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Sunshine & Health
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Sunshine & Health (originally The Nudist) was an American nudist magazine published from 1933 until 1963. It has been described as the "flagship magazine" of the nudist movement in the US.[2] It was published monthly, and sold at newsstands as well as being distributed by subscription through the mail.
![]() Cover of the January 1951 issue of Sunshine & Health | |
Frequency | monthly |
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First issue | 1933 |
Final issue | 1963 |
Based in | New Jersey[1] |
Though popular, the magazine faced a series of legal challenges relating to obscenity, particularly from the US Post Office, which repeatedly attempted to declare it nonmailable. This culminated in a favourable Supreme Court decision in Sunshine Book Co. v. Summerfield (1958). The subsequent weakening of obscenity enforcement ultimately hurt the magazine's circulation, as more sexually explicit magazines out-competed it, and it went bankrupt in 1963.