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| + | '''Skinny dipping''', also spelled '''skinny-dipping''', is [[swimming]] [[nudity|naked]], i.e. without any [[swimsuit]]. '''Skin(ny) diving''' is both used as a synonym and for [[free diving]]. | ||
| + | ==In popular culture== | ||
| + | ===Arts=== | ||
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| + | Nude swimming was a common subject of [[Old Masters]] and [[Romanticism|Romantic]] ''oil paintings'', usually [[bucolic]] or in a mythological or historical setting. In later days it became rarer, but more likely to depict straight-forward contemporary scenes. | ||
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| + | * [[Norman Rockwell]]'s painting ''No Swimming'' that adorned the cover of the June 4, 1921 edition of the ''Saturday Evening Post'' with boys in various states of undress escaping from the local authorities. | ||
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| + | ===Photos=== | ||
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| + | ===Films=== | ||
| + | :''[[pretexts for nudity in film]]'' | ||
| + | There are numerous [[mainstream|mainstream film]]s which contain scenes with people swimming or diving (jumping into water) in the nude, though at earlier times they were closely scrutinised by film censors. Nude swimming is considered more innocent than [[nudity and sexuality|nudity in an explicitly sexual context]]. | ||
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| + | * ''[[Ecstasy (film)|Ecstasy]]'' (1933) The film was highly controversial in its time largely because of [[Hedy Lamarr]]'s nude swimming scene. | ||
| + | * ''[[Oklahoma! (film)|Oklahoma!]]'' (1955) Early in the film, Laurey Williams is discreetly seen swimming in the nude in a watering hole as Ado Annie and Ali Hakim arrive. | ||
| + | * ''[[Untamed Youth]]'' (1957) [[Mamie Van Doren]] and [[Lori Nelson]] are caught by the local sheriff while skinny dipping in a pond, which leads to their incarceration. They are subsequently sentenced to a month in a labor camp. | ||
| + | * ''[[The Last Picture Show]]'' (1971) set in Archer City, Texas contains an indoor naked pool use tradition including an 'initiation' consisting in divesting in full view. | ||
| + | * ''[[Avanti!]]'' (1972) Pamela Piggott ([[Juliet Mills]]) convinces Wendell Armbruster, Jr. ([[Jack Lemmon]]) to skinny dip in the sea with her as their parents had regularly done in the past. | ||
| + | * ''[[Romance with a Double Bass]]'' (1974) The central event of this adaptation of [[Anton Chekhov]]'s short story is the unplanned meeting of [[John Cleese]]'s and [[Connie Booth]]'s characters meeting while swimming naked. | ||
| + | * ''[[Jaws (film)|Jaws]]'' (1975), the character Chrissie Watkins goes skinny dipping in the ocean, and then gets eaten by the shark. | ||
| + | * ''[[Piranha (1978 film)]]'' Two teenagers exploring at night come upon an apparently abandoned military installation. They take advantage of what appears to be a swimming pool to skinny dip. | ||
| + | * ''[[Caligula (film)|Caligula]]'' (1979, extended version 2007), has an extensive scene involving multiple nude swimmers of both sexes. | ||
| + | * ''[[The Blue Lagoon (1980 film)|The Blue Lagoon]]'' (1980) Emmeline and Richard Lestrange (played by [[Brooke Shields]] and [[Christopher Atkins]]) are shown naked in the sea together while growing up on a tropical island. | ||
| + | * ''[[On Golden Pond]]'' (1981) contains scenes of family swimming in the nude intended to demonstrate the open-minded nature of parents. | ||
| + | * ''[[For Your Eyes Only (film)|For Your Eyes Only]]'' (1981) At the end of the film, Bond and Melina swim naked. | ||
| + | * ''[[Gallipoli (1981 film)|Gallipoli]]'' (1981) shows Commonwealth troops naked in water near a Mediterranean front. | ||
| + | * ''[[Tarzan, the Ape Man (1981 film)|Tarzan, the Ape Man]]'' (1981) Lots of nude swimming, featuring a naked [[Bo Derek]]. | ||
