Review: The Nudist Idea (1998) by Cec Cinder
Brett Marcus Cook dives into Cinder’s exhaustive book on the history of the nudist movement
There are a number of books on the history of nudism, but they can be difficult to come by and very expensive. So when
posted to Twitter last year that he had a few sealed hardcover copies of Cec Cinder’s The Nudist Idea available at a reasonable price, I jumped on it without even taking the time to actually look into who Cinder is or what his book is about. I was honestly a little stunned when my copy arrived and I saw just how big it is: at 678 pages altogether, it’s like a brick! Truth be told, my copy came in on August 31st, and I only just finished it in February, meaning it took me more than five months to get through!Hopefully this review will be less challenging.
For anyone like me who’s unfamiliar with who he is, Cec Cinder was a founding member of the nudist activist group Beachfront USA, a director and vice president of the Western Sunbathing Association, a founding board member of the Western Nudist Research Library, and writer/editor for several nudist publications. He co…
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