Nude beaches seen as cover for cash gaps.

30 11 2008

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By Frank Cerabino

Palm Beach Post staff writer

Friday, November 28, 2008 

Times are tough, maybe even tough enough to start paying more attention to one of the state’s leading nudists. 

“It’s time for the state of Florida to grow up,” said Richard Mason, the president of the Florida Naturist Association.


Mason, who lives in Miami-Dade County, was in Boca Raton this week to urge Palm Beach County’s legislative delegation to take a less-is-more approach to plugging holes in the state budget.

Mason’s idea is simple: More nude beaches equals more state revenue.

“If you can build golf courses for golfers, why can’t you designate beaches for naturists?” Mason asked.

He uses Haulover Beach Park in Miami-Dade as Exhibit A.

For the past 18 years, that beach has been designated as a sanctioned clothing-optional beach — the only one in the state.

“It’s drawing more visitors than the Florida Marlins and the Miami Dolphins combined,” Mason said.

And the county is reaping the benefits of the $5 parking fee, which brings in about $1.4 million a year, he said.

“Every year the parking money keeps going up and up,” he said. “Nothing stops it from growing.”

Mason estimated that 60 percent of Haulover’s visitors travel from other parts of the state, elsewhere in America or abroad to sunbathe in the raw.

“It’s a destination beach all because it’s a naturist beach,” he said.

Mason’s pitch for more nude beaches is especially well timed because Gov. Charlie Crist is looking to make significant cuts in state spending, including from the Division of Recreation and Parks. That division has been asked to come up with a 10 percent cut in its operating costs.

To do that, the division has come up with a plan to close 19 parks across the state until the economy rebounds. None of the parks is in Palm Beach, Martin or St. Lucie counties.

But instead of closing the parks, Mason has argued, the state can more than compensate for its revenue shortfalls by keeping all the parks open and changing the designation of a few beachfront parks into clothing-optional spots.

“Naturists like to be around the ocean,” he said. “You put one of those beaches in Palm Beach County and it will draw a lot of people.”

The John D. MacArthur Beach State Park in northern Palm Beach County had been an unofficial clothing-optional beach until the state took it over in the 1980s and began arresting nude sunbathers there.

A state appellate court decision ruled that being nude alone does not constitute indecent exposure, and that there must be some lewd and lascivious behavior with it.

“So you can have a naturist beach as long as it is in a designated area,” Mason said.

Public officials, however, have been reluctant to make accommodations for nudists.

In 1989, Palm Beach County’s Tourist Development Council turned down a request by the Eastern Sunbathing Association to officially make a portion of MacArthur Beach State Park clothing-optional.

Like Mason’s request this week, the sunbathing group made an economic argument to the tourism board, saying that a nude beach would bring in dollars to the county.

But that was during more comfortable economic times, days when it was easier to dismiss nudists dangling dollars.

In today’s budget climate, its harder to scoff at Mason’s pitch without mulling over the pros and cons.

“It’s been a successful formula at Haulover for 18 years,” he said. “Why not give it a try?”

Or to put it another way, what’s worse?

A bare-bones budget or some bare-bones bathers. 

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France’s nudist mullahs ‘at war with swingers’

23 11 2008
From The Sunday Times
November 23, 2008

France’s nudist mullahs ‘at war with swingers’

Matthew Campbell

One of Europe’s most famous nudist colonies has become the subject of an unusual investigation by French detectives after the destruction of three nightclubs in fires blamed on naturist “hardliners”.

The normally peaceful Cap d’Agde, a magnet for nudists in the south of France, has been plunged into anxiety. Investigators suspect “fundamentalist” naturists of harbouring a grudge against the échangistes, or swingers, who are drawn to the town by the promise of sex.

A so-called boîte échangiste, or wife-swapping club, called Glamour, where couples engage in group sex, was the first to be razed, in April. The next day the Palme Ré, another orgy venue, went up in flames. In September the Tantra club and Zen, its neighbouring bar, were destroyed in blazes.

