News of the Nude, Oct. 2025
Volume 34: Ghastly glimpses and ghoulish gossip from the world of the nude
Greeetings, boys and ghouls...! Your old pal the Stripkeeper here, creeping back up from beyond the grave to bring you a spine-tingling new edition of News of the BOO’d! Welcome, kiddies!
Tonight’s twisted tales will leave you dying to take your clothes off—or maybe wishing you’d left them on! We’ve got a Florida fright where six naked beachgoers learned that crossing a line in the sand can get you arrested in broad daylight! Up north, lawmakers in Vermont put the chill on free expression, banning bare bottoms faster than you can say “trick or treat.” In the U.K., a charity skinny dip turned into a sea of cameras! Skinny dippers there were in for a frightening exposure! But fear not, my unclothed creepers—all is not lost! Across the globe, artists, actors, and brave naturists are still rising from the grave to bare their truths… and their asses!
So grab a towel (to sit on, silly!), light a jack-o’lantern, and join me for this skin-tingling Halloween roundup. After all, everyone ends up naked eventually… in Hell! Bwaahahahahaa! 🚀
News of the Nude, Vol. 341 🎃
Nudists arrested after accidentally stripping off on wrong Florida beach
The Daily Mail reported Thursday on the arrest of six nudists in St. Lucie County, Florida, who were charged with indecent exposure after disrobing at Little Mud Creek Beach — a location about a mile north of the county’s officially designated clothing-optional zone, Blind Creek Beach. Authorities said the group ignored posted boundaries while Blind Creek’s main access remains closed for renovation.
Planet Nude’s coverage of the beach arrests detailed weeks of warnings from Treasure Coast Naturists urging visitors to remain within the designated area. While Planet Nude contextualized the arrests within Florida’s broader nude-recreation advocacy efforts, the Daily Mail framed the story with a tabloid edge, leaning on mugshots and public reactions that mock or moralize the incident.
Blind Creek’s closure has created confusion and tension among naturists and local residents, but advocates stress that the arrests underscore the importance of compliance and communication. As I wrote for Planet Nude, naturists in Florida are working to expand legal nude spaces—progress that could easily be jeopardized by sensational media coverage and enforcement crackdowns. 🚀
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That public beach is no longer for everyone
In her Washington Post op-ed, Iulia Lupse exposes a growing crisis of public shoreline access, using Boca Grande, Florida, as a case study. New parking restrictions there effectively shut out everyday visitors, a tactic mirrored across the country as local ordinances and private interests quietly fence off what were once public commons. The right to the beach still exists on paper, but for many, the beach itself is slipping out of reach.
While this piece is not about naturist beaches, this piece hits especially hard for naturists in Florida. Legal nude beaches like Playalinda and Blind Creek already face mounting threats—from SpaceX’s proposed rocket launch closures at Canaveral to tightening local ordinances and enforcement crackdowns. Officials often suggest nudists “just move” to another beach, but as Lupse’s reporting shows, there may soon be nowhere left to move to. The crisis isn’t just about nudist beaches—it’s about the slow privatization of the coast itself, leaving fewer places for anyone, clothed or nude, to belong. 🚀
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Mixed reaction to new nudity ordinance in Vermont’s largest city
Just weeks after Burlington officially banned public nudity, WAMC revisited the story to gauge how residents feel about the change. The new ordinance—approved in late September after months of debate—makes it illegal to expose one’s genitals or anus in public spaces, carrying fines of up to $500. Lawmakers say the measure addresses a small but disruptive number of incidents, while many locals see it as an unnecessary solution to a rare problem in a city once known for its tolerance and eccentricity.
Planet Nude previously reported on Burlington’s path to this ban, noting how the city’s vote marked a cultural shift in one of the few U.S. states where nonsexual public nudity is still legal. Reactions gathered by WAMC underline that shift: residents express everything from amusement to disappointment, wondering why lawmakers prioritized a moral panic over more pressing issues.🚀
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Are inflatable costumes and naked bike rides helping or hurting ICE protests?
What began as an “emergency” edition of Portland’s World Naked Bike Ride in protest of the National Guard deployment at the city’s ICE facility quickly became a cultural flashpoint this month. Hundreds of cyclists—some nude, others in inflatable animal costumes—rode through the rain to confront militarized federal presence with humor and vulnerability. Federal agents later escalated the situation with pepper balls and arrests, while national figures like House Speaker Mike Johnson decried the protest as “threatening.”
