Then the shower broke and our neighbour downstairs came to the rescue. Off I trudged to Martin’s with my towel and shampoo and not a little trepidation.
Somewhere the Catholic schoolgirl within is still uncomfortable with so much brazenness. No one is batting an eyelid, so in the end you don’t too much yourself, at least not too much.
Escape from tomorrow nudity full#
And the city is also full of great Turkish baths where you hang about semi-naked for hours, popping in and out of the saunas and steam rooms and sipping mint tea. It is simply quicker and easier to perform a clean strip at the swimming pool or sauna than all that rigmarole of hiding the bits that everyone else is displaying so nonchalantly. Public disrobing has become easier over time. In the former East it was particularly popular, a sort of escape from the preponderance of uniforms, pins, and badges that declared one’s loyalty to the Communist regime. Freikörperkultur (free body culture, or FKK), is as ingrained as having mayonnaise with your chips or a strange obsession with white asparagus. Nudism has been something of a cause in Germany since the 19th century, and in the 20th became associated with all kinds of utopian ideals. It’s just something they have absolutely no self-consciousness about. A bit taller, a bit less pear-shaped, not quite so pasty, but they have scar tissue, purple veins, and knobbly knees too, and the weight of gravity works as much on their breasts and buttocks as on the rest of us. And far from being some kind of army of extras in a Leni Riefenstahl film, they are not really that dissimilar from us.
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