The Null Device

Germany has long since been renowned for its extraordinarily well-organised nudist movement. Now, heaping absurdity upon absurdity, there is a growing rift in the movement's ranks between traditionalists, who want nudity enforced, and liberals who want it to be possible for nudists to wear clothes and still be considered nudists: (The Times)

[T]here is something more ridiculous than well-disciplined nudity - the topsy-turvy idea that nudists should be given the right to wear clothes and remain nudists. This paradox, worthy of G. K. Chesterton, is splitting the ranks of Europe's largest nudist movement, which is already divided between western and eastern German factions.

[Y]oung people, especially adolescents, are increasingly reluctant to walk about naked. They want to conceal a little - and if they are not given these concessions, they will boycott the family nudist holiday. The result is that official membership has slumped to below 65,000, most of them elderly people.

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