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  1. Some interesting thoughts and a good read I found on the net:

    **I tried a traditional Austrian naked sauna for the first time and these are the strict rules you must follow**
    There is a reason why it's compulsory to get your kit off in Austrian saunas
    By Simon Fearn, 29 Jul 2024
    I braved a traditional Austrian sauna with several strict rules - the main one being that you’re only allowed in if you’re stark naked.
    Picture the scene. I’d been invited by Wizz Air on a press trip to the Schladming-Dachstein region of Austria and due to an early flight and several bad decisions on my part, I hadn’t had any proper kip for around 30 hours.
    After a very beautiful but very rainy hike through the Silberkarklamm canyon, you can imagine it was music to my ears that the traditional mountain hotel we were staying at - the four-star Hotel Berghof in Ramsau am Dachstein - had five saunas downstairs.
    However, sensing a culture clash on the horizon, our Austria tourist board contact - the fabulous Magdalena Penz - had a quick word with the reception desk and confirmed some chilling news: you were only allowed in the saunas if you took your kit off. All of it. And apparently some people can get very offended if you try and go in wearing swimming trunks or bikinis.
    While the rest of our party reacted to this with mild horror, my recent soaking on the walk and ongoing sleep deprivation meant I really, really would appreciate sweating it out in some dry heat for 15 minutes, and I was prepared to go native to do it.
    Why do you have to get naked in Austrian saunas?...

    Continue to the source:
    https://www.ladbible.com/lifestyle/travel/austria-sauna-etiquette-naked-explained-170839-20240722


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  2. Some interesting thoughts and a good read I found on the net:

    **El Fonoll, the medieval village in Spain where clothes are banned**
    Nestled in the Catalan mountains, this small naturist community was created in 1998 by an entrepreneurial couple on the ruins of a deserted town. Despite the strict rules, it attracts people from all over the world. ‘I will die in El Fonoll, naked but happy,’ says owner Emili Vives
    By JESÚS DELGADO BARROSO, JUL 27, 2024
    There are many options to enjoy the summer. There are those who dislike to innovate and instead opt for an all-inclusive vacation at some beachfront resort. And then there are those who seek lesser-known and more alternative havens of peace. El Fonoll, a restored medieval village in the province of Tarragona, in Spain’s northeastern region of Catalonia, falls squarely within the latter category. Whether as a family, as a couple or alone, wearing clothes is prohibited here. The village, founded in the 14th century, has been converted into a community for those who want to experience harmony with the natural environment. There are campsites, hotels, rural homes, restaurants and many activities on hand, but there are also strict rules: taking photos is prohibited (unless you have consent); complete nudity is required (weather permitting), and respect must be shown for all ideologies. The list of rules goes on, on posters that are plastered everywhere. El Fonoll is a place where you cannot pretend to be what you are not...

    Continue to the source:
    https://english.elpais.com/lifestyle/2024-07-27/el-fonoll-the-medieval-village-in-spain-where-clothes-are-banned.html


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  3. Some interesting thoughts and a good read I found on the net:

    **Is it legal to sunbathe naked in your backyard? What Florida law says about that**
    BY ADLAI COLEMAN, JULY 11, 2024
    Tanning is a South Florida tradition. And for some, the best outfit for a day under the sun is no outfit at all. Miami is home to plenty of birthday-suit sunbathers. You can find many of them at Haulover, just north of Bal Harbour, the site of the only official “clothing optional” beach in South Florida. But what if you don’t want to go to the beach? Can you sunbathe nude in your own backyard or on your apartment balcony?
    Here’s what to know:
    CAN YOU LET IT ALL HANG OUT AT HOME?
    It’s illegal in Florida to expose your “sexual organs” or be naked in public or on someone else’s private property “in a vulgar or indecent manner.” It is also illegal to be naked “so near thereto as to be seen from such private premises.” To demonstrate that someone committed “unlawful exposure of sexual organs” while tanning naked on their property, prosecutors would need to prove all five of the following, according to jury instructions from The Florida State Bar Association:
    ▪ The person was naked.
    ▪ It could be seen from someone else’s private property.
    ▪ The nudity was “vulgar, indecent, lewd, or lascivious.”
    ▪ The person “intended” their nudity to be “vulgar, indecent, lewd, or lascivious.”
    ▪ The nudity “caused offense” to at least one person.
    The jury instructions also say that “proof of mere nudity” isn’t enough to find someone guilty. It also offers some synonyms for “vulgar,” among them wicked, lustful or sensual.
    Continue to the source:
    https://www.miamiherald.com/news/state/florida/article289492052.html

