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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
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Van Badham

If our priority is protecting children, nudity in changerooms is not what we should be afraid of

Birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli
‘Conservative institutions from church to state … have long realised there is great and terrifying shaming power that results from policing the human body and sexuality.’ Photograph: World History Archive/Alamy

The new prudery is alive and well and showering in a swimsuit in Terrigal. News broke on Wednesday that the popular tourist town’s surf club is banning nudity in its changerooms.

The decision has raised many questions, the first of which is material. How does one engage in the process of changing from one set of clothes to another without the – one would think, obliged – transitional nudity phase?

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