Surrounded by Nudist Grannies!: A BBW Erotic Short Story

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In 2011, 40-year-old Nia Long posed both naked and pregnant on the cover of Ebonymagazine (see here via HuffPost UK), showing off her beautiful pregnancy glow and defying expectations about timelines for both pregnancy and posing for sexy nude photos. “I think if we’d just take our time as women, and do what comes natural to us and for us, we would make fewer mistakes,” she told Ebonyat the time. Amen! 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! Elizabeth Hurley took showing off her stunning figure to a whole new level with a special Valentine’s Day picture of her posing completely nude in bed. “Happy Valentine’s Day ❤️❤️❤️❤️💗💗💗💗,” she wrote in the caption. We love to see it! 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. 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.

Hawkes hit on this surprising corner of the internet when she was commissioned to take 500 portraits of women over the age of 50 – an act she didn’t recognise as radical until she realised how few such images existed. For a society preoccupied with the female body, interest drops off precipitously after 50. “For every woman, it’s on your mind, the question of body image and body hatred, and there isn’t any material about that for older women.” 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.

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Diane Arbus, ‘Notes on the Nudist Camp’ [1966], in Thomas W. Southall (ed.), Diane Arbus: Magazine Work, New York 2004, pp.68–9. The composition of A husband and wife in the woods at a nudist camp, N.J. 1963 establishes tension between the everyday pose and habituated relationship of the man and woman, and their nudity. The clarity of the image and studio portrait style contrasts with their appearance and the forest setting. This tension belies the ethical question at the centre of Arbus’s photographic practice. For instance, in an article entitled ‘Notes on the Nudist Camp’, written for (but not published by) Esquire in 1966 after a visit to the Sunrise Haven Nudist Camp, Arbus noted that, ‘for many of [the nudists], their presence [at nudist camps] is the darkest secret of their lives, unsuspected by relatives, friends, and employers in the outside world, the disclosure of which might bring disgrace. Everyone is known by their first name’ (Arbus 1966, p.69). Despite this concern, the couple in the photograph appear without attempting to conceal their identities, with the man offering a smile. In her photographic practice Arbus often sought out subjects who might be considered ‘outsiders’, and got to know them before she photographed them. The whole panorama, from the 50s onwards – there wasn’t anything,” she says. “The odd life model. You are more likely to find a drawing. Then you look more, and you find 500,000 images of ‘Young man f…ing old woman’.”

The program was so named after a quote from the famous Magnum agency photographer Eve Arnold, who wrote about photographing actress Joan Crawford in New York in the 1950s: “There she was nude – but sadly, something happens to flesh after 50.” Set in the broader Flesh After Fifty program, the idea for Hawkes’ exhibition, 500 Strong, was to take nude portraits of 500 women. The final count ended up at about 420 after the project took longer than expected and the budget ran out.You wake up in a dark room, you have a headache and it feels like someone have hit you in the head.

You also need to watch out for her bear traps and other things lurking in the dark, like her pets, for example. The only apprehension from club members was how we were going to share their story. Nudists are sometimes not presented in the best light in the media; there's still a lot of stigma around nudism in general. 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. year-old Alicia Silverstone bared it all for a good cause on Dec 20 in a PETA campaign against animal leather. “I never, ever, get naked in TV, in film, nothin’, never, nope — but I’ve done it for PETA because that’s how much it matters to me,” she said in the campaign’s behind the scenes video. She added, “I’d rather go naked than wear animals.” In the final picture, Silverstone is seen wearing nothing but cowboy boots as she covers herself up in a sexy pose in a cactus field.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 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? Carol Armstrong, ‘Biology, Design, Photography: Difference According to Diane Arbus’, October, vol.66, Autumn 1993, pp.28–54. There is only one way to describe making a documentary with your closest working collaborators in the nude: ultimate team bonding. There is only one way to describe making a documentary with your closest working collaborators in the nude: ultimate team bonding. - Danny Berish, Director, Nude to Me 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

Does this text contain inaccurate information or language that you feel we should improve or change? We would like to hear from you. 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. Also, it was the summer of 2020 and the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic. What better place to shoot a doc than outdoors and six feet apart at a secluded naturist club? Thomas W. Southall, ‘The Magazine Years, 1960–1971’, in Thomas W. Southall (ed.), Diane Arbus: Magazine Work, New York 2004, pp.156–60. 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 HawkesLike 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.” I think the most interesting thing I learned while making this doc is that everyone has an opinion about nudity. Women were invited to bring a prop to pose with, and each was given the option of having her face obscured. 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.