UPDATE: the video on Vimeo has either been taken down, or has been set by the user to Private. If you haven’t yet seen the video, consider this one bullet you’ve probably dodged.
And now for something completely different …
A video uploaded on Vimeo in June depicting what is called the Malaysian Nudist Sports Games 2014 has been making the rounds on social media, prompting many netizens to wonder if there really is a nudist/naturist community in Malaysia, and how nudists got away with organising an outdoor romp in their birthday suits on a beach in Penang.
The video, posted by user 알버트, is accompanied by a lengthy (no pun intended) report of the day’s activities held on a private beach in Teluk Bahang Jetty in Penang. The report details, among other things, a 2km nude walk along the beach by the event’s 11 participants.
An excerpt from the accompanying report: “We literally had the whole beach to ourselves. It really felt like a nude beach because everyone that are present there are all nude. There were no disturbance from the outside world. For once we really get to enjoy the natural environment and atmosphere just as how nature intended it to be.”
The video itself shows participants engaging in team building-like games on the beach and getting painted by a skin artist.
알버트’s Vimeo page also contains uploads of other nudist/naturist events across the region, including a Singaporean nudist gathering and a video summary of speeches delivered at the Third Annual International Naturist Conference in Thailand.
The Penang nudist video itself can be viewed here; obviously the content of this video and the Vimeo page above are NSFW.
Reactions from Malaysians on Twitter have ranged from incredulous to mocking, although it’s only a matter of time before the outrage and call for a crackdown (pun not intended) start popping up:
