The following text is an account of a fictional academic research project set in the near future. It describes the schools on Isla Espiritu Santo, off southern California, and how a policy that required adolescent males to be nude both in school and out was implemented, from the very beginning to the current moment of writing (late 2027).

As such, it is a parody of an academic project. This series begins with a historical essay, and then moves to testimonies from boys, girls, teachers, parents, and members of the community. It will include a representative photographic collection with the full consent and awareness of those who are shown. Tags include: young, old, intergenerational, bi, gay, cfnm, cmnm, and gay incest. Although it depicts mandated behavior in some instances, there is no domination (Dom) in the usual sense of the term. If you enjoy this, you may contact the author at GavinRower2@protonmail.com The full series has already been written, and will continue to be posted.

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A FINAL WORD: HEADMASTER LUCAS RAADEGAARD

Introduction: This study closes with a final word given to the man who originated the idea of required adolescent male nudity.

Lucas Raadegaard (who prefers simply Lucas) (b. 1969) has been headmaster of the Academy since 2006. Prior to his position as headmaster, he taught classical literature at a classical gymnasium in Aarhus, a university city in Denmark, and later at the Philips Academy, Andover, and the Cate School in Carpenteria, California (on the coast near Santa Barbara). Lucas has been married to Kathe since 1994 and they have a son, Lucas-Christian (or LC) and daughter Elisabeth, both of whom live on the West Coast.

Lucas and Kathy both grew up in the FKK movement in Denmark, and fondly remember summers in their youth spend entirely in (different) FKK camps on Danish islands, where they were entirely nude for months. Lucas had an important relationship with a mentor, an older man in the camp who lived not far from Lucas the rest of the year, so they saw each other year-round. When they relocated to New England, they found nothing like the FKK movement in Denmark, and the welcoming naturist communities in California encouraged them to move in west in 2000.

Lucas is a charming, philosophical man with unflagging energy and overflowing good humor. He is almost an ideal headmaster: warm, skeptical, and fair, and expects excellence from himself as well as his faculty and students. He took a school with flagging energy in 2006 and guided it to be one of the most successful day schools in the state, by several measures, including the students' mental health. He campaigns yearly against the idea that "who you are is where you go" for juniors and seniors, and is proud the most of his student attend public universities in western states. He has little patience for bullying or hovering parents.

He has approved the publication of this conversation, which has been edited from several conversations for clarity and length.

Thank you, Headmaster, for agreeing to speak with me. How do you feel about being regarded nationally as the originator and figurehead of the movement for adolescent male nudity?

I'm very ambivalent about it. I appreciate the attention that the Academy has attracted, and its growing reputation based not on student nudity, but on student achievement and the generous spirit of our education. I never intended to become a figurehead of any movement, and I came up with this idea only to try to meet a distressing local problem. That problem was also a national problem, but I know that every local solution does not scale equally well. In education, there is no one size fits all. So those who now advocate that boys should be raised nude are now doing so for different reasons, and I have not been consulted in the least, nor do I wish to be asked.

Does it distress you that your reputation will now be linked with adolescent male nudity, now even called developmental male nudity? Because some of its advocates recommend male nudity to begin after toilet training.

Yes, it does distress me a little, because my life as an educator has been to teach young people the love of learning especially as it can be nourished through engagement with ancient literature. Sometimes for that reason I am classed as a cultural conservative, but that is not my belief in any way. Ancient literature has a way of surprising us, of encoding subversive values that can erode conservative shibboleths from the inside.

Adolescent male nudity is just one subversive reality. It was expected without comment in much of Ancient Greece, as was same-sex love. Unless those realities are acknowledged, there are major holes in arguments by Plato, Thucydides, Sophocles and others that cannot be papered over by references to socially accepted sexual norms of the 21^st century, or by some kind of psychoanalytic, symbolic interpretation. Boys and youth were nude in Athens and elsewhere, certainly in Sparta, though that was a violent, warrior culture. They had same-sex relationships with each other and with older men, a 21^st-century taboo. We can now accept the same-sex relationships, and the male nudity, but still not the intergenerational relationships.

