disuse among dancers of the offensive device of tights, and it is no longer considered indecorous to show many parts of the body which it was formerly usual to cover.

It should, however, be added at the same time that, while dancers, in so far as they are genuine artists, are entitled to determine the conditions most favorable to their art, nothing whatever is gained for the cause of a wholesome culture of nakedness by the “living statues” and “living pictures” which have obtained an international vogue during recent years.  These may be legitimate as variety performances, but they have nothing whatever to do with either Nature or art.  Dr. Pudor, writing as one of the earliest apostles of the culture of nakedness, has energetically protested against these performances (Sexual-Probleme, Dec., 1908, p. 828).  He rightly points out that nakedness, to be wholesome, requires the open air, the meadows, the sunlight, and that nakedness at night, in a music hall, by artificial light, in the presence of spectators who are themselves clothed, has no element of morality about it.  Attempts have here and there been quietly made to cultivate a certain amount of mutual nakedness as between the sexes on remote country excursions.  It is significant to find a record of such an experiment in Ungewitter’s Die Nacktheit.  In this case a party of people, men and women, would regularly every Sunday seek remote spots in woods or meadows where they would settle down, picnic, and enjoy games.  “They made themselves as comfortable as possible, the men laying aside their coats, waistcoats, boots and socks; the women their blouses, skirts, shoes and stockings.  Gradually, as the moral conception of nakedness developed in their minds, more and more clothing fell away, until the men wore nothing but bathing-drawers and the women only their chemises.  In this ‘costume’ games were carried out in common, and a regular camp-life led.  The ladies (some of whom were unmarried) would then lie in hammocks and we men on the grass, and the intercourse was delightful.  We felt as members of one family, and behaved accordingly.  In an entirely natural and unembarrassed way we gave ourselves up entirely to the liberating feelings aroused by this light- and air-bath, and passed these splendid hours in joyous singing and dancing, in wantonly childish fashion, freed from the burden of a false civilization.  It was, of course, necessary to seek spots as remote as possible from high-roads, for fear of being disturbed.  At the same time we by no means failed in natural modesty and consideration towards one another.  Children, who can be entirely naked, may be allowed to take part in such meetings of adults, and will thus be brought up free from morbid prudery” (R.  Ungewitter, Die Nacktheit, p. 58).

No doubt it may be said that the ideal in this matter is the possibility of permitting complete nakedness.  This may be admitted,