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800 Men and Women Take Part in Naked Pillow Fight for Art Project

The latest nude photo installation by daring U.S. artist Spencer Tunick, has seen 800 volunteers shed their clothes in the name of art.

The piece, entitled ‘Sleeping Beauties’ took place in the grounds of Gaasbeek’s Castle in Belgium, 6 miles south of the capital Brussels.

Tunick specialises in nude outdoor photography, and has been taking pictures in unusual locations since he began in 1986, taking pictures of nudes outside Alleyn’s School in Dulwich, South London.
Naked volunteers battle with pillows as they pose for U.S. artist Spencer Tunick in front of the Gaasbeek’s Castle.

The installation is entitled “Sleeping Beauties”.

He began documenting live nudes in public locations seriously in 1995, beginning in his native New York through video and photographs.
Gaasbeek’s Castle is situated just outside the Begium capital of Brussels.

Gaasbeek’s Castle is situated just outside the Begium capital of Brussels.

Since then he has built a large portfolio of work all over the world. His work in the UK includes taking photographs of 500 nude participants outside Selfridges department store in London in 2003, 700 nudes revellers at the Big Chill music festival in Herefordshire in 2007 and shooting 1,700 nudes on the Gateshead Millennium Bridge in 2005
This is the latest project from nude photo installation artist Spencer Tunick.

This is the latest project from nude photo installation artist Spencer Tunick.

His project have grown increasingly more ambitious as time has gone on, with his largest ever project seeing 18,000 people posing for him in Mexico City’s principal square, called the Zocalo.
800 people posed for the early morning nude photo installation titled

800 people posed for the early morning nude photo installation titled “Sleeping Beauties”.

All the models are unpaid volunteers who receive a limited edition photo as compensation.
2011.07.29 / no responses / Category: Nudist Events
Photography and the Classical Nude Exhibition at the University of Sydney

THE nude in photography is now a fraught artistic realm – and particularly so in the wake of the Bill Henson saga of 2008, when police arrived to remove the artist’s work from Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery in Paddington.

That incident sparked a furious debate about Henson’s use of nude adolescents in his photographs.

Even though Henson’s work was subsequently put back on view and no charges were ever laid over his photographs, the furore changed the game plan for artists and their use of the nude.

The Australia Council released guidelines for artists working with children, and a new law scrapped the defence of artistic merit in child pornography images.

So what of the exhibition to open shortly at the Nicholson Museum at the University of Sydney? Exposed: Photography And The Classical Nude examines the influence of classical Greek and Roman sculpture on photographers from the 1840s to the present day. Curator Michael Turner says the exhibition, part of Sydney Festival 2011, is not intended to be shocking.

“It would be too easy to be confrontational,” Turner says.

Not wishing to be sensational, he changed his mind about including a particularly raunchy image by Robert Mapplethorpe because it was “too rude”. But Turner faced up to the historical fact of the depiction of young people in photography, and the tangle of issues surrounding it, through some of the images he did include.

In the late Victorian era, many photographers “pandered” to a certain seedy market by travelling to Greece or Italy and taking photographs of adolescent boys draped around various objects of antiquity. He says use of archaic objects to justify the nude picture is known as “the classical alibi”.

Famous photographers represented in the exhibition include Henry Fox Talbot, who used statues as models because they stayed still. Henri Cartier-Bresson photographed a famous statue of Venus in the archaeological museum in Naples.

The goddess appears to be speaking to two children who have turned their faces towards her.

Other photographers in the show include Eadweard Muybridge, Brassai, Robert Doisneau, and Australia’s Max Dupain and Lewis Morley.

The exhibition highlights a little-known occurrence in Sydney in the early 20th century when a radical archbishop insisted much of the nude, classically inspired statuary be removed from the Royal Botanic Gardens. Some statues were later reinstated. But an Apollo was never seen again, and a Venus was lost, having graced a Blue Mountains hotel for a while.

