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Book The Nude City

    Book Details:
  • Author : The Smith Couple
  • Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Release : 2015-12-18
  • ISBN : 9781522829416
  • Pages : 54 pages

Download or read book The Nude City written by The Smith Couple and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-12-18 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A couple has finally left on a long awaited erotic vacation to France's Nude City; Cap d' Age. On the flight over, things heat up as they meet a hot blonde flight attendant that asks to join them for their sexy nude holiday. The setting is a romantic beachside villa on the Mediterranean sea, as they all explore each other and their sexual boundaries with another threesome they meet in the city! Erotica as only The Smith Couple can write, over 10,000 words in this sexy XXX short story!

Book Naked City  USA

    Book Details:
  • Author : Brian Blank
  • Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Release : 2018-08-21
  • ISBN : 9781519744401
  • Pages : 134 pages

Download or read book Naked City USA written by Brian Blank and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-08-21 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What began in the 1930's as a quiet nudist camp in rural Indiana became an international phenomenon by the late 1970's. From 1968 thru 1986 Naked City was not only the worlds largest nudist camp according to the Guinness World Book of Records, it was also home of the world famous Miss Nude America pageant. Naked City was run by Dick Drost, a self-made millionaire who built his sex-media empire from the confines of his wheelchair. He was a savvy self-promoter & hustler whose skills rivaled those of P.T. Barnum, Larry Flynt, and the infamous Reverend Jim Jones. Yet despite his incredible fame & wealth he was almost assassinated, kicked out of the state of Indiana for a decade, and died penniless & alone.Much mythology has built up around Drost and Naked City over the years. He was featured in countless newspaper & magazine articles, and even a documentary film but up until now no one has told the whole story about this unique part of 1970's Americana. I have researched every article available, and interviewed numerous witnesses to write a detailed account of this lost piece of history. I also have a personal perspective to tell the story from, as my family attended Naked City during its heyday.

Book Naked City

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  • Author : Ellen Datlow
  • Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
  • Release : 2011-07-05
  • ISBN : 1429983159
  • Pages : 444 pages

Download or read book Naked City written by Ellen Datlow and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2011-07-05 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring original stories from 20 authors, this dark, captivating, fabulous and fantastical collection, Naked City, is not to be missed! Edited by award-winning editor Ellen Datlow. In this thrilling collection of original stories some of today's hottest paranormal authors delight, thrill, and captivate readers with otherworldly tales of magic and mischief. In Jim Butcher's "Curses" Harry Dresden investigates how to lift a curse laid by the Fair Folk on the Chicago Cubs. In Patricia Briggs' "Fairy Gifts," a vampire is called home by magic to save the Fae who freed him from a dark curse. In Melissa Marr's "Guns for the Dead," the newly dead Frankie Lee seeks a job in the afterlife on the wrong side of the law. In Holly Black's "Noble Rot," a dying rock star discovers that the young woman who brings him food every day has some strange appetites of her own. Delia Sherman, Richard Bowes, Ellen Kushner, Christopher Fowler, Pat Cadigan, Peter S. Beagle, Naomi Novik, Matthew Kressel, Kit Reed, Lavie Tidhar, Nathan Ballingrud, John Crowley, Jeffrey Ford, Lucius Shepard, Caitlin R. Kiernan, and Elizabeth Bear also contribute to this fabulous collection.

Book The Nude City

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  • Author : M.S. Smith
  • Publisher : BookRix
  • Release : 2016-08-10
  • ISBN : 3739633786
  • Pages : 49 pages

Download or read book The Nude City written by M.S. Smith and published by BookRix. This book was released on 2016-08-10 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A nude vacation in Europe turns into a sexy orgy with new friends the meet in a sexy city. A couple has finally left on a long-awaited erotic vacation to France's Nude City; Cap d' Age. On the flight over, things heat up as they meet a hot blonde flight attendant that asks to join them for their sexy nude holiday. The setting is a romantic beachside villa on the Mediterranean sea, as they all explore each other and their sexual boundaries with another threesome they meet in the city! Erotica as only The Smith Couple can write, over 10,000 words in this sexy XXX short story!