| + | * ''[[Paradise (1982 film)|Paradise]]'' (1982) shows [[Phoebe Cates]] and [[Willie Aames]] shown skinny dipping in a desert oasis. | ||
| + | * ''[[Summer Lovers]]'' (1982) A young American couple visits the nude beaches on the Greek island of [[Santorini]]. | ||
| + | * ''[[The Emerald Forest]]'' (1985) A couple of scenes of Brazilian Rainforest natives (and director [[John Boorman]]'s son, [[Charlie Boorman]]) swimming in a river, in a naturalistic setting. | ||
| + | * ''[[A Room with a View (film)|A Room with a View]]'' (1986, Academy Award winner) The Reverend Beebe remarks young Freddy Honeychurch is extraordinarily direct when in one sentence presenting himself and extending an invitation for a swim to his new neighbours' slightly older son George Emerson, but when the two invite him, he cheerfully accepts - after splashing and frolicking | ||
| + | * ''[[At Play in the Fields of the Lord]]'' (1991) Few of the cast didn't get naked at one point during this film of missionaries in South America - [[Daryl Hannah]], [[Kathy Bates]] and [[Tom Berenger]] included. | ||
| + | * ''[[The Man in the Moon]]'' (1991) There is a scene in which Dani Trant ([[Reese Witherspoon]]) is seen behind foliage, removing her clothes, and then running and jumping in the swimming hole on a neighbor's land. She is soon surprised by Court Foster ([[Jason London]]), the new neighbor when he jumps in the swimming hole with and chases her off. | ||
| + | * ''[[Camilla (film)|Camilla]]'' (1994) [[Jessica Tandy]] took a dip. | ||
| + | * ''[[Exit to Eden (film)|Exit to Eden]]'' (1994) Lisa Emerson ([[Dana Delany]]) and Diana ([[Stephanie Niznik]]) are shown swimming nude in the swimming pool at a sexual fantasy resort. | ||
| + | * ''[[Radio Inside]]'' (1994) Matthew stripped naked before attempting suicide by swimming into the open sea. | ||
| + | * ''[[Threesome (film)|Threesome]]'' (1994) Alex {[[(Lara Flynn Boyle]]), Stuart ([[Stephen Baldwin]]), and Eddy ([[Josh Charles]]) all go skinnydipping in a lake near their college. | ||
| + | * ''[[Shadrach (film)|Shadrach]]'' (1998) A family from the 1930s took a swim together at the old mill pond. | ||
| + | * In ''[[A Walk on the Moon]]'' (1999) Pearl Kantowitz ([[Diane Lane]]) and Walker Jerome ([[Viggo Mortenson]]) are shown skinny dipping, smoking [[marijuana|pot]] and having [[sexual intercourse|sex]] at [[Kaaterskill Falls]]. | ||
| + | * In ''[[Y tu mamá también]]'' (2001) two upper-class Mexican best friends frolicked and jumped in the pool together naked. | ||
| + | * [[Brokeback Mountain]] (2005) Jack Twist ([[Jake Gyllenhaal]]) and Ennis Del Mar ([[Heath Ledger]]) jump naked from a cliff into a lake below. | ||
| + | * In ''[[Across The Universe (film)|Across The Universe]]'' (2007), Lucy ([[Evan Rachel Wood]]) and Jude ([[Jim Sturgess]]) are seen underwater naked embracing in a fantasy scene during the song [[Because (The Beatles song)|Because]]. | ||
| + | * ''[[Caótica Ana]]'' (2007) - protagonist is seen swimming nude and sunbathing several times during the movie. | ||
| + | * ''[[A Single Man (film)|A Single Man]]'' (2009) George Falconer ([[Colin Firth]]) and one of his students Kenny Potter ([[Nicholas Hoult]]) are seen swimming nude after a [[Scotch whisky|Scotch]] at a bar near the beach. | ||
| + | '''The National Lampoon's Vacation''''Bold text''' there is nudity when Clark ([[Chevy Chase]]) and and the unknown female ([[Christie Brinkley]]) strip in the motels' pool, Where Clarke and his family are staying. | ||
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| + | ===Television=== | ||
| + | *In ''[[Petticoat Junction]]'', Kate Bradley's three beautiful daughters - Billie Jo, Bobbie Jo, and Betty Jo - are shown during the show's opening theme skinny dipping in Hooterville's water tower. The line, "Lots of curves you bet and even more when you get to the Junction." contains a bit of [[sexual innuendo]] in that it possibly refers not to the railroad tracks, but to the girls' figures. | ||
