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| Subject: No nudes is bad news for Germany's nudists Tue Jul 29, 2014 3:25 am | |
| Many Germans still love to bask naked on the beaches of Spain and France but at home, long the land of the all-over tan, the nudist movement is in decline.
For almost a century, German sun-worshippers have been known to rip off their clothes at the first sighting of the country's all-too-rare summer rays.
Especially since the carefree 1970s, naturists, unencumbered by clothing and their parents' prudish mores, have frolicked in the buff on beaches, lakes and in city parks.
The trend was especially popular in the former communist East Germany, whose people celebrated it as a rare expression of personal liberty in an otherwise highly oppressive society.
But times are changing for the movement known in German simply as "FKK", short for Frei-Koerper-Kultur or "free body culture".
"Society is changing," laments Kurt Fischer, president of the German Federation of Naturist Clubs (DFK).
http://www.smh.com.au/travel/travel-planning/travel-news/no-nudes-is-bad-news-for-germanys-nudists-20140728-3cpp3.html |
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