Another Review of My Daughter the Teenage Nudist
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TV review: My Daughter The Teenage Nudist's evidence of a trend
towards nudism was nothing more than a few rowdy students skinny-
dipping on a boat off a Greek island.
The bottom is falling out of British nudism. Concerned by drooping,
sorry dropping, membership, the ageing British Naturist Society was on
a youth recruitment drive in the sprightly shape of Daryl, who was in
the habit of bouncing about on his barge as free as a bird – well,
that’s if a bird went in for the whole metrosexual man-scaping thing.
Daryl, who popped up all over the place in My Daughter The Teenage
Nudist (C4) – more of that daft title later – is a new- generation
nudist for whom naturism does not equal natural. ‘If you see hair,
take it off, please,’ he merrily instructed his back, sack and cracker
– yes, we got to share that bit – and it was obvious Daryl was not
backward in coming forward.
But not everyone in Amanda Blue’s quirky ramble of a film was quite so
keen to shed their inhibitions, and their clothes, on camera. Student
Molly, the daughter of a title presumably dreamed up by C4’s Nudge
Nudge Wink Wink Committee, was a jolly, up-for-anything type. But she
was more topless sunbather than committed naturist.
There was the rub. Like a lot of naturists, the film was all over the
place and seemed desperate to aspire to its upfront claims that ‘more
young people are getting naked to feel comfortable in their own skin’,
even though the evidence to back it up was scanty at best. A few rowdy
students skinny-dipping on a boat off a Greek island does not a fleshy
revolution make.
For most, the age-old worries remained the same: enter the random
boner. Handed a flyer for a naked youth event – Daryl was dangling
nearby – a trendy lad queried what would happen if he got an erection.
‘He says it doesn’t happen,’ said a voice off screen. ‘He’s a liar.’
He had a point.