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| + | *In ''[[Ren and Stimpy]]'', Stimpy takes off his fur emulating nudity and jumps into a lake. When Ren takes off his fur, he is revealed to be wearing briefs. Stimpy insists he take them off, in which Ren hesitantly does and the two swim. Then, two nudists see them and, much to their chagrin, join them. This followed by other types of nude events, such as "skinny stomping." | ||
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| + | *In the ''[[Smallville]]'' episode "Slumber", Lana convinces to Clark to go skinny dipping with her, although it was revealed to be a dream. | ||
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| + | *In ''[[Gavin and Stacey]]'' Season 2 Episode 1, Stacey reveals that she and Gavin went skinny dipping on a deserted island while on their Honeymoon. | ||
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| + | *An episode of ''[[Doogie Howser, M.D.]]'' featured Doogie Howser and a female acquaintance of his mother's going skinny dipping in their pool. | ||
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Skinny dipping, also spelled skinny-dipping, is swimming naked, i.e. without any swimsuit. Skin(ny) diving is both used as a synonym and for free diving.
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In popular culture
Arts
Nude swimming was a common subject of Old Masters and Romantic oil paintings, usually bucolic or in a mythological or historical setting. In later days it became rarer, but more likely to depict straight-forward contemporary scenes.
- Norman Rockwell's painting No Swimming that adorned the cover of the June 4, 1921 edition of the Saturday Evening Post with boys in various states of undress escaping from the local authorities.
Photos
Films
There are numerous mainstream films which contain scenes with people swimming or diving (jumping into water) in the nude, though at earlier times they were closely scrutinised by film censors. Nude swimming is considered more innocent than nudity in an explicitly sexual context.
- Ecstasy (1933) The film was highly controversial in its time largely because of Hedy Lamarr's nude swimming scene.
- Oklahoma! (1955) Early in the film, Laurey Williams is discreetly seen swimming in the nude in a watering hole as Ado Annie and Ali Hakim arrive.
- Untamed Youth (1957) Mamie Van Doren and Lori Nelson are caught by the local sheriff while skinny dipping in a pond, which leads to their incarceration. They are subsequently sentenced to a month in a labor camp.
- The Last Picture Show (1971) set in Archer City, Texas contains an indoor naked pool use tradition including an 'initiation' consisting in divesting in full view.
- Avanti! (1972) Pamela Piggott (Juliet Mills) convinces Wendell Armbruster, Jr. (Jack Lemmon) to skinny dip in the sea with her as their parents had regularly done in the past.
- Romance with a Double Bass (1974) The central event of this adaptation of Anton Chekhov's short story is the unplanned meeting of John Cleese's and Connie Booth's characters meeting while swimming naked.
- Jaws (1975), the character Chrissie Watkins goes skinny dipping in the ocean, and then gets eaten by the shark.
- Piranha (1978 film) Two teenagers exploring at night come upon an apparently abandoned military installation. They take advantage of what appears to be a swimming pool to skinny dip.
- Caligula (1979, extended version 2007), has an extensive scene involving multiple nude swimmers of both sexes.
- The Blue Lagoon (1980) Emmeline and Richard Lestrange (played by Brooke Shields and Christopher Atkins) are shown naked in the sea together while growing up on a tropical island.
- On Golden Pond (1981) contains scenes of family swimming in the nude intended to demonstrate the open-minded nature of parents.
- For Your Eyes Only (1981) At the end of the film, Bond and Melina swim naked.
- Gallipoli (1981) shows Commonwealth troops naked in water near a Mediterranean front.
- Tarzan, the Ape Man (1981) Lots of nude swimming, featuring a naked Bo Derek.
