Nudist Day on July 18th, 2009

In the United States, the oldest landed nudist club is said to be Sky Farm, in Basking Ridge, New Jersey. Started in 1932, this 35 acre naturist wonderland is for members only. That means: no day visitors! It’s open year-round and hasn’t changed location since its founding, although much has changed within, since the original [...]

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Nudist Day on May 26th, 2008

A recent biography of the most famous seismologist in history, Charles Richter, reveals that he was an avid nudist. Richter, who invented the earthquake intensity scale used since 1935, was a member of one of only three nudist clubs at the time in America, according to Susan Elisabeth Hough, in her book “Richter’s Scale: Measure [...]

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Nudist Day on May 21st, 2008

Just as black Americans saw their culture exploited in cheesy movies, so did nudists become the subject of many low-budget films aimed at titillating the trench coat crowd. The golden era of such “nudexploitation” was in the early 60s, a time when pornography wasn’t so easily obtained. The “nudist” movie genre was championed by the [...]

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