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On International Women’s Day in Paris, a small group of activists staged a protest designed to travel far beyond the street where it began. Wearing pig masks and painted slogans, members of Femen used their familiar tactic of topless demonstration to condemn powerful figures tied to the Jeffrey Epstein scandal. This episode looks at the group’s long-running strategy of political nudity and the debate it continues to spark about spectacle, autonomy, and the power of images in modern protest movements.

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The former home of Goodland Country Club, a historic nudist resort in New Jersey with roots stretching back to the early 1930s, has been listed for sale. The 35-acre property includes a Victorian main house, cabins, campsites, and recreational facilities that once supported a thriving naturist community. Its closure in 2024 ended nearly nine decades of activity on the site, leaving the future of the estate—and its place in nudist history—uncertain.

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Inside a dim Estonian smoke sauna, a circle of women gather to sweat, wash, and speak with unusual honesty. Stories of family, illness, sexuality, violence, and survival rise slowly through the steam, carried by a tradition that has endured for generations. This episode lingers inside that intimate space, where bodies are present but never objectified, and where vulnerability becomes a shared ritual. What unfolds is less a documentary about nudity than a portrait of trust, memory, and the quiet power of communal exposure. 🪐Read the article at www (dot) planetnude (dot) co

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What happens when a mass nude installation moves from city to city, culture to culture, continent to continent? This episode follows Spencer Tunick beyond the familiar story of arrests and controversy and into a global tour shaped by cooperation, resistance, vulnerability, and quiet moments of connection. As bodies gather in public spaces from Montreal to Melbourne to Antarctica, the focus shifts from spectacle to participation—and to what nudity reveals about power, politics, and belonging when it crosses borders.

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There is a particular kind of love that does not insist on joining you in the sun. It waits at home, half dressed, cheering you on. In this reflection on marriage, autonomy, and social nudity, Dustin Cox traces what eleven years with a nudity-neutral husband have taught him about acceptance. The story moves through resorts and private balconies, through queer identity and the quiet negotiations of long partnerships, toward a simple truth: support can be more intimate than participation. As an audio piece, it lingers on gratitude, on the rhythm of separate passions, and on the rare freedom of being fully yourself while someone else stands beside you.

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A platform built on openness now faces a test of its own boundaries. As investigations reveal how extremist publications are monetized and amplified, creators are left to weigh something few independent publishers ever planned for: the reputational cost of the infrastructure beneath them. This is a story about speech, responsibility, and the fragile scaffolding that holds digital communities together. It unfolds as both warning and reckoning, asking what happens when neutrality becomes an active choice. 🪐

This episode is an audio reading of the Planet Nude article “An open letter to Substack.”

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For decades, Vermont has stood apart for its unusually permissive approach to public nudity. A new bill in the state legislature would end that era. This episode tracks the introduction of House Bill H.683, which proposes a statewide criminal ban on public nudity, including on private property visible from public spaces. As local restrictions give way to a broader legal shift, the measure raises questions about civil liberties, local control, and how quickly long-standing norms can be rewritten through statutory language. 🪐

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A long-running conflict at one of Southern California’s oldest nudist communities has taken a sharper turn. As residents of Olive Dell Ranch report electricity shutoffs affecting homes, medical devices, and basic utilities, a legal battle over clothing rules and tenant rights moves into more dangerous territory. This episode documents the latest developments in a dispute that blends housing law, disability access, and the slow unraveling of a historic naturist space—now headed toward a critical court date. 🪐

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Naturist spaces promise relief from judgment—but that promise can fray when unspoken standards creep in. This episode listens closely to how body positivity, despite its good intentions, can quietly reproduce pressure and exclusion, especially around weight and health. By centering body neutrality instead, the essay reframes nudity as an experiential practice rather than a visual one, asking what it really means to share space without appraisal when every body is visible. 🪐

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A forgotten Virgil Tibbs novel drops the famously restrained detective into an unlikely setting: a Southern California nudist camp at the height of America’s mid-century nudist boom. In this episode of the Planet Nude podcast, we revisit The Cool Cottontail as both pulp mystery and cultural time capsule, following Tibbs through sun-bleached pools, polite prejudices, and a world imagined by an author who knew organized nudism from the inside. The result is a relaxed but revealing listen about race, respectability, and the strange places nudism has quietly surfaced in American popular fiction. 🪐Read the original article at www(dot)planetnude(dot)co

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