Nudist Magazine Covers - Slide Show

[maxnude]

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[Home Nudist]

I realize that many of these photos appear to be 'vintage." But, in the interest of separating sex from nudism, I find it disturbing that most photos of this kind, promoting the nudist life-style, seem to rely on using the female form as a selling point. (As is done on some nudist web sites.) Most of these people are better than average looking, with better than average bodies, and are in "cheesecake" poses.

Where are the old, fat, dumpy, wrinkled, and flabby people of both sexes? We are given the impression that they don't exist. (I think I saw one possibly overweight man.)

Since females are in the majority of the photos, it's sheer hypocrisy to use the female form this way, while all the while pretending that sex isn't a selling point.

Or, am I missing something?

[EZ Nude]

It's called marketing. It's what the majority of people want to see. Testing will always prove, youth over elderly, beauty over average. thin over fat, women over men. This all comes into play when doing a magazine cover. You can do a cover with the opposite of the above facts and the interest drops tremendously

[Fiesty24]

I agree with Home Nudist, where are the "real" people?

[Navigator]

Nice collection Maxnude. Thanks for posting them. Did you collect the actual magazines or download the photos from other places?

I noticed some of the old Sunshine & Health issues said "Official Organ of the American Sunbathing Association". Pretty funny.:D You'd think someone would have picked up on the double entendre. I guess they did eventually...the later issues say "Official Journal...."

I've been a nudist since 1959 and my wife and I have been members at Glen Eden for 18 years or so now. I went to other resorts as a kid. At least 2 of the covers are from Glen Eden...the beauty contest, 12th row, 2nd cover and the volleyball net, 16th row, 3rd cover.

I remember those old beauty contests, that were frequently called King and Queen "elections", although I've never seen one at Glen Eden. GE stopped having them long before we moved here and joined GE in the early 90's but they were normal at lots of resorts in the 60's. I remember friends and family urging me to enter them in my age group several times when I was in my late teens and early 20's. I never did. I just knew I would pop a woody and just die of embarrasment shocked if I had to stand up on a stage naked in front of everybody like that and, in fact, I saw exactly that happen on two occasions.:D

The GE "volleyball" cover is interesting because the place the photo was taken is about 1/4 mile from todays volleyball court. I can tell by the olive trees on the hill in the background. GE has grown a lot. I noticed the volleyball is just a beach ball so I suspect this photo was posed for the magazine. Volleyball at GE today is pretty competitive and I suspect it was too competitive to be using a beach ball even the 60's....if that's when the photo was taken.

At least one of the covers dates back to 1941! (third row up from bottom) I remember seeing nudist magazines when I was in my teens in the 60's and thinking it was pretty cool that lots of other people, around the world, enjoyed nudism just like I did. In today's words, I'd say those photos and stories validated the nudist life style...even if there was a certain element of sensationalism to them that was designed to sell the magazine to people who wouldn't ever think of becoming a nudist.

Speaking of that...look at the last cover in the 8th row. What the hell is "Power-Nudism"????:confused: Hilarious!:D:D

One other thing I like about the covers.....they almost all use the words "Nudist" and "Nudism" instead of the words "Naturist" and "Naturism". "Naturism" has always sounded, to me, just a little too coy and anxious to not surprise.

And one last thing....all those beautiful people on the covers from the 1950's and 1960's are in their 70's and 80's today.

Time goes fast...Play Naked!:D:D:D

[BinCo]

I realize that many of these photos appear to be 'vintage." But, in the interest of separating sex from nudism, I find it disturbing that most photos of this kind, promoting the nudist life-style, seem to rely on using the female form as a selling point. (As is done on some nudist web sites.) Most of these people are better than average looking, with better than average bodies, and are in "cheesecake" poses.

Where are the old, fat, dumpy, wrinkled, and flabby people of both sexes? We are given the impression that they don't exist. (I think I saw one possibly overweight man.)

Since females are in the majority of the photos, it's sheer hypocrisy to use the female form this way, while all the while pretending that sex isn't a selling point.

Or, am I missing something?

Sorry to say that you are NOT missing something. My Mom and I were looking thru our old photo albums over the winter and I could not help but notice that pictures of me and the family in the 70's from places like Disney World, Yellowstone, Miami Beach and Chicago that showed a lot of people in the background showed a very disturbing trend in American size and shape.

I don't want to start a firestorm, but people 30 or more years ago were thinner and in better shape than we are today. I'll let you look up the numerous statistics to back it up, but it is a fact. American's are heavier than ever before. Our diet is full of junk. It might also coincide with the mass marketing of high fructose corn syrup in our diet vs plain sugar in the late 70's.

On the female notes, please notice that the genitals are covered by text and other objects. It is an unfortunate truth that women have been used to sell a lot longer than men have. After all, we get all the models for trucks and lawn mowers and power tools.