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  4. Some interesting thoughts and a good read I found on the net:

    **What the 3.2 million-year-old Lucy fossil reveals about nudity and shame**
    By Stacy Keltner, June 21, 2024
    Fifty years ago, scientists discovered a nearly complete fossilized skull and hundreds of pieces of bone of a 3.2-million-year-old female specimen of the genus Australopithecus afarensis, often described as “the mother of us all.” During a celebration following her discovery, she was named “Lucy,” after the Beatles song “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.”
    Though Lucy has solved some evolutionary riddles, her appearance remains an ancestral secret.
    Popular renderings dress her in thick, reddish-brown fur, with her face, hands, feet and breasts peeking out of denser thickets.
    This hairy picture of Lucy, it turns out, might be wrong.
    Technological advancements in genetic analysis suggest that Lucy may have been naked, or at least much more thinly veiled.
    According to the coevolutionary tale of humans and their lice, our immediate ancestors lost most of their body fur 3 to 4 million years ago and did not don clothing until 83,000 to 170,000 years ago.
    That means that for over 2.5 million years, early humans and their ancestors were simply naked...

    Continue to the source:
    https://theconversation.com/what-the-3-2-million-year-old-lucy-fossil-reveals-about-nudity-and-shame-230636


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  5. People have to stop confusing sex with nudity.
    Sex is a verb.
    It’s an action verb.
    It is something people do.

    Nudity is just a description of someone who has no clothes on.

    There is no sex involved.


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  6. Some interesting thoughts and a good read I found on the net:

    **Helen Mirren, 77, Has the Best Reaction to Being Called a ‘Nudist’**
    By KAYLA BLANTON
    Helen Mirren opened up about being called a “nudist.”
    She has previously shared her love for nudist beaches.
    “It is a fabulously liberating experience,” she said.
    Fun fact about Helen Mirren: She’s number one on this list of celebrity nudists—and when it was pointed out to her in a recent interview, she had the best reaction. “That’s great!” she told the Los Angeles Times. “I’m not the sort of person who goes off to a nudist camp, but the very few times I’ve found myself naked on a beach or somewhere with a lot of other naked people, it is a fabulously liberating experience.”
    The 77-year-old continued, adding that the communal vulnerability eliminates the pressures of typical beauty standards. “The whole construct of what it means to be a human being in terms of your earrings, your lipstick, your shirt, your age... everything falls away!” she said. “And you become a different kind of human being, a human being that’s not related to anything physical. It’s a very lovely thing.”
    To have made the aforementioned list, Mirren, of course, had to have previously opened up about baring it all in public. “It becomes very, very sweet—very human in a rather beautiful way,” she said of visiting nude beaches in a 2019 radio interview. “I’m proudly a naturist.”
    Mirren also once reportedly commented on how the experience brings people together: “Ugly people, beautiful people, old people, whatever,” she said, per Radio Times.“It’s so unisexual and so liberating.”...

    Continue to the source:
    https://www.aol.com/helen-mirren-77-best-reaction-123000470.html


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  7. Some interesting thoughts and a good read I found on the net:
    (The article is in German, but that should not be a problem thanks to "deepl dot com")

