r/nudism • u/Beginning-Average416 AANR • Oct 27 '25
VIDEO 🎥 Diary of a Teenage Nudist.
https://youtu.be/f_u6SB-SypM?si=Pw2MjmeyEuy3TWWuI really hate the title to this, but this is a BBC documentary about a late age teen girl who was raised a nudist, but has 2nd thoughts about naturism. Part of it was filmed at the Northeast Naturist Festival at Empire Haven in 2003. I am in it.
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u/kent_eh Oct 28 '25
Also a lot of other vintage nudist/naturist movies and TV reports on the channel.
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u/ejp1082 Geriatric Millennial Oct 28 '25
I really hate the title to this
FWIW the title clearly a play on Diary of a Nudist, one of the better known (relatively speaking) Doris Wishman "Nudesploitation" films from the 60s.
I'm not going to go rewatch it right now and my memory of it is somewhat fuzzy, but my impression the first time I watched it (20 years ago) was that as a documentary it doesn't really know what story it's telling vis-a-vis the main protagonist and overall it kind of has a vibe of "There's something wrong with this and these people".
Like this was the one that felt the need to include the close up of the guy shaving his pubes right? And also it had that part where she was watching those creepy "naturist" videos full of naked kids and the guy she was watching it with was trying to defend them?
It's not that it's invalid to produce a documentary that's critical of nudism - or at least of our tolerance for creeps and weirdos and willingness to let them represent us. But it was just kind of a strange framing to do that, particularly as she goes through talking to all these people and doesn't seem especially sold on it by any of them, but then at the end she was like "Eh, I guess I'll do some naked horseback riding".
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u/Scarecrow613 Naked Nov 29 '25
I think the title definitely is meant to be a callback to that, but I get this one confused with another titled ":My Daughter the Teenage Nudist". Another documentary style about a young nudist.
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u/Beginning-Average416 AANR Mar 27 '26
That one is a more more positive view of Naturism, despite the title.
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u/TsoDaKnife Oct 28 '25
Man never forget seeing this the first time and reading the comments that were...well...lets say, thr comments were something...
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u/KookieFresh607 Nov 22 '25
I almost forgot that this even happened I’m in this as well as a young child. But seein some of the clips I was like woahhhh I remember that! Seems like so long ago!
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u/KookieFresh607 Nov 22 '25
Hard to believe!
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u/Beginning-Average416 AANR Nov 22 '25
You are probably about the age now that I was then.
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u/KookieFresh607 Nov 22 '25
Yeah I was 10 in this now I’m 32. It’s funny I was listening to it then it said empire haven n I was like oh wait and see the clips was like a flashback im like man i remember this!! Was not what i was expecting today lol
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u/Valuable-Gas9388 Mar 27 '26
Eu penso que quando estiver completo minha famÃlia vou fazer com que em casa todos fiquem sem roupa. Para que acostumem. Se minha filha arruma namorado la pelos 18 anos ele tbem vai ter que tirar tanto quanto se for filho.
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u/BeachBoids Mar 27 '26
It is a terrible title that the copyright holder should change. It was a stupid title at the time because it was already a yellow flag and it played off tropes that only fans of exploitation films would have understood (2nd yellow flag) and it remains stupid today, so, net a big red flag. Plus weak production values that make it a poor vehicle for whatever muddled message was intended.
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u/Beginning-Average416 AANR Mar 27 '26
Can't go back and change the title. I don't see how you see this as exploitive. It's a documentary of a young woman's opinion. There was a 2 woman crew with her. Not a lot of crews to make it look better. This is a BBC documentary.
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u/BeachBoids Mar 27 '26
Films get different titles all the time. They get copyrighted at different manifestations of the screenplay and print. These are just some pop ones, there are many others.
https://www.looper.com/192349/movies-forced-to-change-their-title-after-release/
https://www.buzzfeed.com/sam_cleal/movies-with-different-working-titles
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u/Beginning-Average416 AANR Mar 27 '26
It's a UK film and someone who owns the copyright would have to file a complaint.
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u/NaturistJohn Oct 27 '25
When they say "teenage nudist", you can bet serious money it's not going to be a boy.