[topher97202]

I realize that many of these photos appear to be 'vintage." But, in the interest of separating sex from nudism, I find it disturbing that most photos of this kind, promoting the nudist life-style, seem to rely on using the female form as a selling point...

I was under the impression that prior to Playboy magazine, the only way to procure images of nude men/womem via the USPS was to provide them in a context of Health/Fitness magazines. So I can understand the "sexy" overtones.

[Home Nudist]

It's called marketing. It's what the majority of people want to see. Testing will always prove, youth over elderly, beauty over average. thin over fat, women over men. This all comes into play when doing a magazine cover. You can do a cover with the opposite of the above facts and the interest drops tremendously.
I realize that "sex sells" -- everything from power tools to lawn mowers. So, if these mags were put out by people only looking to make a buck, good for them.

But, if they were put out to promote naturism, then, the "sexy overtones" are out of place. We keep trying to separate sexual arousal from the practice of going without clothes. You can't have it both ways.

I also agree that people probably weren't as out of shape 30 to 60 years ago as they are today. But that is a separate issue. My point was that only attractive people (primarily women) were shown.

[maxnude]

Home Nudist,
I realize that many of these photos appear to be 'vintage." But, in the interest of separating sex from nudism, I find it disturbing that most photos of this kind, promoting the nudist life-style, seem to rely on using the female form as a selling point.

Most of these Nudist covers probably were produced and printed before you were born.

Probably due to display laws most of the covers in those days had the breasts and genitals over printed or blocked out. Many of the European magazines did not. Inside most all publications had full nudity. Women outnumbered men on the covers and inside also.

Also note many Nudist and fitness magazines in those days had beauty pagents and contests with trophies for the best looking, best bodies, big hair styles etc.

Since the 70-80's beauty pagents, contests for best, trophies and prizes and enticing poses on Nudist publications has gone by the wayside for equality for all in nudist pictues and publications.

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Navigator,
Nice collection Maxnude. Thanks for posting them. Did you collect the actual magazines or download the photos from other places?

I'm a electronic or e-collector of nudist, naturist publications, images, and Events.

I have several sources, pools, other collector produced CD's and online groups and blogs which specialize in classic nudist multi-media.

I'm also a major contributor of Multimedia to CFF/CFI for POF Photo's of Freedom, POD Pictures of the day, and the huge 10,000 Plus CFI Nudist Albums and Video available to CFI subscription members.

[Ren]

I don't want to start a firestorm, but people 30 or more years ago were thinner and in better shape than we are today. I'll let you look up the numerous statistics to back it up, but it is a fact. American's are heavier than ever before. Our diet is full of junk. It might also coincide with the mass marketing of high fructose corn syrup in our diet vs plain sugar in the late 70's.

It's somewhat fault-free, since people back then (and even now) have proper nutrition information obscured from their view. Or they are given confusing information. Read "Twinkie, Deconstructed." Now, I'll never argue that a Twinkie is health food, but back in the day, they had more natural ingredients and were harder to purchase. If you look at what's available with ease - organic, whole foods are expensive, while the crap "foods" that are made of fillers and made-up ingredients are cheap. Furthermore, back when my grandparents were young, they pretty much knew where all their food had come from. Animals were not pumped full of antibiotics and hormones and were raised on their natural diet (grass, NOT CORN, for cows) and so on. Sometimes they raised their own chickens and rabbits to eat. Now, we have hormones and feedlots full of disease for our animal foods and genetically modified corn (appx. 60% in US) and soy (appx. 80% in US) that are put into products, and companies like Monsanto trying to drive organics off the market through shady practices.

It is not a fair fight and one of the reasons why we must keep corporations in check - they are not equal to us as a person when they have many people within them and have deeper multinational pockets. Our food supply is dying. Enjoying your bananas - get them while you can! http://www.naturalnews.com/023339.html

Suffice to say, people didn't need to worry about the decisions they made until the "Better living through chemistry" era, which has been debunked many times over yet continues to provide us not only with our major bulk of food, but also with the information that tries to equate their shoddy products to organics.

This is what you get when your society overworks you and moves into the office building, without granting any mandatory time off, coupled with cruddy growing, harvesting, and raising techniques, misleading advertising, and market saturation.

So, yes, we're in a health/weight epidemic that we couldn't control. We must raise our consciousness so that being average doesn't mean being closer to death's door due to the diet we can keep due to the collusion by the companies that make the worst stuff.

[steve-o]

I realize that many of these photos appear to be 'vintage." But, in the interest of separating sex from nudism, I find it disturbing that most photos of this kind, promoting the nudist life-style, seem to rely on using the female form as a selling point. (As is done on some nudist web sites.) Most of these people are better than average looking, with better than average bodies, and are in "cheesecake" poses.

