Natural Humanists believe that nudity is the only natural state for all human beings to be in, all of the time. They believe that clothing can be highly beneficial when it allows us to stay warm in cold weather, or when it protects us from sun damage or injury, including the wearing of protective-clothing in the workplace, but they believe that, at virtually all other times, clothing is unnatural, inappropriate and totally unnecessary.
They acknowledge that, unlike many other mammals, we, as human beings, don’t have fur to keep us warm, because our species’ ancestors evolved to be hairless. This was because our ancestors lived in a warm climate, which made them much more at risk of hyperthermia (abnormally high body temperature), than hypothermia (abnormally low body temperature)[i], so being hairless, helped their bodies to stay cool in a warm climate, particularly when trekking for miles to find food and fresh water, or when hunting, which involved pursuing animals for many miles[ii].
According toCharles Darwin, our ancestors also found less-hairy partners more attractive and so were more likely to have sex with them, allowing these ‘less hairy’ genes to be passed on and, over time, causing humans to evolve to have less and less body hair[iii].
Natural Humanists recognise that our newly naked skin gradually became darker, to protect it from ultraviolet radiation from the sun, and that all of our own early human ancestors lived in Africa, so would have had dark skin, which then became paler in those humans who migrated from Africa to northern climates, with the ability to temporarily ‘tan’ in summer, to provide protection from the sun’s radiation.
In today’s world, the average annual temperature is around 30°C in Burkina Faso, 28°C in Niger, 28°C in Sudan, 25°C in Kenya and 18°C in Gibraltar, but is only 9°C in the UK, -4°C in Canada, and -19°C in Greenland[iv]. Consequently, Natural Humanists acknowledge that, today, having naked skin, rather than fur, makes us feel uncomfortably cold most of the time when naked, in northern parts of the world, but that this is due solely to our choice of location, not due to any ‘malfunction’ of human evolution. They also recognise that, because we’ve now developed ways of keeping ourselves warm, by clothing, housing and heating, human beings who live in colder climates may well never evolve to become hairy again.[v]
They acknowledge that we still have hair on top of our heads, because this is important for reducing heat-gain from the sun, with tightly coiled ‘Afro’ hair being the most efficient at both increasing heat loss from the body, and reducing heat gain from the sun [vi], which is why people who migrated to colder climates evolved to have straight hair. The fact that we still have pubic and underarm hair, is because it holds on to the pheromones that are released by our bodies, to send natural signals to other human beings, for example, to attract sexual partners and to encourage them to ‘mate’ [vii].
Natural Humanists recognise that our ancestors lost their body hair about 1,200,000 years ago[viii], so human beings themselves, and all of the species from which they evolved, were always completely naked all of the time,throughout their lives. This only ceased to be the case when we migrated from the warmth of Africa to northern regions of the world, where we eventually had to try to survive bitterly cold weather, during the last Ice Age, which required us, from about 170,000 years ago, to regularly wear animal furs and animal skins[ix].
These clothes were solely worn for warmth and protection, not at all for modesty, and indeed, some humans later returned to being fully naked, all of the time, when their climate gradually became warmer, including the Aboriginal people of Tasmania, around 12,000 years ago [x],[xi].
Negative Consequences of a Nudity-Averse Society
Natural Humanists believe that, because humans evolved to be fully naked all of the time, being naked in front of others, and seeing others naked, is now so core to our humanity, that to some degree, depending on the extent to which we have been brainwashed to think that nudity is rude, anti-social or immoral, or that the witnessing of nudity can cause harm, we all have a conscious, or sub-conscious need to see and be seen naked by everybody, and particularly by those we love, or are attracted to.
They believe that not being able to do so, due to unhealthy social conventions, can lead to us feeling unnaturally restricted, and unable to connect fully and naturally with the rest of the natural world, and with other people, on all levels, in the way we instinctively feel we should.
If every human being was required to cover their face, with a mask, throughout their life, most human beings would find this completely intolerable, as human beings have a need to see other people’s faces, but Natural Humanists believe that we all have an equal need for the rest of our own and each other’s bodies not to be inappropriately and unnaturally covered and hidden from view.
Natural Humanists believe that human beings’ inability to see others naked, and to be seen naked themselves, can, subconsciously make them feel frustrated and unhappy, in the same way that they would be unhappy if they were unnaturally locked in a cage, or were unnaturally prevented from speaking, by a gag, or seeing, by a blindfold, or were prevented from hugging or kissing the people that they love.
Natural Humanists believe that society’s and religious organisations’ grooming of humans, particularly girls and women, to be ‘modest’, and to hide their bodies, is hugely immoral and harmful, and goes directly against what is natural.
They consider being naked, and seeing others naked, to be the only way that human beings can be truly natural, open, and honest with each other, and that mutual nudity is an important way that we naturally express ourselves, communicate social signals and connect with others. So, in today’s unhealthy nudity-averse society, we are incapable of satisfying these basic needs, which prevents us from living truly natural lives, as the natural human beings that we’re all born to be.