Turner describes the exhibition as beautiful, adding: “I hope there’s a couple of images that might be a bit confrontational and people react to; otherwise I hope people come away from it feeling good with themselves, good with their bodies.”

Photography And The Classical Nude, Nicholson Museum, University Of Sydney; January 4 to April 17, Monday-Friday 10am-4.30pm, Sunday noon-4pm, free, 9351 2812, sydney.edu.au/museums
2011.01.02 / no responses / Category: Nudist Events
Miami Beach Gets a Nudist Museum

Ellen Harvey’s Nudist Museum doesn’t have any actual live nudes roaming the galleries. But it does feature the British-born, Brooklyn-based artist’s interpretation of every single work of art depicting a nude in the collection of Miami Beach’s Bass Museum of Art, where the project is currently being exhibited. Based on reproductions rather than originals, Harvey’s renderings of paintings, drawings, and sculptures from the collection point out the wide variety of ways that nudes have been portrayed in art — from the titillation of a naked nymph to the purity of a newborn child.

Harvey creatively cropped some subjects to focus on the nude in the appropriated works, and painted everything but the nude in monochromatic grays, while adding fleshy colors to drawings and sculptures that had none. Furthering the postmodernist gesture, she carried the gray background paints onto her found ornate frames — to let the viewer in on the game — and then hung her fifty-four works in three salon-style displays over wallpaper composed from an array of nudes that she gathered from the mass media. Juxtaposing the past with the present, Harvey constructs a clever installation that celebrates the role of collecting, while offering new meaning to an age-old genre of art.

Ellen Harvey: The Nudist Museum is on view at the Bass Museum of Art in Miami Beach through November 7.
2010.11.15 / no responses / Category: Nudist Events
No clothes? No problem! This 5K is at Caliente

Clothing-optional road races are nothing new for the area’s nudist and clothing-optional resorts, but the Bare Dare 5K on Sunday will be the first such event at the Caliente Resort & Spa off U.S. 41.

Race director Pete Williams, whose company Enterprise Media LLC is sponsoring the race, said about 200 people from 12 states are expected for Caliente’s inaugural 5K run. This week, Williams said, he counted 18 people who are scheduled to travel at least 700 miles to participate.

Williams said he has promoted the race “through Sirius Satellite radio and just the nature of the Internet.”

At Caliente, he said, “they have two miles of jogging paths already there, plus there’s the popularity of the place and its upscale nature. It’s not a huge time of year for people to come to Florida. I was talking to some people from Illinois recently. They’d never been to Caliente and were intrigued about the race.

“Last week, I was talking to a couple from Missouri who registered. I don’t know what kind of airfare you can get right now, but that’s great,” he said.

A Safety Harbor resident and co-author of several fitness books, Williams also has played up the race on “The Fitness Buff,” a radio show he co-hosts with Sabrina Vizzari on BlogTalkRadio. The pair occasionally broadcast from Caliente.

The 3.1-mile course wraps around Caliente’s running trails and lakes, where sandhill cranes and other wildlife are known to visit, and ends just a few feet from the resort’s 8,500-square-foot lagoon and pool.

The daughter of nudists, Vizzari introduced clothing-optional road races to Land O’ Lakes in 1993 when she organized what is thought to be Florida’s first such event, the Dare to Go Bare 5K at Lake Como Family Nudist Resort.

She later promoted the Sneaker Streaker 5K at Paradise Lakes Resort, but that race was discontinued after the venue changed ownership in 2007.

“When I was (public relations director) at Lake Como, we got attendance to about 400 or so, and they’re still doing it,” Vizzari said. “It’s a good way to get people to come out and have some fun. Pete’s doing a wonderful job on preregistrations. We have about 42 percent females, which is really impressive.

“At Lake Como and some other runs, it’s a male-dominated sport. You always have some females there, but it’s probably 65 to 70 percent male for textile runs,” in which people must wear clothes.

