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Walt Whitman, often hailed as a great American poet, profoundly influenced the naturism movement. His personal experiences, particularly those related to nature, shaped his views on the sanctity of the human body and its connection to the natural world. Whitman's ideas resonated with prominent figures like Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Edward Carpenter, fostering a deeper appreciation for naturism. His legacy continues to inspire a closer, harmonious relationship with nature and body freedom. 🪐

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I’ve been taking dance classes for almost three years now. I decided I wanted to learn how to dance in order to form a better relationship with my body, to be less stiff and inexpressive in how I carry myself, and to hopefully become a better art model. It very quickly turned into a passion, and a little over a year later I danced in my first performances, which led to the creation of a new dance group with some friends called Embodied Art Dance.Our focus is on combining performing and visual arts, emphasizing the human form through movement and figure drawing.

I’m still very new to dance; particularly the cultures that have developed around it. I’ve been reading more on the subject and have been pleasantly surprised by how it connects with my passion for nudism as well. 🪐

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MADISON, WI – In yet another development in the ongoing legislative saga, the Wisconsin Senate Committee on Mental Health, Substance Abuse Prevention, Children and Families has now passed the contentious Senate Bills 477 & 478. In this latest advancement, both bills passed by party-line 3-2 votes during the executive session on November 28th, mirroring the party-line vote that was held on the bills just two weeks ago by the Assembly Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety, and underscoring the partisan divide on the issue of public nudity and civil liberties. 🪐

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In California’s naturist communities, there’s an ongoing struggle to preserve a culture under threat, with no less than four naturist clubs facing an impending or recent change of ownership. As residents at well-known naturist spots like Desert Sun Resort and DeAnza Springs Resort conflict with reluctant owners, and others like Olive Dell Ranch and Lupin Lodge face potential sales, a crucial question emerges: How can a culture of naturism be protected amidst these changes? 🪐

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Nudists and naturists need allies beyond our community—supportive individuals, regardless of their attire, who are willing to advocate for us. We need to cultivate those communities among people we trust, and we need our national and regional organizations to do the same. We need not to gatekeep when people speak up on our behalf, and we need these relationships with the cultural and social majority to serve as a bulwark against retrogressive anti-nudity laws that are being and will be pursued across the country. 🪐

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Denny Blaine Park, an iconic nudist and queer-friendly space in Seattle, Washington, is facing a significant change. The City of Seattle is planning to add a children’s play area to this popular park, renowned for its clothing-optional beach and as a queer community hub. The proposed play area, intended to fill a gap in local amenities, is slated to be built on the park’s northwest edge, an area with public access to Lake Washington. Amidst these developments, a petition was launched to halt the construction of the play area, rapidly gaining hundreds of supporters within the first 24 hours of its creation. 🪐

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MADISON, WI – The Wisconsin Assembly Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety, led by a 10-5 Republican majority, has voted to pass the controversial anti-nudity bills, AB 503 and 504 in a party-line vote in an executive session held on Thursday. The decision marks a critical juncture in the ongoing debate over public nudity and civil liberties in the state. 🪐

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The Kinsey Institute, a renowned center for the study of sexuality, gender, and relationships at Indiana University (IU), is facing a critical juncture in its 75-year history. A series of recent developments involving the Indiana state legislature and the university's board of trustees have raised significant concerns about the institute's future structure, funding, and independence. This tension has culminated in a recent standoff with the state legislature and university administration, bringing the institute's future into sharp focus.  🪐

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India Rakusen’s 2022 podcast, 28ish Days Later, explores the whole bloody story of the menstrual cycle. Early in the series, she introduces the concept of mapping your cycles phases to seasons in a year – winter (menstruation), spring (follicular phase), summer (ovulatory phase), and autumn (luteal phase). Not only is this concept empowering in terms of understanding shifts in moods and energies, I can’t help but think—what could be more naturist? 

In many aspects, the menstrual cycle is one of the most natural connections to the earth and moon. (Men’s cycles are more like the day/night cycle, with moods and hormones rising and falling in 24-hour cycles.) In some ways, naturists are aware of this and celebrate it, but in other more practical applications and engrained thinking, there is a lot of oppression. 🪐

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Naked Fear: Anti-Body Myths, Phobias, Delusions, and the Madness of Modesty (2010) is the full title of the second book from Dennis Craig Smith, his first being the Naked Child: Growing Up Without Shame (1981), which is known for its informal study Smith performed interviewing adults who had grown up in naturism to dispel stigmas associated with child exposure to nudity. Naked Fear could be seen as the flipside of the earlier study: the book takes an exhaustive look at the anti-body culture that has been established by western civilization, highlighting specific people and organizations responsible for such repressive attitudes and how these attitudes are maintained. Aggressive in tone and fragmented feeling at times, Naked Fear is otherwise an informative book on the history of western colonial society’s efforts to censor the naked body and avoid any discussion of its parts and functions. However, at least for me, it had a few other issues. 🪐

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