Nobody was hurt but the fires have shocked a community whose crime rate has been dominated until now by cases of exhibitionism. Recently, police had to intervene as a man whipped his wife on the balcony of an apartment for the gratification of spectators in the courtyard below. “Generally we let them get on with it,” said a spokesman for the local gendarmerie. “But when there are complaints about improper behaviour, we have to act.”

Tensions have arisen between the naturists, who believe that nudity is a healthy choice of lifestyle and nothing to do with sex, and the échangistes, who are attracted to nudist camps by the prospect of multiple partners.

“What goes on in certain places is not naturism,” said Guy Delfour, former head of the French federation of naturism. “Nudity is just one element of naturism. There are other values to recognise, such as the protection of nature.”

Some in Cap d’Agde attribute the fires to fundamentalist “mullahs of chaste nudity”, as one magazine called them, who have often harangued holiday-makers venturing onto nudist beaches in bathing costumes. Others denied that naturists could have been involved.

“We don’t want to put the échangiste places out of business,” said Gilles Beaumont, a naturist and regular at Cap d’Agde. “It’s true that we don’t like being mixed up with the swingers. But we respect other people and their right to behave as they please.”


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Female Nudity in Films: Art or Exploitation?

17 11 2008
 



 

 
 
Female Nudity in Films
Art or Exploitation?

The issue of nudity in art has been an issue for as long as there has been art, artists, and people to judge their work. When it comes to nudity in film, though, what relevance does the context of the nudity within the storyline or overall thematic elements have in determining whether the nudity is exploitation or art? In Darren Aronofsky’s The Wrestler, Marisa Tomei plays the role of an aging stripper, and the actress is, much like her character, Cassidy/Pam, fully exposed in the nude on the screen. The question is, in the context of the story, is it actually necessary for Tomei to be shown nude, or would the performance have had the same impact by implying nudity rather than showing it?

The film primarily follows the story of an aging wrestler, Randy “The Ram” Robinson (Mickey Rourke) as he faces health problems that may force him to give up wrestling, the one thing that sustains his otherwise lonely existence. By day he works in the storage warehouse of a supermarket, his long, bleached-blond, ’80s rocker hair pulled back, answering to a wormy little boss who clearly disdains Randy’s wrestling history. And of course, Randy could crush this boss with one well-executed Ram-Jam, but he needs the trickle of money his job provides to pay the rent on his shabby trailer, so he swallows his pride and slaps on a veneer of servitude in order to keep his job.

The film is also a fascinating compare-and-contrast study of two people who’ve made their livings in exploitative ways as they find themselves aging out of their career paths. The other half of this is Cassidy, a dancer at a strip club Randy frequents. On a basic level, it’s about two people who give themselves in an intimate way to an audience that’s judging them based on what they see on the stage.

In the scenes where Randy’s engaged in wrestling matches (performing now in community centers rather than Madison Square Garden), Aronofsky has his camera in loving close-up with every slam to the mat, fist in the face, chair to the head. We see Randy post-show, cut and bleeding from countless wounds, getting staples from a staple gun (yes, a staple gun … hey, at least it wasn’t a nail gun) removed from his back and chest. We see the self-inflicted razor-blade cut on Randy’s head from which blood poured as he egged on his fans. These guys are gladiators, of a sort, and they understand what the fans who come to see them want: rivalries to cheer and boo for, bodies slammed, bloody wounds, and ultimately, the victor dominating his opponent by beating him into submission and pinning him to the mat.

And while the guys aren’t wrestling nude (that, of course, would bring the homoerotic element of wrestling far too close to the forefront for the comfort level of the fans), they are exploiting their bodies and sacrificing their health for the sake of the money — or, perhaps more importantly, for the adulation of their fans. When Randy walks to the ring to the thunderous noise of rock music that’s as old and outdated as he is, for that brief moment in time, he’s Somebody. He’s a guy who was once a big shot, who had screaming fans filling arenas and chanting his name. He had fame, he had glory … and now, all he has are these brief, shabby remnants of his glory days, these little moments when, for a while, he’s The Ram again, and not just some guy working at a supermarket to barely pay his bills.