By the same token, ancient cultures were uniformly cultures that enslaved many people. Typically, these slaves were routinely nude, and always bought and sold nude. This reality is difficult for us to acknowledge in all its aspects. Slaves were sexually available to those who enslaved them. This is not a just society in any of our modern ideals. The past is both intimately related to us and a completely foreign country. They do things differently there.

Did your own experiences inform how you conceived of a policy that requires pubescent and adolescent boys to live nude, in your Academy--and now in your town at large?

The Frei-Körper Kultur movement (FKK) in Germany and Scandinavia is not well understood in the USA. The USA is still and always will be a puritanical, restrictive culture--if the restrictions do not come from the right, they will come from the left. The FKK movement assigned a very high value on the human body, and on the human body in relationships, especially family and smaller-scale social institutions, such as camps or settlements. At various points the movement, especially in Germany, was associated with anarchism, sexual liberation, the liberation of women, naturalistic theosophy and Rudolf Steiner, so-called Aryan consciousness, and fascism. It's a very mixed bag, and not inherently positive.

The Danish movement, like everything Danish, took a social movement and made it much smaller-scale, since Denmark is a much smaller country and culture. My parents took me to the FKK community on the same island where my father's family lived in the summers decades earlier, just after the second world war and the incredibly traumatic Nazi occupation. There they were completely laissez-faire; sometimes I would not see them all day, although if I spent the night elsewhere, I had to tell them. So, my friends, both girls and boys, had our stories and adventures, spats and reconciliations, entirely on our terms.

You have also written very movingly of a relationship you had with an older man, that started in that FKK community.

When I was eleven years old I began to know an older man there who lived alone in his cabin and had a difficult reputation as cranky and ill-humored. For some reason we became friends. He saw me reading Ceasar's Gallic War in Latin and Danish, and began to help through some more difficult passages. He also had a dictionary in his cottage which was handy. Somehow, he opened up to me, and we became very affectionate. I learned that his son was killed by the Nazis in a forced-labor camp, and within a few years his wife became mentally ill and died. He lived alone since, but somehow opened up to me. As we became friends his whole attitude to life changed, and later that summer, before we left the island, we had our first sexual experience.

He was never "gay," but experience with an older man was developmentally appropriate for me, on the cusp of puberty, and he welcomed me and we loved each other until I was about 18, when it stopped naturally. We always remained friends until his death some years later, before we left Denmark. I have never been "gay" in any sense, but that relationship very much helped to ground me all the time I was in the classical gymnasium, which was and is a very demanding curriculum. That relationship was nothing but good both for him and for me, and we never expected it to be permanent, and he never asked me to do anything that I didn't already want. I know a relationship like this is illegal in the USA and very controversial. I think as a social policy Denmark does not really encourage such relationships, but tolerates them quietly and lets the boys and men sort it out.

Are you aware of the sexual relationships that nude boys have on island?

Is the sunlight warm? Of course. One cannot ask boys to live nude and expect them never to acknowledge their sexual powers and desires.

The question in 2021 and 2022 was whether their powers and desires were tending to be used in aggressive, anti-social, and entirely untruthful ways. I will not show you the videos and sexting boys on island did then, but it wasn't positive in any way. I think it reflected the deterioration of boy's conduct and attitudes that was partly a consequence of the shameless, manipulative lies of the Trump years.

When boys began to live nude, their behavior changed in so many ways indirectly that a great deal of other aggressiveness and negativity was simply de-escalated. As you have written, a nude boy cannot sneer at you without inviting a devastating response, and he knows that. His vulnerability and public sexuality, his inability to hide anything, acts as a brake upon his anti-social impulses. Boys are completely unable to plan ahead, it just is not yet permitted by their neurological growth.

When a boy gets an erection, you know he's engaged at some level. He cannot hide it. He knows that others see his erection; his erection shows what is true about him. It's natural for others to want to fondle or touch his erection; I think that impulse is hard-wired into the human brain. It can also be pleasurable for him when others touch or fondle his erection. That interaction, repeated enough, begins to form his neurological pathways, and encourages both more and more erections, and less and less overtly aggressive behavior. When a boy becomes accustomed to getting an erection in public, anytime in his day, he can relax about so many other fears of his weakness.

