英文摘要 |
In response to the tendency of clothed society to highly sexualize naturists and their practices, mainstream Taiwanese naturist discourse applies "asexual" and family-oriented approaches to construct social legitimacy for naturism and naturists. Yet, core beliefs about the importance of biological sex, gender, and sexual orientation in heterosexual, hegemonic, patriarchal, and clothed society still take effect in naturist activities and organizations, leaving naturist women feeling ambivalent toward naturist practices. While naturist practices create a space for women to break free from clothing constraints and gender segregation in nudity so as to further explore body experiences, hence empowerment, naturist women still encounter conventional gender and sexual issues, such as male gaze and sexual harassment. Marginal Taiwanese naturist discourse, on the other hand, recognizes the problems of gender, sexuality issues and sexual activities in naturist practices, and hence is able to create naturist discourses that can better reflect real-life naturist practices. The gap between Taiwanese naturist discourses and practices pose a challenge to Taiwanese naturism. How to construct sexuality in naturist discourse so as to promote naturist practice in a clothed society while dealing with the disjunction between the reality of naturist discourses and naturist practices poses a challenge as well as opportunity for Taiwanese naturism to reflect upon naturists' own gender, sexuality, and sexual practices in an effort to reconstruct naturist discourses that would better present a wide range of naturist practices. |