What is Naturism?

Naturism or nudism is a cultural and political movement practising, advocating and defending social nudity in private and in public. It may also refer to a lifestyle based on personal, family and/or social nudism.
     Several other terms ("social nudity", "public nudity", "skinny dipping", "sunning", and, recently, "clothes-free") have been proposed as alternative terms for naturism, but none has found the same widespread public acceptance as the older terms "naturism" and (in much of the United States) "nudism".

What Naturism Is All About

1. In nudity there is class equality.
2. Total nudity destroys the mystery and secrecy of sex, doing away with unhealthy desires and perversions.
3. When people must show their bodies in public they cannot remain complacent about remediable defects and deformities that clothing can mask.
4. Sunbathing and exercise in the open air naturally strengthen the body and give it a beauty that can only come from health.
5. The human organism, especially the glandular and nervous systems need direct contact with air and sun for proper functioning.
6. Clothing is by nature unhygienic, unaesthetic and undemocratic.
7. It is as important to remove foreign bodies, in the form of meat, alcohol and tobacco, from inside the body as it is to remove artificial coverings from the outside.
8. The improvement of the race in both health and beauty, as well as morality, is a goal toward which all nudists should aspire.