The Earth Day/BP Oil Spill Protest ride on 20th April 2013 had very little advertising among bicyclists and therefore produced a small turn-out compared to the other WNBR events during the year. read more
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On Friday, March 15th nudists resubmitted their com-plaint against the nudity ban in San Francisco to Judge Chen, as well as filing a complaint against the SFPD for illegal arrests of nudists. Attorney Christina DiEdoardo represented 5 nudist activists in a federal class action lawsuit against the City of San Francisco on the grounds that the nudity ban is unconstitutional. read more
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Documentary about the naturist resort of Cap d'Agde on the French Mediterranean. read more
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The new European Naturist Directory 2013 has now been released The European Naturist Directory 2013 is a guide to the naturist campsites, holiday centres, apartments, clubs, B&Bs, hotels, beaches and other clothing optional venues across Europe. read more
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On Saturday, March 9th the 4th annual WNBR Southern Hemisphere solidarity bike ride took place in San Francisco in brilliant sunshine with crowds gathering on Justin Herman Plaza shortly before noon. read more
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On Wednesday, February 27th Gypsy Taub and friends held a nude dance performance at the Jane Warner Plaza in Castro, San Francisco. Getting arrested was another case that proved that the nudity ban imposed by the city is unconstitutional as it is also a ban on artistic expression. read more
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On Sunday 17th February NakedSword.com shot a “porn parody” about the San Francisco nudity ban. Filming for the “rally” scenes took place at 18th and Castro and because this was a legitimate location film shoot nudity was allowed even under the new regulations. read more
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On Friday, February 1, 2013 the nudity ban in San Francisco came into effect. A number of body freedom activists held a protest outside City Hall to mark the occasion and 4 were arrested. Gypsy Taub, who hosts a local cable program devoted to the nudist cause, said “No matter what, we're going to continue practicing body freedom. read more
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Glassbar Island Park is an historic recreation area located at the confluence of the Middle fork and Coast fork of the Willamette River. Since the 1950’s, visitors have come to the area to enjoy the diverse wildlife, open space, and other recreational opportunities. read more
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At the “Melt Festival” 2010 during a performance of the German band Polarkreis 18 a young English guy streaked. The crowd was euphoric, everybody smiled – people were happy, and completely free. The naked English guy was hot gossip for weeks. read more
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On Wednesday, November 14, 2012 at Noon, a Rally for Urban Nudity took place on the steps of San Francisco City Hall, (across from Civic Center on Carlton B. Goodlett Place). Clothed, nude or anywhere in between people gathered to support the right to choose your own form of attire without government interference! read more
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A new photo album has recently been released featuring over 250 photographs by renowned naturist photographer Leif Heilberg. The photos were taken during the 1970s at The Sequoians, Olive Dell Ranch, Forest Murmurs, Squaw Mountain Ranch, Rawhide Ranch, Shangri La Ranch,Lake Associates, Mountain Terrace Ranch, Jardin del Sol, Hawaii Nudist Club, Tan Oaks Park and Sunny Trails Club. read more
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On October 30th a protest was held outside the City Hall in San Francisco to object to District 8 Supervisor, Scott Weiner’s attempts to outlaw the naked human body in San Francisco. Currently nudity is legal in San Francisco the only limitations are sexual conduct (regardless of whether you are clothed or not) and keeping a barrier between the butt and public furniture. read more
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Documentary about the history of nudity and naturism in French. read more
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Dear naturist friends, This year I spent my nudist vacations in Halkidiki, a three-fingered peninsula, south of Thessaloniki, that extends into the Aegean Sea in Greece’s northern region of Macedonia. read more
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By summer time our family once again went for vacation in Ukraine, in the city of Odessa on the coast of the Black Sea. Beside my wife, our son, and me, from Kostroma, Russia three other couples and two children went to Odessa. read more
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It has been completely legal for women to be topless in New York since 1992 but not women exercised their rights until recently. A number of different groups and individuals have been making a stand to try and ‘normalise’ toplessness so that it become accepted. read more
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Henry Bell has started a petition in support of Stephen Gough, aka the Naked Rambler, titled “Letter in Support of Stephen Gough”. read more
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On 11th June 2012 World Naked Bike Ride (WNBR) came to London again. The ride is a naked protest against oil dependency and for body freedom. read more
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An interview with Amanda Platteville about her reason's for being a naturist. read more
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Clothes On, Clothes Off is a short documentary about the 12 year old Frana, whose parents are naturists, they like to walk around naked. Frana is having doubts if she wants to take her clothes off. read more
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This was a fantastic experience, if you get a chance to swim in the Dead Sea, do it naked! It is something like being in your mother's womb and open space at the same time. I loved this feeling! . read more
