Posted in History, Society, nudism, tagged Baltic coast, Baltic resorts, Baltic sea, beach, coast, DDR, DFK, east, East Germany, fkk, free, freedom, GDR, German, German naturist federation, Germany, International Naturist Federation, naked, nakedness, nature, naturism, naturist, nude, nude bathing, nudeness, nudism, nudist, nudity, price, property, restriction, unjust state, Unrechtsstaat on August 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Sometimes I think that almost every contradiction may be viewed as The Conflict Between East and West.
“Seventeen years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the cultural divide between former East Germans and West Germans is being laid bare at beach resorts,” reported Claudia Rach, Bloomberg News two years ago (see also The New York [...]
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Posted in Philosophy, Society, nudism, tagged photo, nude, naked, nudist, naturist, nudism, naturism, nudity, picture, photograph, nudeness, online, fkk, Wikipedia, body, weird, social, survey, normal, normality, conformism, Society, behavior, tradition, experiment, Is It Normal?, isitnormal, website, site, safe, safe(r) mode, nakedness, confidence, sleep, good, unscientific on August 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
What does it mean to be normal? Most people thought about it. (A sudden quote from J. Krishnamurti: For most of us, thought is a means to change. Through thought we hope to change, through ideas we hope to transform ourselves…)
Among the definitions that can be found in a short article in Wikipedia I like [...]
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Posted in History, nudism, tagged Baltic sea, beach, border, border signs, coast, compromise, conflict, fkk, German, Germany, History, naked, naturism, naturist, nude, nude bathing, nudeness, nudism, nudist, Nudist war, nudity, open society, Poland, Polish, Polishness, research, signs, social, Sopocka Pracownia Badań Społecznych, summer, survey, Swinemünde, Usedom, war, Świnoujście on August 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In my previous post about the nudist war on the German-Polish border I mainly quoted news articles. They do indeed make an impression that the open-minded Germans contrast with the Poles in their readiness to accept nudity. Of course, not all Germans are open-minded (but I think many of them are ). While, concerning [...]
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