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Before Boone
New translations and a forgotten founder push the origins of organized American nudism back to 1925
 • Carl Hild, PhD
Rod Swenson's wild ride
Beauty pageants, punk rock, and a Cadillac in the nudist pool
 • Olaf Danielson
The German wheel
On the Rhönrad, a century-old German gymnastic apparatus that once stood at the center of naturist physical culture
 • Evan Nicks
The first modern definition of social nudism in 1904
John Russell Coryell and the American blueprint for social nudism
 • 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
 • Carl Hild, PhD
Virgil Tibbs remains cool
Rereading John Ball’s 'The Cool Cottontail' through a nudist-history lens
 • Evan Nicks
Men are from Mars, Gurley is from Venus
Excerpt from Nudetopian Nightmares, seeking a new Garden of Eden
 • Olaf Danielson
The strange, true life of Willie Willey
A forgotten folk hero whose bare-bones philosophy challenged America’s indecency laws
 • Olaf Danielson
Naked Age: Making Space
Episode 17: On naturism, community, and the work of keeping spaces open
 • Evan Nicks
Making Space
Episode 17: On naturism, community, and the work of keeping spaces open
 • Evan Nicks
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Rediscovering NYPenns
A long-vanished nudist club, two abandoned camps, and the photos that brought their history back into view
 • Olaf Danielson
‘FKK in der DDR’: East Germany’s socialist nudism
The story of how one country nationalized nakedness
 • Curtis Atkins
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