Mark Storey
Reasonableness of the Offending Conduct
Mark Storey
[This article originally appeared in Nude and Natural, Vol. 22.2, Winter 2002]
A Nudists’ Bill of Rights – What Do You Think?
The Nudist Bill of Rights was presented to the Board of Trustees at the 2008 AANR Convention, and two open forum sessions were held to discuss the document and gather feedback. The Nudist Bill of Rights has been highlighted in The Bulletin as well.
As I have traversed the net promoting our GOUGH NUDE! campaign to free Stephen Gough, several well-meaning nudists have asked me why I am supporting someone who flaunts the law with his nudity in such a public manner? Doesn't this type of showboating pose a risk of blowback for all nudists?
It finally happened. A swimming pool in the UK has ordered all bathers to keep their suits on when showering because of complaints that some children were "offended by open nudity".
Local councillor Hugh Bone said the decision was 'ridiculous' and vowed to fight the ban by continuing to showering in the nude.Grandfather-of-four Hugh said: 'This surely is ridiculous. People should not believe that we are all perverts.
If you own or manage a nudist club, landed or non-landed, you’re perpetually concerned about the possibility that some member may not be who they pretend to be: respectable nudists like everybody else. It can be particularly damaging to a club’s reputation when the media mentions that a sex offender was a known member of [...]
The camera can represent flesh so superbly that, if I dared, I would never photograph a figure without asking that figure to take its clothes off.
Amateur Photographer (London, 16 Oct. 1902; repr. in Bernard Shaw on Photography, 1989)