Resources
- The Naturist Society's History
- Grassroots Naturism
- 205 Arguments In Favor Of Naturism
- Naturist Beach Etiquette
- TNS Gathering Etiquette
- Five Do's and One Big Don't for a Nudist Newbie
Books & Magazines by Naturist Authors
The World's Best Nude Beaches & Resorts - The Top 1,000 Places To Get Naked
Published in the US by The Naturist Society LLC
Exploring more than 50 countries, this book is “Almost as much fun to read as being on the beach.”
Over 300 pages packed with lavish full-color photos, travel tips, and detailed directions to the top 1,000 places where your bare skin is the most fashionable thing to wear. Appealing to the armchair traveler, the life-long naturist, or the merely curious, this guide book is the best of its kind. Current Updates Included!
N Magazine - The Magazine of Naturist Living
Published by The Naturist Society LLC
The quarterly magazine Nude & Natural gives you the skinny on naturist news, views, and updates on the role of nudity across the globe. N offers readers a deftly balanced blend of timely news and features, incisive commentary and reviews, and perceptive site reports from naturist venues near and far. It's all tastefully illustrated with full-color images that take you to the very heart of the naturist experience.
Growing up Without Shame
By Dennis Craig Smith
"A Bombshell of a Read!", March 22, 2007
T. H. Pine
"…If you've been looking for information to counter the prattling of doctors, teachers, church leaders, parents and relatives against raising kids in a socially nude environment, this book's the one to read. You'll thank yourself for taking the time. Trust me on this - you won't be disappointed."
Theatre au Naturel: A Collection of Naturist Plays
By Mark Storey
Six American one-act plays dealing with nudity, body image, and naturism. One play dates from 1930, the other five from the early 21st century. Edited and introduced by Mark Storey, and illustrated with nine photos, the book contains:
• Barely Proper, by Tom Cushing
• Nude on the Beach, by Martin E. Williams & Johnna Adams
• Love the Body Positive, by Johnna Adams
• Sisters at the Beach, by Rik Panero
• Just a Little More Blue, by Tom Swimm
• Nude in the Dark, by Johnna Adams
Bodies and Souls: The Century Project
By Photographer Frank Cordelle
The Century Project is a chronological series of nude photographic portraits of more than one hundred women and girls from the moment of birth to nearly a hundred years of age. A diverse group of photographs comprising women of many ages, shapes, sizes, and life experiences is presented in this exquisitely disarming project. Most of the images are accompanied by moving statements written by the women themselves.
I and Eye
By Peter Simon
From an early age Peter Simon has delighted in documenting the world around him through photography. Here is his lifes work thus far, an astonishing record of the far-ranging experiences of his generation, featuring many of the major figures, both in the mainstream and counter-culture, of the past 40 years.
The Nudist IdeaBy Cec Cinders, Ph.D.
“If inquirers wish to read the bare minimum to be informatively conversant about nudism, I recommend Cec Cinder’s The Nudist Idea (if I owned only one book about nudism, this would be it)…”
Mark Storey, Editor, N: Nude & Natural
A comprehensive look at modern social nudism and its antecedents, this 702-page hardback covers the origins of the movement in Germany, its spread to France and England, and its leap across the Atlantic to the United States. With special emphasis on the “freebeach” (or nudist beach) European origins and the history of the freebeach struggle in the United States.