"A flagrant exhibition of mammary glands"
Monday, June 9, 2008
Grin and bare itLater on, the BBC says, on the authority of Desmond Morris, that non-sexual nudity is so alien to our natures that it simply cannot be done:
By Duncan Walker, BBC News
A short stretch of pebbly foreshore entered the history books on this day in 1979, when it was designated Britain's first major nudist beach. ...At the time, fellow town councillor John Blackman said the beach was a "flagrant exhibition of mammary glands". "I personally have no objection to people showing their breasts and bosoms and general genitalia to one another," said Cllr Blackman. "Jolly good luck to them, but for heaven's sake, they should go somewhere more private."
...With nudist camps still the source of much Carry On-style tittering, are we really any more accepting of naked bodies? ...Persuading the wider world that naturism is not about sex and gawping has not been easy.
For Bob (not his real name) naturism is all about the feeling of freedom that comes with shedding clothes.
That's why, once a month, he invites like-minded souls to his West Midlands pub for a drink. In the nude.
People come from far and wide, but he no longer publicises the occasions, fearful of the "wrong sort" of customer.
...The trouble for naturists...is that they want to separate their naked bodies from all erotic thoughts - something which does not come naturally. "They have to rather stoically and rather stubbornly switch off all sexual feelings and thoughts," he says.It strikes me that fasting is no less "unnatural", yet billions of respectable devout people do that regularly.
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