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“Desexualize nudity” doesn’t mean what you think it does
We hear it all the time from naturism advocates: “Desexualize nudity.” It even has its own hashtag. I noticed the phrase being thrown around soon aft…
2 years, 4 months ago
What have you got to hide?
In the 2018 French science fiction television series Nu, written and directed by Olivier Fox, naturist activist Jean Lanvin (Thomas Séraphine) succes…
2 years, 4 months ago
AI art's anti-nudity bias
I’ve written before about generative AI and its apparent discomfort with the nude form in art. To probe this a little further, I turned to three popu…
2 years, 4 months ago
Ungewitter’s ‘Nakedness’
Die Nackheit, written in 1906 by Richard Ungewitter, is considered the foundational text for the nudist movement as we know it today. Despite its imp…
2 years, 4 months ago
From the archives: A cosmic odyssey on Planet Nude
Welcome to the faraway realm of Planet Nude, a wild and woolly land where the very air you breathe grants you immediate citizenship. As you step out …
2 years, 4 months ago
The Schuster chronicles
In 1979, retired schoolteachers and active nudists Read and Jeanette Schuster founded the American Nudist Research Library (ANRL) at Cypress Cove nud…
2 years, 5 months ago
Naturist hate: Is it a crime?
I didn’t expect I’d be returning to the subject of media so soon, but recent events over the Christmas period have forced my pen. I spoke about why m…
2 years, 5 months ago
Berkshire Vista discards nudist roots for upscale glamping
Berkshire Vista Resort, an esteemed nudist retreat in western Massachusetts and a member of the American Association for Nude Recreation (AANR), is e…
2 years, 5 months ago
Where have all the nudists gone?
I might have used “naturists” in the title, but that wouldn’t have harmonized as well with Pete Seegers's lyrics (“flowers” instead of “nudists”). Bu…
2 years, 5 months ago
All new episode of Naked Age coming next week
In the next episode, we’ll discover the remarkable stories of Jeannette and Zelda Suplee, two pioneering women in American nudism. This episode explo…
2 years, 5 months ago