The "World Record Skinny-dip attempt" thread

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As I see all the pictorial evidence of yet another kind of mass public nudity event I'd never heard of before, all I can think is... the world really is changing, isn't it? I wonder how many humans around the globe can say they've been in one of these things, whether they're skinny dips or runs or bike rides or protests or parades, Tunick, etc..-- I mean, I wonder what the total number would be. A million? Maybe I'm spending too much time on OCC and my sense of reality's getting skewed... I'd be fascinated to hear somebody's estimate though.

I've noticed a fair number of recently published science fiction stories including casual nudity in their image of the near future, and not for shock value, but just as a sort of natural development. Maybe they're onto something.

Sorry, I felt I had to indulge in one rambling post like this, it's out of my system now...

[daveduchovny]

It seems like these events are becoming more publically accepted but I don't think we are entering a brave nude world just yet. There is a small but significant degree of overlap - I spot faces I recognise from one event to the next, and hear people talking about other events they've done, but I also talk to a lot of people who are doing it as a one-off, have never done anything like this before and would never do anything like this again. It just happens to be local, or for a charity they are committed to.

The original Naked Mile in the USA was growing quite big then got banned, now there are lots of smaller events at different colleges, but with a few (amazing!) exceptions you will only find a handful of women at any given college event getting totally naked in front of their fellow students, and probably the same girls year on year. The WNBR is very popular in a handful of cities and the combination of body-paint, weight of numbers and the speed you travel at gives more people the confidence to go naked, but again in any given year there are only a few thousand participants worldwide and only a fraction of those are fully naked females. Tunick seems to be scaling back these days, doing more small-scale artistic pieces rather than the spectactular urban skinscapes he is known for, possibly due to the economic climate and less money available for cities and museums to commission him.

Young people have always and will always find excuses to get naked at festivals, concerts, parties and parades. The nudist community is consistent and stable in terms of numbers. Fully nude and mixed sauna, spa, beach, lake and river bathing remains common throughout mainland Europe and elsewhere in the world, even though in Anglophone countries it remains a very limited niche community. TV, movies, art performances become more nudity-friendly over time as censorship and moral policing decline with the advance of progressive liberalism and information entitlement, and people getting used to the new boundaries as they keep moving. There are still huge areas of the world with a conservative (some would say intolerant) attitude but they are closing themselves off more and more from the rest of us.

We see a lot of pictures of a lot of beautiful women participating in a lot of events, but that is because any such picture is bound to end up here. What you see on OCC isn't the tip of the iceberg, what you see here is pretty much the whole damn iceberg, at least as far as the UK/USA/Canada/Australia goes. Luckily there are lots of things going on in the rest of the world which occasionally surface here and blow our minds - like my Ukrainian winter bathers, or the recently highlighted Catalonian nude run.

(I too apologise for the rambling, I know most people are here for the pictures, but it was an interesting question!)

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Thanks DD for the thorough (and fast) answer. Didn't want to hijack a thread, but there didn't really seem to be a place to raise a question instead of posting pictures. I didn't think a lot of people were making a habit of naked events, but even doing it once leaves a strong impression on people, as Tunick vets will say. I thought that effect might spread out into the world, and change the general mindset in a decade or two, not right away, sort of a hidden delayed impact....

Originally Posted by daveduchovny

Young people have always and will always find excuses to get naked at festivals, concerts, parties and parades.

Uh... always?! I guess I'm from a generation (came of age in 70s) to whom being nude in public almost seemed "impossible" or unthinkable. Apart from Woodstock, which was an extreme hippie novelty. (Lifting a t-shirt for a few seconds at a concert doesn't count.) It's only in the last decade that I've heard of WNBR or Bare-to-Breakers type things starting, where people actually did it en masse, and didn't get rounded up and thrown in jail for it.

Or have I just been in all the wrong places at all the wrong times? It's entirely possible.... Some medical crap took me out of general circulation a few years ago...

Sorry moderators........

[daveduchovny]

The festivals and parades etc probably only started in the counterculture of the 60's but I've read accounts here and there on the internet of parties and private gatherings where nudity was an occasional feature at US colleges even in the 40's and 50's, its just back then no-one would ever acknowledge them. The problem is most of us didn't get invited to those parties, and it is only in recent years with the internet that we have become aware of things which are going on at other colleges or even the ones we went to! Now it's very easy to find out everything that is going on everywhere, so we have no excuse for missing a thing. I wish I was 18 again!

[Fango]

There was another one of these at Haulover just a couple days ago:

mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/see-world-skinny-dipping-record-broken-2677826

Fango

[crispus]

Could only find the first couple here from Haulover; supplemented a few fills/bigger versions from previous attempts:

[falkis]

great pictures from Haulover
anymore?

[Fango]

Originally Posted by fehlerfrei

Sunrise Skinny Dip 2013

Video:

vimeo.com/83450084

Enjoy

Fango

[voyscream24]

Originally Posted by fehlerfrei

Vera Playa World Record

Vera bate el récord de baño desnudo
hxxp://www.ideal.es/granada/20130721/local/provincia-almeria/vera-bate-record-bano-201307211238.html

729 naturists at the beach!

Here's a vid from the event:

youtube.com/watch?v=fbySUFpgKOo

Enjoy!

[andymamut007]

Fantastic finding!! Very beautiful video!!