Runners need not be members of Caliente to participate. For information about the race, including cost, go to www.baredare5k.com.
2010.10.12 / no responses / Category: Nudist Events
“Nude Visions: 150 Years of Nude Photography” Opens at the Museum of Visual Arts, Leipzig

The representation of the unclothed human body has exuded a great fascination ever since time began. The exhibition Nude Visions invites visitors to embark on a journey through a collection of depictions of the human body spanning 150 years. More than 250 original photos, books and folders with studies from the nude will be on view, including masterpieces from each period: from photographs dating from the 19th century which seek their models in Classical Antiquity and the Renaissance, up to Surrealistic experiments and fashion and lifestyle photography. The exhibition illustrates changing ideals of beauty and moral perceptions, and reveals once again the constant attempt to balance between educational openness, titillation and curiosity.

“Without any doubt, there is nothing which draws the attention of the observer to it so much as the naked human body“. This comment of the journalist and photographer Kurt Freytag in1909 is as true today as it was then. The exhibition turns this fact to its advantage and deals with the historical, aesthetic and ideological development of images of the human body in photography. The show is divided into seven chapters devoted to the meaning and function of the unclothed human body in photography, and tracing the history of the medium: “Academies and Exotic Pictures in the 19th century“, “Art photography around 1900 (Pictorialism)“, “Avant-gardes of the 20s and 30s“, “Artistic positions after 1945“, “Naturism”, “The Male Nude“ and “Glamourous Nudes“. The first coloured Daguerreotypes of curvaceous ladies with blushing cheeks dating from 1855 meet the unflatteringly in-your-face and voyeuristic self-portrait of the photographer Frank Stürmer from 2004. These two photos mark the two ends of the spectrum covered by the exhibition, which illustrates the evolution of nude photography over sixteen decades by the example of more than 250 eminent works.

Nude photography is always, too, a process of negotiation between revealing and concealing. This exhibition makes clear the ambivalence of what is visible and what is unseen, of shame and curiosity, of legitimation and provocativeness. How nakedness is treated is closely bound up with the specific social context in which it occurs, the ideas of morality and the aesthetic ideal of an era. The motif of the nude is always influenced here both by the historical artistic tradition and reactions to contemporary impulses, which are interpreted by the photographer. Thus the movement for women’s emancipation, for instance, led to new ways of looking at both the female and the male body, as seen for example in the work of Herlinde Koelbl. Images which were still regarded as being scandalous at the beginning of the 20th century, triggering moral misgivings and controversy about a subject perceived as being delicate, would hardly bring a blush to the face of anyone living today. It is not only the motifs which have moved on, but also the reproducibility of the images and the extent of their media coverage impact on the awareness and significance of nakedness in society.

The origins of the history of nude photography lie in the so-called “academies“, which provided painters, graphic artists and sculptors with study objects in the 19th century and which followed the historical artistic models of Classical Antiquity and the Renaissance. Nude photography soon increasingly became emancipated from being a mere model for painting and sculpture, and developed artistic ambitions of its own: photographers discovered in the art of the fin de siècle, with its debt to Symbolism, the nude as a reflection of emotional states and yearnings. In the outgoing 19th century, with its bias towards the exact sciences, the human body served as an object for the study of movement, such as in the celebrated series shots by Eadweard Muybridge showing the sequence of motions in human movement.

Whereas historically staged scenes and compositions are still created in the sheltered environment of the atelier at the beginnings of photography, we find the first open-air nudes after 1870. Wilhelm von Gloeden, Guglielmo Plüschow and others took advantage of the light in the Mediterranean South to stage their visions of an earthly Arcadia. As a feature of the Lebensreform back-to-nature movement which gained ground from the turn of the century onwards, especially in Germany, nude photography became a torchbearer of the Naturist movement. The ornamentally arranged groupings of naked dancers which Gerhard Riebicke for example photographs, mainly in the German countryside, became a symbol for the liberation from the moral constraints of civilization and industrialization. The aesthetic of athletic bodies engaged in sporting activities or dancers in motion was taken up in the heroic physical ideal of the National Socialists and can later still be found in the cult of bodybuilding.

