Just a quick follow-up to my post Sex, Nudity and Sex Education from a couple of days ago. In the comments Malcolm Boura, Research & Liason Officer for British Naturism (BN), provides a link to a short briefing paper he produced for BN, looking at health and well-bring of young people especially with respect to nudity and body awareness. Although the paper is short – in my view much too short – it is well worth reading … but I would say that because it supports entirely the views I have been expressing.
Moreover it is gratifying to see that national organisations are recognising the problem and it isn’t just down to a few lone voices to try and make themselves heard above the din of prudery. Many national naturist organisations (especially in UK and USA) seem to come in for a lot of stick, even from their members – mainly I suspect because no-one can agree what really is the best way forward through this taboo minefield. And I too have had a fairly jaundiced view of BN in the past, as a self-perpetuating oligarchy which was interested only in the official clubs which provided the oligarchs (that’s right, I’m not a club person). But this briefing paper, together with some of the others (links below) on the BN website, has done much to restore my faith in the organisation. I may even re-join BN. Thanks, Malcolm!
And don’t forget my challenge to take part in Sebastian Kempa’s project: Naked People Your Version is still open!
Some BN Briefing Papers:
About Naturism
Naturist Beliefs
Health and Well-being of Young People
Children and Nudity
Prejudice
Managing Coastal Activities (Summary)
Thank you for the compliments. British Naturism has changed a lot over the last few years and there are more changes planned that will be announced over the next few months.The Briefing Papers are intended for enclosing with letters so they are deliberately kept short in order to improve their chances of being read. Our target is a single side of A4.We will be writing more in depth treatments as time allows. Our submission to the Scottish Parliament is probably the most detailed of our present publications on this topic.The briefing papers (usually a maximum of one side), advice papers (more in depth treatment) and submissions to central government are linked from here.http://www.british-naturism.org.uk/pages/pages.asp?page_ID=279