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Kōrero: Naturism

Changing attitudes

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In 1967 Auckland naturist club member Emile Roland spoke on current affairs television programme Town and around about the possibility of making nudity legal on some public beaches. A few naturists were already going without clothes at some secluded beaches, but they ran the risk of prosecution for indecent exposure.

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Hera Cook, Naturism – Attitudes to nakedness, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/video/38047/changing-attitudes (accessed 5 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Hera Cook, i tāngia i te 9 May 2012.