Note from Felicity: This month's episode of the Naturist Living Show podcast covered a matter that never gets old in the nudie world (and arguably in the non-nudie world, too): pubic hair! As part of the show, our buddy Joshua Williamscontributed an interview with the girl who began a amazing body image blog called Bare to Bush. I liked the interview so much I decided to see about publishing the transcript on our website, so here it is below! You can also scroll to the bottom and listen to the entire show (Bare to Bush interview starts at around minute 29:00). Naked to Bush Interview on the Naturist Living Show [Pubic Hair Picture courtesy of Baretobush.com] ---------------- Introduction from Joshua Williams: It is great to be on the Naturist Living Show today, in the part of an interviewer. I have appreciated my many conversations with Stephaneon and off this podcast. A few months ago, I came across an extremely fascinating tumblr website called Naked to Bush, which describes the job totally. On September 16th, 2013, a girl decides to shave off all of her pubic hair, then follow its regrowth through words and images, on the internet. And while it sounds totally sophomoric, the reality is that the journey, if you will, has been rather profound. It turned into an opportunity to consider her own body and open up a dialog with other girls and men about bodies in general, the great and the bad. I am pleased to have had a conversation with the creator and writer of the blog and now the website, baretobush.com. Nevertheless, as the blog is composed anonymously, we selected to have to have the dialogue via chat and then use the transcript to record an interview with another girl's voice. Of course, we discuss the reason for this anonymity in the interview, but also delve into discussions linked to nudity, sexuality, body approval and of course, body hair. Joshua: What was the genesis for this fairly exceptional endeavor? BtoB: Frankly, I was bored one day so I shaved my pubic hair. I have always thought it's funny how people have Tumblr websites about silly things that seem like no one would care, so I got it in my mind to create a website where I followed the re-increase of my pubic hair just out of pure boredom and to entertain myself. Sort of like how people say, "it's as boring as watching paint dry," I figured it'd be a fun, dull photograph diary of hair growing back. And obviously, Tumblr enables you to do something like that, unlike other social media platforms! Did you feel like there was something you could prove by doing it, for yourself or Bare Occasions and Naked Parties By FKK ? BtoB: Not really. I mean, I wish I could say that it was all this pre meditated stage from which to reach out and talk to folks about their bodies, but that's absolutely not what I thought. I really only did it for enjoyment and figured I Had have just a couple people following it who also believed it was amusing or who merely wanted to see graphics of a girl's crotch. And I am sure there are those that visited the site for that very reason! At what stage do you believe it took on another measurement? BtoB: I believe the very first time I really realized that it was having an impact was when I made a post about the reality of A Reader Wonders Why He Likes To Be Nude At Home After Growing Up in a Clothed Society . I 'd no thought it would burst the manner that it did, I only had it in my brain that I needed to show people that all of the "self shot" pictures they see are still presented and carefully positioned and that the body can be so different depending on how it's posed. I made that post, believed nothing of it except possibly being happy that it turned out so well, and 4 hours after it'd already reached well over 2 thousand folks. Right now I think it has something like 103 thousand "notes" on it. That made me realize that I had accidentally started saying things that people really related to. And with the popularity of the "selfie" and self-awareness it seemed to really connect with readers on numerous levels. BtoB: Completely.The internet is so full of "self" these days, but so many folks do not understand that those people posting Naturist Family Association For Naturist Families post their greatest pictures, their greatest "self." Folks believe that because something isn't "commercial" it's somehow more natural, but that's not really the situation a lot of times. I 'd say that most folks who post all of those self shots - even something like a Facebook profile photograph - post only their absolute finest angles, which aren't really indicative of how they appear in real life. There is an "artifice" to these graphics then. 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