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Hiding Behind Nakedness on the Nude Beach.
Lelia Green, School of Communication and Multimedia, Edith Cowan University, Perth
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This paper draws upon a series of experiences between 1980-1985 when I identified as a naturist during my summer holidays in Europe, and in a visit to Wreck Beach in Vancouver (where I felt very much at home). At the time I was aware that nude beaches were much less threatening to me as a large women than are conventional "textile" beaches. This paper draws upon those experiences to theorise why this might be the case, and why I have been absent from beach culture for much of the past decade.
