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...veteran skinny-dipper, I had spent time at smaller nudist resorts in the past and was thus prepared for most of my social encounters in the bare-skinned section of Le Cap d'Agde, separated from "the textile world" by a guarded gate where visitors pay a nominal entrance fee. One of the slogans for the Naked City, I was told, is SEE AND BE SEEN! I had also heard about "boutiques where you can use the changing room--or try it on where you stand...
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...
Nowadays, Le Cap d'Agde is the nudist community in Southern France, with something for everyone. There are families with young children, large numbers of bronzed retirees, lots of elderly folk (with no handicap access to the beaches, one naked octogenarian regularly makes the rounds with his walker) and representatives of every age group in between. Everyone has a different reason for coming here. "There is more finesse, a bit more je ne sais quoi, to French naturism," a well-tanned Austrian in his 60s tells me as he prepares for another day on the sandy "nudism obligatory" beach, where...
...town "putting on their costumes," that is, getting dressed for another day in their lives. The final story is called Dressing Down and reverses the procedure of donning clothes for the sake of identity. A man remembers his grandfather, a respectable YMCA director who spent every July at a nudist camp that he established on the shore of a nearby lake. His wife, the narrator's grandmother, strongly disapproves: "Naturism was not her nature. Nudity was the cross she bore." Shields portrays the quarrel between these two as gently comic but also deeply earnest, a disagreement unresolved in life...
...finds random facts about the history of sex, which are not useless because they involve sex. Allyn explains the evolution of the bra-burner myth, explains the history of nudist colonies in the United States, and gives a detailed account of group marriages, a popular trend of the late '70s. He explores the story behind Hugh Heffner's rise and fall, what the acronym PRIDE actually signifies, and describes what Deep Throat, perhaps the most recognized porn-flick title, really involved. These random facts are all the more interesting when Allyn writes about sex in college. Among his many stories...