We nudists know the joy of conviction that “the best is yet to be,” and we feel certain that our preachment and program will contribute much to the sum-total of human welfare and earthly happiness. When men begin to think that the Golden Age belongs solely to ancient history, that the future holds no radiant beauty, no effulgence of glory for the human race, mankind will be in a state of dotage. If it’s too small to read, here’s an example from September: Like other nudist magazines, it espoused a rationale for why nudism was a desirable lifestyle and you can get a sense of their philosophy from each month’s accompanying text. It was published by the Outdoor American Corporation of Spokane, Washington, and ran from the 1950s until about 1967. American Sunbather magazine was one of the main nudist publications. All the tri-toned images are great, but sadly the January page is missing-that must have been a very good month. So instead you get it on the last day of January. We were actually going to post it on January 1, but we were still too busy fuming over our bank snafu to get it done. It’s a calendar put together by American Sunbather in 1960. we took a couple of years ago, and today we’re finally getting around to this baby.
Yes, we still have a few items from that trip to the U.S. You can see our previous post on the magazine here.Īmerican Sunbather uses its 1960 calendar and twelve nude women to sell the idea of paradise. Below are thirteen scans showing a lot of naked people having a very nice time-no sensationalism needed. Above you see the cover of one of the most popular naturist magazines of the mid-century era-West Germany’s Humana. One of the countries where naturism was and remains a strong social undercurrent is Germany-in fact, at our local beach, which isn’t officially nudist but is generally accepting of the practice, unclothed sunbathers are almost stereotypically German, though French visitors give them a run for their money. Yes, men’s magazine always portrayed nudism as sexual, while real nudists would say sex has nothing to do with it, but the men’s magazine link is undeniable, even if they sensationalized the lifestyle. A nudist would most likely disagree, but they’d be wrong-if they were to look inside a typical mid-century men’s magazine they’d very likely see a photo or journalism feature on the naturist movement. We’ve done a few posts on nudist magazines, because we consider them to be related to the racy men’s mags that proliferated during the 1950s.
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