Surrounded by Nudist Grannies!: A BBW Erotic Short Story

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I post bikini and nude photos because I finally feel good in my skin,” she wrote below one nude November post. “I don’t do this for compliments or likes. (Although they are very nice indeed). I’m doing it because you see thousands of images of younger women in the same situations. That’s what you’re used to seeing. No one tells them to put their clothes on. By what standard is it ok to ogle a nude teen, but not a mature woman?” As I was taking off my clothes in the studio I felt uncomfortable, but I wanted to stand strong and proud with the other women. With the launch of the exhibition, we will explore our diversity, share ideas about identity and sense of ageing self, and how and why we now value our bodies.” Credit: Ponch Hawkes There is only one way to describe making a documentary with your closest working collaborators in the nude: ultimate team bonding.” Danny Berish (L) and Ryan Mah filming Nude to Me. (CBC/Nude to Me) We had no idea what to expect. Just getting up to the club is an adventure. We were met at the base of Mount Fromme by the club's PR representative and chaperoned up a bumpy logging road, surrounded by lush old-growth Douglas fir trees and thrill-seeking mountain bikers. If you play in Practice mode, you are in the house without Granny and have the opportunity to try different things without major difficulties. But the house is not completely free from dangers.

Does this text contain inaccurate information or language that you feel we should improve or change? We would like to hear from you. Whether you're strongly for or against naturism, it's a great conversation starter. So yes, Nude to Me is a fun and light-hearted film, but if it can spark dialogue, that's a success in my eyes. This is the only time I have been photographed naked. So why did I opt to do this? Maybe because no one had ever asked before. Maybe to look at what six decades of use and abuse looks like in my case. Definitely to join in on this great, joyous fleshy statement about being alive.” Credit: Ponch Hawkes I thought of the great documentarians of our time, immersing themselves into remote cultures to capture a story. Like Jane Goodall — we were going to have to commit. When photographer Ponch Hawkes went looking for images of naked older women on the internet, she found acres of blank space, then a rich vein of what’s termed “granny porn”.Supermodel Stephanie Seymour posed alongside Claudia Schiffer for Vogue Italia in 2019, and one very risqué snapshot of Seymour shows her wearing only a low-slung belt and high heels.

News reporters Tony and Sally Adams visit a nudist centre at a country hotel in South Devon. The beach at Slapton Sands Nature Reserve and nearby Pilchard Cove have been frequented by nudist bathers for decades. Naturists advocate acceptance of social nudity and enjoy embracing the great outdoors through walking in the woods, relaxing on the beach, swimming in the pool and nude sea bathing. Locals turn a blindish eye and maintain that there is nothing wrong with nudism. At the bottom of this house there is a garage. In the garage there is an old car. If you manage to start it and open the garage door you can escape that way. Like Alicia Silverstone, Taraji P. Henson feels strongly about animal cruelty, and she put her fabulous figure to use for that cause, posing for a naked PETA campaign (see here via Essence) at age 41 with the slogan “Fur? I’d rather go naked.” You wake up in a dark room, you have a headache and it feels like someone have hit you in the head.

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Participants could remain anonymous by using a prop to cover their face - animal masks were popular. Credit: Ponch Hawkes My grandmother was a spirited, independent bon vivant and I think the free-thinking, radical naturist movement is where my grandparents felt right at home. They were the original hipsters. But you have to be careful because Granny hears everything and if you drop something on the floor or walking on a creaking floor she will start running to the place she heard that sound. Kim Kardashian has been posing naked for the entirety of her career — in many ways, she’s invented and advanced the art form. Her most recent nude magazine cover was in July 2022, when she posed naked for the cover of Allure at age 42 wearing nothing but a giant braid. In September 2022, she also bared her famous derrière for the cover of Interview magazine.

Thomas W. Southall, ‘The Magazine Years, 1960–1971’, in Thomas W. Southall (ed.), Diane Arbus: Magazine Work, New York 2004, pp.156–60. First of all, when the idea floated around that I should star in a personal documentary about my nudist grandparents, I went running for the hills! Naked? In front of my colleagues and peers?Being physically vulnerable on camera is one thing, but being emotionally vulnerable was something entirely different. So, as a filmmaker, I now have a newfound respect for every person I've ever put in the hot seat. It's not easy. So in a quest to learn more about your grandparents' nudist lifestyle, you started to spend time at the Van Tan Club, Canada's oldest naturist club — conveniently located in Vancouver, where you live. What was your first visit to the Van Tan club like?

I think the most interesting thing I learned while making this doc is that everyone has an opinion about nudity. And to my surprise, it was during a tape-recorded phone call that I discovered she had, in fact, been engaged [to someone else] and then met my grandfather at a nudist club. You can't make that up!

I grew up with a sense of shame about my physical appearance. Now I am honouring it, appreciating it, taking care of it. Immersion in a dance and movement practice has finally enabled me to land in my skin.” Credit: Ponch Hawkes