As one common story goes, Adam and Eve, the first man and woman, had no idea that there was any...

Each year in France approximately 1.5 million people practice naturisme or "naturism," an activity more commonly referred to as "nudism."...

Empire of Ecstasy offers a novel interpretation of the explosion of German body culture between the two wars: nudism and...

In 1929, a small group of men and women threw off their clothes and began to exercise in a New...

What is the connection between nudism and Nazism? From its origins in nineteenth-century Germany, nudism was conceived and practiced as...

Thousands, tens of thousands of people across the world sunbathe naked. They may be on the beach, at home or...

Through essential texts and a rich color photographic insert, this book tells the nudity-naturism of women and men from the...

This is a documentary dealing with a controversial topic, the Doukhobors, who migrated from Russia to Canada. Their external devotion...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization...