supporting naked activities everywhere
Is it your partner you respect, or their clothes? Surely respect need not be a fear-based emotion, true respect begins and ends with character. Respecting a person’s rights to hold a view is not synonymous with respecting their view. We …
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I made a comment recently about how “the staid traditional club nudist venue is expiring”. I’d like to clarify that this was not intended to be especially negative towards clubs as a naked venue per se. A nudist club is …
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It’s a curious thing about freedom, and policing and moderation, it seems the balance is very difficult to get right. Too strict a patriachical hand and cries of “censorship” are heard. Too lax a hand and cries of “perverts” are heard. …
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This article was pointed out to me on the apparent slide from nudist to FKK to brothel in Germany. http://www.newswise.com/articles/clarkson-university-professor-speaks-on-shared-culture-of-nudism-in-unified-germany Ok, I've finally read this piece of misleading and uninformed rubbish. "In my talk, I traced the history of FKK …
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There may be many reasons for each individual but, at least for me, I think the main reason is that being naked feels good. When I am naked I can feel liberated and more in touch with my surroundings, with …
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Emma James is interviewed in an outside BBC Radio broadcast on Saturday morning live. Diogenes played host to BBC Radio 4 on 12 July 2012 with a very short-notice Outside Broadcast being conducted by Producer JP Devlin with Emma James. …
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We hear a lot about sexual harassment of women. There is also sexual harassment going on towards men, believe it or not. I’ve been at the sharp end of homosexual advances when I was a child, as a teenager, now …
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There is a hugely interesting project on body images here: https://www.thebodyimages.com/ I commend the creation of a project, by the female photographer, which has nearly naked bodies as it’s subject, and of all shapes and sizes, although quite why they’re …
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Respect is a two-way process. The mistake many people make is of trying to make “respect” mean “do what I say”. There is a difference.