The presence of these loincloths on sportsmen depicted in

Attic artwork in the sixth century, however, has

proved to be a red herring for some scholars working
in the field of historical athletics. Misled by what appeared to them to document the
previously athletic perizoma, some hypothesized that Thucydides' remark on
the recent change to nudity referred to its reintroduction in the fifth century B.C. after an
interruption of
the ancient tradition.123
There are other examples of Greek potters turning
their focus to the Etruscan marketplace, nonetheless;124
and the custom of revealing athletes wearing garments,
Instead of seeming totally nude, is not surprising in Etruria. Although sportsmen do often
appear
Nude, or infibulated, in Etruscan art of the sixth and
fifth centuries B.C. (in everyday life they perhaps continued to wear a perizoma), there are a
number of
sixth- and fifth century cases of reliefs and wall
paintings, such as a group from Chiusi, from the
Tomba Poggio al Moro. Three dimensional examples
are rarer: in sculpture, the naked Greek kouros generally functioned as model.125
of the repertoire of Archaic and Classical Etruscan art
contrasts strongly with the Greek. We see sportsmen
wearing short pants or perizomata, nude, exposed,
male prisoners, female nudity, and the picture of the
nursing mother.
A series of athletes with their sex organs covered, on
a group of Attic black-figure vases of the end of the
sixth century B.C., has been frequently noted in discussions of Greek athletic nudity. These
vases are
known as the "Perizoma Group," on account of the white
loincloth worn by the bodies of athletes and dancers
or komasts which decorated them.121 A vase in Oxford, for instance, shows runners and
boxers wearing
the characteristic perizoma about their midsections and
hips (fig. 7).122 That such vases were made specifically

strangeness of this detail in a Greek circumstance.126 An

Etruscan buyer, unlike a Greek, would see nothing
Uncommon in the dress of the male bodies on the lower

Enroll or of the women on the symposium scene

Previously. The women are shown fully dressed, as respectable women, or wives,
accompanying their husbands in the Etruscan custom, rather than party girls
hired out in the Greek manner.127 It makes sense, then, to

think that we are coping with pictures particularly

Selected to please Etruscan customers who bought the
vases from Greek potters, and wanted their ornamentation
to conform to their own customs.
Another odd feature of these vases, yet, still
requires some explanation. These figures, whether
athletes or dancers, are not young, as on Greek vases,
but heavy set, mature bearded guys. Why would the
Etruscans favor such amounts? Did they expect experienced performers, rather than talented
hobbyists? It is
Difficult to say. We still have much to learn about Etruscan customs and beliefs, also as their
cultural and
commercial relations with the Greeks.
Our next example concerns another contrast between In the spring of 1989 (to back up a bit),
FKK sent its members their first copy of Nude & Natural magazine. FKK selected a fresh title
for its official journal for a number of reasons. First, some individuals new to the magazine
had trouble understanding the name; they were hearing "Shut With The Sun" when "Clothed
With The Sun" was spoken. Even after the name was clarified, most people still didn't catch
the historical reference to the Home Colony. I've seen some contris of other guys and merely
wished to attempt. This were taken by my wife. We are new at any of this because were we
live in Central America this games usually are not so quite welcome. I know pics are not the
greatest, but I needed to see what all this is about. Greetings to all ladies in naturist. And
desire to get nice comments from ladies and couples just He visto controbuciones de otros
hombres y queria aportar una. Estas fueron tomadas por mi esposa. Somos nuevos en todo
esto ya que en donde vivo en Centro America, estos juegos no son muy aceptados. Se que
las fotos no son de calidad pero queria saber de que se trata todo esto. Saludos a todas las
damas de nudist. Espero tener buenos comentarios de mujeres y parejas
Second, although FKK understood that changing names and symbols is always a risky move,
it determined that a change would offer the chance to to strengthen the biological value of
societal nudity by linking the words "bare" and "natural." The words are impartial involving
issues peripheral to naturism, and focus attention on two of the core values of naturists:
societal nudity and a sympathetic relationship to the natural environment. The new name
right downplayed any misperception that nudism was merely a sun-oriented action. After all,
folks can love nudism inside, in the shade, or at night; and with the mid-1980s panic over
skin cancer, FKK was justifiably unsure of evoking a sun-related metaphor. (Note the similar
and later change from the "American Sunbathing Association" to the "American Association
for Nude Recreation.") Along with a name change, FKK embraced a awesome emblem. FKK
member Carl Hild indicated early on that a straightforward, cryptic symbol was needed, one

that would allow fellow naturists to recognize one another without the need to blatantly
advertise one's preference for nudity. Hild provided some rough sketches from which
designer Jack White accommodated the slanted capital N for FKK. Today the "N" Standing
foremost for "bare," "naked," and "natural," might also be associated with other affirming
words like "pleasant" or "nurturing." Nude & Natural magazine has continued the tradition of
journalistic excellence established by Clothed With The Sun. Today N is considered the
journal of record among naturist publications in the English-speaking world. No other
magazine, newspaper, or newsletter printed in English comes close to N in its depth and
breadth of coverage of newsworthy events relating to non-lewd societal nudity. N in size
alone more than doubles other naturist publications all over the world. FKK is proud to be the
leader in covering naturist history, social commentary, arts coverage, travel reports, and
other naturist-related subjects. and Etruscan approach to nudity. In
Etruscan art (where, as we've seen, Greek "heroic"
nudity was never fully taken) male nakedness
could still be used for magic apotropaic motives;'28 or
it could represent weakness and susceptibility.
On one of the famous wall paintings from the FranTomb in Vulci, now securely dated to the
fourth
;ois
century B.C., is Achilles' Sacrifice of the Trojan
Prisoners over the grave of Patroclus. A scene told in
Merely two lines by Homer in the Iliad, it must have been
the matter of a monumental painting in Italy, for it
recurs on half a dozen Etruscan and South Italian
monuments of this interval.'29 We find a group of nude,
Bind prisoners, vulnerable and weak, their legs
cut and bleeding to keep them from escaping. The
Find that interests us is the ghost of Patroclus. It is
represented practically (assuming that a phantom
can be represented realistically), that is to say, he is
Revealed as a corpse, wearing bandages in the places
where he was wounded. The hero's body is shown in
its pitiable state. At the same time it's not only a
corpse, but a strong spirit, returning to demand For the record, I don't hate FYN and I actually
wish them much luck and success. I hope they do well and stick to the political orientation
that is shared by many naturists worldwide. That said, the bashing that is pointed at me
personally, for FKK's support of Sunsport Gardens, has been out of line. It's disturbing to
even have to be coping with such problems when, in theory, we should all be on the same
team and supporting one another. be spilled to please him. Similar bandages are
worn by the ghost of Agamemnon in the Etruscan
Tomba dell'Orco in Tarquinia (where the hero's fullsize phantom contrasts with the miniature,
screeching shades of
the dead clustering around a sterile, wintry tree),130

and they appear on quite a few Apulian vase paintings.'31 This image of the soul, still
captured in the
wounded flesh of the body, may have inspired Michelangelo's portrayal of the Pietai in the
Florence
Cathedral, as well as the Bound, or Expiring Slaves.'32
In antiquity the convention of Greek "epic" nudity
was far from being universally accepted outside of
Greece, even as an artistic convention. In Cyprus, and
in Italy, the perizoma (which guys wore in life) was
still signified in the sixth century B.C. Even the
Powerful guy Heracles wears his lion skin as a perizoma
on Etruscan bronzes and mirrors, rather than on his