The vivid images of nude riders and inflatable frogs facing off with federal officers dominated headlines and social media, fueling debate about the meaning and limits of protest. For some, it was a joyful and creative act of resistance; for others, a distraction from the seriousness of the cause. Either way, Portland once again reminded the nation that protest can take many forms—and sometimes, the most powerful statements come without clothes. 🚀
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‘A very brave thing to do’: all-nude play about boomers v gen Z to premiere at Sydney’s Griffin Theatre
Ang Collins’ Naturism, now playing at Sydney’s Wharf 2 Theatre, is reportedly a smart, irreverent reflection on aging, climate anxiety, and the stubborn hope that keeps us human. Directed by Declan Greene for Griffin Theatre Company, the play strands a group of off-grid baby-boomer naturists with a visiting Gen Z eco-warrior, forcing both sides to reckon with what “living naturally” really means in a world on fire.
Critics have praised Naturism as “impeccably written” (Arts Review) and “a very brave thing to do” (The Guardian), while early audiences describe it as disarmingly funny and surprisingly tender. One Planet Nude reader writing as RG, who reached out after seeing the production opening weekend, called the production “accessible and often absurd, sometimes juvenile, but quite funny,” adding that “the nudity was well done — the actors seemed entirely at ease, and the focus soon shifted to themes of generational difference and the environment.” RG also noted the show’s nuanced portrayal of naturism, with dialogue that “nicely depicted nudity as a way of life, rather than a weird fetish,” though he felt its depiction of off-grid isolation missed the chance to show “the much more common experience of being a naturist living in a mostly textile world.”
Still, Naturism seems to land as both satire and celebration—a theatrical experiment that dares to strip away pretense, literally and figuratively, to get the audience thinking differently about what it means to be comfortable in one’s own skin. 🚀
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The photographer who fought the Supreme Court to take naked photos
Profile of Spencer Tunick, renowned for staging large-scale nude installations, from early arrests in New York and a free-expression court fight to today’s meticulously permitted shoots. The piece spotlights his latest work in Granada, where hundreds of volunteers painted green formed a “human forest” among olive trees, and revisits earlier mass poses like 2016’s blue-washed “Sea of Hull.”
For the naturist community, Tunick’s projects show how public nudity can function as participatory art and civic ritual—de-sexualized, consent-driven, and often life-affirming for volunteers. His long run of negotiated permissions, anti-censorship actions, and celebration of diverse bodies keeps widening the cultural space where social nudity is seen as normal, joyful, and expressive rather than illicit. 🚀
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Paris Museum Puts Édouard Manet on Mock Trial for Painting a Scandalous Scene of a Nude Woman
More than 160 years after its debut shocked Paris, Édouard Manet’s Le Déjeuner sur l’Herbe was tried for obscenity again—this time as theater. The Musée d’Orsay staged a mock trial in which students, lawyers, and a real judge debated the painting’s alleged indecency before ultimately ruling that Manet was “guilty” of public outrage but should “keep painting.”
The performance, organized with the feminist group Fondation des Femmes, reimagined the uproar surrounding Manet’s 1863 picnic scene, where a nude woman dines casually with clothed men. The student playing Manet’s model, Victorine Meurent, defended “the right to nudity and women’s emancipation,” while others invoked Émile Zola and Gustave Courbet to argue for artistic freedom.
By reviving the moral controversy through a contemporary feminist lens, the Orsay’s “trial” showed how debates over nudity, censorship, and women’s agency in art remain as alive today as they were in Manet’s time. 🚀
Former Nudist Resort Transforms into Family-Friendly Getaway in Palm Springs
NBC Palm Springs reports on the rebranding of Desert Sun Resort—a storied Palm Springs nudist retreat with more than 80 years of history—into Casa Palma, a “family-friendly” hotel. The new owners, Ryan and Rochelle Jaleh, said they “saw the vision” for a more “inclusive” use of the space, calling nudism “no longer the highest and best use” for the property.
Relevant coverage begins at the 35sec point.
