Mark Storey is a board member of the Naturist Action Committee and has testified at anti-nudity legislation hearings all over the United States.
As editor for ''
Nude & Natural'', the magazine of
The Naturist Society
The Naturist Society (TNS) is an American naturist organization based in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, United States. It publishes a quarterly periodical called '' Nude & Natural'' which contains articles on naturist activities and issues related to naturi ...
, he has written various narratives of the naturist events he has participated in or helped organize, as well as places he has traveled to. He wrote an article on the nude beaches of
Long Island on the east coast and participated in the Fremont Fresh Air Festival along with two other intrepid clothes-free activists as nude bicyclers to much media attention.
He is a founding member of the Body Freedom Collaborative in
Seattle
Seattle ( ) is a seaport city on the West Coast of the United States. It is the seat of King County, Washington. With a 2020 population of 737,015, it is the largest city in both the state of Washington and the Pacific Northwest regio ...
whose goal is to bring attention for the need for legal clothing-optional beaches through "guerilla pranksterism", among other approaches. He co-founded
World Naked Gardening Day
World Naked Gardening Day (WNGD) is an annual international event generally celebrated on the first Saturday of May
by gardeners and non-gardeners alike.
Organization
WNGD was founded and organized by Mark Storey (consulting editor for Nude ...
and is the current lead on that project.
In 1999 he led the effort to defeat Washington Senate Bill 5351, a measure that would have placed skinny-dippers on the state's list of sex offenders.
Mark is also author of a book, ''Cinema Au Naturel: A History of Nudist Film,'' and editor of another, ''Theatre au Naturel: A Collection of Naturist Plays''. In 2003, he was instrumental in getting several of the plays later published in this book performed at the Seattle Fringe Festival.
Notes
Further reading
Books authored
*Storey, Mark ''Theatre au Naturel: A Collection of Naturist Plays'' (Trade Paperback) Heureka Productions (June 20, 2005).
*Storey, Mark ''Cinema Au Naturel: A History of Nudist Film''. Naturist Education Foundation (July 1, 2003).
*Storey, Mark, ''et al.'', ''The World's Best Nude Beaches and Resorts - The Top 1,000 Places to get Naked'', The Naturist Society LLC and Lifestyle Press Ltd (2007).
Articles authored
*"Social Nudity, Sexual Attraction, and Respect", ''Nude & Natural'', 24.3 Spring 2005.
*"Children, Social Nudity and Academic Research", ''Nude & Natural'', 23.4 Summer 2004.
*"Takin' It to the Streets: The Cutting Edge of Naturism", ''Nude & Natural'', 23.4: p. 73, Summer 2004. Mark claimed that "The future of naturism is on public lands. To gain naturist freedoms on public lands will require getting naked in public".
The Offense of Public Nudity, ''Nude & Natural''
, ''Nude & Natural''
*"The Bethell Approach: A Protest Colloquy/The Bethell Approach: Is the Time for Mass Nude Protests Upon Us?", , ''Nude & Natural'', 21.2 Winter 2002. Includes statements by Vincent Bethell, Mark Nisbet,
Cec Cinder,
Paul Rapoport, Les Rootsey,
Morley Schloss, T.A. Wyner, and Mark Storey.
*"Guerilla Nudity/Wave Makers: Introducing the Body Freedom Collaborative", ''Nude & Natural'', Issue 23.1, Autumn 2003.
Press coverage
*George, Kathy (April 7, 2003),
Exposed and stark naked – on purpose: But not all nudists support 'guerrilla' plans for prominent public exposure, ''
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
The ''Seattle Post-Intelligencer'' (popularly known as the ''Seattle P-I'', the ''Post-Intelligencer'', or simply the ''P-I'') is an online newspaper and former print newspaper based in Seattle, Washington, United States.
The newspaper was f ...
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See also
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List of social nudity organizations
The following is a list of social nudity organizations associated with naturism and nude recreation within a family-friendly, non-sexualized context.
Major naturist organizations
Worldwide
* International Naturist Federation (INF) with regional ...
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List of places where social nudity is practised
This is a list of public outdoor clothes-free areas for recreation. Includes free beaches (or clothing-optional beaches or nude beaches), parks, clubs, regional organizations and some resorts.
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Regions
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Naturism
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Nudity
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Nude swimming
Nude swimming is the practice of swimming without clothing, whether in natural bodies of water or in swimming pools. A colloquial term for nude swimming is '' skinny-dipping''.
In both British and American English, to swim means "to move throu ...
External links
The Naturist Society Foundation
American activists
Social nudity advocates
American naturists
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
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