| | The podcast is put together by the owner of Bare Oaks Naturist Park, Stephane Dechenes. And I'll remind you, he's the only naturist podcast on the planet. Given that fact and also no doubt the quality of the show, he brings a huge worldwide audience.
Most naturist living show episodes are around 60 minutes or more. But Stephane only declared on the most recent episode that he'll be reducing the duration of each show from now on. An hour long episode takes a lot of editing, and with all the projects he's going on, I can't blame him for cutting back. Future episodes may be as brief as 20 minutes, depending on what the topic is.
Given my participation and the interesting discussions of the podcast, we are going to allocate a fresh section of our site to posting about the most recent episodes.
The 71st episode of the naturist dwelling show podcast came out this past Saturday (Nov 29th), and it is called "School Project." Stephane speaks into a university student about her very first time trying naturism at Bare Oaks and how her family, friends and boyfriend reacted to the notion of it. She also talks about her photography job involving naturists there.
Then family nudists speaks to Alexis Beckett, a former summer worker at the park. You may recall her name from her recent article on the Bare Oaks site, "My experience in naturism as a woman and a feminist." Additionally , I mentioned it in our Naked News Roundup. On the podcast, Alexis goes into more detail about why she was drawn to naturism and how she ended up working at Bare Oaks.
She had just been thinking about going topfree at the parade, til one self-entitled creep got her rethink that notion. I could totally relate to her story. Every time I contemplate going topfree somewhere in public, I 've to think about street harassment and my own security. I've to take into consideration how much unwanted attention I shall draw to myself.
It's sad that this even must be said.
At precisely the same time, I don't mean to indicate that covering up is a solution to prevent street harassment. This is the common "solution" offered by society, and it's less about preventing street harassment and more about controlling women's behaviour. In Alexis' case, she was still entirely dressed when she was sexually harassed. I'm getting excited about the day when people stop asking, "What was she wearing?" when things like this happens. It's victim-blaming and it's immaterial, as it occurs to girls regardless of their state of dress or undress.
So Alexis discovers naturism and Bare Oaks, a safe place that appears to embody her feminist worth. She works in the office sans clothing, just like the remainder of the staff. Yet she finds that catcalling, sexual harassment, inappropriate touching, objectification, all these dilemmas that women (and other genders) face, are all just about absent from her new environment. Now it truly is an exclusive club, so clearly there 's quality control and rules to be enforced. But the values of respect and gender equality are generally overlooked when people talk about the naturist movement and philosophy. In growing up at a naturist club myself, these values were current, but never pronounced to me. It was only in starting FKK (and teaching myself about feminism) that I really started to highlight such ideals as an essential requirement of naturism.
Alexis also talks about how she does not feel forced to wear make-up or make herself seem sexually attractive at Bare Oaks. She feels accepted as she's. An environment where women don't have to worry about beauty standards, where they're defined by their minds over their bodies, is a feminist one really.
It's possible for you to hear the remainder of Alexis' story by listening to the podcast, but I also need to share the last paragraph of her published site:
"I locate feminism in naturism. I find equality. I find a location where I 'm not obligated to search the way anyone else seems, because it is extremely evident, when it comes down to skin, that we have been all different and there's no use comparing. I find a place where sexualization and sexual harassment are not tolerated. https://s3.amazonaws.com/naturist2020/beach-babes.html find a place where people look out for each other, take care of each other, and honor each other's individualism and individual life experiences. All of these are things I hadn't expected to locate in naturism, but I've been pleasantly surprised. When we loosen the grasp of obligatory sexualization for a little while, beautiful things can blossom."
Listen to the entire episode under, or see the episode's page on the Naturist Living Show.
http://www.bareoaks.ca/podcast/School-Project.mp3
This post about the Naturist Living Show and the Naturist School Project About Feminism and Naturism was released by - Young Naturists and Naturists America FKK
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