But when people yawn at nakedness rather than smile, we will know that the novelty has worn off.

ECONOMIST: Stripping off has never been easy

Philip Carr-Gomm's lushly illustrated book takes a long and enthusiastic look at the politics and culture of nakedness.

ECONOMIST: Stripping off has never been easy

In the cultural history of nakedness, he matters rather more than the Druids.

ECONOMIST: Stripping off has never been easy

Sitting in an onsen breaks down barriers with the Japanese (nakedness is the norm), while Icelanders love to socialise in their volcanic steam baths.

BBC: Beauty treatments abroad

This prose, whose repressed English control is admired by everyone from Alan Hollinghurst to Will Self, is drawn inexorably back to a fearful instability, to the nakedness of infancy.

NEWYORKER: Noble Savages

Below, the prisoner, suddenly aware that every member of the road crew was gazing at him, seemed more distressed by his nakedness than his plight-until he caught sight of the crater.

NPR: Excerpt: 'Legends'

He said he would continue his campaign and hoped the jury's verdict would send a "strong message" to the police and Crown Prosecution Service that nakedness in public was not a crime.

BBC: Vincent Bethell