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I know I’ve written an awful lot about nude beaches in the last few months — I’m really not trying to tell you guys anything — but I had to reprint this classic quote from an AP story about nudist resorts, which are apparently baring all to the public in hopes of not being stigmatized:
One way to do so, a group of residents at Tampa’s Paradise Lakes Resort decided five years ago, was to form the world’s first nudist Lions Club. Members meet twice a month at the resort’s restaurant and raise more than $10,000 each year to buy eye care for the needy and give to the blind.
“We’ve got to raise money from people who don’t have pockets,” laughed the civic group’s 71-year-old president, Bob Moore.
As a sidenote, I was talking to the writer Richard Selzer last week and he told me he likes to have his students write essays on “nakedness vs. nudity.” Anyone want to do this up for us, “What’s the Difference” style?
The difference is that nakedness means you don’t have any clothes on and nudity means you don’t have any clothes on and are up to something.
posted by Jess on 10-23-2006 at 10:07 am
The short and sweet version of the difference between “nakedness” and “nudity”:
Nudity is what gets hung in a museum.
Nakedness is what gets you thrown out of a museum.
posted by Sheldon Siegel on 10-23-2006 at 10:27 am
You forgot the old southern term ‘Nekkid.’ Here is how I define them.
1)Nudity–On TV and in the movies used for entertainment only. Very good looking people are nude.
2)Nakedness is nudity by a person unaccustomed to nudity or someone who should wear clothes due to sheer ugliness.
3)Nekkid (especially butt nekkid) involves alcohol and/or hormones and involves things that violate the Alabama State Constitution’s definition of unnatural acts (which could be just about anything).
posted by John Dahle on 10-23-2006 at 10:48 am
“… the world’s first nudist Lions Club … give to the blind.”
False modesty? Or sound business strategy?
posted by Xris (Flatbush Gardener) on 10-27-2006 at 7:31 pm