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Reverend Braxton Sawyer: The crusading anti-nudist of Arkansas

Reverend Braxton Sawyer: The crusading anti-nudist of Arkansas

Planet Nude

September 11, 202340m 10s

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Picking himself up from the dirt, his crumpled hat in one hand and a movie camera in the other, the Reverend Braxton Sawyer turned and looked back at the nudists who'd blocked his mad-dash attempt to invade the Sunshine Gardens resort. Sawyer's anti-nudism crusade, which began in the 1950s, led to confrontations with nudist organizations and even prompted the only anti-nudism law in the U.S., still on Arkansas' books. Despite failing to gain traction in the broader religious community and lacking empirical evidence to support his claims, Sawyer's controversial legacy continues to hover like a cloud over the nudist community and American civil liberties. 🪐

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