The weather has been unusually warm in the UK over the last few weeks. Clear blue skies and daytime highs of 30°C (86°F for our American friends—though perhaps it’s time the USA joined the rest of the world and embraced Celsius!). When I was a teenager in the 1970s, if the temperature reached 26°C (79°F), […]
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Reclaiming the Breast as a Site of Knowledge, Not Shame At first glance, #bOObs might look like a provocation. The title is playful, slightlyconfrontational, and deliberately disarming. But spend a little time with the project andit becomes clear that this is not about shock for its own sake. It is about health,visibility, and the stubborn
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Huck magazine reports from inside one of the UK’s last nudist communities. “Clothing is conformity” — Peaking in popularity in the mid-20th century, the alternative lifestyle movement, which promises freedom from traditional societal expectations, faces extinction as self-image anxiety rises and technologies change.To quote Grant, a resident: “Naturism is about the freedom to live the way
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Smoke Sauna Sisterhood is a 2023 Estonian documentary by film maker Anna Hints that unfolds within the intimate, mist-shrouded world of a traditional smoke sauna deep in the forests of southern Estonia. The film gathers a group of women who come together to bathe, sweat, and share their most personal stories — of love, loss,
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In Georgia’s Kakheti region, an ancient mud volcano murmurs against the vineyards and fruit orchards of the Alazani Valley. Recognized for its healing properties since the 19th century, the natural spa resort of Akhtala harnesses the ritual potential of its mineral-rich mud, which rises from the cracks in the land’s surface as a living, breathing
The European TV channel ARTE explores the practice of naturism in various countries, and poses the question: Is naturism on the verge of extinction? “Nudity on the beach or when camping as a way of life – for some it’s natural, for others it’s provocative. Naturism has been a tradition in Germany and Great Britain
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A survey by YouGov about attitudes to nudity in the UK suggests that the British are NOT as prudish about nudity as we might have thought. Her at Nude Is Normal we knew this all along, we just couldn’t prove it. Check out the YouGov nude survey here.
Advertisers have a long history of using nudes, or implied nudes in advertising, and we have explored this before here at Nude Is Normal. Look at this post. And another post here. There is a TV commercial running on UK TV, it’s promoting Life Insurance, and features a couple who are naked in front of
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Here is an interesting video featuring some Australian Nudists answering questions about nudism and their lifestyle. Watch it here: You cant ask that!
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I know this sounds obvious, Here at ‘Nude Is Normal’ we promote being nude as normal. The clue is in the name. However, I think we are missing something.Why, for the majority of people, is nude NOT normal? What is it that makes them get dressed, wear a bathing suit to swim, when the clothing
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