<abstract xml:lang="en" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>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.</p></abstract>

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.

Nakedness and Movement Culture

Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Republic

Physical Culture and Sport. Studies and Research

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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...

Nakedness and Movement Culture

Online veröffentlicht: 13. Jan. 2010

Seitenbereich: 95 - 102

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/v10141-009-0036-7

Schlüsselwörter
nudity, movement culture, sexualization of sport, pornoization of sport, naturalness

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Nakedness and Movement Culture

Online veröffentlicht: 13. Jan. 2010

Seitenbereich: 95 - 102

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/v10141-009-0036-7

Schlüsselwörternudity, movement culture, sexualization of sport, pornoization of sport, naturalness

This content is open access.

Schlüsselwörter
nudity, movement culture, sexualization of sport, pornoization of sport, naturalness