A new, more radical vision was developed by the Avant-garde movements after the 1920s, with their abstract and surrealistic experiments, such as the stories narrated in a play of light and shadow by František Drtikol or the deformed bodies in the works of Hans List. The theme of “glamour“ plays a crucial role above all in fashion photography. That chapter poses the question as to what role is played in the debate on fashion by the way of showing the unclothed female body, by male desire and how perceptions change in the course of cultural history. Glamour can be seen in the erotic images from the Atelier Manassé, shown in soft focus, in Bert Stern’s portraits from the “last sitting” of Marilyn Monroe, up to and including Helmut Newton’s photos. In addition to these, selected works by amateurs as well as the male nude as an expression of gay emancipation will also be presented in pictures, particularly by Will McBride or Herbert Roettgen, who placed the representation of the naked male body in the focus of their work as an expression of their homosexuality, an emblem of their coming-out.

The depiction of the naked torso is shrouded in an aura of scandal and has always been a political bone of contention, whereby images of the bare human body send signals which differ according to their historical context: the photographic artists of the 1970s, working within the framework of body art and performance events, declared the directness of their own physical experience to be a political necessity. In retrospect, their work can be seen as a last desperate attempt to grapple with the vanishing concept of the subjective personality before the transition to the post-modern age. The private spaces of life too are meanwhile also illuminated in a quite different way than 25 years ago. The photographer Thomas Ruff deals in his works, which he imbues with a diffuse haziness by digital means, with the theme of the exhibitionism which can go as far as pornographic exposure of one’s own and others’ nakedness in internet forums. Nude Visions shows that the representation of the naked human body always also has something to do with the quest for insight into what human beings (and one’s own self) really are and what role they play in society.
2010.09.01 / no responses / Category: Nudist Events
A Picture and 1,000 Words: Naked in Public

It’s safe to say that Philip Carr-Gomm is the rare man of letters who would admit to reading Playboy for the centerfolds, rather than the articles. His new book, A Brief History of Nakedness, is exactly what it sounds like, complete with numerous photographs such as the one seen above. But rather than providing flimsy justifications for his ogling, the book instead offers a sustained mediation on the spiritual, cultural and political implications of being naked in public.

The 50 peaceful women seen here are part of Baring Witness, a group of Iraq war protesters who posed nude in West Marin County, California, in November of 2002. As Carr-Gomm argues, “Nakedness makes a human being particularly vulnerable but in certain circumstances strangely powerful, which is why it has become so popular as a vehicle for political protest.” According to Carr-Gomm, by disrobing, protesters demonstrate that they are both fearless and have nothing to hide.

At least, that’s the ideal situation. Sometimes the political intentions of being in the buff can get lost, as happened during the recent expressions of G20 activism. “There’s a naked guy at Queen and Peter,” @one_more_night tweeted. “I think he’s protesting clothes.”

For a cold, northern country, there’s a surprising amount of clothing animosity in Canada. (Our country’s first nudist club formed in 1918, while it took until 1929 for the United States to be able to say the same.) In his book, Carr-Gomm mentions the Toronto-based Naked News (”the program with nothing to hide”), Montreal-born artist Cosimo Cavallaro (who, in 2005, created a chocolate sculpture of a nude Christ entitled Sweet Jesus) and the World Naked Bike Ride (created in 2004 by Vancouver’s Conrad Schmidt).