- Paradise (1982) shows Phoebe Cates and Willie Aames shown skinny dipping in a desert oasis.
- Summer Lovers (1982) A young American couple visits the nude beaches on the Greek island of Santorini.
- The Emerald Forest (1985) A couple of scenes of Brazilian Rainforest natives (and director John Boorman's son, Charlie Boorman) swimming in a river, in a naturalistic setting.
- A Room with a View (1986, Academy Award winner) The Reverend Beebe remarks young Freddy Honeychurch is extraordinarily direct when in one sentence presenting himself and extending an invitation for a swim to his new neighbours' slightly older son George Emerson, but when the two invite him, he cheerfully accepts - after splashing and frolicking
- At Play in the Fields of the Lord (1991) Few of the cast didn't get naked at one point during this film of missionaries in South America - Daryl Hannah, Kathy Bates and Tom Berenger included.
- The Man in the Moon (1991) There is a scene in which Dani Trant (Reese Witherspoon) is seen behind foliage, removing her clothes, and then running and jumping in the swimming hole on a neighbor's land. She is soon surprised by Court Foster (Jason London), the new neighbor when he jumps in the swimming hole with and chases her off.
- Camilla (1994) Jessica Tandy took a dip.
- Exit to Eden (1994) Lisa Emerson (Dana Delany) and Diana (Stephanie Niznik) are shown swimming nude in the swimming pool at a sexual fantasy resort.
- Radio Inside (1994) Matthew stripped naked before attempting suicide by swimming into the open sea.
- Threesome (1994) Alex {(Lara Flynn Boyle), Stuart (Stephen Baldwin), and Eddy (Josh Charles) all go skinnydipping in a lake near their college.
- Shadrach (1998) A family from the 1930s took a swim together at the old mill pond.
- In A Walk on the Moon (1999) Pearl Kantowitz (Diane Lane) and Walker Jerome (Viggo Mortenson) are shown skinny dipping, smoking pot and having sex at Kaaterskill Falls.
- In Y tu mamá también (2001) two upper-class Mexican best friends frolicked and jumped in the pool together naked.
- Brokeback Mountain (2005) Jack Twist (Jake Gyllenhaal) and Ennis Del Mar (Heath Ledger) jump naked from a cliff into a lake below.
- In Across The Universe (2007), Lucy (Evan Rachel Wood) and Jude (Jim Sturgess) are seen underwater naked embracing in a fantasy scene during the song Because.
- Caótica Ana (2007) - protagonist is seen swimming nude and sunbathing several times during the movie.
- A Single Man (2009) George Falconer (Colin Firth) and one of his students Kenny Potter (Nicholas Hoult) are seen swimming nude after a Scotch at a bar near the beach.
The National Lampoon's Vacation'Bold text there is nudity when Clark (Chevy Chase) and and the unknown female (Christie Brinkley) strip in the motels' pool, Where Clarke and his family are staying.
Television
- In Petticoat Junction, Kate Bradley's three beautiful daughters - Billie Jo, Bobbie Jo, and Betty Jo - are shown during the show's opening theme skinny dipping in Hooterville's water tower. The line, "Lots of curves you bet and even more when you get to the Junction." contains a bit of sexual innuendo in that it possibly refers not to the railroad tracks, but to the girls' figures.
- In Ren and Stimpy, Stimpy takes off his fur emulating nudity and jumps into a lake. When Ren takes off his fur, he is revealed to be wearing briefs. Stimpy insists he take them off, in which Ren hesitantly does and the two swim. Then, two nudists see them and, much to their chagrin, join them. This followed by other types of nude events, such as "skinny stomping."
- In the Smallville episode "Slumber", Lana convinces to Clark to go skinny dipping with her, although it was revealed to be a dream.
- In Gavin and Stacey Season 2 Episode 1, Stacey reveals that she and Gavin went skinny dipping on a deserted island while on their Honeymoon.
- An episode of Doogie Howser, M.D. featured Doogie Howser and a female acquaintance of his mother's going skinny dipping in their pool.
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