Go Topless Day

Today is National Go Topless Day, and I'm disappointed. I haven't seen a pair of bare breasts on the street yet. Events are supposed to start at noon, though, so I guess I'm a little early. Maybe I need to stand on a street corner with the "Show Me Your Tits" sign I took to Sturgis, to provide encouragement to the protestors. Would that help?

We Wish She Was, Too

Jennifer Love Hewitt, the greatest breasts the world has ever known, wishes she'd been nude more during her youth. That pre-18 time period, no thanks, but the ten years from 18 - 28, everybody agrees the world would have been a better place if she was more naked.

HE DIDN'T GAWK, DAMN IT

News 4 New York's Brian Thompson broke a story wide open: people get nude on beaches! He attended Gunnison Beach with his nudist tennis partner (no word on if the tennis was done nude), and the most definitive thing the reporter had to say was that he didn't gawk. He looked, gazed, viewed, oggled, peered, glimpsed, admired, eyed, spied, and scruitinized, but he did not gawk. The video is a better story than the journalists personal notes, but, remember...he didn't gawk.

Irish Nudists

Oh, Ireland: you're the source of sexy redheads and freckle-marked breasts, opaque iodine-colored beer, no word for sex, and shileighleighs (whatever the hell those are). Now, it turns out they've actually got some nudists on the Emerald Isle, and they put 'em on reality TV with the innocent title "naturists."

Nude Neighbor: Call Realtors!

Canadian advice columnist Mr. Civics (in some circles referred to by his educational salutation, as "Dr. Civics") is posed a question: My hot, slutty neighbor sunbathes in her backyard nude. Should I call the cops? His answer: You idiot, if you don't like it, put it on the 'lecherous men's housing market' and rake in the cash. Room with a view has it's selling points, you know.

Where To Get Nude

When a person thinks of Canada, getting nude in public usually pretty low on the list, but this Canadian journalist must think about public nudity quite a bit: he's compiled a list of nude beaches, where sun-worshiping Canadians can go and peel away their mucklucks and parkas and let the sun gleam off their ivory-white flesh.

Hot Chicks With Their Rolleiflex

Sure, some might want to tell you the smaller ones are better, but people like me prefer the big, well-cared-for ones adorning a woman's chest. Wait, what were you thinking? I'm talking about tits...oh, and the classic Rolleiflex cameras that were all the rage in the 1950s. Here's some sexy ladies with an affinity for the twin lens reflex, and some fine sweater-twins to go along with:








Okay, that last one isn't a TLR Rolleiflex; still, gotta give a babe credit for her taste in cameras -- a Hasselblad 200 kicks a consumer Rolleiflex's ass.

Hotties From American Nudist Magazine

Ah, nudist aesthetic of the human body; sure, there's a generic appreciation for the human form, but hot naked women are a significant step up from that! From a 1963 issue of American Nudist magazine -- most are pictures attributed to "Ed Lea":

Russell Baker On Nudity

Below is from the 25 July 69 issue of LIFE magazine, an article called "Don't ask me, I only live here" by Russell Baker:

The nudity crowd tells you, "The human body is beautiful." Don't they know that tigers and horses and weasels have been laughing at it for eons? Except for a few oddities, like Tarzan and Raquel Welch, the human body is one of the ugliest bodies around. This is because it isn't covered with hair, scales, hide, or feathers. Did you ever see a snake with a potbelly? An antelope with varicose veins? A bluebird with freckles? You probably would if they took off their covering and pranced around naked."



Yeah, Baker's full of shit, but he's kinda funny -- they included the picture above as a counterpoint to his satire; as a bonus, the photo has far more entertainment value than the nudism quote. As for whether or not the human body should be exhibited for its beauty, check out an article I transcribed for Gracie: Would You Pose Without Clothes?, from a '50s nudism magazine.

Vintage Nudist Camp Ads

From various 1960s-era nudist magazines:

HOLY CRAP -- Goodland Country Club and Lake Como Resort are still going at it! Shagbark Hollow Park, sadly, no longer lives up to its namesake (er, you know what I mean). Gymnos the Jaybird's home, Blue J Farm, has flown the coop as well. Sun Valley in Ontario doesn't exist anymore, but it lives on in the nudisploitation film Have Figure Will Travel.