Surrounded by Nudist Grannies!: A BBW Erotic Short Story

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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. The women who seemed very relaxed talked about how nudity was not an issue in their house when growing up,” Hawkes observes. “Some other women said they hadn’t taken their clothes off in front of anyone for a long time.” While Hawkes says “most couldn’t give a hoot” about stripping off, others were slightly anxious, but all agreed it was an important thing to do. “It’s embracing the body whatever shape and size you are really.” 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.

In 1963 Arbus shot a series of photographs of nudists which included images such as A y oung waitress at a nudist camp, N.J. 1963 1963, printed after 1971 (Tate AR00526) and Retired man and his wife in a nudist camp one morning, N.J. 1963 1963 (Tate AR00510). In these images, and throughout her work, the contrast between normality and abnormality is a critical theme. With her direct, unapologetic approach to her portraits she explores varieties of human physicality and identity that do not conform to traditional societal expectations. By removing the theatrical veneer of convention and portraying the couple in a manner true to their identity, Arbus challenges the viewer’s expectations of what constitutes a portrait. The International Movie Database (IMDB) claimed that the film was initially released with an X-rating but later was released under a lesser A-rating after parts were censored. You also need to watch out for her bear traps and other things lurking in the dark, like her pets, for example. J.Lo in her 50s is even more powerful than we could have imagined, from the Benaissance to her entrepreneurial side coming out in full force. Among her new product lines is J.Lo Body, for which she released a fully nude ad campaign of herself on her 53rd birthday this year. It’s not the first time J.Lo has posed naked since she turned 40, and we’re happily confident it won’t be her last. My grandmother's health was deteriorating, and as a filmmaker, I wanted [to find] a way to document her life.Jennifer Aniston has always been living proof that you can, in fact, get better-looking every year — and her 2008 GQ cover wearing nothing but a tie at age 40 was just one more bit of evidence (see here via Time). 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’.” 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. 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.” 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

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! In the 20-minute documentary Nude to Me, Danny Berish visits Van Tan, Canada's oldest naturist club, in a quest to understand what his grandparents loved about their "radical lifestyle." 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”. I think the most interesting thing I learned while making this doc is that everyone has an opinion about nudity. 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)Swansea, Victoria - Pontardulais Railway, 1964 (June) Swansea, Victoria - Pontardulais Railway, 1964 (June) 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?”