Do you think other schools should adopt the policy that requires adolescent male nudity?

No. It is a local solution only. It would not be practical in New England year-round, because of the weather. It is not practical in an urban setting that can have other dangers and challenges. I never meant male nudity to become a social movement.

On the other hand, male nudity does help to address many adolescent behavioral, developmental, and moral issues. It can be very valuable, but only where it is safe. It will never do simply to take away boys' clothes. You have to make a case to the boy that is safe and in his best interest, which might mean over-ruling his reluctance to shed his clothes. If you cannot make a persuasive case, then you shouldn't ask him to live nude. But in a safe environment such as a summer camp or community, it can be entirely to his benefit, and the benefit of all those around him.

When you implemented this policy in 2022, it attracted some regional notice, but was regarded as an eccentric experiment by a privileged and remote private school. When the public middle & high school required nudity in 2023, national notoriety for the island, and some national outrage followed. What was that time like?

Very frightening. We had heightened public safety and security patrols, especially at the bridge from the mainland. The Ferry, of course, can be closely monitored given that the trip takes 45 minutes.

Hackers attacked the schools' websites. We had been warned beforehand and had adequate security in place, as did the town and the middle & high schools. Fundamentalist ministers and Catholic priests in the media denounced our schools and our town, but their words fell back on their own heads in the end. They had lost all credibility during the pandemic and years before it, and the priests' continuing issues with sexual abuse meant that they had no real moral authority to say anything about it. Their denunciations actually swung wider public opinion in favor of allowing or experimenting with such nudity. They still have their followers, of course, a hard core than will be unreachable and unteachable--about many more important things than nude teenage boys. Fundamentalists are still getting sick because they have refused all vaccines, and now the rest of society is simply moving on. It is inviting to remember Darwin, but that would be unfair to him.

After 2022 did the Academy ever regret or wish to review your policy?

Our policy. Our independent school's re-accreditation came up in 2025, and our self-study asked many difficult questions. We surveyed our recent graduates: what view of the policy did they hold now? They returned very favorable opinion, with only a few dissenters. Many boys wrote separately that living nude had taught them so many valuable skills and a remarkable level of self-confidence, and that they hoped we would not change the policy in any way. Many also expressed a desire to live nude now, and some indicated that they were able to live nude in their colleges, and continued to like it. So, no, we never turned back, but we studied our decision and policy carefully.

I know the middle and public high school re-accreditation visit in 2025 produced similar findings.

Do you wish now you had done anything differently, or better?

I would have asked more of the girls. Since they had been victimized by the sexting and videos, we tended to regard them as more innocent than they really were. I might have asked every girl to talk with every boy she knows well, when he is nude, about the sexting and videos, and about his attitude towards sex, and his actually experience with sex.

I think I also would have wanted a summer school, with a very easy curriculum, for rising 6^th graders that year. They were asked to live nude when they had never yet been in middle school or high school. Some of them found that challenging, though most said they really liked being equal status "with the big kids." I think we could have been more supportive of those boys during that first summer.

Now, boys begin to live nude outside of school from very young ages, and in school a few boys start in the 2^nd grade. More boys choose to live nude every elementary year after that, so that by 6^th grade it represents no change at all for many of them. Next year, every boy in grade 6 through 12 will never have any experience of middle and high school clothed. That is true for quite a number of boys this year who began nudity before the 6^th grade.

For them, living nude is normal in every sense of the word. They learn to negotiate all the changes and challenges of puberty and adolescence nude, fully visible to everyone. They love feeling special in that way, and openly sexual. This is the way, I think, pre-teen and teen boys should live. I am glad they are happier than many previous generations. That is a work I will look back on and be proud.

When you retire from being headmaster, do you have any plans?

Kathy and I already have purchased a small condo house overlooking the beach. We plan to live nude, and to enjoy ourselves in quiet. We want to be part of the community, but not of the schools, and we will travel. I will at last be able to read all the books I've wanted to read. We look forward to becoming grandparents. We are privileged, and we want to take part in movements that will share our privileges with others, for a better life in a better society.

Thank you for all your research and interviews, and thank you to your readers for thinking about this with us.