Candid Nudity, Prom Night

Candid Prom: Before, During & After

You've no doubt been out dining in some fine restaurant on prom night in your area and witnessed the typical parade of young teen women done up to nines in evening gowns with hair piled in fashionable disharmony (they do that for each other), in dress rehearsal for the pending full blossom of their womanhood. Of course, they're typically accompanied by dorkish looking young men who haven't a clue what charms their escorts truly are--that comes later, these days generally entailing a Google search for lost flames, those high school girls we once took so much for granted.

When I graduated 35mm film was the norm and the corner drugstore proprietor the film processor. It put caution in the click. These days with instant digital satisfaction available, clicking away liberally from dressing room to after prom skinny dip or naked limo ride isn't a problem, for which we are truly grateful. The amount of nude or near-nude activity on a given prom in Anywhere, USA, is prodigious. To now follow young misses in the course of their big day is very compelling, and makes up for what a few of us may have missed, back in the day.

DavidC for The Nude Review "Prom Nights, From Soup To Nuts"

Candid Nudity, Nature

Impromptu Nudity In Nature: Stirring Images

Spur-of-the-moment disrobing in nature settings leads to an ideal form of candid nude photography, if subjects are willing and worthy. It's a form of "nudist" behavior, but can be more intimate, a momentary fling, the acting out of fantasy, a quick indulgence that may or may not be repeated.

You and your mate may have followed the impulse on your own, in some back country, on a hike, enjoying a secluded picnic, or simply visiting relatives on their farm, off on the back forty. "Honey, let me get a picture" has been uttered by thousands of men captured by the excitement of being naked in the elements and wishing to preserve the moment. Nothing is more thrilling than when they say yes, go ahead.

To say the least, it's a titillating prospect, having your mate as a nude subject. Nothing provides a better backdrop than nature.

PhilM for The Nude Review "Candid Nudity In Nature"

Candid Nudity, After School

Remembering When All Was Perfect With The World

For the most part it didn't come to mind to capture those after school moments when, before checking in at home, we were able to squeeze in some precious moments, perhaps in the woods, or behind the strip-mall (how romantic), on playing fields or well wooded back-yards, with our "girlfriends." They had such miraculous power over us that any sort of permission (or visual) was highly prized, and celebrated for days (weeks, months, years?). As school memories fade into one big soup, those often brief, ecstatic moments of carnal intrigue never dimmed. (They are the reason for the success of sites like Classmates dot com.--who hasn't yet been disappointed there once current photography has been exchanged?)

Whether you're now thirty-five, forty-seven or fifty and beyond, those initial forays into the intoxicating world of bra-clasps and cotton panties remain in memory as if they occurred this morning. Fortunately newer generations, with their digital toys, assure that forever more evidence of these stimulating moments become public record, at least in internet terms. An afternoon's dalliance become that evening's fresh Web content. If you think about it too hard, it could sound creepy. (It isn't, but we felt it necessary to admit that it could.) In truth, we find it to be celebratory. It's an admission of the beautiful and stirring allure of those first erotic experiments, of putting touch to thought, of acting out with a willing accomplice.

If nothing else, it's pretty to look at, beautiful creatures in disheveled dress, smiling, happy, full of excitement. Theirs is a nearly perfect world...

BillJ for The Nude Review "Candid Nudity, After School"

Candid Nudes Coeds

Nude Initiations & General Good Sports

The growing popularity of "nudity" involved in student initiations at colleges and universities is hard to keep up with. From Kentucky to Oregon evidence is mounting that nudity is becoming a ho-hum feature of higher education. Why not? It's been going on in Europe for decades (see "Swedish School Initiation Nudity"). It isn't necessarily a beer-soaked midnight streak through the quad, but more a daylight event involving simple athletics or minor feats of heroism, albeit nude.

We're continually struck by the frequency of really fit women partaking in these broad daylight shenanigans. It makes me think going back for another degree may be a good idea.

BruceH for The Nude Review "Nude Initiations, Part Deux"

Candid College Nudity

Another Reason To Like Autumn

More and more the rites of autumn in our higher institutions of learning include initiation week for various Greek and other social orders and, increasingly, students are borrowing from Scandinavian traditions that include "nude" activities and challenges. For example, running nude through the school cafeteria at lunch time, or undressing on the sports fields for impromptu athletic competitions. It's all in good fun, and coeds seem to be fairly good sports when it comes to stripping down in mixed company.

As always, it's generally highly camera worthy.

Ed. "College Nudity: Initiation Week"

Strip Poker Is More Fun Than The Emmy's

Forget The Red Carpet Nonsense & Get Your
Friends Naked Instead

Already Twitter is abuzz with Emmy's nonsense and legions of lonely folks are huddling with their TVs to witness yet another installment of exhibitionist excess and self-love, beginning with pre-show highlights featuring gooey-eyed hostesses with shrill enthusiasm for all that is Hollywood or stained with celebrity. We'd rather play strip poker and drink beer.

The above paragraph will be timely for about another four hours and then horribly dated, but not the photography! Candid nudity above all depicts spontaneous eruptions of being naked, or nearly so, for a variety of purposes. Most of the time it's a pleasurable experience, and we encourage it. Strip Poker is our only vice and involves a gamble that for the most part is fun to lose.

So if you're assembling your crowd for a joint worship of Emmy night, why not pull out a deck of cards and deal? It'll make the evening a hundred-fold more interesting.

AEMobley-ED "Candid Strip Poker: Fun To Lose"

Nude Hot Tubbing

Nothing Says "Candid" Or "Spontaneous" Like
A Hot Tub

Social soaking in the nude is a rite of passage for the young, a hoped-for evening's end for the middle class suburban male, as well as a therapeutic cure-all for most of what ails you. It's a natural ice-breaker among couples, an inviting threshold buster for dating singles, and it's even fun to do alone.

On summer evenings when it takes only a few minutes to become light-heading by the heat, decks become natural habitats for the naked socializing. Dried-off hands seem to have nothing better to do than reach for the digital camera or cell phone, promptly recording the scene (as above) without much difficulty. Who seems to mind? Not many that we see, save for the obligatory mime of modesty, the brief and insincere covering of breasts or nether regions before
complete acquiescence.

Ed. "Hot Tubs & Social Nudity"