1 Naturist Life

1 Naturist Life

What Dating Naked teaches us about how not to represent naturism

Blur the bodies, keep the drama, miss the point entirely.

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Dustin Cox
May 04, 2026
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The show promised to strip away pretense. Instead, it revealed how little mainstream media understands about clothes-free living.

Dating Naked - TV Series | VH1
Photo via VH1 Dating Naked.

When Dating Naked premiered on VH1 in the summer of 2014, the naturist community had a choice: celebrate the fact that a major network was finally putting unclothed bodies on prime time television, o…

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