Book Weegee s Naked City

Download or read book Weegee s Naked City written by and published by Damiani Limited. This book was released on 2020-02-18 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Damiani takes great pleasure in re-publishing this classic photo book from 1945 in a beautifully printed new edition which includes unpublished images and two new esseys by Christopher Bonanos and Christopher George. For his first collection, Naked City, Weegee cruised the streets of 1940s New York in the wee hours in search of the sensational. Lewd, louche, licentious but always brimming with life (except when brimming with death), Weegee's photographs have endured decades of modern art criticism and are again enjoying a much-deserved cult revival. His profound influence on other photographers over the last half-century derives not only from his sensational subject matter and his use of the blinding, close-up flash, but also from his eagerness to photograph the city at all hours, at all levels. Snapping lovers on the beach at 3:00 in the morning, transgender prostitutes in police buggies, bejeweled Society ladies at balls, the desperately poor no one knew New York like Weegee. Naked City showcases his talent, his love of the city, and his taste for the absurd and the unbelievable, and is a book that will forever stand as a classic introduction to the secret life of New York

Book Weegee s Naked City

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  • Author : Weegee
  • Publisher : Da Capo Press, Incorporated
  • Release : 1975-05-21
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 260 pages

Download or read book Weegee s Naked City written by Weegee and published by Da Capo Press, Incorporated. This book was released on 1975-05-21 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ultimate collection of Weegee's shocking tabloid photographs, from the ultimate tabloid city.

Book Naked

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  • Author : Brian Hoffman
  • Publisher : NYU Press
  • Release : 2015-05-01
  • ISBN : 0814790542
  • Pages : 343 pages

Download or read book Naked written by Brian Hoffman and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2015-05-01 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1929, a small group of men and women threw off their clothes and began to exercise in a New York City gymnasium, marking the start of the American nudist movement. While countless Americans had long enjoyed the pleasures of skinny dipping or nude sunbathing, nudists were the first to organize a movement around the idea that exposing the body corrected the ills of modern society and produced profound benefits for the body as well as the mind. Despite hostility and skepticism, American nudists enlisted the support of health enthusiasts, homemakers, sex radicals, and even ministers, and in the process, redefined what could be seen, experienced, and consumed in twentieth-century America. Naked gives a vibrant, detailed account of the American nudist movement and the larger cultural phenomenon of public nudity in the United States. Brian S. Hoffman reflects on the idea of nakedness itself in the context of a culture that wrestles with an inherent sense of shame and conflicting moral attitudes about the body. In exploring the social and legal history of nudism, Hoffman reveals how anxieties about gender, race, sexuality, and age inform our conceptions of nakedness. The book traces the debates about distinguishing deviant sexualities from morally acceptable display, the legal processes that helped bring about the dramatic changes in sexuality in the 1960s and 1970s, as well as the explosion in eroticism that has increasingly defined the modern American consumer economy. Drawing on a colorful collection of nudist materials, films, and magazines, Naked exposes the social, cultural, and moral assumptions about nakedness and the body normally hidden from view and behind closed doors.

Book Naked at Lunch

Download or read book Naked at Lunch written by Mark Haskell Smith and published by Nero. This book was released on 2015-05-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'We are safely away and you can now enjoy a ... ' There was a pause, as if the Cruise Director was having trouble choosing what, exactly, he should call what was about to happen. Finally he said, ' ... a carefree environment.' Folk have been naked in public for centuries. But being a nudist is more complicated than simply stripping off. In Naked at Lunch, Mark Haskell Smith uncovers nudism's fascinating history - and gets involved, baring all himself. He visits a Spanish town where clothing is optional, and travels to the largest nudist resort in the world: a hedonist's paradise in the south of France. From clothes-free hiking in the Austrian Alps to a Caribbean cruise on the 'Big Nude Boat', Haskell Smith takes us on an entertaining frolic through the good, the bad, and the just plain naked.

