About Naturism
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History of Naturism
History of Naturism
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Well, what a couple of years I’ve had! Pre-pandemic, I was an overweight, middle aged Retail Manager, vehemently against my husband's Naturism. The arrival of Covid into all of our lives had quite the impact on mine. During the first lockdown I was at home, having been furloughed and began cooking healthy meals and the weight began to drop off. The weather was glorious and feeling a little more confident, I bought a bikini and THAT was the start. Fast forward 20 months, I quit the nine-to-five a
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Boys in the Buff is a Christmas comedy spectacular for adults in which Diana and her boys sing, dance and tell stories about self-confidence, body image, and society's unreasonably high expectations on our appearance. Building on their own self-esteem as they share personal stories they dare each other to reveal more of themselves as the evening progresses. It's running at London's Drayton Arms theatre until 9th January and two of the performances have been reserved as clothes-optional for
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Dr Annebella Pollen is Reader in the History of Art and Design at the University of Brighton. Her book Nudism in a Cold Climate: The Visual Culture of Naturists in Mid-20th-Century Britain is published by Atelier Editions on 3rd December 2021. Annebella was our guest on The Forum Live recently and also kindly wrote about her book for us. Why would a non-naturist write a history of naturism? What can a clothes-loving academic, who usually writes about the history of fashion and t
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There can be few as well qualified as Mark Storey to write this wonderful history of nudist/Naturist films. Mark is a lifelong Naturist, joining the Naturist Society (TNS) back in 1988. He is a member of the Naturist Action Committee (NAC), where he has worked with the Naturist Educational Foundation (NEF), and has also been the editorial consultant of Nude and Natural magazine. He helped organize four TNS festivals, two clothing-optional jazz festivals, a Naturist-related film festival, and a t
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Congratulations to Stéphane Deschênes on his election as President of the International Naturist Federation (INF) The election took place on Saturday (9 October) at the INF’s 37th World Congress in Slovenia. In a statement issued on Monday evening (11 October) he and Sieglinde Ivo said that they will “join together as co-presidents until she retires at the end of her term in three years; at which point she will have tirelessly served as the president of the INF-FNI for 16 years. This a
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Valley Sun Club in Harrogate, North Yorkshire, recently held their first Open Day in four years. With the event happily coinciding with one of the hottest weekends of the year, the club were delighted to show off their well-maintained six acre site. Working in conjunction with BN, the Open Day was publicised across Yorkshire with a number of media outlets, including BBC Radio York and the Yorkshire Post ("Yorkshire's National Newspaper") picking up on the news and arranging to interview mem
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Our friends at the French equivalent of British Naturism, Federation Français de Naturism (FFN) have launched a new campaign - #stopbodyshaming. We asked the FFN’s Eric Stafanu to tells us all about it... BN: Can you give us an overview of the campaign? FFN: The main activity is a social media campaign with posters and photos talking about the diversity of bodies, acceptance of them and to advocate for nudity. We want to show that people should not be ashamed of their bodi
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This summer, thousands of people across the UK will be skinny dipping to raise money for the British Heart Foundation and experiencing the exhilaration of being naked. They’ll improve their mental and physical health and wellbeing, gain body confidence and reduce stress. They’ll also have great fun! On the website you’ll find loads of information about the GBSD, British Naturism and BHF, along with helpful FAQs. There’s an events calendar with a searchable list of all dips open to the publ
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What a strange year 2020 turned out to be! For us, as a couple, we had a busy year planned. Regular visits to Jersey for toddler antics with our grandson, our niece’s wedding in August, my father-in-law’s 90th birthday in December, Christmas with our grandson for the first time, my retirement and the prospect with that of more time to spend away in our campervan, and at our chalet at Yorkshire Sun Society (YSS), our Naturist Club. All was going to plan. By March we had enjoyed two visits to
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As we drove out of the Naturist club and the gate shut behind us I was surprised to find myself feeling, well, sad. After all, it was only an experiment, something new to try and explore. As we drove back home my husband and I exchanged frequent looks, and our grins could not be any wider. Did we really just do that? Yes, it was a bit scary at first. But we had done it and we were hooked. Naturism had found me. So, why did I decide to go to a Naturist club in the first place? My
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BN’s friend Laurent Luft of the Association Naturiste de Paris and FFN, tells us of one of his favourite French holiday spots. The Gard and its surrounds is a region of southern France rich in History, from prehistoric early man who left his mark on the walls of caves, to the Romans who built roads, bridges and aqueducts, to medieval popes who called Avignon home during the 14th Century. Nestled among these World Heritage sites is the valley of the Cèze, with hundreds of hectares classified
