NUDIST SOCIETY

by ‧ RELEASE DATE: Jan. 1, 1969

Someone once said ""I am rather like a mosquito in a nudist camp; I know what I ought to do but I don't know where to begin."" Nothing that entertaining appears here in this ""Authoritative, Complete Study"" by two sociologists and Donald Johnson (The Nudists--1959--a once overview lightly) which begins at the beginning, with a Herr Zimmerman in Germany (1930) and Kurt Barthel here (after the stockmarket crash). The book is based on some five years of research, their, own original questionnaires and pre-existing Studies and there is a general unanimity: nudism (usually practiced by families on weekends) is a spontaneous and salubrious modus vivendi based on firm moral standards and engaged in by members of an educated and higher socio-economic group. It alters one's sexual esponses not at all but is beneficial as ""rest, relaxation and recreation"" and may well promote other therapeutic results. Nudism is studied in relation to the media and the law (occasionally exploited and pilloried by both) and the three authors contribute their personal impressions. A thoroughly respectable and responsible presentation, concluding with appendices, notes, tables, bibliography and a list of the ASA Charter Clubs--all attesting to the fact that this in-depth study is more than skin-deep.

Pub Date: Jan. 1, 1969

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Page Count: -

Publisher: Crown

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Kirkus Reviews Issue: Jan. 1, 1969

Categories: NONFICTION