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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
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Sian Cain

A liberating high comes with group nudity at Dark Mofo – it can turn anyone into a giggling fool

Dark Mofo nude swim
Swimmers enter the water during the annual nude winter solstice swim to close Dark Mofo in Hobart. Photograph: Rob Blakers/AAP

Gym showers, sex parties, European beach holidays, walking into the wrong changing room, a knife fight in a bathhouse: there are so many ways to be naked in front of strangers. Some of them are even legal.

Shivering naked with 2,000 people on a Tasmanian beach on a winter morning is legal, if not usually my idea of a great day out. But when given a waiver form asking you to sign away the risk of a heart attack and showing your arse on national television, who refuses that kind of invitation? Not I.

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