Guardian Archive

The Guardian reposted an article from 1969. Some of these arguments haven't been settled: [quote]But lurking beneath the surface are quarrels over the place of sex in nudism, over ease of access to the clubs, drinking in the clubs, over the magazines, over the propriety of such things as dances and parties. Leslie Bainbridge explains: There are people who wear their nudity like a hair shirt and believe that by as doing they are moving toward a sort of Nirvana. They see nudism as a regimen, a discipline. The conservatives, he says, demand high standards of personal morality. The radicals, on the other hand, freely admit that going naked is a sensual experience and that in the sharing of ones nudity with others sensuality has limited but real associations with sexuality.[/quote] [url][link]/link/3c24aa07cea0fa43/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudGhlZ3VhcmRpYW4uY29tL2xpZmVhbmRzdHlsZS8yMDE5L25vdi8wNy90aGUtc3RydWdnbGUtd2l0aGluLXRoZS1uYXR1cmlzdC1tb3ZlbWVudC1hcmNoaXZlLTE5Njk%3D[/link]Full article here.[/url]