For Pam, who makes a living for herself and her young son under the stage name Cassidy, the sacrifice of her body (and her dignity) comes in the arena of the club where she dances for a rotating pack of male spectators looking to ogle the female form in an exploitative setting. We come to understand that Cassidy (like many women who earn a living by taking off their clothes) protects herself by assuming a secret identity of sorts: by day, she’s Pam, a loving, concerned mother who just wants to buy a condo in a safer neighborhood with better schools for her son; by night, she’s Cassidy, wearer of thongs, fishnet bodystockings, heavy eyeliner and glitter eyeshadow, who gyrates around a stripper pole and does private dances for men who (with the singular exception of Randy) view her as nothing more than a temporary vessel for the fulfillment of their sexual fantasies. The question is, does the character of Cassidy have to be shown nude, in order for the emotion evoked by her character arc to have an impact?

Although I recognize that there will be any number of men who will go to see The Wrestler because exploitative websites like Mr. Skin tell them down to the minute just when they’ll get to seeTomei’s bare breasts on the screen (and that’s a subject for another column), I would argue that in the case of The Wrestler, Tomei’s nudity is absolutely relevant to the story. The whole point of Cassidy’s character revolves around both the way in which she exposes and exploits herself for the sake of a buck, and the way in which the men to whom she’s exposing herself view her as “too old” to fulfill their sexual fantasies (also disturbing in and of itself for what it says about both the male sexual obsession with young girls and the way in which men, as they age, become “dignified” while women become “over the hill”).

For us to really feel the impact of Pam’s awareness of her own exploitation in her stripper persona, and in particular the way in which she evokes that despairwrenchingly onstage in the film’s final act, we need to have earlier felt the way in which she accepted (or rather, told herself she accepted) that exploitation as a means to an end. The audience needs to cringe as Tomei writhes on stage for the kind of men who slip dollar bills into stripper’s thongs, needs to feel tension as she’s taunted by a pack of young men for being too old for them to pay her for a private lap dance, needs to feel the pain of that moment when, after years of taking her clothes off for a living, she suddenly feels utterly vulnerable, naked, and exposed.

Some might argue that Tomei agreeing to parts requiring nudity at this point in her career (last year’s decidedly unsexy opening sex scene with Philip Seymour Hoffman in Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead being the first) is, in and of itself, a way for her to exploit her body through being an “older” actress daring to bare all before the camera. Certainly it’s garnered her a certain degree of attention. But critics aren’t praising her performance in The Wrestler for her talent with a stripper pole.

There’s a part of me that thinks, yes, it is a good thing for actresses like Tomei to literally get in the faces of the men in Hollywood who would dare to call them too old because their bodies are no longer that of 20-year-old sex kittens. All sex kittens must age into older, sleeker cats, and there is a certain dignity and sense of female power in saying “Screw you misogynistic bastards. 43-year-old female bodies are sexy too!” And I’m not unaware of the arguments from certain corners that take the position that female nudity is power, that women who perform burlesque or strip or act in porn films are exploiting the weakness of men in being controlled by their dicks, rather than the other way around. I get that point, and to a certain extent I can agree with it; certainly I can agree that there’s nothing inherently wrong with the nude body, male or female. And it’s also true, on the other side of the coin, that there are those who would argue that male actors who bare all are exploiting themselves as well. But in the balance of sexual power, I believe that’s comparing apples to oranges.

The bottom line for me is, I don’t have a problem with nudity in art, or nudity within a particular context. So what it really comes down to when looking at Tomei in The Wrestler is the question of whether this film, and the role of Tomei’s character in it, constitutes art. For me, it unquestionably does. Tomei is exploited far less in The Wrestler than, say, Megan Fox was as she leaned oh-so-sexily over the car in Transformers — even though the latter never took her clothes off.

