During the oppressive summer heat, New Yorkers and their visitors can enjoy cool breezes and stunning views, dressed with nothing more than a hand bag. Now bare-skinned ’sun lovers’ can take a leisurely trip on the sloop ‘Ventura’ and enjoy the sights, as they cruise New York Harbour.
Believe it or not, hanging around nude in New York isn’t such a difficult thing to do, if you are into baring it all. There are numerous places where you can prance around naked amongst your nudist peers.
However, despite nudists’ desire to let it all hang out, they don’t seem to particularly like being caught on camera. Perhaps it’s because not many sun-loving nudists can claim to be members of ‘Body Beautiful’.
Now, however, the clock is turning back, as the younger generation of women are opting to cover-up, both in fear of skin cancer and in rebellion against the obsessive cult of the ‘body beautiful’, where no imperfection is tolerated. Going topless is no longer seen as a feminist act, in an age where sex equality, equal pay and work-family balance, has taken a greater precedence.
Near nudity does not stop in restricted areas in New York. Now the man who ‘Knows how to do more with less’, is up for election. The long-haired and tattooed ‘Naked Cowboy’, Robert Burck, entertains crowds of tourists wearing only his underwear, in Times Square, heedless of the weather conditions. Burck has launched his bid to run for mayor against billionaire, Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
This comes at a time when 44 people, including three mayors and some rabbis were arrested in an anti corruption raid in New Jersey, during an investigation into the sale of black-market kidneys and false Gucci handbags.
