September 27, 2008
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Fascinated by the silk handkerchiefs, buttons and parasols in his father’s millinery shop, author Franz Kafka was also a naturist and sun worshipper who exercised naked twice daily before an open window. He also chewed carefully on a diet based on raw vegetables according to Mark Anderson in a new book Kafka’s Clothes (Oxford University Press) which portrays the famous writer as a natty dresser, afraid of women and a frequenter of prostitutes. One of Kafka’s gurus, says Anderson, was the Danish athlete Muller who lamented that so many artists died young because “there geniuses had no thought for the health of their bodies”. Kafka died young anyway—in 1924 at the tender age of 41. + + + Confessing in Ladies Home Journal about the time she sent as a topless dancer, Kathryn Casey said it initially did wonders for her self-image. “For the first time in my life I felt beautiful, powerful and sexy. Handsome men told me a hundred times a day how gorgeous I was. I felt as though I could seduce any guy I wanted, and often did.” The easiest way to make money, she was told, was by doing ‘floor-work’—lying down and spreading her legs. After initial reservations about doing something so ‘suggestive’, Kathryn soon became “free and euphoric”, making hundreds of dollars per shift in tips. But the euphoria didn’t last. “As my inhibitions were lost so was my common sense. I (became) so devoid of feeling it was frightening. I knew then I must be really hurting emotionally.” She recalled a near rape, getting busted for lewd exposure, having her purse snatched at a bachelor party, insults from customers. “Most of all I remember countless sessions with my therapist, crying my eyes out, wondering why I had started dancing in the first place and how I was ever going to get out of it. Even so, leaving the business was the hardest thing I’ve ever done”. + + + Penis, dick, johnson, schlong, willie, trouser snake, unit member. Isn’t it strange that a body part with so many nicknames is such a shrinking violet in the public spotlight? Asks Elizabeth Larsen in a book review in the Utne Reader titled YES, WE HAVE NO BANANAS and subtitled “Female Nudity is Everywhere So Why Are Men’s Bodies Off-limits? + + + “Anyone who thinks the male breast and the female breast are the same is not living in the real world” was the response of a Canadian judge in Guelph, Ontario as he imposed a $75 fine on a topless college student who had argued that under Canada’s Charter of Rights & Freedoms men and women were guaranteed equality under the law. The decision sparked a mass topless rally on Ottawa’s Capitol Hill by hundreds of women protestors who were met, it says here, by “several thousand tattooed, leering and camera-toting men”. + + + Reviewing a recent BBC-TV show about nudity, Craig Brown wrote: “Frankly I don’t think I’ve ever seen a naturism film that didn’t have a beach ball scene...a tradition that (presumably) grew up in the age when producers had to blank out every nude body at strategic points. In Full Frontal they supplemented their beach balls with silk hankies, which they swished to and fro for no apparent reason. My bet is that anyone who opens a fully-clothed beach ball-throwing and hankie-waving camp for the middle-aged stands to make a fortune”. + + + Nudists get bitten less by deer ticks because they don’t wear clothes according to Dr. Henry M. Feder who reported being called to a Connecticut nudist camp to treat a case of erythema migrans. Despite the fact that the camp was an ideal environment for the deer tick (the doctor reported in a letter to The Journal of the American Medical Association) such incidents were rare because “deer ticks do not like nudists, as they prefer to do their biting under cover”. + + +
+ + + Despite the unfriendly temperatures, there are at least a couple of thousand Scottish nudists registered at clubs on Loch Lomond and near Perth, Aberdeen and Inverness. And even four inches of snow doesn’t deter them from cavorting outdoors. “I go out in a wooly hat and welly boots to keep the essential bits warm” confessed Cecilia Low when The Sunday Times caught up with her at an environmental show in Glasgow at which Britain’s Central Council for Naturism had a booth. + + + The British nude film industry originated with a $2500 movie Traveling Light made by former fighter pilot Craven Walker (who later invented the lava lamp) in 1960. In a just-published book about those days Doing Rude Things author David McGillivray tells how the film’s successful nine-month run in London’s West End triggered a boom of “crude, rude and nude” sexploitation flicks that brought naturism into disrepute. One of the major early nudie stars, Pamela Green who adroitly perfected a walk that revealed very little, now recalls how much time was spent chasing beach balls. “British directors never knew what to do with a nude body except throw balls at it. That’s all the films were: high heels and rings and running around with nothing on.” + + + BRIEFS: On New York’s Staten Island, residents of West Brighton Street managed to prevent the opening of a topless car wash but a huge advertising sign displaying a woman with huge breasts wearing only high heels and a G-string remained on view…..Glyn Stout’s 70-member Trade Association for Nude Recreation has operated out of is nude resort in Los Gatos since 1977 and nudism, he claims, brings in revenues of at least $120m per year….. Frederick Bischoff, a former fundamentalist preacher, visited a nudist resort in 1979 and promptly, says Forbes, “decided to make his paradise here on earth”. He founded Club Paradise in Florida, quickly sold out all his $100,000 condominiums and planned a $3m nudist resort in the Dominican Republic. + + + Thomas Tiemann, a Texas lawyer, set up Bare Necessities and Travel Inc which sponsors three nude cruises each year. “What attracted me to this business” he says, “was the economics. Guests pay $1,800 to $5,200 for the week compared with berths costing $1,200 to $2,400 on comparable clothes-require cruises during the peak winter season.” He estimated his profit margin as 40%.
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