ISBN-13: 978-0-8047-0015-3
Writer: John Alexander Williams, 1962-
Τitle: Turning to Nature in Germany
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NACKTKULTUR (NUDE CULTURE) PHILOSOPHY
1. In nudity there is class equality.
2. Total nudity destroys the mystery and secrecy of sex, doing away with unhealthy desires and perversions.
3. When people must show their bodies in public they cannot remain compacent about remediable defects and deformities that clothing can mask.
4. Sunbathing and exercise in the open air naturally strengthen the body and give it a beauty that can only come from health.
5. The human organism, expecially the glandular and nervous systems need direct contact with air and sun for proper functioning.
6. Clothing is by nature unhygienic, unaesthetic and undemocratic.
7. It is as important to remove foreign bodies, in the form of meat, alcohol and tobacco, from inside the body as it is to remove artificial coverings from the outside.
8. The improvement of the race in both health and beauty, as well as morality, is a goal toward which all nudists should aspire.
2. Total nudity destroys the mystery and secrecy of sex, doing away with unhealthy desires and perversions.
3. When people must show their bodies in public they cannot remain compacent about remediable defects and deformities that clothing can mask.
4. Sunbathing and exercise in the open air naturally strengthen the body and give it a beauty that can only come from health.
5. The human organism, expecially the glandular and nervous systems need direct contact with air and sun for proper functioning.
6. Clothing is by nature unhygienic, unaesthetic and undemocratic.
7. It is as important to remove foreign bodies, in the form of meat, alcohol and tobacco, from inside the body as it is to remove artificial coverings from the outside.
8. The improvement of the race in both health and beauty, as well as morality, is a goal toward which all nudists should aspire.
Heinrich Pudor (1865-1943)
(Source: Naked as a Jaybird by Dian Hanson, Taschen, 2003, page 18)
GESCHLECHT UND GESELLSCHAFT III
Τitle: Geschlecht und Gesellschaft (Gender and Society), Dritter Band (III, 1-12), 1908
Publisher: Verlag der Schönheit, Berlin
Editor: Karl Vanselow (1876-1959)
Language: German
Format: 156x235mm
Place of Publication: Berlin, Leipzig, Wien
Year of Publication: 1908
Pages: xiv+576
Illustrations: 109 duotone and black & white plates, pictures and sketches printed on matt art paper
Binding: Hardcover in embossed lettering and design front cover; to facilitate the binding all 12 front and back covers have been removed
Weight: 1,480 gr.
Entry No.: 2009069
Date of Entry: 23rd November 2009
Publisher: Verlag der Schönheit, Berlin
Editor: Karl Vanselow (1876-1959)
Language: German
Format: 156x235mm
Place of Publication: Berlin, Leipzig, Wien
Year of Publication: 1908
Pages: xiv+576
Illustrations: 109 duotone and black & white plates, pictures and sketches printed on matt art paper
Binding: Hardcover in embossed lettering and design front cover; to facilitate the binding all 12 front and back covers have been removed
Weight: 1,480 gr.
Entry No.: 2009069
Date of Entry: 23rd November 2009
CONTENTS
This is the second oldest acquisition of the Naturist Library & Documentation Centre, edited by Karl Vanselow, founder of the first naturist magazine “Die Schönheit” (Beauty) in the spring of 1902. The entire volume deals with sex education and life in the late German Empire. Excellent printing on heavy paper.
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