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Naked at Lunch: A Reluctant Nudist's Adventures in the Clothing-Optional World

Naked at Lunch: A Reluctant Nudist's Adventures in the Clothing-Optional World

Smith, Mark Haskell

Paperback

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Publisher Price: $20.00

ISBN10: 0802125166
ISBN13: 9780802125163
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: Jun 14 2016
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.20
Language: English

A delightful and informative look at nudism throughout history and around the world. --The Seattle Times

People have been getting naked in public for reasons other than sex for centuries. But as Mark Haskell Smith reveals, being a nudist is more complicated than simply dropping trou. Nonsexual social nudism, as it's called, rose to prominence in the late nineteenth century. Intellectuals, outcasts, and health nuts from Victorian England and colonial India to Belle Époque France and Gilded Age Manhattan disrobed and wrote manifestos about the joys of going clothing-free. From stories of ancient Greek athletes slathered in olive oil to the millions of Germans who fled the cities for a naked frolic during the Weimar Republic to American soldiers given naturist magazines by the Pentagon in the interest of preventing sexually transmitted diseases, this book uncovers nudism's amusing and provocative past.

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