I work for a nude cruise. It's liberating — but there are rules. Passengers can't get too excited, and clothes must be worn to dinner.

• A chance modeling gig introduced Kat Whitmire to nude cruises in 1997. Now she organizes them.
• Whitmire owned a singing-telegram business before becoming a sales associate for Bare Necessities.
• She described what her job — organizing cruises where all the guests can be naked — is like.

This as-told-to essay is from a transcribed conversation with Kat Whitmire, 61, about working as a cruise planner. It has been edited for length and clarity.