Naturism/ OnlyFans: Being Seen vs Being Consumed | Gymnosophy & the Gaze - Video

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Is there a difference between being seen and being consumed? Naomi Gale explores whether more naturist spaces could lessen the pull of paywalled nudity like OnlyFans, through gymnosophy, the gaze, and a century of naturist history.

We cover Maurice Parmelee’s The New Gymnosophy (1927) and its blind spots. We look at OnlyFans’ economics and why creators join. Keon West’s research shows naturism improving body image and self-esteem. And we look at where naturism, nudism and ethical porn overlap, and why naturism needs to stay in its own lane.

Chapters
0:00 Welcome to Bare-ly Curious
0:26 Personal update
5:03 Being seen vs being consumed
6:54 What gymnosophy means
7:36 Maurice Parmelee and The New Gymnosophy
8:44 Parmelee’s big claim about nudity and women
9:51 Annebella Pollen and women in early nudism
10:50 Parmelee’s body standards and eugenics
12:55 OnlyFans: the economy of being seen
13:50 Why creators join OnlyFans
15:41 Is naturism more taboo than OnlyFans?
17:58 Self-objectification and the gaze
19:04 Keon West: naturism and body image research
21:22 Would more naturism mean less OnlyFans?
23:50 Naturism’s blurred history with porn
25:36 Naturist content creators and monetisation
26:25 Phones, photos and image abuse
27:54 Ethical porn vs naturism
30:06 Keeping naturism in its own lane
32:00 Why this podcast is growing
32:52 Where can your body simply be?

Sources
Annebella Pollen, “Life in the buff”, Aeon: https://aeon.co/essays/a-history-of-the-pleasures-and-powers-of-showing-the-nude-body
Keon West, “Naked and Unashamed”: https://eprints-gro.gold.ac.uk/19949/1/Naked%20and%20Unashamed.pdf
Hamilton et al., motivations of new OnlyFans creators: https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.10425

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A few corrections: the OnlyFans creator study was by researchers at the Max Planck Institute, Arizona State and Boston University, not the University of Michigan. OnlyFans launched in 2016, and the $6.3bn figure covers the year to November 2025. Organised naturism is about a hundred years old, not hundreds.

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