Nudes Battle Prudes on Baltic Beaches

[SoCalDem]

http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsPackageArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=561356§ion=news


Nudes battle prudes on Baltic beaches
Mon 9 August, 2004 02:39



By Erik Kirschbaum

WARNEMUENDE, Germany (Reuters) - Susanne Koch was wearing nothing but a friendly smile as she defended the merits of nude sunbathing on eastern German beaches.

"I grew up being naked at the beach and it's the only way to spend the summer here," said Koch, 31. "Being nude on the beach feels completely normal. Sticky, sweaty bathing suits are revolting. It's unfortunate we're being squeezed off."

Nowhere has the tradition of nude sunbathing, or the Free Body Culture (FKK) as it's known in Germany, been more prevalent than on its Baltic Sea beaches. In the heyday before the Berlin Wall fell, East German beaches were dominated by nude bathers

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[Sirveri]

1. that's because

nude beaches used to be the only freedom those people had. It is really difficult for west Germans and a bunch of others to understand that. Mainly because they haven't lived it themselves.