By Oscar Redman and Melody Swift

Perverts! Sickos! The Tyagarah nude beach is being portrayed as a hotbed of deviance. Other voices need to be heard in this debate.

We are a local couple who spend a lot of time basking on this glorious stretch of sand and our overall experience has been safe and positive. For us, Tyagarah is a sanctuary for a carefree, simple and natural way of being. It is a place we can feel the pure joy having the elements – Earth (sand), Water (ocean), Fire (sun) and Air (wind) – in direct contact with our whole bodies. It is a sensuous but non-sexual experience; a way to be at one with nature without the barrier of a clingy, wet swim suit.

When I was a little girl, I was one of the nakedest little girls you’d ever meet. Kids have no sense of shame about their bodies, and why should they? Being naked, as long as you...

Nudity and shame. What’s the relationship between them? And how has insidious shame hijacked our lives – without us even knowing it? The Naked Dream takes us on a thoughtful, humorous and sometimes shocking odyssey, from Oslo to San Francisco and beyond, exposing the naked truth about bodies and freedom – and the deep cultural undercurrent of shame that keeps us all covered up.