    **Naked facts and boundless freedom: "Nacktwanderfreunde" on the move in the Ore Mountains** (mountain range on the border between Germany and the Czech Republic)
    HIKING: club goes hiking naked in Saxony several times a year
    18.04.2024
    If you go hiking in the Ore Mountains or Saxon Switzerland, you may come across nude hikers from Pirna with rucksacks and nothing else on their bodies. The nude hikers earn many a shocked look for their unusual hobby. But what makes people decide to go hiking naked in the first place and is it actually allowed?
    Firstly: Yes, it is allowed. As long as no criminal offences, such as exhibitionism, are committed, it's legal.
    BLICK.de asked the association: What motivates the members to go nude hiking? "The main thing that motivates us is to get back to nature as human beings and to realise that we are a part of it," explains chairman Martin Nitsche. "I always felt comfortable naked as a child and never had a problem with it. At some point I thought to myself, why not combine the pleasure of hiking and being naked?" At that time, there was already the Freundeskreis Sächsischer Naturisten, from which the Nacktwanderfreunde association emerged last year.
    "Nudity is nothing to be ashamed of, after all, we are all born naked."...


    Continue to the source:
    https://www.blick.de/sachsen/nackte-tatsachen-und-grenzenlose-freiheit-nacktwanderfreunde-im-erzgebirge-unterwegs-artikel13332880


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  8. Some interesting thoughts and a good read I found on the net:

    **Memories of Britain's first nudist beach in Brighton 45 years on and how attitudes have changed**
    Britain's first nudist beach opened on Brighton's seafront in April 1980 amid much controversy after a campaign led by Tory councillor Eileen Jakes
    By Matt Roper, 4 Apr 2024
    It was not exactly what the TV crews, newspaper reporters and dozens of onlookers had in mind as they waited on Brighton seafront for the opening of Britain’s first nudist beach.
    As the countdown began to the new dawn of UK naturism, heads strained and cameras got into position to see who would make history by baring all. At 7.30am on the cold and wet morning of April 2, 1980, Arthur Albrow, 61, took off his long johns and trudged naked across the shingly beach, letting out a gasp as he entered the icy sea.
    The moment was underwhelming but a victorious end to the long fight for the right to be naked in public. Today, seven million people visit the UK’s dozens of public nudist sites.
    But when councillors voted to allow the first nudist beach, 45 years ago, the decision was met with controversy The council vote was passed in August 1979, thanks to Tory councillor Eileen Jakes, 47, who handed around photographs of herself bathing topless in Ibiza. “I came into the world with nothing on and I will go out with nothing on. Why should I be ashamed of nudity?”, the grandmother said.
    She responded to a call by the Central Council for British Naturism, which petitioned 140 local authorities for a nudist beach. As landlady of a beachfront pub, she argued having a beach in Britain for nude bathers...

    Continue to the source:
    https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/memories-britains-first-nudist-beach-32506280


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  9. Some interesting thoughts and a good read I found on the net:

    **World Naked Bike Ride - Waihī Beach: Cyclists go starkers for body positivity, cycle safety and the environment**
    By Rebecca Mauger, 19 Mar, 2024
    Brave cyclists donned helmets and not much more for a bike ride in the buff at Waihī Beach.
    It was all in the name of body positivity, cycle safety and the environment as part of the World Naked Bike Ride - Waihī Beach.
    The raw cyclists were waved at and cheered on as they breezed their way from Waihī Beach Hotel, along Wilson Rd towards Bowentown and back again.
    Saturday’s bare bike ride was the third local World Naked Bike Ride - Waihī Beach which aligns with an international movement.
    Hauraki Naturally founder Andrew Cook said families clapped and cheered the cyclists enthusiastically as they rode through the village.
    Just about all the cyclists “dared to be bare’'. The naturist supporters had painted their bodies with positive messages for the 9km bike ride.
    The World Naked Bike Ride started globally in 2003 as a protest against oil dependency and a celebration of the human body. A cycle advocacy and safety theme has since been introduced.
    Cook said riding a bike naked through town was “pretty extreme’'.
    “It flies in the face of social norms. But sometimes desperate times call for desperate measures. Cyclists are sick and tired of hearing the same old excuse from motorists who run into them, that they didn’t see the cyclist...

    Continue to the source:
    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/bay-of-plenty-times/news/world-naked-bike-ride-waihi-beach-cyclists-go-starkers-for-body-positivity-cycle-safety-and-the-environment/AAO5XDDCW5DRPFAJQSWZYH5MDE/


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