The Art Models books and cds are the best products of this kind available to public! What a great tool for artist who can’t afford to pay a live model! Both male and female poses are wonderful and the most dynamic that I have seen in a book or website of this kind! The photos are much larger and have extremely more detail then all other books of this kind available. Next best thing to having a live model! With all the Art Models products, both the male and female body is seen as beautiful and celebrated. None of the male or female poses are censored and both male and female viewers are treated as equals. Just a wonderful tool for artist!

Hardcover erotic photography from the Amazon store.

I hadn’t read far, when I noticed a little device author Ward used to add authenticity to the futuristic claim. It was a small affectation but I found it delightful. Since the book was claimed to have been written in 2056, certain more modern word forms were used–words like thru, enuf, tho, altho, nite, and the like. It makes sense. Why wouldn’t words with useless extra letters eventually be changed in the future?

For a naturist, Body Freedom Day is a delight. It makes one long for the day when clothes will cease to be the mandatory condition of society in general. To be able to walk out the front door on a fine summer’s day in the state one left the shower (only dry), to go for a walk, or to drive somewhere on an errand, would be a treat indeed. As you read this book, you start asking yourself, “Why not?” Why not be able to go anywhere without clothing if the weather dictates? Why not be accepted as a person regardless of our state of dress?

From the start, it’s clear that author Ward is a public lands type of naturist. All of the references he uses in Body Freedom Day’s bibliography are from The Naturist Society’s N Magazine. In addition, a portion of the book’s royalties will go to select body freedom organizations.

I don’t necessarily agree with every premise author Ward makes in his extrapolation of the future but I surely had fun on the ride. The writing style is light and humorous and clips along at a merry pace. By the time you get to the end, you’ll be convinced that a clothes-free society is not only a possibility, it’s almost a foregone conclusion. Pick up a copy of Body Freedom Day to read on your next trip to the beach. Better yet, make it a clothing-optional beach.

I like the idea of this collection very much–photographs of families who are comfortable enough with themselves and each other to be nude. For many viewing these pictures, there would be an apprehension that the models would be sexualized in some way but Mohr has avoided this, to his credit. Instead, there is something about the openness you have to have to be photographed like this that is very relaxing. There seems to be a complete lack of guile in these pictures.

I am curious about his choice to stick to pair groupings in most of his photographs–mother/child or father/child–rather than entire family groups. Perhaps this helps keep attention more focused on the models and their relationship rather than diluting it among more people; however, I would have been interested to see some of the larger dynamics.

As for the photos themselves, they are varied and often stunningly beautiful. Mohr works with normal people but achieves wonderful results, all the more so because his models look human, perhaps. The fact that the coloring of his photos is never natural does get a bit old after extended viewing and the switch between various coloring styles occasionally strikes as a bit odd but, for the most part, this is a small complaint. Mohr has done something wonderful here.

This book was very enlightening! The characters were very likeable and engaging. They made you want to be in their group of friends, smart and witty.
The story takes place mostly in a nudist resort, which in itself, was very interesting. I have never thought that it would be something that normal people would do, but after reading Sun Kissed Bodies, it makes me wonder if I could do it. They sound like a very friendly, normal group of people.
This was a very satisfying read from start to finish. I highly recommend it to anybody who wants a funny, smart, romantic get away.

Alan Palmer’s first novel starts in the middle of a hot summer night, somewhere in France, when textile thirty-somethings Ros and Nick book into holiday centre Le Paradis.

They wake to discover a dead body by their cabin and find that they have checked into a naturist resort by mistake. Nudity is obligatory in Le Paradis in the day, but clothing is normal in the evenings at the restaurant and nightclub.

Nick and Ros react differently to this enforced social nudity and their views evolve as their stay lengthens.

A thoroughly great holiday read.

This is not a review. This is a rhapsody. If you are a woman, you will find yourself in these pages, in these photographs, in these stories. If you are a man, you will find your girlfriend, your mother, your wife, your sister, your aunt, your grandmother. Though these stories and exquisite photographs are of 54 individual women of all ages, races and body-types, their courageous words and photographs will break open your heart to your own beauty, suffering, doubt, rage, sorrow, joy, pain and gratitude. Buy two books. One to keep and one to give away. You will be glad you did. Then let the conversations begin among girlfriends, mothers and daughters, lovers, husbands and wives, brothers and sisters. Let the shame and rage go. Know your own beauty. Answer the questions yourself. What do you love about your body? What frustrates you? How have you supported your body? Then you can sing a song of your own courage, grace and beauty. Amen.