Since females are in the majority of the photos, it's sheer hypocrisy to use the female form this way, while all the while pretending that sex isn't a selling point.

Or, am I missing something?

Yes, you're missing the fact that it was a completely different time. You're judging those people and those pictures in those times by today's standards. There was blatant sexism in all areas of society and in all marketing, even in nudist forums, such as magazines and at the resorts. I mean back then they had beauty contests for the women ("Best nude body"), a practice we would find appalling today.

[alfredr]

I think someone has to say this and it looks like it's going to be me.

Look in AANR's the Bulletin at the advertisements for the various resorts and cruises and tell me what the people there look like. The 'real' people are in the photos that accompany articles and club happening reports, not the ads.

It still goes on.

[BinCo]

It's somewhat fault-free, since people back then (and even now) have proper nutrition information obscured from their view. Or they are given confusing information. Read "Twinkie, Deconstructed." Now, I'll never argue that a Twinkie is health food, but back in the day, they had more natural ingredients and were harder to purchase. If you look at what's available with ease - organic, whole foods are expensive, while the crap "foods" that are made of fillers and made-up ingredients are cheap. Furthermore, back when my grandparents were young, they pretty much knew where all their food had come from. Animals were not pumped full of antibiotics and hormones and were raised on their natural diet (grass, NOT CORN, for cows) and so on. Sometimes they raised their own chickens and rabbits to eat. Now, we have hormones and feedlots full of disease for our animal foods and genetically modified corn (appx. 60% in US) and soy (appx. 80% in US) that are put into products, and companies like Monsanto trying to drive organics off the market through shady practices.

It is not a fair fight and one of the reasons why we must keep corporations in check - they are not equal to us as a person when they have many people within them and have deeper multinational pockets. Our food supply is dying. Enjoying your bananas - get them while you can! http://www.naturalnews.com/023339.html

Suffice to say, people didn't need to worry about the decisions they made until the "Better living through chemistry" era, which has been debunked many times over yet continues to provide us not only with our major bulk of food, but also with the information that tries to equate their shoddy products to organics.

This is what you get when your society overworks you and moves into the office building, without granting any mandatory time off, coupled with cruddy growing, harvesting, and raising techniques, misleading advertising, and market saturation.

So, yes, we're in a health/weight epidemic that we couldn't control. We must raise our consciousness so that being average doesn't mean being closer to death's door due to the diet we can keep due to the collusion by the companies that make the worst stuff.

:applause::applause::applause::applause: Well put. If your Grandma would not recognize it as food, neither should you.

[Home Nudist]

Home Nudist,
Most of these Nudist covers probably were produced and printed before you were born.
I doubt that, but I don't see what my age has to do with it.


steve-o:
Yes, you're missing the fact that it was a completely different time. You're judging those people and those pictures in those times by today's standards. There was blatant sexism in all areas of society and in all marketing, even in nudist forums, such as magazines and at the resorts. I mean back then they had beauty contests for the women ("Best nude body"), a practice we would find appalling today.

Good points, Steve!

[NudonyII]

I've always found the differences between the nudism of the 50's-60's and contemporary nudism to be fascinating. Undoubtebly, an emphasis on physical beauty was placed during the earlier years. Is it a coincidence that Diane Webber, a familiar face on the covers of many early nudist magazines, also happened to be a nude model and actress?

Magazines, even today, and even nudist ones, still often focus on esthetic beauty. Personally, I have no problem with it. Magazines are a visual medium; most people enjoy seeing visually appealing portrayals. What's important is that this portrayal does not override the underlying message: nudism is for everyone.

[maliakei]

The photo with the couple & baby caught my eye first as an regular family spending time together naturally. All the models look white. There are no other races on the magazine covers promoting naturism.

[NudonyII]

On a side note, there seems to be an "evolution" of the nudity portrayed on vintage nudist covers. From breasts and genitals covered, to just genitals covered, followed by an uncensored "yet strategically posed" phase (and a half-hearted attempt to cover the nipples), to finally a fully nude stage. What social changes coincided with this "evolution"?

[maxnude]

The cover of these magazines blocking the nipples and genitals had more to do with where these magazines could be displayed and sold. In the 50's to 70's these were put on the back row of magazines at the corner cigar stand so children passing by could not see them or pick them up and review the inside pages. The same held true at book stores.

Later on these type magazines were sealed in clear plastic so you could see the cover but not the contents prior to buying.