For that matter,Tomei’s exploited less than Joy Harmon was in the famous “car wash” scene in Cool Hand Luke. That scene served to underscore the dramatic tension of a pack of men held back from committing gang rape only by the presence of a few guards and guns. But, there was never a focus on Harmon other than the existence of her well-endowed breasts as she squeezed a lather of soapy sponge foam over them and pressed them against the car window while the men ogled her. In The Wrestler, the focus of the character of Pam/Cassidy is clearly on Pam as a person and her conflict over the way in which she, like so many women around the world, uses her body to support her child.

Nudity and the exposure of the female body can be about power and the way in which women choose to use it, and I’d argue that Tomei used that to great effect in The Wrestler to give a remarkably moving and evocative performance that was driven by the power of her acting. The nudity was an element of drawing out the character which was essential to the role, but it wasn’t the singular, or even most important thing about it. In the end, though, it would just be great to live in a world where these kinds of questions don’t end up as arguments because the balance of power between men and women is so equalized that it just doesn’t matter. Until that day, though, I’ll settle for an intelligent, talented actress like Tomei who, even though she’s baring her body on screen, is really showing us her soul.

- by Kim Voynar

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[Worldnakedride] Portland Judge says World Naked Bike Ride is legal

13 11 2008

Judge clears nude bicyclist in Portland

by Aimee Green, The Oregonian

Wednesday November 12, 2008, 8:46 PM
Stephanie Yao/The OregonianMichael “Bobby” Hammond pumps his fist Wednesday after Multnomah County Judge Jerome LaBarre dismissed a nudity charge against him. Some of Hammond’s friends, including Camille Gerharter (right) and Jared Parsons (center), celebrate with him in the seventh-floor courtroom.

A Multnomah County judge has cleared a Northeast Portland nude bicyclist of criminal indecent exposure charges, saying cycling naked has become a “well-established tradition” in Portland and understood as a form of “symbolic protest.”

Judge Jerome LaBarre said the city’s annual World Naked Bike Ride — in which as many as 1,200 people cycled through Northwest and downtown Portland on June 14 — has helped cement riding in the buff as a form of protest against cars and possibly even the nation’s dependence on fossil fuels.

LaBarre then cleared Michael “Bobby” Hammond, 21, of any wrongdoing after two days of hearings that concluded Wednesday.

Hammond’s legal troubles began June 26, when he stripped off all his clothes and hopped on his vintage 1970s 10-speed — in an effort, he says, to make clear that nothing was powering his mode of transportation but his own unadulterated body.

Portland police, however, saw Hammond’s two-minute ride through the Alberta Arts District as a stunt, not free speech. They arrested Hammond, citing city code that states it’s illegal to expose genitalia in a public place in view of members of the opposite sex.

A bystander recorded the episode, which unfolded at 10:30 p.m. in front of Hammond’s home at Northeast 15th Avenue and Alberta Street. The video was posted on the Web.

As Hammond pulls to a stop, police begin to question him.

“Who, me?” responds an apparently startled Hammond, adding that he doesn’t think he’s doing anything wrong. A woman can be heard yelling in the background that Oregon law allows nudity — as long as it isn’t done to sexually arouse oneself or others.

“Dude, look,” says one of three officers who approach Hammond. “Go put on pants, or we’re going to take you to jail. There’s a city code that says you can’t be naked in public. There are kids out here. You can’t be riding around with your penis hanging out, OK? …”

“I just want to ride my bike,” Hammond says. “I’m wearing a helmet.”

“That’s fine,” responds another officer. “You want to go to jail tonight? Either you get your pants on right now (and) you get off your bike … or you’re going to jail.”

Hammond gets off his bike. He stands still, almost frozen for several seconds as an officer can be heard counting down from five. When the officer gets to one, the trio bring Hammond to the ground during a 10-second struggle, because Hammond continues to hang onto his bike. The officers handcuff him, laying him naked on the street.

Hammond said later that a bystander offered to get him some clothes but that there wasn’t time before police pulled him to the ground.

