Naked at Lunch: A Reluctant Nudist's Adventures in the Clothing-Optional World

"A delightful and informative look at nudism throughout history and around the world." —The Seattle Times

People have been getting naked in public for reasons other than sex for centuries. But as Mark Haskell Smith reveals, being a nudist is more complicated than simply dropping trou. "Nonsexual social nudism," as it's called, rose to prominence in the late nineteenth century. Intellectuals, outcasts, and health nuts from Victorian England and colonial India to Belle Époque France and Gil...