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A free guide exclusively for BN members! BN members have something to help banish the winter and lockdown blues with the online publication of a new holiday book celebrating hundreds of nude beaches and resorts in Europe. It's available exclusively to BN members, and has 200 pages of listings, pictures, directions and advertising to the most beautiful, peaceful, and sunny naturist sites on offer. The book is a fully revised and updated version of a previous title published by BN member
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Here's something you don't see everyday - a mobile phone company in Iceland have released an advertisement shown on prime time TV featured full, uncensored nudity... The premise seems to be that their SmartWatch is all you need. We'd buy one! There appear to be two versions - here's a longer one:
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Studland Bay is arguably, Britain's best Naturist beach. The bay in Dorset - with other non-Naturist sections is owned by the National Trust. Nude bathing has a long history there. British Naturism is even represented on the official, National Trust operated, beach users group. Some major work is planned for the dunes at Studland and Woolacombe. A science project in 2016 discovered that changes in the habitat had led to a significant loss of local wildlife. Numbers of sand lizards and meado
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Think Naturists are hard done by when it comes to images on social media..? The Gaze Seed Company were hoping to advertise their onion seeds on Facebook but their advert was picked up by the infamous algorithm and flagged as a “product with overtly sexualised positioning” . The advert included a picture of how Gaze Onion seeds should look once grown, ie, like....onions. Facebook sent the company a message advising them that "Listings may not position products or services in a sexually
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Here's an interesting thing...it's really healthy and encouraging to see a new children's book by Rosie Haine on the shelves, aimed at overcoming basic body image issues. With very few words and lots of naked illustrations covering every shape, age, size and gender, this book celebrates bodies, highlighting the differences as well as the similarities between them. Best of all, there is a super introduction to the usually ‘unmentionable’ body parts. Get ready for nipples, willies, body hair and
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Channel 4 recently visited British Naturism Sunfolk for the day and met and filmed Pam Fraser 28 year old Pam is a naturist who devotes her life to championing body positivity and female empowerment. We follow Pam at work at a nudist campsite as she helps her fellow naked guests pitch their tents in high winds and reveals the virtues of life with your kit off.
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With virtually no events or mass gatherings having taken place since lockdown began in March, it was a welcome novelty when 220 volunteers stripped off, except for regulation white face-masks, to form an art installation for the renowned American photographer Spencer Tunick at dawn on 12th September. Staged in the grounds of Alexandra Palace in north London, it was carefully organised under strict Covid-19 protocols, with temperature checks on arrival at 4 a.m. and social-distancing throughout.
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‘The day before lockdown started, we hiked 15 miles through countryside in various states of undress. We started around 8:30am and finished around 5pm, taking the time to enjoy naked picnicking and a bit of naked paddling in a VERY cold river. Thank goodness we did; it was to be the last day of true freedom for a long time,’ say Sue and Andrew. What is it about being naked outdoors that brings such joy to those of us enlightened enough and brave enough to try it? And how have we managed mai
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Get Naked Australia! Get Naked Australia (GNA), is a contemporary platform that promotes body positivity and outdoor recreation through Naturism. Instigator Brendan tells us more about it… What started as a fun photo of myself naked on a cliff top with my arms in the air and bum to the camera very quickly gained traction online. For some people it was seen as harmless fun, for others it was something very meaningful. Whatever people’s reasons were in those early days, one thing became
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Naked sunbathing, positive body image, raising children with healthy attitudes to nudity...we couldn't have put it better ourselves... https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-8601689/ULRIKA-JONSSON-says-British-hung-baring-heatwave.html Picture: Colin Brundle
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Chris is a keen highland walker who shares his naked day hiking at Fisherfield, south of Ullapool. Naked Munro bagging. I never really thought it was either practical or possible. And yet, there I was on a remote mountain in the Scottish Highlands, sitting naked on a trigpoint. Munros are Scottish mountains over 3000 feet high that I and many others have an addiction for. I am officially a 'bagger', trying to climb all 282, and the Highland weekend at Loch Ossian gave me the perfect ex
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Daisy Edgar-Jones, the lead female actor in the BBC's hugely successful adaptation of the book “Normal People”, told the Daily Star that she had spent so much time naked she was thinking of becoming a Naturist. The paper called BN for a comment but our response didn't make it into the article. What did make it was the body confidence boost she got from the experience. She told the Star "Doing Normal People has been quite an empowering thing because I had to accept very early on that really
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Derbyshire Live news website has a feature on the construction of a brand new sports village on the site of the old Moorways Stadium in Derby. A major feature of the village will be a state of the art pool complex with “WOW Wave Ball”, no less than two four-storey flumes and a 50 metre pool that can be divided into different sections. The local Council are certainly on the ball and Councillor Robin Wood seemed on the crest of a wave when he told the “Derbyshire Live” reporter that the new c
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