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Many people in the tropics of Africa and Brazil used to live without clothes before European colonization; Ancient Greek athletes practiced sports naked. Capoeira is an Afro-Brazilian martial art and probably the only modern sport that is always practiced with music, similar to sport events in Ancient Greece. read more
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Your holidays with France 4 Naturisme read more
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The Nudist Racket was made in 1938 and was intended to be an 'expose' of naturism – fully revealing the true horrors of this ghastly practise. read more
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Marine de Teva tries naturism. A video in French. read more
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Aliaa Magda Elmahdy, woman activist who posted nude pictures of herself on her blog to protest limits on free expression has triggered an uproar in Egypt, drawing condemnations from conservatives and liberals alike. read more
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Spanish model Sandra G. walks through the city of Barcelona nude. In Barcelona public nudity is regarded as a recognised right, although there have been successful prosecutions for public nudity even there. read more
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The Folsom Street Fair is an annual leather and clothing optional street fair held on the last Sunday in September in San Francisco's South of Market district. The event started in 1984 and is California's third largest spectator event and the world's largest clothing optional leather event and raises hundreds of thousands of dollars each year for charity. read more
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Act Naturally is a new film about naturism. When two estranged step-sisters learn of their fathers untimely death on a business trip, they must travel cross country to claim his remains. Upon arriving at their father’s final destination the girls are shocked to discover he had been leading a double life as the proprietor of a nudist club. read more
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Cathryn Jiggens, a Tantra practitioner based in London writes about her introduction to naturism and about censorship. read more
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Created in 2001, France Espaces Naturistes gathers naturist campsites, holiday villages and leisure centres. France Espaces Naturistes aims at the promotion and defence of the naturist holidays philosophy. read more
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The Folsom Street Fair is an annual leather and clothing optional street fair held on the last Sunday in September in San Francisco's South of Market district. The event started in 1984 and is California's third largest spectator event and the world's largest clothing optional leather event and raises hundreds of thousands of dollars each year for charity. read more
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A Day in the Life of a Naturist is a documentary about Carina who has chosen to live a life as a naturist at Colina del Sol in southern Brazil. read more
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The World Bodypainting Festival 2010 takes place in Seeboden, Austria each year. In 2010 artist from 48 countries came to compete in the world's largest body painting competition and 28,000 visitors saw their work. read more
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World Naked Bike Ride, San Francisco 2010. All photographs taken by Leif Heilberg, Viking Photography Inc., vikingphoto@earthlink.net. read more
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World Naked Bike Ride (WNBR) came to London again. The ride is a naked protest against oil dependency and for body freedom. This year Lady God1va, who became famous when she appeared naked on Antony Gormley’s 4th plinth in Trafalger Square, was there – and these are a few of her photos. read more
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Leif Heilberg has been a leading naturist photographer for many decades and his work has appeared in almost every naturist magazine and publication in the world. If you have read a few naturist publications you have almost certainly seen his photography before. read more
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Sziksósfürdõ Naturist Camp in Hungary has a full and extensive activity program and these photographs show a range of the sports that can be enjoyed there. read more
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Sunday 21 February 2010, twenty keen golfers participated in the inaugural Nude Golf International at the scenic nine hole Wairau Valley Golf Course. During the week prior the organisers Kay Hannam and Brian Williams received a positive response from media with several national dailies and internet news agencies from other countries running the story. read more
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After months of planning, Kay Hannam and Brian Williams welcomed 50 ‘nudie foodies’ to Wai-natur Naturist Park in the South Island of New Zealand for the annual Nudie Foodies Sounds Adventure. By early evening the park was full with visitors from across Australia, UK and around New Zealand; several visiting the sunny Marlborough region for the first time. read more
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Bay to Breakers 2010. All photographs taken by Leif Heilberg, Viking Photography Inc. , vikingphoto@earthlink. net. read more
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These photographs were taken in 1983 at El Toro Bravo naturist campsite near Barcelona in Spain by Leif Heilberg. read more
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These photographs were taken in 1985 at Thiessow-Ruegen FKK camp in the former DDR (now East Germany )by Leif Heilberg. read more
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These amazing photographs of a group of Russian naturists walking naked through the hills and forests of Russia were taken by Vladimir Chernovol near Tuapse, which is near the Black Sea in 2001. read more
