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Emily Yoffe (a columnist for
Slate) has a job that sends her on all manner of exciting adventures. Usually, they involve clothing, but not this time. For
her most recent article, she shed her clothes -- all of them. Apparently, journalists enjoy visiting nudist resorts because
Lonely Planet's Tamara Sheward recently did the same thing and has some advice for would-be copycats. (Complete with a gallery of the
best nude events and beaches.) But sorry bachelors, apparently most nudist clubs only allow couples and single women.
Eureka, in the UK, is an exception. (No links contain sexual content.)
posted by GnomeChompsky
on Sep 8, 2010 -
35 comments
Nudism, in the modern, Western, sense
seems to have started in Germany (NSFW) back around the turn of the century, and
despite the efforts of the Nazis to eradicate the practice Free Body Culture (FKK), as the Germans call it, enjoyed great popularity in East Germany, the Communists thought it expressed solidarity, and everyone else thought it reflected West German freedoms they were being denied. After the reunification it turns out the
West Germans aren't so hot
on FKK after all...
In Germany opponents say nudism is disorderly, in the USA they say its
child porn in disguise (SFW) Laws in the USA vary widely. In
Arkansas its not only
illegal to be nude, but its also illegal to talk about nudism, while in
New York its legal for women to be topless, as long as they aren't being paid for it. As usual the
gods send mixed messages.
posted by sotonohito
on Oct 25, 2007 -
37 comments
Naked as a Jaybird is a new book from Taschen chronicling the 8-year lifespan of Jaybird magazine, which rode the hippy wave into a new "groovy nudism." Published under
various titles, from Campus Jaybird to Amateur Jaybird and even Women's Home Jaybird, the magazine found a gray area between naturism and porn, all the while embodying the same
distinctively playful design aesthetic that typified the counterculture (think
album cover art and
Laugh-In). Here's
an interview with Dian Hanson, editor of the Taschen retrospective and an interesting person in her own right.
(Obviously, many of these links are not safe for work.)
posted by me3dia
on Mar 11, 2003 -
4 comments
Is this naturism, photography or soft-core child pornography? If you search for photographers like Sally Mann or Jock Sturges you'll come across this entirely legitimate purveyor of naturist books and videos. In the Fifties and Sixties nudist magazines, like
Health and Efficiency, were an excuse for looking at naked bodies. Now that porn is legal, have nudist publications made a comeback as an excuse for looking at photographs of naked children? Their website is itself well concealed - the
front page looks innocent enough but, the
further you click
into it, the more
unsettling it becomes. Or are we all becoming to paranoid for our own good? (
I'd say NSFW)
posted by Carlos Quevedo
on Nov 9, 2002 -
110 comments
This headline hasn't exactly gone *bad*... but it's starting to smell a little. [actually, I thought it was hilarious, though I couldn't quite tell you why.]
posted by baylink
on Aug 21, 2000 -
5 comments