And, of course, the Doukhobors. A radical sect of Ukrainian Christians, the Doukhobors (which translates into “spirit wrestlers”) were considered heretics by the Orthodox Church and generally irritated the Russian government. So in 1899 the Doukhobors were encouraged to move their troublemaking to Canada, where they were promised 65 hectares of free land, a bracing climate, equitable laws, peace and prosperity. More than a third of the population (nearly 8,000) said yes, but by 1903 they were unhappy, and an extremist faction called the Sons of Freedom emerged, inspired by the Quakers and Leo Tolstoy. As Carr-Gomm notes, the Sons of Freedom “decided to mount a sustained campaign of protest against the government, whom they believed had reneged on their promises regarding land rights and were enforcing compulsory education in government schools.”

In May of 1903 over 45 Doukhobors protested by marching naked, were charged with “nudism” and sentenced to jail. Naked skirmishes between the Canadian government and the Doukhobors continued into the 1970s.

The Doukhobors were a rare instance of a religious sect demanding political reform through nudity. But there are plenty of historical examples that demonstrate the more purely spiritual aspects of nudity. And given that Carr-Gomm is the author of six different books with the word “druid” in the title (including In the Grove of the Druids and The Druid Way), it’s unsurprising that the spirituality of being in the buff captured his attention.

Druids performed certain rituals naked, or as they called it, sky-clad. Not that the druids had a monopoly on weirdness. As Carr-Gomm notes in a section about folk-magic: “English customs included sweeping a room naked on Midwinter night to then dream of your future husband, entering a lake or river naked at midnight to discover his face revealed on the surface of the water, and undressing at a crossroads on St. George’s night.” (Presumably, if none of these tactics worked, then your future husband was just not that into you.)

But even some Christians have adopted the pioneering work of Adam and Eve and embraced “naturism.” As Carr-Gomm points out, there are Christian Nudist Convocations along with provocatively titled books such as The Naked Christian: What God Sees When He Looks Right Through Me.

Given the general level of permissiveness toward being starkers, even a family newspaper like the Star can publish the Baring Witness women seen here without having to worry about angry mobs rioting outside 1 Yonge St. (Although the paper would go bankrupt if it was forced to pay $550,000 per nipple, which is the fine that CBS received from the Federal Communications Commission for the Janet Jackson wardrobe malfunction.) Spencer Tunick has built a career out of his photographs of multitudes of naked people posing in public places. And neither Puppetry of the Penis nor the Canadian version of the television show How To Look Good Naked generated much outrage.

To be shocking now requires “supernakedness,” which is how one reviewer described performance artist Annie Sprinkle’s show A Public Cervix Announcement. (The curious should use their imagination to figure out what supernakedness might entail. Or, failing that, consult Google.) As if to acknowledge that the coyness of the traditional nudie calendar is no longer effective or eye-catching, Eizo, a German medical imaging company, released an X-ray pin-up calendar in June. Each month a woman is posed provocatively, but the only thing visible is skeletal structure and high heels. Truly revealing, but not very sexy.

As Carr-Gomm notes, it seems impossible to believe that back in 1945, the BBC’s guide for comedy writers warned against using the word “naked” as a punchline. Today this prudishness is history. At the very least, it allowed humorist David Sedaris to joke about spending a week at nudist trailer park in his 1997 essay collection Naked. “I’ve noticed that when forced to go into town, the costumed nudists appear ornery and uncomfortable, like cats stuffed into little outfits for the sake of a wacky photograph,” he writes. “They claw at their buttons and zippers, their eyes wild and desperate.”

Which is to say that not every nudist has a political agenda. The Baring Witness women might want peace through nudity, but many others go naked only for peace of mind.
2010.08.16 / no responses / Category: Nudist Events
Over 100 People In San Francisco Bay Area Try To Set Skinny Dipping Record

More than 100 people with nothing on but sunscreen and smiles crowded into a San Francisco Bay area swimming pool over the weekend in an attempt to set a skinny dipping record.

The 111 naked people in the pool at a Los Gatos nudist resort took part in a series of efforts on Saturday to establish a record tracked by a group calling itself the American Association For Nude Recreation.

Organizers say besides the event in Los Gatos, there were about 100 other record-breaking attempts across the country.

In order to be counted in the competition, all the participants had to be at the same location at exactly noon.

