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Nudie Cutie Comics

"A Stranger is a Friend You Haven’t Met"

Mar 11 • Zaftig Pink

Femen stages topless protest in Paris for International Women’s Day

Pig masks and body-painted slogans targeted figures linked to the Epstein scandal

Mar 9 • Evan Nicks

Goodland goes on the market

Historic nudist resort now listed for $2.9 million closed in 2024 after nearly ninety years of operation

Mar 9 • Evan Nicks

Going in public

Part three: Finding belonging in the open air

Mar 9

Asada & Mischa #25

"Something Out There"

Mar 8 • Brett Marcella

Weekly Wrap: Mar. 7

This week on Planet Nude: From open-air nudity to sauna vulnerability and body awareness. Plus all new Strips comics!

Mar 7 • Special to Planet Nude

Women in Focus with Maja Penko

Episode 28: Slovenian naturism a long-serving naturist leader

Mar 7 • Helen Berriman

Strips One-Shots

“Supernatural Ranch” by Grann & Stahl

Mar 6

The vulnerability of Smoke Sauna Sisterhood

A review of the intimate 2023 documentary

Mar 6 • Brett Marcella

What body part do you think about the most?

In this #UndressedThread, we’re talking about self-consciousness—or admiration

Mar 5

Greyfriar's Isle #119

The fez of tranquility, the pipe of contemplation and the slippers of contentment

Mar 4 • Reinder Dijkhuis

Taking it outside

Part two: Testing courage at the edge of the hedges

Mar 3 • Catherina

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News

Smart glasses present a new challenge for nudists

New wearable cameras and facial recognition technology raise growing privacy concerns at beaches and resorts

Mar 10 • Special to Planet Nude

Femen stages topless protest in Paris for International Women’s Day

Pig masks and body-painted slogans targeted figures linked to the Epstein scandal

Mar 9 • Evan Nicks

Goodland goes on the market

Historic nudist resort now listed for $2.9 million closed in 2024 after nearly ninety years of operation

Mar 9 • Evan Nicks

Vermont lawmaker introduces bill to criminalize public nudity

House Bill H.683 would apply even on private property visible from public areas

Feb 10 • Evan Nicks

Strips

22 hrs ago • SpaceNudie

Episode 1: The Pilot

Mar 12 • Alfie

Nudie Cutie Comics

"A Stranger is a Friend You Haven’t Met"

Mar 11 • Zaftig Pink

Asada & Mischa #25

"Something Out There"

Mar 8 • Brett Marcella

Naked Age

Episode notes: Making Space

Naked Age Ep. 17: Nudity and growth

Dec 12, 2025 • Evan Nicks

32:36

Episode 17: On naturism, community, and the work of keeping spaces open

Dec 10, 2025 • Evan Nicks

Episode notes: Vian's Revolution

Naked Age Ep. 16: Nudity and freedom

Mar 24, 2025 • Evan Nicks

34:20

Vian's Revolution

Episode 16: From oppression to liberation in a personal awakening

Mar 21, 2025 • Evan Nicks

Episode notes: Sky Farm Rising

Naked Age Ep. 15: Nudity and revolution

Dec 24, 2024 • Evan Nicks

22:56

Sky Farm Rising

Listen now | Episode 15: America’s oldest nudist club and its revolutionary roots

Dec 23, 2024 • Evan Nicks

Episode notes: Wilma and the Neo Naturists

Naked Age Ep. 14: Nudity and art

Sep 24, 2024 • Evan Nicks

48:55

Wilma and The Neo Naturists

Watch now | Episode 14: Exploring the bold artistry and cultural impact of Wilma Johnson and The Neo Naturists

Sep 23, 2024 • Evan Nicks

New Nudist Podcast

New Nudist Podcast: MoonGroove Update and Big Nude Boat

Episode 43: Catching up with Eli Porr on 2026’s biggest naturist happenings

Jan 12 • Scott Cline and Evan Nicks

New Nudist Podcast: Youth in Naturism with James Shuttleworth

Episode 42: Building the future of naturism with the INF-FNI youth leader

Jul 20, 2025 • Scott Cline and Evan Nicks

New Nudist Podcast: MoonGroove Naturist Music Festival

Episode 41: A nudist Coachella? Meet the organizer of MoonGroove

Jun 6, 2025 • Scott Cline and Evan Nicks

New Nudist Podcast: James Nunn of The Naturist Society Foundation

Episode 40: The Naturist Society and the future of naturism

Mar 23, 2025 • Scott Cline and Evan Nicks

History

The first modern definition of social nudism in 1904

John Russell Coryell and the American blueprint for social nudism

Feb 24 • Carl Hild, PhD

Edward Carpenter and the intellectual roots of naturism

The queer Victorian rebel who brought Walt Whitman’s spirit and social nudity to the UK

Feb 17 • Carl Hild, PhD

Virgil Tibbs remains cool

Rereading John Ball’s 'The Cool Cottontail' through a nudist-history lens

Feb 4 • Evan Nicks

Men are from Mars, Gurley is from Venus

Excerpt from Nudetopian Nightmares, seeking a new Garden of Eden

Jan 27 • Olaf Danielson

The strange, true life of Willie Willey

A forgotten folk hero whose bare-bones philosophy challenged America’s indecency laws

Dec 23, 2025 • Olaf Danielson

Film

The vulnerability of Smoke Sauna Sisterhood

A review of the intimate 2023 documentary

Mar 6 • Brett Marcella

Shorts to put on, vol. 6

Another curated selection of nudity-related short films to watch, curated by Brett Marcella

Feb 20 • Brett Marcella

Spencer Tunick's Naked World

Review of the 2003 HBO documentary following Tunick’s first global installation tour

Feb 18 • Brett Marcella

Disrobed returns for its fifth anniversary streaming run

A pandemic-born nudist comedy gets a fresh online encore with new screenings in January

Jan 6 • Evan Nicks

Naked States and the early work of Spencer Tunick

Review of the HBO documentary following a young Tunick during his Naked States project

Dec 9, 2025 • Brett Marcella

Book Club

Virgil Tibbs remains cool

Rereading John Ball’s 'The Cool Cottontail' through a nudist-history lens

Feb 4 • Evan Nicks

Naked kaiju women I've known

A look at three different comics featuring nude giants

Feb 2 • Brett Marcella

Nude in the moon

What John Varley’s Eight Worlds reveal about nudity and the body

Jan 13 • Zaftig Pink

Captain Momo’s Secret Base (2023) manga review

Kenji Tsuruta’s slow-burning space story where nudity, books, and cats fill the void of isolation

Sep 5, 2025 • Brett Marcella

A caretaker’s library

Rare nudist books on sale to support their owner through loss

Aug 21, 2025 • Evan Nicks

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