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Body Painting and Naturism: The Symbiose Project

Body Painting and Naturism: The Symbiose Project

Alexis Alexis is the artist behind Symbiose, a project that has spent the last decade exploring the intersection of body art and naturism across France. Alexis treats the human form not as a blank canvas to be “erased,” but as an active collaborator in a dialogue. In this guest post, he reflects on his unique artistic process, the logistical reality of touring naturist resorts, and his commitment to portraying the human body in its most … Read more

How old is naturism really?

How old is naturism really?

We sometimes refer to the very beginnings of naturism to make a point in one of our blog posts. Most of the time, we’ll then tell you about a group of Germans who got tired of all those new factories in their city and wanted to start a more healthy way of living by exposing themselves completely to nature.   Whenever we tell this story, some people will refer to much more ancient times. To … Read more

To provoke, or not to provoke?

To provoke, or not to provoke?

We’re on an island called Koh Rong Sanloem, off the coast of Cambodia. There’s no naturism here, nor anywhere else in the country. For the last couple of days, we’ve been asking several expats if they think it would be possible to start a naturist resort here. The locals are mostly fishermen or run small shops or restaurants. They don’t care much about us tourists. Although their culture and Buddhist religion isn’t really favourable to … Read more

How to take better naturist pictures

How to take better naturist pictures

We’ve been publishing blog posts for more than 6 years now, and for the last 2 years, we also dove into creating videos. The one thing that put us in newspapers around the world though were the pictures that we shared on Instagram. We never really considered this, but our concept of self-censorship was exactly what the media loved. Nudity sells, that much is sure, but full-frontal nudity is something for magazines on the top … Read more

12 Awesome Nude Instagram Accounts You Just Have to Follow

12 Awesome Nude Instagram Accounts You Just Have to Follow

Until today, we still haven’t completely recovered from the shock that our Instagram account @nakedwanderings suddenly got banned. We were speechless, helpless, sad and angry. Almost did we buy a ticket to Silicon Valley to go kick some butt. Or show some butt, we hadn’t really figured that one out yet. But then we realized that if we want to keep promoting naturism to the outside world, we need mainstream social media. We need to … Read more

Naked State art residency at Bare Oaks Family Naturist Park

Not your common blog post about nude art

Facebook has again been doing an excellent job lately by bringing nude art in the news. Although it wasn’t really what they had in mind. What happened was that they had banned several images of painting of the 17th century Flemish painter Peter Paul Rubens because… you’ve guessed it… they thought that the paintings they violated the community standards. Priceless paintings that are adored by art lovers all over the world were considered inappropriate in … Read more