A picture taken of the gathering in Los Gatos will be submitted to determine which group broke the skinny dipping record.
2010.07.13 / no responses / Category: Nudist Events
The 8th Annual Bare Butts Bike Rally In Centerville, Indiana Is Clothing Optional

The 8th Annual Bare Butts Bike Rally is not going to be your average motorcycle rally. Oh, there will be plenty of vendors’ set-up to sell their wares, camping, music, biker rodeo games, a people’s choice bike show, and a 100 mile scenic ride. So what makes this rally different from all the rest? Well, it is a clothing optional rally!

The 8th Annual Bare Butts Bike Rally will be held in Centerville, Indiana at the Sunshower Country Club Nudist Resort. Located at 3263 Mattie Harris Road, Sunshower Country Club is also the sponsor of this unique rally event. The gates will open promptly at 12:00 noon on Thursday July 22nd and the rally runs through Sunday July 25th.

If you are not inclined to camp, there are plenty of hotels in and around the Centerville and Richmond, Indiana area: Super 8, Holiday Inn, Comfort Inn and the Hampton Inn just to name a few. Centerville is located roughly due east of Indianapolis, so take I-65 north from Louisville. It’s probably best to map it and take some of the back roads so you don’t spend all day on the interstate. It’s about a 3-hour ride from Louisville and about 150 miles.

Remember this is a clothing optional rally, which gives a whole new meaning to the idea of a scenic ride. Actually the 100 mile scenic ride will leave the nudist resort grounds so you will need to put on a bit more than just your chaps. For more information on the 8th Annual Bare Butts Bike Rally, call (765) 855-2785, or got to www.Sunshower.com.

So if you plan to attend this truly unique, clothing optional rally experience, be wary of the hot pipes from your bike and please try not to burn anything off!
2010.06.14 / no responses / Category: Nudist Events
Naked Volleyball

Through the trees to the right is a view unlike anything any of us has ever seen: a swirl of naked bodies and volleyball nets, sprinkled with bobbing white balls. It’s like one of those computergenerated movie scenes in which the hero lands on another planet and stumbles upon a mass congregation of inhabitants praying to a different god. Or performing some unknown ritual. Or playing nude volleyball. We are in another world.

As I shed my threads, I’m not as concerned about how my body looks as I am about the sight of my underpants.

The camp was founded in 1961, back when there was an actual naked volleyball association called the Tri State League, made up of real-deal squads from Penn Sylvan (Pa.), Sunny Heights, (N.J.) and Pine Tree (Md.). The league led to White Thorn’s hosting of the inaugural Super Bowl, in 1971. What started with five squads is now a 70-team event. Whatever we might think about naked sports, this is serious naked sports.

We’ve arrived just in time for the opening ceremony. The evening is crisp, but that doesn’t stop the two flag-bearers from performing their duties in full glory. Nor does it stop last year’s champions from parading around the clubhouse lawn in nothing but socks and shoes. The team goes by the name Tiki Tomba, and its members look less like nudists and more like athletes. “I thought the volleyball was going to be crappy,” says Carol, eyes wide with shock. “But these guys look like players.” We find out later that almost all the Tiki Tombas were on the East Stroudsburg University volleyball team.

From the moment we rolled into camp and noticed that the weather had put the clothing back in clothing-optional, we expected not to have to get naked until our match the next morning (Rule No. 1: If you’re playing, you’re naked). We also expected to be able to practice some before having to show off our goods, so to speak.

But when the opening ceremony wraps, the White Thorn brass asks us to take the court. We’ve requested a spot in the all-male AA level, the tourney’s highest division, but given our estrogen-laced roster, the powers-that-be are dubious that we’ll be able to hang with the Tiki Tombas of their world. They’re afraid someone will get hurt, maybe take a 110 mph heater square in the face. I tell them these women are pros; if anybody’s going to get hurt, it sure as heck won’t be one of them. In any case, they want us to face the music. I feel like a pole dancer on amateur night.

