and the USA traveled to experience a fresh and healthy lifestyle without shame or
Posted by Vikas Acharya on November 28, 2016
Humiliation concerning their bodies. They returned home sharing the delight of their
experiences through word of mouth and recorded writings in local and national
publications. The United States of America would soon fall upon an amazing new
lifestyle.
Nevertheless, social nudism in America struggled to exist during the first part of the
twentieth century. An early effort to form a nudist organization in the United States
began in Missouri in 191 7 with Will Calhoun Walker, but the attempt collapsed after three
years. 15 In 1929, however, social nudism finally became firmly rooted thanks to former
F.K.K. member named Kurt Barthel. Barthel continued most of the F.K.K. practices with
On December 7, 1929, Barthel met with Aloysius Patrick Flynn and Victor Curci
at a New York eatery, giving birth to a awesome organization called The American League
for Physical Culture. Barthel and his associates would meet in a leased gymnasium
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