The new dress code

[Monkeybacon518]

In an effort to reduce water wasted on laundry, a private university institutes a program where professors can earn pay bonuses by teaching classes in the nude...
At least the teacher's get a choice though, for students, the program is mandatory!


Enter Sara, a conservative, religious girl there on a full academic ride, who's 4 years just got a little harder...
(ENF, NIP)

 

[gunhilltrain]

In an effort to reduce water wasted on laundry, a private university institutes a program where professors can earn pay bonuses by teaching classes in the nude...
At least the teacher's get a choice though, for students, the program is mandatory!


Enter Sara, a conservative, religious girl there on a full academic ride, who's 4 years just got a little harder...
(ENF, NIP)

This place must in the midst of a really severe drought.

 

[Monkeybacon518]

Either that, or a pervy headmaster sees his chance and knows "going green" won't be scrutinized haha

 

[Thalius]

Maybe you don't have to take water consumption as a reason, but that the "old" uniforms came from child labor (China or India). The students started to protest and made a riot. The school management decided that if the uniforms were not used, there would be no clothes.

 

[LupusDei]

The absurd play with uniforms I sometimes use for a quick fantasy goes like: the students are said there will be new uniforms but they have to disrobe first to get them. Once nude they get nothing but apologies that the new uniforms aren't yet available for whatever unexpected reason, but will be soon... like tomorrow. Sure thing, that is repeated every day until nobody asks anymore, or the new nonexistent uniforms made finally official.

 

[sirhugs]

or could do an "emperor's new clothes" play on the idea.

 

[Monkeybacon518]

What if all the teachers and staff are female and the students are all male.

An interesting idea but I kinda like the awkward dynamic of both students and faculty being forced into awkward co-ed nudity, maybe it's male and female professors mingling in a break room, or a bunch of freshman in a mixed-gender phys-ed class...

Any prospective writers yet?

 

[gunhilltrain]

An interesting idea but I kinda like the awkward dynamic of both students and faculty being forced into awkward co-ed nudity, maybe it's male and female professors mingling in a break room, or a bunch of freshman in a mixed-gender phys-ed class...

Any prospective writers yet?

I know it's just fiction, but the faculty and students at this place must be incredibly naive to fall for this. Another problem: actual nudism (say at beaches) is not that sexy after all. My guess is that the novelty of it wears off when everybody is naked all of the time. Or as the guy above admits: it's more awkward than arousing.

Anyone here have any real life experiences with nude beaches or camps or whatever?

 

[LupusDei]

Another problem: actual nudism (say at beaches) is not that sexy after all. My guess is that the novelty of it wears off when everybody is naked all of the time. Or as the guy above admits: it's more awkward than arousing.

Anyone here have any real life experiences with nude beaches or camps or whatever?

Yeah, that's a fact. We're born nude and nudity is deeply inbuilt as simple normal. I have read alleged research claiming in a setting with universal nudity almost anyone would stop to register it as anything unusual inside fourty minutes or less, often much less, and my own experience seems to confirm that. People with prior experience with nudism may outright forget they're nude in less than fifteen minutes.

Nude beach in reality isn't a particularly sexy place, and not only because they tend to be populated by 65-70% retirement age and 15-20% preschoolers and almost everyone in between those ages slightly creepy men; and absolutely most of the body shapes on display aren't particularly, what to say, examples of canonical beauty. But also, while nudity on the beach absolutely feels just right (and swimsuit is an oxymoron, actually), nudity is just an attire choice, nothing more and nothing less. It isn't special, and isn't sexual, per se.

Whatever Spencer Tunick art is about, it isn't about sexiness of an individual body.

Doesn't mean one can't flirt while nude, sure. In a way might be both easier and harder to do, but it's just perks and limitations of that specific attire, with on itself isn't neither more or less sexual than any school uniform -- it all depends how one wears it.

So yeah, to keep scenarios like the one described exciting cognitive dissonance is a hard requirement. Mixed settings, contradictory rules, sudden, unexpected transitions in contrary to established norms or expectations, contrasts and/or constant reminders about the undressed state if it lasts...

It isn't rational and doesn't have anything to do with realism, we just get off on people stripping in massive numbers, and in twisted confines of our imagination we can keep it sexy against all odds. Nevertheless, if everyone is stripping and stays nude forever after, the story must happen within this sentence, most likely, even if the end state result is the cathartic promise on itself. Or alternatively, exploring a contact and/or conflict of two worlds with different rules and initial assumptions may be an option.

Maybe it could be interesting concept to write a rather mundane school story in with no clothing is ever described, but despite subtle clues all along its not explicitly clear everyone was in fact completely naked all along until the end, and even then it's not some great revelation, just the context require it to be made unambiguous.

 

[sirhugs]

When I first read the thread title, I imagined it was going to be an idea about a new dress- shopping for? trying on? showing up for dinner wearing it? or a fancy cocktail party?

 

[gunhilltrain]

When I first read the thread title, I imagined it was going to be an idea about a new dress- shopping for? trying on? showing up for dinner wearing it? or a fancy cocktail party?

It would be funny if they had to wear Victorian or Edwardian clothes, which is almost the exact opposite of what the OP proposed. But it could be sexy. The ladies would have to wear those cute bloomers that opened up in the back. Perfect for rear-entry quickies or over-the-knee spankings from the professors.

 

[LupusDei]

Or maybe, they're forced on an uniform that is so impractical or otherwise unacceptable for whatever reason the nudity thing comes as a protest at first and is then accepted and codified in spite.

 

[Bramblethorn]

The detergent sold on & near campus has been contaminated. The manufacturer has advised that people who've washed their clothes in the bad batch (just about everybody on campus) should bag those clothes up and not wear them for a month or two, until the contaminant has had time to dissipate.