Turns out, White Thorn has had trouble keeping the participation of a certain national sports magazine a secret. As we stand beneath an inky sky on the green asphalt of Court 1 — White Thorn boasts 11 outdoor courts — the buzz of the lights gives way to the buzz of spectators. Hundreds of bodies that moments earlier weren’t there line each side of the playing area. Many are clad (they’re nudists, not stupid) and curious. “We’re on a stage,” says Michele. “Everyone is waiting to judge us.”

Sensing we’ll chicken out, a topless woman, who had been warming up with others on the other side of the court, crosses under the net, introduces herself and cajoles us into huddling up with her. “We’ve been dying for you ESPN guys to come,” she says. “See all those people? They want to see a game. Just one, just for fun.” Then she turns to Carol, who’s dressed in sweats and a tank top, and yanks off her shirt. Game on.

We end up playing not one but two games, in varying degrees of nakedness. Noah, who had conquered his demons as soon as we parked the RVs, plays completely naked. Greg wears shorts. Carol is half-clothed, Michele fully so. “It was freaking cold,” she says later. “Plus, I was too concerned with playing well.” So am I, which is why I keep my T-shirt and shorts on. But during the first game, all I can think about is an insight shared by a White Thorn vet: When you’re around a bunch of naked people and you’re the one wearing clothes, you feel like an idiot.

By game’s end (we lost), I realize he’s right. And as I shed my threads for the second game, I’m not as concerned about how my body looks as I am obsessed by the sight of my underpants. When you anticipate that your skivvies will be on display — maybe you’re headed out for a romantic dinner, or maybe you’re Soulja Boy — you dress accordingly. Preparing for a naked volleyball game isn’t one of those times. I hastily yank off my shorts and sagging, moth-eaten daddy briefs in one fell swoop. Out on the court, readying myself for the start of play, I quickly realize how exposed my backside feels. The serve receive position is similar to the classic ready stance of most sports: wide base, knees bent, butt sticking out. Mind you, I’m in the back row, which puts my keister that much closer to the watchers. You know the gem about the sun not shining on a specific spot of the human anatomy? It holds true for me, but only because it’s night.

Part of what makes volleyball a great nudist pastime is that the game itself requires no physical contact. Problem is, no sport features more high-fiving and ass-smacking than six-on-six volleyball. Every single point is a slap-and-tickle fest waiting to happen. When you’re clothed, that is. When you’re naked, slapping and tickling doesn’t come so easily.

But winning overcomes everything, even on planet Naked. Especially on planet Naked. In its all-out party environment, winning is the drug that shatters the ice. In each of our first four games of Saturday’s pool play — all close losses — our interpoint interaction never goes beyond mild high fives and the occasional fist pound. Although we’re comfortable in our own bare skins, a collective self-consciousness infects our side of the net. But in our fifth game, a miraculous, come-from-behind win against a stacked team we have no business beating, all propriety gives way. We are the Ohio State Buckeyes, only instead of stickers on our helmets we have handprints on our butts. Greg, riding a mix of ample rumpus and inspired play, is by far the most decorated among us.
2009.10.16 / no responses / Category: Nudist Events
Foreign Runners at Sopelana’s Naturist Race 2009

The already traditional naturist race of Sopelana will take place on Saturday 19th on Barinatxe nudist beach located between Sopelana and Getxo towns in Biscay, Basque Country.

Its current edition will count on international presence, given that 3 British, other 3 French, a Italian, an Irish and a German have joined the popular nudist competition.

The 5000-metre (3.107 miles) nudist race takes place on compact sand when the tide is low.

A trophy will be given to the first three of each category, although there will be presents to all the participants reaching the finishing line.

Despite the registration deadline finishes on Thursday 17, participants still can join the race on Saturday 19, just before the competition starts.

Naturist race
2009.09.19 / no responses / Category: Nudist Events