Last week, Sydney nudist Anya Petrovic was so annoyed by Manly Vale Public School cutting down trees that gave her back yard privacy, that she decided to hand out flyers to the parents, with a picture of herself in the altogether! According to one of the articles:

The full-frontal nudity flyer, which had a small black square covering her lower private parts, was also left on the windscreens of cars parked in the area.

Interesting issue – it’s commonplace to be naked in your home and even your backyard, and legislation mostly talks about being nude in public places (which your house is not). However, we also have to use common-sense – if you have houses overlooking your property, then you might want to take some additional steps to ensure your privacy (and it’s never a good plan to annoy your neighbours, you do have to live next to them!!).

In this case though, it was the school that cut down the trees – but it is unclear whether the trees themselves were providing the privacy, or just making the privacy better. If there is a fence already in place, it could be argued that the students would have to go out of their way to looking into the nudists yard – is there a law against going out of your way to look into someone’s backyard?

From a nudist perspective, it’s easy to understand Anya’s frustration. However, the article implies there’s more of a story there – it mentions that the nudist couple had asked the school to replace the trees, so perhaps handing out flyers was part of that issue not being resolved? We’re speculating here of course, but we welcome comments and opinions!

Check out the articles yourself, here and here and here

But to the crux of the story – should Anya have handed out flyers at all??

In the process of helping out the FBA a little, we discovered today that the “Free Beach Association of Victoria Inc” is actually currently registered with ASIC?? You can check it out yourself here on this link.

First registered in Feb 1994 (!), that’s about all the info we have – does anyone have any additional information? We were advised a few years back that FBAVic was no more, so we’re not sure what this latest find actually means!

Contact us via the contact page if you don’t have an account, new user registration is still disabled pending a better spam registration robot solution!

Apologies to potential new members of this site, but we’ve had to take down the new user registration page, pending an update and some changes to the registration process. Today we received over 100 new registrations in around 3 hours, which either makes us extremely popular, or there’s a spam robot out there with a new way of doing things!!

If you want to register, please drop us a line via the contact page and we’ll manually add you! Thanks for your understanding and patience! We’ll get the functionality back on line as soon as we can!

Update!!: Turns out it’s not that easy to remove the registration functionality without also breaking other things. So we’ve implemented some new registration controls, which seem to be working (for the most part). If anyone has any issues with trying to register, let us know and we’ll help out!!

Update 2!!: Registration has now been disabled, for the time being. We received over 400 new user registrations in a day, talk about popular!! We’re planning a site upgrade this month anyway, so if you want to register in the meantime, drop us a line via contacts and we’ll do the manual option! Thanks

Since this site is dedicated to all things Victorian (and Australian), we admit we don’t know the FIRST thing about how things work in the UK!! Perhaps someone can help us with the “Dear Deidre” column in The Sun?? Based on a “letter” posted yesterday, we suspect Dear Deidre either gets the most interesting letters ever, or just makes them up!!

Case in point – I found my wife naked and drinking tea with our neighbour. You’ll need to read the letter for yourself, but we definitely detected an undertone in Deidre’s response that clearly mixes nudism with some sort of sexual undercurrent.

The quick summary is this – guy and his wife (non-nudists) suddenly find themselves with a home-renovating nudist next door. They become friends, everything is fine, but the husband is concerned because it would appear the neighbour’s nudist tendencies are affecting his wife. Sounds like the benefits of non-sexual social nudism are about to be promoted, until:

They’re both pushing the boundaries. Yes, naturists believe it’s normal to walk around unencumbered by clothes but clearly there’s a buzz going on between your wife and the neighbour – at the very least.

Simply banning the guy next door could drive their relationship underground and cause more trouble than it solves.

Eh? A minute ago he was a nudist and she was interested in participating, and suddenly there’s a potential sexual relationship going on?? The advice Deidre gives seems harmless on the surface, but is slightly unsettling when re-read a couple of times – Deidre seems to be suggesting to the clearly concerned husband that his wife is contemplating nudism because he isn’t delivering on their relationship!!

Perhaps we are just being over analytical – any thoughts? Check out the letter and decide for yourself!

Since our last post regarding the nudist youth revolution that our community needs, there have been even more articles posted on the topic! Mostly in the US, these articles all largely say the same thing – the youth are the future of nudism, and that future is unlikely to involve formalised clubs, fixed club locations, or “memberships” per se.

Check them all out, definitely worth the read (particularly for all the nudist traditionalists):

• Nudist Movement Seeks Next Naked Generation
• Younger Nudists Avoiding Old-Style Resorts
• Seeking Young Nudists: Aging Naturists Recruit New Generation
• Another Change in the Wind?

A while ago, we here at FBANAVic were discussing whether it was going to be enough to simply set up a Facebook page, to be a part of the youth demographic (not that we’re “old” here, us 30-somethings have teh skillz to maintain this site after all!!) – the reality is that social media is the tip of the youth generation iceberg! In order for social nudism to be acceptable in society, it needs to become commonplace and de-sexualised. Social media is helping with spreading interest and awareness, but the fact that most “participants” in nudism do so behind closed doors or in their backyards means it may never see the mainstream (particularly in Australia).

The youth revolution is a good thing – current traditional approaches are clearly not going anywhere fast, so surely anything different must be a positive?? We’re not sure Australia will even see the kinds of nude social events that happen in the US and Europe (such as nude dance parties, etc), but we suspect this country will head in a similar direction!

Thoughts?