Book Free and Natural

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  • Author : Sarah Schrank
  • Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
  • Release : 2019-06-14
  • ISBN : 081229629X
  • Pages : 256 pages

Download or read book Free and Natural written by Sarah Schrank and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2019-06-14 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Naked Juice® to nude yoga, contemporary society is steeped in language that draws a connection from nudity to nature, wellness, and liberation. This branding promotes a "free and natural" lifestyle to mostly white and middle-class Americans intent on protecting their own bodies—and those of society at large—from overwork, environmental toxins, illness, conformity to body standards, and the hyper-sexualization of the consumer economy. How did the naked body come to be associated with "naturalness," and how has this notion influenced American culture? Free and Natural explores the cultural history of nudity and its impact on ideas about the body and the environment from the early twentieth century to the present. Sarah Schrank traces the history of nudity, especially public nudity, across the unusual eras and locations where it thrived—including the California desert, Depression-era collectives, and 1950s suburban nudist communities—as well as the more predictable beaches and resorts. She also highlights the many tensions it produced. For example, the blurry line between wholesome nudity and sexuality became impossible to sustain when confronted by the cultural challenges of the sexual revolution. Many longtime free and natural lifestyle enthusiasts, fatigued by decades of legal battles, retreated to private homes and resorts while the politics of gay rights, sexual liberation, environmentalism, and racial equality of the 1970s inspired a new generation of radical advocates of public nudity. By the dawn of the twenty-first century, Schrank demonstrates, a free and natural lifestyle that started with antimaterialist, back-to-the-land rural retreats had evolved into a billion-dollar wellness marketplace where "Naked™" sells endless products promising natural health, sexual fulfilment, organic food, and hip authenticity. Free and Natural provides an in-depth account of how our bodies have become tethered so closely to modern ideas about nature and identity and yet have been consistently subjected to the excesses of capitalism.

Book The Naked Truth about Cap D Agde

Download or read book The Naked Truth about Cap D Agde written by Ross Velton and published by Chris Santilli. This book was released on 2003-04 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Libertines and naturists alike abound in Cap d?Agde, the infamous nudist resort town in Southern France that attracts 300,000 visitors each summer. This 192-page humorous travel book tells why--with 32 color photos, guest quotes, and evaluations of accommodations, clubs, bars, restaurants, and saunas. Cap d?Agde offers more than a gorgeous wide stretch of nudist beach with some tacky gift shops and overpriced seafood restaurants. It's a full-fledged town with its own vibe and rhythm. Cap d?Agde can be laid back and sensual, exciting and erotic, busy and overbearing, and earthy and rude?but never quite normal and normally quite surreal. When you see 100 people huddled in a circle on a certain stretch of beachin the Cap, don?t automatically assume that they are waiting to buy ice creams.And, yes, you were the only person wearing clothes in the queue at the post office the other day. Cap d?Agde helps you make the transition from the humdrum tothe slightly fantastic.

Book Naked City

    Book Details:
  • Author : Sharon Zukin
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2009-12-18
  • ISBN : 0199741891
  • Pages : 313 pages

Download or read book Naked City written by Sharon Zukin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-12-18 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As cities have gentrified, educated urbanites have come to prize what they regard as "authentic" urban life: aging buildings, art galleries, small boutiques, upscale food markets, neighborhood old-timers, funky ethnic restaurants, and old, family-owned shops. These signify a place's authenticity, in contrast to the bland standardization of the suburbs and exurbs. But as Sharon Zukin shows in Naked City, the rapid and pervasive demand for authenticity--evident in escalating real estate prices, expensive stores, and closely monitored urban streetscapes--has helped drive out the very people who first lent a neighborhood its authentic aura: immigrants, the working class, and artists. Zukin traces this economic and social evolution in six archetypal New York areas--Williamsburg, Harlem, the East Village, Union Square, Red Hook, and the city's community gardens--and travels to both the city's first IKEA store and the World Trade Center site. She shows that for followers of Jane Jacobs, this transformation is a perversion of what was supposed to happen. Indeed, Naked City is a sobering update of Jacobs' legendary 1961 book, The Death and Life of Great American Cities. Like Jacobs, Zukin looks at what gives neighborhoods a sense of place, but argues that over time, the emphasis on neighborhood distinctiveness has become a tool of economic elites to drive up real estate values and effectively force out the neighborhood "characters" that Jacobs so evocatively idealized.

