort homes range from $1 million mansions to one-bedroom casitas, Youngblood said, though some nudists, wanting more conventional digs for friends and family to visit, often buy outside the resort gates.