When you strip away the polyester, the cotton, and the denim, something remarkable happens. You also strip away social status. At a nude beach or a naturist resort, you cannot tell who is a CEO and who is a janitor. You cannot tell who drives a luxury car and who rides the bus. The billionaire and the artist have the same wrinkles, the same belly rolls, the same moles.
If body positivity is the theory, naturism is the practice. Before we undress, we must understand the clothes we wear—both physically and metaphorically.
Naturism is the act of submitting the final manuscript.
Naturism shatters this conditional contract. One of the greatest misconceptions about naturism is that it is sexually charged. In reality, organized naturism has a strict ethical code: non-sexual social nudity.