Lesser charges

Police originally charged Hammond with felony assault of a public safety officer, among other charges. The district attorney’s office, however, decided not to pursue that charge and instead sought misdemeanor convictions for resisting arrest, fourth-degree assault and indecent exposure.

Hammond, who works at the Black Cat Cafe and as a caregiver for people with developmental disabilities, testified that he moved here more than a year ago from New Mexico. He said he thought nudity was legal in Portland because he’d participated in his first World Naked Bike Ride without incident.

“If anyone here hasn’t been, you have to go,” Hammond testified. “It’s one of the reasons I live in Portland. As far as you can see — as far in front of you and behind — it’s naked people.”

Twelve days after the event, Hammond, housemates and friends sat on the lawn of his home, passing out origami, selling art and playing music during the art district’s Last Thursday event. They bemoaned the car traffic congesting Alberta Street, and Hammond and a friend, Walter Geis, decided to strip down and ride their bikes up and down the boulevard.

Hammond testified that he was expressing a message in support of bikes and against cars, foreign oil, the Iraq war and air pollution.

Deputy District Attorney Ryan Lufkin argued that Hammond didn’t carry any signs, pass out fliers or otherwise attempt to communicate his message to bystanders.

“He may have well thought he was doing this for a noble purpose, but there was no way to express that to a rational person,” Lufkin said. “This was, by every definition of the word, streaking.”

Lufkin told the judge that if he dismissed the charges against Hammond on free-speech grounds, he was in essence invalidating city code. Lufkin said anyone who’d been arrested for indecent exposure could argue they were exempt from the law because they were expressing speech.

A case-by-case issue

In 1985, the Oregon Court of Appeals ruled in City of Portland v. Gatewood that appearing nude in public can be a protected form of expression — such as if it’s done in political protest — and should be considered on a case-by-case basis.

LaBarre said Hammond’s case qualified as protected expression.

“It’s been well-known since Lady Godiva that the shock value of nudity can be a very important protest,” LaBarre said, referring to the legend of a noblewoman who rode naked on a horse through the streets of Coventry in England to protest her husband’s oppressive taxation of the people.

Hammond was all smiles as the judge issued his decision. He hugged his attorney, public defender Tiffany Harris, and friends and neighbors who came to watch. He expressed his relief that he wouldn’t lose his job as a caregiver. He said his employer, Westside Community Focus, had told him he would be fired for liability reasons if he were convicted.

He also made plans for the future: Would he ever ride naked again?

“Oh, yeah,” he said.

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Hi this exceptionally great news !!!!!
Congratulations !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Conrad
p.s We are going to start organizing to 2009 ride in the next few weeks. Please all organizers update your wiki websites.

http://www.oregonlive.com/news/index.ssf/2008/11/judge_throws_out_charges_again.html

“A Multnomah County judge has cleared a Northeast Portland nude bicyclist of criminal indecent exposure charges, saying cycling naked has become a “well-established tradition” in Portland and understood
as a form of “symbolic protest.”

Judge Jerome LaBarre said the city’s annual World Naked Bike Ride — in which as many as 1,200 people cycled through Northwest and downtown Portland on June 14 — has helped cement riding in the buff as a form
of protest against cars and possibly even the nation’s dependence on fossil fuels.

LaBarre then cleared Michael “Bobby” Hammond, 21, of any wrongdoing after two days of hearings that concluded Wednesday. “

This is great news for Portland and all WNBR rides! I find it especially significant that the judge recognised that naked cycling has become understood as a form of symbolic protest, and that even the D.A. acknowledged this in a convoluted way by pointing out that Hammond didn’t carry any signs or pass out any fliers. By implication,
the D.A seemed to be saying that, so long as we do pass out fliers and wear slogans, the symbolic protest will be recognised!


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The meanings of naturism and nudism

8 11 2008

Naturism

The meanings of naturism and nudism are very similar, and refer to a cultural and political movement practicing, advocating and defending social nudity Nudity

Nudity or nakedness is the state of wearing no clothing [i]. … 

 in private and public space Public space

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s. Several other terms have been proposed as a replacement of these terms, but none has yet found the same wide-spread acceptance as the older terms naturism and nudism. The movement includes a large range of variants including “naturism”, “nudism”, “”, the “free beach

 movement” as well as generalized “public lands/public nudity

” advocacy.

