nudist Archives - Desperate Living

Our annual round-up of the naked calendars from around the world, raising money for charity and celebratying body diversity.

The anonymous magazine, book and LP appearances of the woman who would later become a pin-up legend.

Our travelling nudist returns with a look at the current state of nude beaches – and it’s a story of slow decline and furtive voyeurism.

The official line is that naturism and nudism have nothing to do with sex or exhibitionism. A nude beach regular begs to differ.

A vintage documentary look at the nudist lifestyle that is both enthusiastic and salacious.

A TV commercial that promotes the nudist lifestyle and brings up interesting questions about sexualisation and moralising.

Looking back at the career of one of British cinema’s most iconic glamour girls.

The amateur nude calendars that have become remarkably widespread over the last two decades.

David McGillivray remembers Britain’s king of the nudies and scourge of the cinemagoer, Arnold Louis Miller.

The eccentric 1984 throwback to the nudist dramas of the Sixties.