{"id":2906,"date":"2017-03-08T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-08T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zjuzdme.org\/?p=2906"},"modified":"2017-03-04T07:58:34","modified_gmt":"2017-03-04T06:58:34","slug":"when-nobody-runs-for-the-hills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zjuzdme.org\/old\/2017\/03\/when-nobody-runs-for-the-hills\/","title":{"rendered":"Public nudity in Britain, and nobody runs for the hills."},"content":{"rendered":"

Public nudity\u00a0in Britain.<\/h2>\n

There\u2019s naked yoga, naked dating, naked dining. But is it OK to take your clothes off in public? There\u2019s only one way to find out…<\/em><\/p>\n

This is the headline of a very interesting article in the Guardian<\/a> that was brought to my attention a few weeks back.<\/p>\n

‘Nobody runs for the hills’: is Britain ready for everyday nudity?<\/h1>\n
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Charlie Gilmour: \u2018Being naked is profoundly liberating.\u2019 Photograph: Sarah Lee for the Guardian.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>
I<\/span><\/span>t\u2019s like a dream. I\u2019m at the pub with a pint of stout and a packet of nuts, wearing no clothes. Families tuck into their Sunday roasts, darts players carry on unperturbed. No one gives me so much as a second glance. I could get used to this.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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How things have changed. In 1974, when Sally Cooper stripped naked and attempted to run across Richmond Bridge in west London, she caused a national sensation. Caught momentarily in the jaws of a police dog and eternally by the lens of a tabloid photographer<\/a>, she was one of Britain\u2019s first streakers. At the time, public nudity was virtually unheard of. Naturists, or \u201csunbathers\u201d as they often euphemistically called themselves, kept to the shadows.<\/p>\n

Today, naked people are everywhere. No longer happy to be hidden in naturist clubs and on nudist beaches, the bare body has jiggled its way into areas previously reserved for the clothed, round the dinner table and on primetime TV. London had a pop-up naked restaurant, the Bunyadi<\/a>, with a waiting list 46,000 strong, Last year saw the launch of Naked Attraction<\/a>, Channel 4\u2019s full-frontal dating show. We have naked yoga, a naked nightclub<\/a> and, of course, naked Justin Bieber<\/a>. Does this mean Britain has come to terms with collective undress?<\/p>\n

I\u2019m no naturist, but there have been moments over the years when it has felt appropriate to publicly disrobe. A mass skinny-dip after a friend\u2019s seaside wedding was liberating, a slosh into the Serpentine on a sweltering summer evening was thrilling, and there was one time, perhaps slightly unwise, at a party where the drinks were flowing freely and the heating was on far too high and\u2026 nudity may have occurred.<\/p>\n

Being naked is profoundly liberating. It\u2019s not just the physical feeling of the air, sun or sea over your entire body: there\u2019s a psychological release, too. When you shed your clothes, many social pressures also somehow fall away. A 2015 survey by British Naturism,<\/a> the national society for social nudity, found that practising naturists had higher self-esteem and body confidence.<\/p>\n

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Yet, from personal experience, I\u2019ve found reactions can be unappreciative, ranging from mothers screaming and covering their children\u2019s eyes to hostile attention from security personnel. So which Britain are we: a nation of nudes or prudes? I decided to find out.<\/div>\n
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You can read the entire article here, at\u00a0the Guardian<\/a>.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Public nudity\u00a0in Britain. There\u2019s naked yoga, naked dating, naked dining. But is it OK to take your clothes off in public? There\u2019s only one way to find out… This is the headline of a very interesting article in the Guardian that was brought to my attention a few weeks back. ‘Nobody runs for the hills’: … Continue reading “Public nudity in Britain, and nobody runs for the hills.”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,12],"tags":[386,387],"class_list":["post-2906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-naktivism","category-nudism-2","tag-britain","tag-public-nudity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zjuzdme.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zjuzdme.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zjuzdme.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zjuzdme.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zjuzdme.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2906"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/zjuzdme.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2907,"href":"https:\/\/zjuzdme.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2906\/revisions\/2907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zjuzdme.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zjuzdme.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zjuzdme.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}