The Power of Nudity??

[Vincent Brady (TEX)]

I think that the female body is a really beautiful part of nature

My take on it is in that sentence above. Web sites like this are dominated by men and it is in our nature to enjoy looking at pictures of naked women. We are what we are.

TEX

[mikebarger]

Don't know about Penthouse, and haven't seen a Playboy in 20 years. What I've seen in the old Playboys isn't much different than some of the nudes here.

A nude is a nude, what else can you call it?

Mike

[Anscojohn]

Speak for yourself, I'm a redblooded hetero woman who likes female nudes. I'd like male nudes if they didn't mostly look like bad, cheese gay porn shots.

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Well spoken, Heather.

[Mike1234]

1. safety
2. water
3. food
4. shelter
5. sex

or is that...

1. safety
2. water
3. food
4. sex
5. shelter

or is that...

1. sex
2. sex
3. sex
4. sex
5. sex

??????

Though I can only speak for myself and look only at the girls.

[Peter Black]

1. safety
2. water
3. food
4. shelter
5. sex

or is that...

1. safety
2. water
3. food
4. sex
5. shelter

or is that...

1. sex
2. sex
3. sex
4. sex
5. sex

??????

Though I can only speak for myself and look only at the girls.

OK Mike, so your first 2 versions have water for processing your films and prints, but I'm a bit confused by the third option.

[Mike1234]

The third option is for those who've been deprived far too long.

[Erik Petersson]

I wonder what the statistics would be if we lived in an environment where public nudity was both commonplace, and unremarkable.

Remember, I live in the country that produced the band known as the "Barenaked Ladies".

Matt

I spent some time in north eastern Germany last summer. It is not uncommon to go swimming on public beaches there, without any clothes. Public saunas are naturally mixed. They call it "Freie Körperkultur", or FKK.

[Poisson Du Jour]

I am a naturist, and I have photographed naturists here in Australia and New Zealand for more than 20 years at resorts, beaches, camping, driving, skydiving and bungee jumping (and before you ask, the last two are a little uncomfortable done nude). My forthcoming project over the Christmas-New Year break is to photograph nudes (both genders) in natural rainforest settings using my Pinhole camera, movement and multi-exposure. And the great thing about all this is the "models" (plucked at random) are (un)dressed the same as me, so they are completely at ease — even those that haven't appeared before my camera.

If you want to be successful with nudists (naturists), you need to get down to their level — that means strip and join them.

Playboy and Penthouse are both absolute rubbish — always have been, always will be. That porn is wowserish, exploitative and degrading, additional to being heavily airbrushed. I prefer to photograph and interact with the real thing without pretention or showy dollying-up courtesy that bloody Photoshop tripe.

[Mike1234]

Ehh... you're just jealous of our Playboy Bunnies.

[Thomassauerwein]

Keep in mind that if seals had thumbs, they would be clubbing us!

LOL!!! Rightfully so!