Awesome to hear you're working on a book - excited to hear more when you're able to share. Also thank you for your work here, your culturally sensitive approach and insights are inspiring.
Thank you so much for sending an update! It's true, many of your listeners and admirers have been a bit worried about the current status of AoI and truly missing all the amazing content. So happy to hear you're working on a bound book and eager to hear more when the time is right. Thanks for all your genuinely invaluable work and looking forward to more witty, revelatory and insightful storytelling, both aurally and and on the page!
An interesting listen. In response to what’s said around 39-40 minutes in, I think the thing about being a Christian is that it’s a release from shame. The point is that Adam and Eve were naked and without shame before the fall, with God. Being a naturist and being a Christian should both be about freedom, which is a deep subject in itself. However, I see how individuals can twist things round to assert their own power, whether through ignorance or fear. There’s a whole book to be written about that, too!
Only halfway in and curious if this will be mentioned. The time that I was personally confronted to the "nudity etiquette" has been breastfeeding my first child (when/where can I do it? People I'm talking to looking away while I'm breastfeeding) and also changing my baby's diaper in public.
Love the show! One thing that I don’t think I heard you observe about your experience at the comedy show is that as part of only two clothing optional rows, you were on display and part of the show. It was not a level playing field. So I can see why you would be so much more uncomfortable there than in an environment where everyone has consented to nudity and focused on the group activity.
I LOVE your podcast and the depth of your research! Thank you. Hearing that the next installment will be about modesty, I feel the need to pass along a curiosity I have. I'm a 60 year old, gay man, who goes to a gym and have noticed a particular modesty behavior that would seem to be generational: what makes a twenty/thirty something year old man feel the need to keep a towel around his waist while taking off or putting on workout shorts/underwear? Do they think something awful is going to happen if someone sees their penis or ass for 10 seconds? What were they told as kids that makes them so nudity averse? Stranger danger? Feel of the evil homosexuals who'll be aroused and possible do them harm??? Why? My unscientific observations have told me that men of my generation and or from another culture s(mostly European) don't have this hang up. Personally, I'm not that coordinated to pull off such a move. Also, I could give two sh*ts if someone sees my genitalia; I'm old so I'm a gay ghost anyway. Ask any of your male friends who workout about this and I guarantee they'll tell you it's a thing. Keep up the great work
Whatever the book is about, I look forward to reading it. This was a terrific episode, although I'm still trying to get my head around Alan Rachins in Oh Calcutta! My work involves cultural burning by indigenous people, which gets one into European invasion and concepts like Terra Nullius. The added perspective on Europeans using clothing as a marker of "civilization" will certainly lead me down a new research path.
Congrats on your book project! I loved this episode, the deep dive into our socializations and the formation of Liberia. I'm looking forward to reading more newsletters and, I'm just a fan.
Awesome to hear you're working on a book - excited to hear more when you're able to share. Also thank you for your work here, your culturally sensitive approach and insights are inspiring.
Congrats on the book project! Excited to hear what it's about.
Oh man, this is exciting. But the real question is after it’s published will you read the audiobook?
Thank you so much for sending an update! It's true, many of your listeners and admirers have been a bit worried about the current status of AoI and truly missing all the amazing content. So happy to hear you're working on a bound book and eager to hear more when the time is right. Thanks for all your genuinely invaluable work and looking forward to more witty, revelatory and insightful storytelling, both aurally and and on the page!
An interesting listen. In response to what’s said around 39-40 minutes in, I think the thing about being a Christian is that it’s a release from shame. The point is that Adam and Eve were naked and without shame before the fall, with God. Being a naturist and being a Christian should both be about freedom, which is a deep subject in itself. However, I see how individuals can twist things round to assert their own power, whether through ignorance or fear. There’s a whole book to be written about that, too!
Only halfway in and curious if this will be mentioned. The time that I was personally confronted to the "nudity etiquette" has been breastfeeding my first child (when/where can I do it? People I'm talking to looking away while I'm breastfeeding) and also changing my baby's diaper in public.
Love the show! One thing that I don’t think I heard you observe about your experience at the comedy show is that as part of only two clothing optional rows, you were on display and part of the show. It was not a level playing field. So I can see why you would be so much more uncomfortable there than in an environment where everyone has consented to nudity and focused on the group activity.
Cannot wait for the book! So happy for you, and happy for me that I get to read a whole book by you!
A book by Avery?! Count me in! I can't wait to collect all the 99% Invisible and adjacent books!
I LOVE your podcast and the depth of your research! Thank you. Hearing that the next installment will be about modesty, I feel the need to pass along a curiosity I have. I'm a 60 year old, gay man, who goes to a gym and have noticed a particular modesty behavior that would seem to be generational: what makes a twenty/thirty something year old man feel the need to keep a towel around his waist while taking off or putting on workout shorts/underwear? Do they think something awful is going to happen if someone sees their penis or ass for 10 seconds? What were they told as kids that makes them so nudity averse? Stranger danger? Feel of the evil homosexuals who'll be aroused and possible do them harm??? Why? My unscientific observations have told me that men of my generation and or from another culture s(mostly European) don't have this hang up. Personally, I'm not that coordinated to pull off such a move. Also, I could give two sh*ts if someone sees my genitalia; I'm old so I'm a gay ghost anyway. Ask any of your male friends who workout about this and I guarantee they'll tell you it's a thing. Keep up the great work
Whatever the book is about, I look forward to reading it. This was a terrific episode, although I'm still trying to get my head around Alan Rachins in Oh Calcutta! My work involves cultural burning by indigenous people, which gets one into European invasion and concepts like Terra Nullius. The added perspective on Europeans using clothing as a marker of "civilization" will certainly lead me down a new research path.
Congrats on your book project! I loved this episode, the deep dive into our socializations and the formation of Liberia. I'm looking forward to reading more newsletters and, I'm just a fan.