Naked at lunch: a reluctant nudist's adventures in the clothing-optional world

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Naked at Lunch is one man's cracklingly witty, compellingly odd and oddly life-affirming journey into the subculture of nudism. Celebrated journalist Mark Haskell Smith meets, and indeed joins, those shucking off social conventions by shucking off their clothes - he hikes bare-back in the alps with a naked rambler's society; he buys baguettes in the buff in a French resort and he meets the marginally dressed mayor of a Spanish clothes-optional municipality. But this is not just a book of naked adventures and sun-warmed genitals. It is a study of 20th-century Western cultural and social mores.  Read more... Abstract: Naked at Lunch is one man's cracklingly witty, compellingly odd and oddly life-affirming journey into the subculture of nudism. Celebrated journalist Mark Haskell Smith meets, and indeed joins, those shucking off social conventions by shucking off their clothes - he hikes bare-back in the alps with a naked rambler's society; he buys baguettes in the buff in a French resort and he meets the marginally dressed mayor of a Spanish clothes-optional municipality. But this is not just a book of naked adventures and sun-warmed genitals. It is a study of 20th-century Western cultural and social mores Content: Cover Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Page Contents I'm on a Boat Interview with a Nudist Skin in the Game Gymnophobia A Very Brief History of Early Nonsexual Social Nudism I Left My Cock Ring in San Francisco The Rise of Nudist Clubs in America Vera Playa The Man in the Fishnet Diaper The Naked European Walking Tour Sex and the Single Nudist Trends in Genital Topiary There's a Reason Florida Is Shaped Like a Penis Free Beaches The Dark Secrets of Lisa Lutz The Fall of Nudist Clubs World Naked Whatever Day Funwreckers Fashionista Brave Nude World. Caribbean NakationNaked at Lunch Acknowledgments Selected Bibliography Notes.