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Nude man wants to streak canada
yeah this is off the vortex - for shits and giggles.
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Why naked ambition drives him
Man, 51, begins tour for naturism
Will visit country's 54 nudist resorts
CATHERINE PORTER
LIFE WRITER
When Malcolm Scott pushes off on his cross-Canada tour on Friday, he'll buckle up in a motorhome stocked with supplies, a full gas tank and a thick map book.
But he won't have a stitch of clothing on his body.
The 51-year-old man is set to streak into the record books as the first person to drive across the country buck naked.
"I'll drive nude as much as I can. There's no sense in sitting in the seat all cramped by clothing," a naked Scott says, standing outside his Chevy, which has been transformed into a moving mural featuring a naked family sitting beside a lake.
He'll grudgingly dress when outside the "ghetto" of nudist resorts. But otherwise, he plans to remain the way Mother Nature delivered him to Earth.
The point of Scott's nine-week tour is to promote naturism — the official word for nudism in Canada — as a "wholesome family experience."
"People have the misconception that being nude is about sex. So they don't want their kids doing it. We want to get over that idea," he says, pointing out a mother and child camping nearby in the central garden of the Glen Echo Family Nudist Park, about 30 minutes north of Toronto. Like everyone in the club, both are naked.
"Kids want to be nude. They don't want to wear clothing."
Starting at the Ponderosa Nature Resort just east of Hamilton, Scott will visit all 54 of the country's nudist resorts, from Vancouver Island to Prince Edward Island. (Newfoundland, as the only province without an official nudist resort to date, won't feature.)
At each spot, he'll unlock his trailer and unload pamphlets on naturism, videos, and other paraphernalia like mugs and bags that he regularly sells out of The Nudist Shop in his home. Ironically, that includes clothing — shirts and towels, like the one he'll fold over his lap when rolling into drive-throughs and gas stations along the way.
So far, he's never been stopped by the police. "It's not illegal. You're not in public where someone is going to see you and make a complaint," says Scott, an emergency management consultant and father of two teenagers who don't live with him at the park.
The Criminal Code prohibits nudity in public spaces or on exposed private property. But what that means isn't black and white. Nudity is defined as "a person so clad as to offend against public decency or order."
Baring your breasts as a woman passes the test. In 1996, after University of Guelph student Gwen Jacobs walked topless in public, the Ontario Court of Appeal ruled that women had that right as long as they weren't intending to be lewd, erotic or solicit for commercial purposes.
And police require authorization from the solicitor-general to press charges, says Toronto police Sergeant Jim Muscat. "A guy sitting in his vehicle naked, it may or may not be an offence. It depends on what he is doing."
That said, it's fair game to peel in private or on secluded public property, which has given birth to the private nudist resorts that speckle the country.
It's a law that Scott lives by. When it comes to naturism, he's a purist.
The sign on the door of his cabin at Glen Echo, where he lives year-round, reads: "There might be no other place on this planet but this house will be a NO CLOTHING ZONE. Once inside, get it off."
Inside, you will always find him in the buff — even in the depths of winter. He shovels his pathway nude.
The reason, he says, is partly physical. He thinks it's healthier for his body to commune unobstructed with nature.
The other part is psychological.
"I feel this allows us to see ourselves as human beings. Get rid of the uniform — whether you are a Calvin Klein type or a Mark's Work Wearhouse wearer — and you start to think of each other more as individuals," Scott says. "It's very much a social cause."
For Stephane Deschênes, president of the Federation of Canadian Naturists — who is the man featured on Scott's moving mural — clubs like Glen Echo simply provide a place for nudists to be social.
"We don't expect to convert the general public. We just expect more tolerance," he says of Scott's trip. "All we want is to give people the choice."
Man, 51, begins tour for naturism
Will visit country's 54 nudist resorts
CATHERINE PORTER
LIFE WRITER
When Malcolm Scott pushes off on his cross-Canada tour on Friday, he'll buckle up in a motorhome stocked with supplies, a full gas tank and a thick map book.
But he won't have a stitch of clothing on his body.
The 51-year-old man is set to streak into the record books as the first person to drive across the country buck naked.
"I'll drive nude as much as I can. There's no sense in sitting in the seat all cramped by clothing," a naked Scott says, standing outside his Chevy, which has been transformed into a moving mural featuring a naked family sitting beside a lake.
He'll grudgingly dress when outside the "ghetto" of nudist resorts. But otherwise, he plans to remain the way Mother Nature delivered him to Earth.
The point of Scott's nine-week tour is to promote naturism — the official word for nudism in Canada — as a "wholesome family experience."
"People have the misconception that being nude is about sex. So they don't want their kids doing it. We want to get over that idea," he says, pointing out a mother and child camping nearby in the central garden of the Glen Echo Family Nudist Park, about 30 minutes north of Toronto. Like everyone in the club, both are naked.
"Kids want to be nude. They don't want to wear clothing."
Starting at the Ponderosa Nature Resort just east of Hamilton, Scott will visit all 54 of the country's nudist resorts, from Vancouver Island to Prince Edward Island. (Newfoundland, as the only province without an official nudist resort to date, won't feature.)
At each spot, he'll unlock his trailer and unload pamphlets on naturism, videos, and other paraphernalia like mugs and bags that he regularly sells out of The Nudist Shop in his home. Ironically, that includes clothing — shirts and towels, like the one he'll fold over his lap when rolling into drive-throughs and gas stations along the way.
So far, he's never been stopped by the police. "It's not illegal. You're not in public where someone is going to see you and make a complaint," says Scott, an emergency management consultant and father of two teenagers who don't live with him at the park.
The Criminal Code prohibits nudity in public spaces or on exposed private property. But what that means isn't black and white. Nudity is defined as "a person so clad as to offend against public decency or order."
Baring your breasts as a woman passes the test. In 1996, after University of Guelph student Gwen Jacobs walked topless in public, the Ontario Court of Appeal ruled that women had that right as long as they weren't intending to be lewd, erotic or solicit for commercial purposes.
And police require authorization from the solicitor-general to press charges, says Toronto police Sergeant Jim Muscat. "A guy sitting in his vehicle naked, it may or may not be an offence. It depends on what he is doing."
That said, it's fair game to peel in private or on secluded public property, which has given birth to the private nudist resorts that speckle the country.
It's a law that Scott lives by. When it comes to naturism, he's a purist.
The sign on the door of his cabin at Glen Echo, where he lives year-round, reads: "There might be no other place on this planet but this house will be a NO CLOTHING ZONE. Once inside, get it off."
Inside, you will always find him in the buff — even in the depths of winter. He shovels his pathway nude.
The reason, he says, is partly physical. He thinks it's healthier for his body to commune unobstructed with nature.
The other part is psychological.
"I feel this allows us to see ourselves as human beings. Get rid of the uniform — whether you are a Calvin Klein type or a Mark's Work Wearhouse wearer — and you start to think of each other more as individuals," Scott says. "It's very much a social cause."
For Stephane Deschênes, president of the Federation of Canadian Naturists — who is the man featured on Scott's moving mural — clubs like Glen Echo simply provide a place for nudists to be social.
"We don't expect to convert the general public. We just expect more tolerance," he says of Scott's trip. "All we want is to give people the choice."