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The meanings of naturism and nudism are very similar, and refer to a cultural and political movement practicing, advocating and defending social nudity Nudity

Nudity or nakedness is the state of wearing no clothing [i]. … 

 in private and public space Public space

… 

s. Several other terms have been proposed as a replacement of these terms, but none has yet found the same wide-spread acceptance as the older terms naturism and nudism.

The movement includes a large range of variants including “naturism”, “nudism”, “”, the “free beach Nude beach

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 movement” as well as generalized “public lands/public nudity Public nudity

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” advocacy. While there is a large amount of shared history and common themes, issues and philosophy, differences between these separate movements are sometimes contentious. The usage of these terms varies geographically; people in the US often prefer the term nudism, while people in Europe more often than not refer to themselves as naturists. He also began the American Sunbathing Association , which, according to a decision in Roberts v. Clement, posted on the Naturist Education Foundation site, was organized in 1939 as a successor to the ALPC. Boone created his idea of a family atmosphere by prohibiting alcohol Alcoholic beverage

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 at all member clubs. According to the Federation of Canadian Naturists history and the Lupin Naturist Club history, Boone was toppled in 1951 by members dissatisfied with his autocratic style.
This, together with Boone’s desire to open a new club closer to NYC than others had wanted, led him to form the National Nudist Council.

Elsewhere in the USA, a 1935 advertisement claims Sea Island Sanctuary, South Carolina South Carolina

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, was the “largest and oldest” resort Resort

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 where nudism could be practiced year-round. Rock Lodge Club, in Stockholm, New Jersey, about 40 miles from New York City, started in 1932 and is still in operation today. Nudism first began appearing on the west coast of the U.S. and Canada Canada

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 about 1939. In that year, the first club in Canada, the Van Tan Club, formed and continues today in North Vancouver, BC. Kaniksu Ranch, about 45 miles north of Spokane, Washington Spokane, Washington

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, opened the same year and is still in operation.

In 1995, the ASA renamed itself, becoming the American Association for Nude Recreation .

In 1980 The Naturist Society The Naturist Society

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  was founded by Lee Baxandall as a successor to the Free Beach Nude beach

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 Movement. The emphasis of TNS is on nudity in public locations rather than on private premises.

In Canada Canada

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, individuals around the country became interested in nudism, skinny-dipping, and physical culture in the early part of the 20th century. After 1940 they had their own Canadian magazine, Sunbathing & Health, which occasionally carried local news. Canadians had scattered groups in several cities during the 1930s 1930s

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, and some of these groups attracted enough interest to form clubs on private land. The most significant clubs were the Van Tan Club and, in Ontario, the Sun Air Club.

Canadians who served in the military during the Second World War met like-minded souls from across the country, and often visited clubs while in Europe. They were a ready pool of recruits for post-war organizers. A few years later the wave of post-war immigration brought many Europeans with their own extensive experience, and they not only swelled the ranks of membership, but often formed their own clubs, helping to expand nudism from coast to coast.

Most of those clubs united in the Canadian Sunbathing Association, which affiliated with the American Sunbathing Association in 1954. Several disagreements between eastern and western members of the CSA resulted in the breakup of CSA into the Western Canadian Sunbathing Association and the Eastern Canadian Sunbathing Association in 1960. The ECSA endured much in-fighting over the next decade and a half, leading to its official demise in 1978. The WCSA continues today as the Western Canadian Association for Nude Recreation , a region of the American Association for Nude Recreation  which itself was formerly known as the ASA.

In 1977 the Fédération québécoise de naturisme was founded in Québec. In 1986 the Federation of Canadian Naturists was formed with the support of the FQN. The FQN and FCN joined to be the official Canadian representatives in the International Naturist Federation .

