For over a decade now I have been hosting clothing-optional events in my hometown of St. Louis, Missouri, and touring my clothing-optional body image workshop, Bare As You Dare, across North America: from sex toy stores to coffee shops, from BDSM conventions to Ivy League universities. Many years ago, I presented Bare As You Dare […]
Back in 2012, Stephanie Co, the co-founder and then coordinator of the World Naked Bike Ride St. Louis, asked me to put together a workshop on body image to help promote the ride. In retrospect, it’s a little embarrassing that the idea hadn’t occurred to me before that, but I jumped at the chance. […]
Nice article by Rachel Manteuffel about nudity in theater from the Washington Post. It caught my eye because the photo of the author looks like it could have come from my Bare As You Dare: Radical Body Acceptance Workshop, which I’ll be taking to Dartmouth University next week. More on that later.
“Runners compete in the Bare Buns Run, a 5 km clothing optional run, at Wreck Beach in Vancouver, B.C., on Sunday August 10, 2014. Wreck Beach is the Canada’s first and largest clothing-optional beach.” Photographs by: Darryl Dyck, from theprovince.com, August 10th, 2014
10 Reasons You Should Go Naked NOW by Jesse Herman from spiritscienceandmetaphysics.com. Also by Jess Herman, “The Naked Truth.”
One of my favorite things currently in existence is The Outdoor Co-ed Topless Pulp Fiction Appreciation Society. It’s a group of ladies in New York City who take advantage of their state’s laws allowing women to be topless anywhere that men are by (among other things) gathering in public parks to read books, topless. After all, […]
[Author’s Note: This blog started out as a quick shout-out to the folks behind Monokini, a line of single-breasted swimsuits, but has since morphed into a rant about topless equality, gender identity and body image. Just watch my feet for a minute, I promise there’s a point to all this.] Monokini is a social art project […]