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Everything is different when you are completely nude, though it helps when everyone around you--in line at the post office or dancing at a disco, for example--is naked too. Inside the walls of the "naturist quarter" at Le Cap d'Agde, a sprawling French resort on the Mediterranean Sea that is reputedly the largest assemblage of naked souls in this world, the undressed population soars to 40,000 during July and August...
There are dozens of naturist (Europeans prefer this word to nudist to stress its back-to-nature aspect) beaches and resorts on the Mediterranean. Naturism began here in the 1950s at a simple campground that attracted Northern Europeans who wanted to strip in the sun. It took off, however, in 1970, following the French government's decision to promote naturist resorts as a means of diversifying the economy in the face of a decline in the local fishing and winemaking industries...
...Could they be removed--and replaced--without detection? I should hasten to add that my own father kept no smut in the house, at least that I ever found, but a good friend's dad had quite the cache of Playboys, as well as a couple of "naturist" magazines. That's how life was lived in those days, and nobody had to convene a three-day summit meeting in Washington to worry about...
...Diffeérence. In London, the social adviser of a nudist magazine, the Naturist, got a question: "I am, I believe, rather an oddity in nudist circles: a young, unmarried girl. My problem is that I think nudity is rather austere, and I feel I want to add some distinctive touches like jewelry, necklaces, earrings, and so on. What is the general view about this?", printed an answer: "Certainly, but anything too ostentatious will merely make you look undressed instead of naked...