The Nude Music

Musicians who fight for body acceptance while making music; we chat with Dario Western of Laissez Fayre in Australia as well as Millie and Mie of The SoapGirls in South Africa. We also share some listener statistics and respond to voicemails.

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Photo: 2019 SoapGirls performance in Manchester, UK; by Darren Wood PhotographyCreative Commons Licence (Cropped to fit website dimensions)

Episode CXVI

Puppetry of the Penis

Tim Chizmar and Kayla Rae attends the Puppetry of the Penis show, a.k.a. the “art of genital origami”, in Las Vegas and interview the performers: Jamie Morris and Robert Ryan.

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Photo: Publicity picture from the Erotic Heritage Museum

Episode CXIII

New Nude Comedians

Ashley Moffatt, who performed stand-up comedy nude at Bare Oaks for the first time, talks about her experience on SiriusXM Radio‘s Todd Shapiro Show.

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Photo: The August 2017 Bare Oaks Stand-up Comics (L to R) Adrienne Fish, Lianne Mauladin, Courtney Gilmour, and Ashley Moffatt

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Episode XCVIII

Naked Ladies

Thea Fitz-James discusses her one-woman play Naked Ladies along with body issues, feminism, and the meaning of nudity.

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Photo: Thea Fitz-James during a performance of Naked Ladies

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Episode XC

Weirdos

Are naturists weirdos? No, the textiles are the weirdos and here’s why. Plus Felicity, more standup comedians, and more…

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Photo: U.S. Library of Congress, National Photo Company Collection, LC-USZ62-99824. – In 1922, Bill Norton, the bathing beach “cop”, is using a tape measure to determine the distance between a woman’s knee and the bottom of her bathing suit on a beach in Washington, D.C. Col. Sherrell, Supt. of Public Buildings and Grounds, has issued an order that bathing suits at the Washington bathing beach must not be over six inches above the knee.

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Episode LXIX