[Mutant]

Magazines tend to depict the ideal of whatever topic they happen to be promoting. Home magazines of the 50's and 60's shared the aesthetic we see in these images. Housewives were depicted as neatly-dressed women in heels and aprons, happily pulling casseroles from colorful ovens. It might be more realistic to depict someone mopping a filthy linoleum floor with a pile of dishes in the sink and roach-infested garbage spilling out of a trash container, but that doesn't sell. Magazines sell because they depict the lives we don't have. Sexuality was certainly used to sell these magazines, but I think there is a huge difference between the sleazy images you might see on Maxim magazine and the beautiful images of Dianne Webber glowing in the sun on the cover of a 60's nudist magazine. I see nothing wrong with celebrating the beauty of the body, as these magazines did. Some certainly took that to an extreme, but don't we do the opposite nowadays? It's almost taboo to depict someone under the age of fifty or someone who is under 150 pounds. We take the notion of "body acceptance" to an extreme. Bring up fitness or healthy eating, and everyone gets upset and offended. No! Fat = body acceptance and skinny = succumbing to societal pressures! Youth is suspicious!

Nudism, in my personal opinion, should inspire us to embrace sexuality in an intelligent way. I feel like we, as a society, treat sex as a dirty, naughty thing that we obsess over and the polite thing to do is to insist that we don't have those nasty, nasty thoughts. We're all good little puritans with a stash of porn hidden beneath our beds. This is how we approach nudism even. We insist our sexuality is magically turned off the second we enter the gate of the local resort. Instead of turning it on and off, shouldn't we just embrace it, see that it is no more powerful or dangerous than any of our other functions and move on? Its the denial and repression that causes little boys to giggle over boobies in Playboy, and it's sad when 45 year-old men are still doing it. Swingers are a perfect example of where sexual denial and repression gets you. Swingers are not "liberated" at all. They don't even use the word sex, instead using weird and complicated expressions like "lifestylers."

Using beauty and fantasy to sell nudism may have been unethical, but it worked. Many commited nudists probably took the first step because of the advertisement depicting a fantastical world of sun-drenched naked people. They then blended nicely into the more realistic nudist society. Maybe we need to do more of that to diversify the nudist subculture a bit. Car companies, real estate companies, clothing stores all promise beauty and fun and magic and that's why we buy their products. It gets us in the door. Sure, that shirt or that Volkswagen may not give us the joy the commercial promised, but we may find other reasons to love them once we are in the door. Today's nudist publications promise just the opposite. "It's just as dull and plain and ugly as the life you already live!" could be the motto.

I'm not saying we should have Hugh Hefner do the advertising, of course...

[maxnude]

Updated 231 Nudist Magazine Covers & Slide show by "NakedGary"

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[maliakei]

Question:

Are the models in those covers paid? Are the posters allowing CF to post photos paid or purely voluntary? There are probably some legal forms to fill out & sign allowing release to be okay. Just curious..

[maxnude]

Are the models in those covers paid? Are the posters allowing CF to post photos paid or purely voluntary? There are probably some legal forms to fill out & sign allowing release to be okay. Just curious..

maliakei,

To answer your Question, Yes - I don't know a publication that doesn't pay models for photographic shooting sessions, and have releases on all images.

If you will notice the dates on the publications, most of models and publications have gone out of business, very elderly, or have passed away.

The Nudist poster covers and slide show were not posted by ClothesFree. A member of CFF submitted a URL/Hyperlink to the slide show, and the images have been published online all over the Internet for years. Some of the images are off retail or commerically produced CD's.

Read posts #5 and #9 as to questions of the sources of old Nudist Covers:
Navigator,
Quote:
Nice collection Maxnude. Thanks for posting them. Did you collect the actual magazines or download the photos from other places?

Response:

I'm a electronic or e-collector of nudist, naturist publications, images, and Events.

I have several sources, pools, other collector produced CD's and online groups and blogs which specialize in classic nudist multi-media.

I'm also a major contributor of Multimedia to CFF/CFI for POF Photo's of Freedom, POD Pictures of the day, and the huge 10,000 Plus CFI Nudist Albums and Video available to CFI subscription members.

[lester]

i getting the account does not exist to run the slideshow.

[steve-o]

Same for me:
Sorry, the account does not exist.

Maybe you have spelled the account name wrong or perhaps the owner closed his or her account

Visit us at jalbum.net if you wish to register an account at this address.

[maxnude]

Free Host account problems without notice - Working on problem - Contact is in Stockholm Sweden

Well that host [Jalbum] was great well it lasted. It was ok very early this morning PDT. I was suppose to have 30MB on their server and was below that.

Hmmm maybe they didn't like nudist covers, I didn't read their complete Terms.

It's free software or shareware but they expect donations. I was evaluating the performance and it looked good and fast access and performance.

Maybe they expect subscription to be on their servers, get extra space, and that's how they profit.

Hang in there, I'll contact them, and if not successful go to another picture/slide show program and FTP to my domain to host the slide show.

[maxnude]

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Have not answered my email [Night time there] so I deleted old account, changed email and started another account.

Some how the JAlbum Host Server come up with a "Authentication error"

I'ts working again, for how long I don't know, we will see.

Thanks for those who noticed and posted about the URL/Page error.