Wow, this was a long read, but very interesting. Germany and other European countries are far ahead of the United States in their attitudes toward nudity. Unfortunately, I seem to get the impression that, even over there, things have become more restrictive lately.
Thank You, quite an article! We cruised the Danube on a Viking river boat in 2008, no problems. We got mooned by younger people from the bank at one campground. The following yeaar we did Rhone-Sohn in France, again no problem except one evening at a local bar, clothed, when the local guys tried to pick up on of the Ladies. They knew about the cruise and equated it with promiscuity, not to say that she might not have been, but not with them. Those cruises did have an open cabin door policy to the beds if we so desired with our cruise mates, no kids on board.
Both early 21st century Germany and France were public nudity tolerant. The River Boats could never otherwise let us naked up on deck in plain view of the shore including through cities and locks.
The nudity was on Nudist/Lifestyle charter cruises, it seemed the word preceded us, prompting the mooning, unless they do it to every evening boat, we would have really got them earlier in the day! The characters in southern France may have figured all nudists were promiscuous or maybe they just go for the hottest looker doing the most drinking.
That's a relative thing, if you did something nobody expected most times people won't have a reaction because they don't know how to react to it. I watched the video to people having sex in the water literally in front of everybody at the beach. They were even like kids two meters away from them in the water, of course nothing was seen but.. people literally pretended like they don't even see it nobody said anything it almost looked like it's an AI fake video..
Amazing article but way way too long .. theres no way I can concentrate reading such a huge article, it's still a great tho nonetheless.
One thing I do know, is that nudity and stuff it was not much of a big deal and socialist countries as people would think.
Actually in mine , we even had porn magazines in kiosks in your face. You have no idea how many pussies and dicks in action I saw as a kid standing next to my parents at the kiosks while they were buying cigarettes or newspapers..hah.
It's funny, both of those things are less popular or less allowed or less admitted today in a so called free world ...
I'd often heard that nudity was very popular in East Germany but I hadn't realised that it was as widespread as indicated in this article. In the video showing the street parade it was interesting to be reminded of the old East German national anthem once often heard as East Germans stood on the top step of the podium in international sporting events. Unfortunately a lot of this success was aided by taking banned substances rather than developing their bodies in a natural way.
I wonder if there is any truth in the rumour that East German swam nude because they couldn't afford swimsuits. I thought I read in one of Phil Vallack's books about naturism that Romanians used to swim nude because of the cost of swimwear but now I can't find the reference.
Wow, this was a long read, but very interesting. Germany and other European countries are far ahead of the United States in their attitudes toward nudity. Unfortunately, I seem to get the impression that, even over there, things have become more restrictive lately.
Yes they did much thanks to copying everything from USA.. we are true American puppy in every sense of the word
Thank You, quite an article! We cruised the Danube on a Viking river boat in 2008, no problems. We got mooned by younger people from the bank at one campground. The following yeaar we did Rhone-Sohn in France, again no problem except one evening at a local bar, clothed, when the local guys tried to pick up on of the Ladies. They knew about the cruise and equated it with promiscuity, not to say that she might not have been, but not with them. Those cruises did have an open cabin door policy to the beds if we so desired with our cruise mates, no kids on board.
I'm sorry but I don't think I understand the point?
Both early 21st century Germany and France were public nudity tolerant. The River Boats could never otherwise let us naked up on deck in plain view of the shore including through cities and locks.
The nudity was on Nudist/Lifestyle charter cruises, it seemed the word preceded us, prompting the mooning, unless they do it to every evening boat, we would have really got them earlier in the day! The characters in southern France may have figured all nudists were promiscuous or maybe they just go for the hottest looker doing the most drinking.
That's a relative thing, if you did something nobody expected most times people won't have a reaction because they don't know how to react to it. I watched the video to people having sex in the water literally in front of everybody at the beach. They were even like kids two meters away from them in the water, of course nothing was seen but.. people literally pretended like they don't even see it nobody said anything it almost looked like it's an AI fake video..
Amazing article but way way too long .. theres no way I can concentrate reading such a huge article, it's still a great tho nonetheless.
One thing I do know, is that nudity and stuff it was not much of a big deal and socialist countries as people would think.
Actually in mine , we even had porn magazines in kiosks in your face. You have no idea how many pussies and dicks in action I saw as a kid standing next to my parents at the kiosks while they were buying cigarettes or newspapers..hah.
It's funny, both of those things are less popular or less allowed or less admitted today in a so called free world ...
I'd often heard that nudity was very popular in East Germany but I hadn't realised that it was as widespread as indicated in this article. In the video showing the street parade it was interesting to be reminded of the old East German national anthem once often heard as East Germans stood on the top step of the podium in international sporting events. Unfortunately a lot of this success was aided by taking banned substances rather than developing their bodies in a natural way.
I wonder if there is any truth in the rumour that East German swam nude because they couldn't afford swimsuits. I thought I read in one of Phil Vallack's books about naturism that Romanians used to swim nude because of the cost of swimwear but now I can't find the reference.