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Leif Heilberg photographs of Paradise Lakes Nudist Resort from 1983 read more
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Bay to Breakers is an annual footrace which takes place in San Francisco, California. The race starts at the northeast end of the downtown area close to San Francisco Bay to near where the Breakers crash on the near pacific coast. read more
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The Southern Hemisphere Solidarity Ride was held in San Francisco on 13th March 2010 in solidarity with the people in the southern hemisphere who were on the World Naked Bike Ride on the same day. read more
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Each year some of the people of San Francisco protest against our dependence on fossil fuels by riding their bikes across San Francisco. All photographs taken by Leif Heilberg. read more
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Spencer Tunick is an American photographer best known for his photographs that feature large numbers of nude people posed in artistic formations, often situated in urban locations. Tunick started photographing nudes in 1992 on the streets of New York often bringing him to conflict with the police. read more
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The Balkan region, more specifically the former Yugoslavia, established itself as a popular naturist destination as long ago as the 1950’s and remained so until the 1990’s when tourism was impacted by the conflict in the region and the demise of Yugoslavia as a single state. read more
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Naturism started around 1900 during time of awakening, of shedding stiff Victorian collars and the accompanying values. There was a need for lightness, air, a more natural style of living, as well as less restrictive clothing. read more
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While the unclothed human figure is one of art’s oldest and most captured subjects, it still manages to attract great attention and ignite fervent debate. The Naked and the Nude brings together dozens of unclothed bodies from Christchurch Art Gallery’s collection, from languid academic nudes to the fragmented bodies of recent art. read more
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Five charity billboards featuring naked pregnant women six metres high were launched recently by Television presenter Kate Garraway, childbirth charity The Jentle Childbirth Foundation, and renowned society photographer Joth Shakerley. read more
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Shakti - a dancer from Australia writes about her life and her work. . . . Dance is all about life and nature and how you can be one with it. I listen to my inner self and the world around me which tells me all its secrets. read more
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Baker Beach in San Francisco is the home of the Nude Beach Olympics, organised by George Davis - a former nudist mayoral candidate. The games were inspired by the original Olympics which, as most people know, were performed in the nude for around 1200 years during the Hellenic and Roman Golden Ages. read more
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National Nude Week runs from Saturday 19th November to Sunday 27th November 2011. The Australian Nudist Federation coordinates and supports National Nude Week to celebrate the nudist lifestyle. read more
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The Flaming Lips are an American rock band, formed in Oklahoma in 1983. They are known for their psychedelic arrangements, spacey lyrics and bizarre song and album titles. Their latest music video "Watching the Planets" from Embryonic, which was filmed in Portland and features Wayne Coyne being snatched by a mass young naturists who emerge from a spherical vagina to ride their bikes through the fo read more
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Nude Nite, the largest nude art show in the U. S. seeks art of all media for its upcoming 2010 shows in Orlando, February 11-13 and Tampa, March 4-6, 2010. Known as the Cirque du Soleil of art shows, Nude Nite selects approximately 200 works for exhibition in each city. read more
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Stephen Gough, a. k. a. The Naked Rambler, the man who walked the length of the UK naked twice made headlines for years, but what has happened to him? In 2003 Steve completed his first walk from Lands End to John O’Groats (which is the entire length of the British Isles) naked. read more
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The World Bodypainting Festival is held each year in Seeboden, Austria and is the largest bodypainting event in the world with artist travelling from over 40 nations worldwide to compete. The event, which started in 1998, has spread awareness of body art around the world, it has encouraged innovation and provided a platform for talented artists to further their abilities and careers. read more
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Tiffany Oben performed on the fourth plinth on the 1st September at 4am and was one of the first women to choose to be fully nude. Read her thoughts on the experience below. I do not consider myself a naturist, but do walk around my home naked much to the horror of my teenage children. read more
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I am 61 and have been a naturist for more than half my life. With my husband David we formed a naturist club - Shabden Leisure Circle - organising social activities and visits through what was then a newsletter and is now a full blown A4 glossy magazine - Naturist Life. read more
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On the 25th of April, 2009 a new Aussie Band with a difference was launched at the Cooroy Colony in South East Queensland. The Naked Drummer and the Baileys Road Band tell the story of what it is like to be a nudist / naturist, sometimes tongue in cheek, and always with a smile. read more
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