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Naked Activists and The State Of The Naturist Movement (Guest Site Post By Gymnos) Naturist Movement And Nude Activists: A state of the state of our nudist movement, the beginnings of a map for raising consciousness and support for the rights of naturists everywhere. liberty, fraternity, nudity !!! This is the slogan of a potential movement calling out from a period when the bond of men in brotherhood was understood as the basis for "la communauty." Yet, in this second, it is presented with a twist on the revolution that it calls to mind. This time let it be a naturist revolution lead by naked activists. Supporters of the 'Freedom to be yourself' movement, protest for the right to appear nude in public. Several years back this was among the faux slogans marched down 5th Avenue in NYC by the men of Men Au Natural (GUY) for the yearly Pride festivities back in 2007. Yet those men weren't naked: their crotches and buttocks were strategically covered by smaller signs with shorter slogans like "UNCLOTHED RIGHTS NOW" & "this crack do not kill." But why use faux mottos? Why are they considered a performance costume any more than a call to action? In fact the line separating the performance from the motto may just be semantic, yet the guys of GUY are hardly a politically energized lot. Girls march topless down the roads of Venice Beach, CA in protest for topfree equality Since the women of NYS won their right to be topless in http://lami.de/index.php?title=Tropical-Casual-Nudist-Unclothed-Weddings-By-Naturists-At-Haulover-Beach-Florida-l took for granted (1992), & since the TNT!MEN (Totally Naked Toronto Men Enjoying Nudity) won the right to march in their Pride celebrations with only shoes & hats the courts just could not acknowledge that any injury would be done or it was just enough to deem them 'not naked' depending on whom you ask (2000), since the first segregation of shores along lines of textile options (how far back do we have to go?) Since the rise of modern society, public naturism continues to be the focus of its own civil rights tug of war. In America, exercising our right to be free of covering is a drama-ridden morality play of the first order. In Europe, it is more a matter of societal convention & propriety. In parts of Asia, it's a practice deemed completely prohibited & seriously penalized. Yet, with the arrival of 2012, we see the rise of the [virtual] naturist community and a determination to win the fights for more body freedom. These are cause for a palpable urgency. Participant in the World Naked Bike Ride The urgency itself may be a question of straightforward perception - seeing new social organizations and internet communities propagate, senior groups have reacted in some instances as if endangered for their very existence. Likewise, the rise of the online community, fueled by the speed of the newest societal connectivity presents new fault lines for the encroaching of fetish life on a more naturist aesthetic. Yet to underscore these new developments, the online communities will not be remaining virtual. Nudists involved are attending organized house parties and http://www.proxvm.com/wiki/index.php?title=Naturism--Feminism-and-Girls-u with a brand new energy. Yet the road ahead is anything but assured as improvement towards more freedom. Thousands of naked volunteers pose for US photographer Spencer Tunick at Mexico City's Zocalo square The infighting among naturist groups is but one symptom of a bigger stress about the dwindling of our adherents. Recent upgrades to nudity laws in my personal home city of New York almost contained language that would have outlawed societal nudism of any kind. While 2011 saw serious soul searching in Vermont and San Francisco as anti-nudity laws were debated and practically enacted. The disparate local answers to the growing quantity of World Naked Bike Rides change from open approval (in cities like Philly and Chicago) to the overwhelming police presence in other localities (NYC stands out). Despite the landmark case in NYC where Spencer Tunick created a state constitutional right to assemble unclothed people in public places based on our freedom of expression, artists making naked artwork is public must expect harassment and arrest. I've seen some contris of other men and simply wished to try. This were taken by my wife. We're new at any of this because were we live in Central America this games are not so very welcome. I know pics aren't the greatest, but I needed to see what all this is about. Greetings to all ladies in nudist. And expect to get nice comments from women and couples just He visto controbuciones de otros hombres y queria aportar una. Estas fueron tomadas por mi esposa. Somos nuevos en todo esto ya que en donde vivo en Centro America, estos juegos no son muy aceptados. Se que las fotos no son de calidad pero queria saber de que se trata todo esto. Saludos a todas las damas de naturist. Espero tener buenos comentarios de mujeres y parejas And with economics as they're, community based naturist clubs are under extreme pressures to keep their membership numbers stable, while the sequence of these family owned businesses is barely ensured. The fact of the matter remains that exercising our rights as naturists is much less simple as the innocence of adolescent skinny dipping. The political implications - whether it is a issue of our neighbors understanding that we are entertaining tonight, or the intricacies of local law & it is potential enforcement - make being a naturist no little personal statement. To move forward, we want considerably more powerful legal advocates at the local and national levels. We also want data and lots of it. Currently wedon't actually know what over arching perspectives exist either within the nudist communities or beyond them. A bunch of AIDS activists hold a naked protest outside of New York's Madison Square Garden August 26, 2004. The protesters blocked 8th Avenue in midtown Manhattan outside Madison Square Garden, site of the Republican National Convention.