Nakedness and Movement Culture

• Authors: Ivo Jirásek
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The paper deals with a topic which is not very frequent in kinanthropology; it concerns the phenomenon of the naked body in the environment of movement culture. Within the individual aspects of this cultural subsystem (sport, movement education, movement recreation, movement therapy, and movement art), it points out a variety of meanings and contexts adding sense to nudity on a continuum ranging from naturalness and functionality through erotization and sexualization to pornoization of particularly sport environment. The author prefers a functional naturalness of nudity and rejects the instrumentalization and changing human body into a thing and, thus, exceeding the characteristics of the sphere of movement culture.

Keywords

EN

nudity; movement culture; sexualization of sport; pornoization of sport; naturalness

• Publisher: De Gruyter Open
• Journal: Physical Culture and Sport. Studies and Research
• Year: 2009
• Volume: 47
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 95-102

Dates

published

1 - 12 - 2009

online

13 - 1 - 2010

Contributors

author

Ivo Jirásek

• Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Republic

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10141-009-0036-7