I went to Dubrovnik a few years back and did a boat trip around the bay. We went past a (gay?) naturist island and a guy was standing on a headland completely naked like the Colussus of Rhodes.
The untold story of Yugoslavia’s naturist paradise
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#42Naturists must go through a lot of sunscreen.
Someone wearing a bikini will cover about 3-5% of their body area, which would suggest that a naturist would use about 5% more sunscreen
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#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ummm, I can tell you straight away most people in Croatia don't like nudism or naked people walking around. There are places that allow that specifically - but if you walk around shirtless you'll likely get a fine. Croatia is very socially conservative, so I don't get these contrasts with America. We can't even legalise weed - I'd say largely due to religious connotations/pushback.
That's pure conjecture, you don't know that. Yes if you ask someone from continental part, on a typical central european estate, "do you like nudism" ofc the answer will be no. Ask people that live in the towns that have nudist zones under their jurisdiction, that's how you get relevant answers. No, Croatia is not "very socially conservative". It is maybe a bit more conservative than typical EU state which is still w…
Just to add to this - I'm from Zagreb (Capital of Croatia, former Yugoslavia republic) - we literally have nudist beach a mile or two from strict center of the city (https://tourist.hr/place/nudist-beach-jarun).
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#44I’m currently on a camping in Croatia, it’s so hot even swimming trousers feel sticky and irritating. It would be more comfortable just to be nude. FKK still seems to be booming here, I noticed huge campings, 2000 or more spots, lots of facilities, all FKK. Also spend many holidays as a kid on an FKK camping in Yugoslavia, wasn’t always easy, especially as a adolescent (always bring a towel), but it always felt like…
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#45Somewhat rambling rant: I feel like there was this great period from about 1950 to the mid 70s (I wasnt born until mid 80s) where people tried new and different things. Everything from nudism to environmentalism to living in communes to drugs and sex. And now we're all back to doing the same BS things as the next guy and trying to be 1% more efficient than the next guy. Make sure you fit in. Join an HOA because you w…
The people in the past who broke from mainstream culture and went experimental faced disapproval too.
Maybe you just need to hang out with weirder people?
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#46People claim full support for gender equality, etc. At the same time, they find it OK to ban female nipples (but not male nipples), also it's not OK to not wear a bra in offices, etc. Horrible.
We are coy about the parts of human anatomy involved in child creation and care, especially those that change with puberty. People are sexually interested in female breasts from an "ultimate cause" perspective because they feed babies, and grow when a woman is sexually mature. I'm not saying that they should be covered up; but I don't buy the argument that there's no difference between male and female breasts.
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#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
Western mainland Europe is a lot less prudish than the US. In France you get shampoo ads that just casually show a boob, in the day time. And topless sunbathing is common around a lot of Europe.
>a lot less prudish than the US. >In France you get shampoo ads that just casually show a boob If you have to show a breast to sell shampoo, there's something wrong with your culture.
I think you're misunderstanding here. From what I've seen of ads like this, it shows a woman in the shower using the product. Any body part shown is incidental and not exploitative.
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#48What I always loved about Yugoslavia was the freedom. You couldn't criticize the party but everything else was free. I was 13, at 11am I watched TV and saw a music clip where the content was 2 people fucking and smiling while doing so. They were having fun. You could drive a light motorbike, no helm, no license. The food was natural. You could sleep anywhere without anyone bothering you or having to be afraid that so…
> I was 13, at 11am I watched TV and saw a music clip where the content was 2 people fucking and smiling while doing so. They were having fun. I hope we can have a civil disagreement on this, without personal resentments. This is indeed freedom, and I don't approve of violent and repressive regimes to change people's behavior. Yet, this is not positive from my point of view. Doing this makes me closer to animals, far…
If only more people were able to 'agree to disagree'.
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#49Somewhat rambling rant: I feel like there was this great period from about 1950 to the mid 70s (I wasnt born until mid 80s) where people tried new and different things. Everything from nudism to environmentalism to living in communes to drugs and sex. And now we're all back to doing the same BS things as the next guy and trying to be 1% more efficient than the next guy. Make sure you fit in. Join an HOA because you w…
It's never been more acceptable to do things like quit your job and become a digital nomad for a few years. Cannibals is legal in parts of the US, and the richest person on earth is as famous for doing interviews high as the number of companies he runs. And Feeld makes the NewYorker as in a story about how it lets you easily organise threesomes or find a fetish partner. Open your eyes a bit - the world has never been…
Cannibalism legal in parts of US? I didn't know. Never partake myself ;)
>the world has never been as encouraging of trying different things as now
In some ways yes, but in general no - at least in USA
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#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
>a lot less prudish than the US. >In France you get shampoo ads that just casually show a boob If you have to show a breast to sell shampoo, there's something wrong with your culture.
I think you're misunderstanding here. From what I've seen of ads like this, it shows a woman in the shower using the product. Any body part shown is incidental and not exploitative.
I've seen "Crazy European commercial" type videos and they were things like two people having fairly aggressive sex and in the very background a crumpled pair of jeans or socks or something was the product being advertised. IIRC it was French or Belgian commercial. Then there were several other commercials in that presentation from various European countries that were on either side of that level of "sell it with sex".
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>, I remember being stuck for half an hour in a traffic jam in east Beirut with my husband and kids on the way to a mountain picnic. Right in front of us were two giant billboards (both the same) advertising jeans with a man and woman in a sexy pose, and the woman (of course) without a top. I guess by then I was not shocked but did feel it was gratuitous (to sell jeans? or to sell sex?).
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