 

[gunhilltrain]

Whatever Spencer Tunick art is about, it isn't about sexiness of an individual body.

Yes, talk about mass nudity - really mass nudity - and Spencer Tunick has one gimmick which he takes to the utmost. His photos are not erotic - are they some sly comment on modern dehumanization? Does he even know? And where does he get the volunteers for these shoots?

This is one on Astor Place in New York: well, it's memorable.

https://news.artnet.com/app/news-up...AC-WeTheNipple-FAYFOX-ST-FB-HQ-1-1024x683.jpg

This one (says Williamburg Bridge, looks more like 59th Street Bridge); sorry, it reminds me of corpses in concentration camps.

http://www.artnet.com/WebServices/i...tunick-williamsburg-bridge,-new-york-city.jpg

 

[LupusDei]

His photos are not erotic - are they some sly comment on modern dehumanization? Does he even know? And where does he get the volunteers for these shoots?

I haven't researched his art, but it's obviously of the kind you can't understand without investing significant intellectual resources into prior research, context, concept, symbolic language used and intent... or yes, just trolling of the highest order. The WTF moment is obviously expected, the provocation intentional. Either way, erotic they aren't supposed to be for sure. Modern conceptual art using nudity for symbolism often explicitly excludes eroticism from their language, ostensibly exactly to counter objectification, or simply to distance from porn, what generally is the same, almost.

I think it's a feature that the volunteers are indeed that, just random people responded to advertisements or whatever. I may be wrong, but I think the larger actions you could literally go buy and join in at least if you're there at the right time they're setting up (or if you're already nude), and I think, just like with World Nude Bike Rides, various nude runs and similar, a significant number of those participating are first timers for public nudity, and such participation could be great way for one to open up to non-sexual social nudity, especially the larger ones where there the naked crowd goes into thousands. The sheer massivity of that is almost guaranteed to completely blow away preconceptions and alter perceptions. But you won't get much exhibitionist thrill out of it, not while with the crowd at least.

That could potentially be interesting to explore. Say the typical borderline absurd as it usually is ENF trying to sneak through a city naked after losing her clothes somehow. Anxious, embarrassed and hiding, she's moving in short runs from one bad cover to another. Then she goes around a corner and... boom, there's Spencer Tunick style photoshoot going on, the whole city square chock full with naked people. Suddenly she's perfectly blended in, suddenly her nudity is expected and just a local normal. She hides in the crowd, one between hundred or thousands of nudes, moves with them to next set location, perhaps make fast new friends, perhaps learning some of those never had been nude in public before either. Finally the nude crowd moves where they had left their clothes to dress up and disperse, but our girl is too shy to admit she have nothing to wear, but, perhaps encouraged with the freedom she experienced in the crowd, sneak away still nude. Few blocks away however she's back to nervous wreck hiding behind scrubs and getting sexual thrills out of near encounters with strangers. But now she has to wonder, what the actual fuck, why it was so simple, so right for a while and then not at all anymore again?

 

[gunhilltrain]

I haven't researched his art, but it's obviously of the kind you can't understand without investing significant intellectual resources into prior research, context, concept, symbolic language used and intent... or yes, just trolling of the highest order. The WTF moment is obviously expected, the provocation intentional. Either way, erotic they aren't supposed to be for sure. Modern conceptual art using nudity for symbolism often explicitly excludes eroticism from their language, ostensibly exactly to counter objectification, or simply to distance from porn, what generally is the same, almost.

I think it's a feature that the volunteers are indeed that, just random people responded to advertisements or whatever. I may be wrong, but I think the larger actions you could literally go buy and join in at least if you're there at the right time they're setting up (or if you're already nude), and I think, just like with World Nude Bike Rides, various nude runs and similar, a significant number of those participating are first timers for public nudity, and such participation could be great way for one to open up to non-sexual social nudity, especially the larger ones where there the naked crowd goes into thousands. The sheer massivity of that is almost guaranteed to completely blow away preconceptions and alter perceptions. But you won't get much exhibitionist thrill out of it, not while with the crowd at least.

That could potentially be interesting to explore. Say the typical borderline absurd as it usually is ENF trying to sneak through a city naked after losing her clothes somehow. Anxious, embarrassed and hiding, she's moving in short runs from one bad cover to another. Then she goes around a corner and... boom, there's Spencer Tunick style photoshoot going on, the whole city square chock full with naked people. Suddenly she's perfectly blended in, suddenly her nudity is expected and just a local normal. She hides in the crowd, one between hundred or thousands of nudes, moves with them to next set location, perhaps make fast new friends, perhaps learning some of those never had been nude in public before either. Finally the nude crowd moves where they had left their clothes to dress up and disperse, but our girl is too shy to admit she have nothing to wear, but, perhaps encouraged with the freedom she experienced in the crowd, sneak away still nude. Few blocks away however she's back to nervous wreck hiding behind scrubs and getting sexual thrills out of near encounters with strangers. But now she has to wonder, what the actual fuck, why it was so simple, so right for a while and then not at all anymore again?

I believe the people get undressed on the site and stow their clothes nearby. It's extremely awkward, I'm sure. I think he's been stopped or interrupted by the police at times. The one time I've read about that it involved the Williamsburg Bridge. I just didn't know then how often he's done this. I thought is was mostly a one-off stunt.

This is the first time I've seen an extensive amount of his work. It's notable that he seems to have had one idea and then makes endless iterations of basically the same thing. The backgrounds are often the most interesting aspect of them - for the foreground, well once you've seen naked body, maybe you've seen them all.

Does this even merit the investment of serious intellectual resources? Damned if I know. I wonder if the really huge crowd scenes are actually, at least in part, computer generated images. (Not the two examples I picked.)