North American Guide to Nude Recreation

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It has, he said, changed his own life. “It’s helped me mentally to be more comfortable and relaxed in society. “I’ve gone through a transition. I was incredibly shy. When I was taking my clothes off to go for my ordinary dip, I’d be looking around, is there anyone coming this way, anyone coming that way? But in this group, there is none of those feelings. We’re all here together.”

A working actress across five decades; not too shabby for a woman who, at the start of her movie career, was (according to LIFE) “kept on ice merely as a decoy to scare Marilyn Monroe.” Skinny dipping isn't a new thing - it's the original mode of human swimming. But what is particularly new are these groups which appear less a part of naturism and more an off-shoot of wild swimming and the trend towards mass swims. I don’t think,” Ms Higginson said, “that there’s a better way to bring energy than a large number of human beings. So, if you add in an early morning and a cold beach and the opportunity to be naked, those factors together create so much energy. And then when we run, when we go, give the okay to strip off, it’s absolute release." These photographs capture the wet and wild atmosphere as hundreds of naked strangers embraced a moment of pure joy and freedom together in the cold North Sea at Druridge Bay in Northumberland in The North East Skinny Dip 2022. And there wasn't a stitch of clothing in sight as the bare-skinned bathers, men and women of every age, shape and size soaked up the extraordinary experience together in the buff!As far as we know she began her nude modeling career in 2015. Nina North has 163 covers, 62 photosets and 101 videos to her name. Every ''body'' is welcome at this now established and popular annual event which is cited as a ''celebration of life, of nature and of our own, unique physical bodies!''

In 1954, North signed a four-year contract with 20th Century-Fox. The studio had big plans for her, hoping to groom her as a replacement for the studio’s leading, and increasingly uncontrollable, female star, Marilyn Monroe. Fox tested North for leading roles in two of their upcoming productions, The Girl in Pink Tights and There’s No Business Like Show Business—two films that had been offered to Monroe—while North was wearing Monroe’s own studio wardrobe. However, after her screen tests, North was not cast in either film. In March 1954, North had a brush with scandal when it was revealed that she had earlier danced in a bikini in an 8 mm erotic film. Fox capitalized on the publicity as the studio previously had with Monroe’s nude calendar posing in 1952.One person who has researched how getting naked together impacts how we feel about ourselves is Professor Keon West of Goldsmith’s University, who is the psychologist behind the television show Naked Beach. What he found is that, as he writes in a paper titled Naked and Unashamed, “more participation in naturist activities predicted greater life satisfaction”. Its founder, Lee Simpson, had started to swim regularly during the first pandemic summer of 2020, and, when he had dipped his way through his first winter, he celebrated with a skinny dip. Later, a friend suggested he set up a group.