I have read posts by DUers complaining/remarking about nekkid people in Europe - well this article sums up the debate here quite nicelyGermany has become so relaxed about people stripping off and sun bathing in the nude that the only people who seem to be enraged are members of the country's long-established naturist clubs. Barry Whelan takes stock of the crisis that has hit the nation's once-flourishing free body culture (FKK) movement.
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German society has become so liberal that nude bathers are a regular sight at beaches, lakes and rivers, with nobody appearing to take great umbrage — except the FKK movement itself.
"War of the naked," headlined the Bild newspaper as it quoted nudists on an official FKK beach complaining about the "exhibitionists" who sunbathe nude wherever they place their towels.
The war of words may be no more than a summer storm in the sand but there is a more serious side for FKK members, who praise their pursuit as mentally, spiritually and physically liberating, and like to keep a semblance of order about the discarding of clothes.
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According to one "official" nudist quoted by Bild, the "wild naked" were "somehow not proper nudists, not so nicely organised". She pointed out: "We in the FKK club have great barbecue evenings, play games together — everybody knows everyone else."
But an "unofficial" nudist — a 32-year-old mother-of-two — hit back by calling FKK club members narrow-minded conservatives.
"You only have to look around you on an FKK beach — you wouldn't want to see these people even in swimming trunks," she told Bild.
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(Warning: pictures of naked people - and not the pretty kind)
http://www.expatica.com/germanymain.asp?pad=197,212,&item_id=33368Sorry, the Links doesn't seem to work as intended; go to
http://www.expatica.com; it's the first featured article in the "life in Germany" section.
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