The article presents the transformation as a feel-good success story, but it glosses over the cultural loss for Palm Springs’ naturist community. It also reinforces the false notion that nudism and family-friendliness are somehow incompatible. For generations, nudist spaces have emphasized community, respect, and body acceptance—values that are inherently family-friendly, even if the resorts themselves vary in audience.
Rather than celebrating an evolution, this reads as another instance of a unique, body-positive space being erased in favor of a polished, high-end development that serves a narrower idea of comfort and belonging. 🚀
‘Naked Jesus’ shares real name and details life with family operating nudist colony
Tim Kraemer — known affectionately (and a bit sensationally) as “Naked Jesus”—has opened the gates of Indian Hills Nudist Park in Slidell, Louisiana, to cameras for a new YouTube documentary, HUMAN: Can Getting Naked Make You Happier? The project, produced by journalist Ben Zand, offers a rare inside look at one of America’s oldest family-run nudist communities, managed by Kraemer alongside his parents and sister.
Both The Express and OutKick emphasize Kraemer’s insistence that nudism and sexuality are distinct—that public sexual behavior is strictly prohibited and that newcomers often discover a sense of normalcy and acceptance in social nudity. Yet while OutKick frames the family-run park as “heartwarming” proof that nudity can be wholesome, The Express leans into sensational details about “sexual vibes” and “wild nights,” undercutting the very point Kraemer is trying to make. 🚀
At this West Virginia nudist resort, everyone has skin in the game
The Post’s feature on Avalon Resort trades gawking for granular detail, following longtime members through a 30th-anniversary weekend to show how a 250-acre, clothing-optional community actually functions. We meet retirees, veterans, government workers, and condo owners who describe nudity as equalizing and ordinary—pool days, pickleball, the library, even a tongue-in-cheek “Nudsino.” Clear norms (no photos, no public sex, “you can look, but you can’t stare”) frame the culture, while AANR’s Linda Weber and historian Brian Hoffman situate Avalon in a century of American naturism—its growth, peak, and boomer-heavy demographics today. The piece occasionally leans into colorful characters and puns, but it ultimately lands on the substance: a self-governed, rules-forward community where social nudity is about comfort, camaraderie, and continuity more than spectacle. 🚀
Annual skinny dip had become ‘sea of cameras’
After 13 years of growth, the beloved North East Skinny Dip at Druridge Bay is tightening its rules on photography. Organizer Jax Higginson, who started the event to celebrate the autumn equinox and raise money for mental health charity Mind, said the annual sunrise plunge had shifted from a “sea of bodies” to a “sea of cameras.” Complaints from participants prompted new boundaries: photos will now only be allowed in one designated section of the beach, between posts one and three, allowing others to swim freely without risk of exposure online.
Higginson emphasized the change as a matter of consent and safety, not censorship. “The most important thing for me was to create a safe environment, so that everybody could surrender to their own experience,” she said. Since its founding, the event has raised more than £160,000 and inspired thousands to greet the equinox in the nude for charity, community, and healing. 🚀
What I learnt from living naked in a medieval Spanish village for a month
Writer Constance McDonald recounts a month spent fully nude in an off-grid naturist community in rural Spain — a crumbling medieval village powered by wind, defined by eccentric residents, and united by an ethos of simplicity. Among her neighbors: a conspiracy theorist who blames chemtrails for homosexuality and a self-proclaimed Christ figure who drinks urine with mandarin juice. Between surreal conversations and hand-built furniture, McDonald discovers that life without clothes is less about exhibition and more about stripping away social performance.
Her essay blends humor and introspection, turning discomfort into revelation. She argues that naturism, at its core, is “an experiment in intentional living”—a quiet rebellion against materialism, control, and shame. The nudity, she writes, becomes incidental; what remains is honesty, connection, and a newfound ease in one’s own skin. 🚀
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It’s been nice spooking with you.
Well, my daring dis-dressers, that’s all for tonight’s episode of News of the Nude—a little flesh and a little fright. Remember: the real horror isn’t in the nude... it’s in the prude! 🪐
Thanks to Carl Hild, PhD for sharing this month’s clip with me!
Disclosure: This post used generative AI to support the writing and editing process.
That's a buttload of news
Thanks for sharing the Carol Burnett clip!!