Issues in social nudity Nudity

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See Issues in social nudity

Politics

  • The Sex Party of British Columbia  promotes normalization of all parts of the human body and destigmatizing human sexual organs. It would pass legislation requiring all public parks and beaches larger than one hectare to designate areas reserved for nudists.
  • The Dutch party Naastenliefde, Vrijheid en Diversiteit would pass legislation to make public nudity Public nudity

    Public nudity is nudity [i] in public space [i]s, environments, events. … 

     legal everywhere, provided that a towel is used when sitting on a public bench.

  • The Naturist Lifestyle Party in NSW, Australia “aims to bring naturism fully into the public eye, with view to getting an equitable allocation of public resources to those who support the naturist lifestyle”.

Footnotes

References

  • Story, Marilyn “Comparisons of Body Self-Concept between Social Nudists & Nonnudists” Journal of Psychology 118
  • Story, Marilyn “Factors Associated w/More Positive Body Self-Concepts in Preschool children” Jour. of Social Psychology 108 49-56 56
  • Story, Marilyn “A Comparison of Social Nudists & Non-nudists on Experience w/Various Sexual Outlets” Journ. of Sex Research 23 No. 2 p197-211,
  • Robin Lewis & Louis Janda “The Relationship Between Adult Sexual Adjustment & Childhood Experiences Regarding Exposure to Nudity, Sleeping in the Parental Bed, Parental Attitudes Toward Sexuality” Arch. of Sexual Behavior 17 No.4
  • Mary S. Calderone, M.D. in “The Family Book About Sexuality” ISBN 0-397-01377-9
  • Information from Being and Nakedness ‘Disorganized nudity’ by Charles Daney
  • Nude & Natural Nude & Natural

    Nude & Natural: The Magazine Of Naturist Living or simply (“N”) Magazine is a quarterly naturist [i]… 

     , Beyond Safe Havens: Oregon’s Terri Sue Webb Terri Sue Webb

    Terri Sue Webb is an activist living in Bend, Oregon [i], who was one of few activists in the United States [i] … 

    , By Daniel Johnson Daniel Lorenz Johnson

    Daniel Lorenz Johnson is an American [i] artist [i], activist [i] and … 

     Issue 21.3, Spring 2002 (*).

Further reading

  • Lee Baxandall’s World Guide to Nude Beaches & Resorts: New for the ’90s (*) ISBN 0934106215
  • Naked Places, A Guide for Gay Men to Nude Recreation and Travel (*) ISBN 0965608948
  • The Canadian Guide to Naturist Resorts & Beaches (*) ISBN 0968233228
  • North American Guide to Nude Recreation (*) ISBN 1882033094
  • Bare Beaches (*) ISBN 0954476719
  • Naturisme, The INF World Handbook (*) ISBN 9050620809
  • Jones, Jerome Yo soy un Nudist
  • Storey, Mark Social Nudity, Sexual Attraction, and Respect Nude & Natural Nude & Natural

    Nude & Natural: The Magazine Of Naturist Living or simply (“N”) Magazine is a quarterly naturist [i]… 

     magazine, 24.3 Spring 2005.

  • Storey, Mark Children, Social Nudity and Academic Research Nude & Natural Nude & Natural

    Nude & Natural: The Magazine Of Naturist Living or simply (“N”) Magazine is a quarterly naturist [i]… 

     magazine, 23.4 Summer 2004.

  • Jim Hamm Productions Limited Spirit Wrestlers, a 2002 documentary video and DVD about the Russian Christian sect called Freedomite Doukhobors, which is mentioned above in Historical era.

See also

  • Nude beach Nude beach

    [i], while a [[topfree]… 

  • List of public outdoor clothes free places List of public outdoor clothes free places

    This is a list of public outdoor clothes free [i] areas for recreation. Includes free beaches and … 

  • Gay naturism
  • Clothing-optional bike rides Clothing-optional bike rides

    There are many clothing-optional [i] and topfree [i] cycling [i] events around the world. … 

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