Book Undressed Toronto

    Book Details:
  • Author : Dale Barbour
  • Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
  • Release : 2021-10-01
  • ISBN : 0887559514
  • Pages : 328 pages

Download or read book Undressed Toronto written by Dale Barbour and published by Univ. of Manitoba Press. This book was released on 2021-10-01 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Undressed Toronto looks at the life of the swimming hole and considers how Toronto turned boys skinny dipping into comforting anti-modernist folk figures. By digging into the vibrant social life of these spaces, Barbour challenges narratives that pollution and industrialization in the nineteenth century destroyed the relationship between Torontonians and their rivers and waterfront. Instead, we find that these areas were co-opted and transformed into recreation spaces: often with the acceptance of indulgent city officials. While we take the beach for granted today, it was a novel form of public space in the nineteenth century and Torontonians had to decide how it would work in their city. To create a public beach, bathing needed to be transformed from the predominantly nude male privilege that it had been in the mid-nineteenth century into an activity that women and men could participate in together. That transformation required negotiating and establishing rules for how people would dress and behave when they bathed and setting aside or creating distinct environments for bathing. Undressed Toronto challenges assumptions about class, the urban environment, and the presentation of the naked body. It explores anxieties about modernity and masculinity and the weight of nostalgia in public perceptions and municipal regulation of public bathing in five Toronto environments that showcase distinct moments in the transition from vernacular bathing to the public beach: the city’s central waterfront, Toronto Island, the Don River, the Humber River, and Sunnyside Beach on Toronto’s western shoreline.

Book Museum of Chance

Download or read book Museum of Chance written by Dayanita Singh and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Museum of Chance is the first publication of Museum Bhavan, which is a collection of museums made by Dayanita Singh in New Delhi. The museums hoiuse old and new images made by the artist. Each wooden structure can be placed and opened in different ways, and holds around a hundred framed images, some on view, while others wait for their turn in the reserve collection, also kept inside the structures. As Singh keeps adding images to the museums, the museums themselves give birth to other museums. For example, the Museum of Embraces comes out of the Museum of Chance, and the Museum of Vitrines is contained within the Museum of Furniture. This publication is a mass produced artist book for the museum by the same name. Each image in the book is a cover image on one of the books."--Colophon.

Book Nue York

    Book Details:
  • Author :
  • Publisher : Damiani Limited
  • Release : 2016
  • ISBN : 9788862084642
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Nue York written by and published by Damiani Limited. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Nue York: Self-Portraits of a Bare Urban Citizen was born out of an initial questioning about clothing and the importance of fashion in modern society. As I watched an image-obsessed society care more about the sales at Barneys than the homeless people they ignore as they parade by, I began to wonder what the world would feel like naked, without the empowering or disempowering effect of clothing.

Book Nudism in a Cold Climate

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  • Author : Annebella Pollen
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2021-10-26
  • ISBN : 9781733622066
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Nudism in a Cold Climate written by Annebella Pollen and published by . This book was released on 2021-10-26 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This richly illustrated volume examines the idiosyncraticphenomenon of social nudism in mid-20th-century Britain, anisland nation fabled for its lack of sunshine and its reservedsocial attitudes.Structured across three interrelated phases, readers firstencounter the movement at its genesis in the 1920s,when nudism was synonymous with vegetarianism,intellectualism and utopianism. That nascent cultureproliferated in the postwar era, with a widening landscapeof amateur clubs and governing organizations alongsidehigh circulation publications and censorship-challengingphotographers. Finally, Annebella Pollen examines themovement's redefinition as naturism, its cultural battles andits struggle to survive amid shifts in sexual liberation in thepermissive 1960s.Unadorned bodies were the central campaigning tool ofBritish naturism's photographic propaganda. They drewattention to the cause and drove publication sales but theyalso attracted regular public opprobrium. Naturism's shiftingvisual culture thus provides a microcosmic view of Britishmoral, legal and aesthetic transformations in a period of rapidsocial change, revealing evolving perspectives on health andsex, gender and ethnicity, pleasure and power.

Book The Tick

Download or read book The Tick written by Ben Edlund and published by Marlowe & Company. This book was released on 1996 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bulging muscles, immense jaw, and a battle cry of "Spoon!"--it's none other than The Tick, a strange and seemingly invulnerable force for good in the world. A thoroughly enjoyable parody of superhero comics, this book offers a complete re-telling of all The Tick's adventures in The City. Color illustrations throughout.

Book The Naked City  Night Moves

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  • Author : Greg Easton
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2014-12-10
  • ISBN : 9781505397710
  • Pages : 112 pages

Download or read book The Naked City Night Moves written by Greg Easton and published by . This book was released on 2014-12-10 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of photographs taken over one summer in New England in 2014. Twenty-four women. Over seventy-five images. Shot with just a camera. No flash. No lights. Just a camera and the city streets.