Naked as Nature Intended

@article{Bell2000NakedAN,
  title={Naked as Nature Intended},
  author={David Bell and Ruth Holliday},
  journal={Body \& Society},
  year={2000},
  volume={6},
  pages={127 - 140}
}
This article explores the ways in which naturism articulates a set of relationships between the body and nature. We begin by sketching the histories of some Western naturist movements, tracing their lineage back to 19th-century life reform movements and through into inter-war reorientations of citizenship and morality. We consider the problematic of the naked body's relationship to the erotic (and specifically to the erotics of nature), drawing on some materials on outdoor sex; set alongside… 
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