Beau's wish might be big boob
2005-12-13 22:21
Carin Smith
Cape Town - South Africa's nudist king, Beau Brummel, wants to go into 2006 at Sandy Bay with attractive (white) women with large breasts.
This is for the sake of a "synoptic anthropological video" he is making, he says.
He hopes about 100 people "who are comfortable with their bodies and won't try to cover up in front of the camera" will turn up for the filming.
Brummel envisages making a fire and treating the nudists - "a few gay men already have asked if they can join in" - to champagne and a braai.
"It has to be a prosperous nude year," he said enthusiastically and repeatedly during the telephone interview (he is busy filming "the yellow people" at the Buddhist temple in Bronkhorstspruit as part of the anthropological video).
Easier to photograph
"The point of departure is that Africa is the cradle of mankind," he said and added that his previous video, Once We Were Naked, was selling like hot cakes in places like Vietnam and China.
He insists that his prerequisite for white skins (that is, apart from the large breasts) is not because he wants to discriminate.
"I don't want to carry generators down to the beach and make a noise, there must just be the light from the campfires and pale skins stand out better in such conditions, but black skins disappear into the shadows."
He also said that he would not have a problem if brown-skinned women with paler complexions (and big breasts) wanted to pose for the camera.
By the way, his definition of big breasts is "such a lekker handful".
'He'll be chased away'
He apparently also is filming other racial groups such as the Xhoi-San and Zulus (in broad daylight) for the video.
"It has nothing to do with sex - the people must dance comfortably and nude around the fire," he emphasised.
Photographer and nudist Hannes Thiart strongly doubts whether Brummel's plan will succeed.
"He'll be chased away from Sandy Bay. I also doubt whether he'll be allowed to make a fire there," said Thiart, adding that Cape girls were thin as rakes so Brummel would battle to get his required breast sizes.
- Die Burger