Natural Humanists recognise that this can lead to an unhealthy fascination with seeking out other’s nakedness, and that this is a significant reason for human beings recent unhealthy and unfulfilling fascination with pornography, and our ‘need’ to watch films and TV dramas which contain nudity, which capitalist movie companies happily exploit for their own financial gain. Filmmakers know, beyond doubt, that including nudity in a film or drama will make it much more popular and will cause people to ‘need’ to watch it, often again and again.
Social conventions, which prevent us from spending meaningful and mutually pleasurable or beneficial time, sharing mutual nudity with other people to whom we’re emotionally or physically attracted, can cause us to develop unhealthy longings for nudity, or infatuations for particular people, or for particular groups of the population, and can also further increase any unhealthy interests in pornography, or mainstream films or TV dramas containing nudity or sex, with people who are not our partners and we’ll never meet.
They believe that this need to be naked and to see others naked isn’t just, or even mainly, because of a wish to experience the natural pleasure of sexual arousal, it’s because it helps to satisfy our strong subconscious need to be naturally naked with other people, as does fantasising about romantic or sexual scenarios with people that we’re attracted to in day-to-day life.
These sexual and romantic fantasies, are partly due to the fact that our natural need to be naked with other people has been repressed, as has our natural need to love an unlimited number of other people. Society dictates, both unnaturally and unhealthily, that we must only love and share affection and nudity with one partner, and that virtually the only socially acceptable occasion in which we can be naked with others, is during sex, so that’s what we fantasise about, and that’s what we seek to watch on TV, in films and in pornography.
Natural Humanists believe that such romantic or sexual fantasies are, subconsciously, significantly driven not by a need to have sex, but by a need to feel that we’re of value to the people we care about, and a need to form the truly meaningful emotional connections with them that we’re genetically programmed to want, or to need.
Natural Humanists believe that nudity should ideally always be reciprocal, so that one person only sees another person naked, if they’re also naked, whether this is in a face-to-face situation, or via the internet, or shared photos or videos.
They acknowledge, however, that this is the opposite of what usually happens with pornographic photos and videos, including those shared without a person’s consent, which are rarely reciprocal, and involve one person always being the ‘consumer’ of the other person’s nudity, and actively ‘objectifying’ and degrading the other person to some degree in the process.
They also recognise that pornography partly satisfies an instinctive need to see other people naked, and a strong instinctive drive to have sex, if it’s linked to masturbation, but, crucially, it denies any form of mutually beneficial human connection, the sharing of any type of love, affection, or admiration, or the building of any form of meaningful and mutually beneficial human relationship, and, instead, involves selfish satisfaction of one’s own sexual needs, without giving the slightest sensual, sexual, or emotional pleasure, or any type of affection, to anybody else.
Sadly, because access to pornography is so easy, and instant, thanks to the internet, it causes such meaningless and mutually unfulfilling one-way nudity and masturbation, to become the norm, significantly increasing the number of sexually unfulfilled people in the world, and preventing the sharing of love and kindness, widely and deeply, that Natural Humanists are so passionate about.
It also reduces whole human beings into ‘sex objects’, and creates an unhealthy addiction to, and market for this pornography, which encourages the exploitation and degradation of human beings, either as ‘porn stars’, or as unwilling victims of ‘hate porn’, ‘revenge porn’ or ‘deep fake’ porn, while making millions for the capitalist porn industry, and using and degrading human beings in the process, which often causes them significant distress.
Natural Humanists recognise that this need to see and be seen naked, also leads to people choosing to wear revealing or figure-hugging clothing, which allows them to deliberately, or subconsciously, meet their own need to be ‘virtually naked’ in front of other people, in a legal and socially-acceptable way, but also takes advantage of other people’s natural need to see them naked, which causes people to show an interest in them, and therefore boosts their own ego and self-esteem. However, this rarely leads to the forming of any meaningful emotional or sexual connection with them, so is invariably an unhealthy and selfish way of ‘using’ other human beings to satisfy their own needs, without giving anything meaningful and valuable in return.
When somebody wears revealing clothing, it rarely leads to them becoming fully naked, or to those who see them becoming naked, so it fails, miserably, to satisfy anybody’s basic needs, for nudity, love, physical affection, or emotional intimacy, and it fails to satisfy anybody’s strong instinctive drive to have sex, so it invariably leaves everybody concerned feeling frustrated and unfulfilled. It also causes those who witness this virtual nudity to become sexually aroused, because partial exposure of body parts is relatively uncommon, but this sexual arousal never goes on to be satisfied by sex with that person and, instead, it merely draws that person’s attention to their own strong instinctive drive to have sex and makes them go on to focus, unhealthily, on sex and on other people’s physical attractiveness, for some time afterwards.
What Nature Intended
Natural Humanists are passionate about living as their natural selves, connecting fully with the natural world, and connecting openly and honestly with all other human beings, and they acknowledge that naturism is central to all of these things. They consider nakedness to be the only natural way for humans to be, and the only way we can enjoy and celebrate true natural human beauty and diversity.
All Natural Humanists are Naturists, even if some rarely (or never) practise naturism themselves, possibly due to lack of opportunities or self-consciousness, or concerns for their personal safety, or fear of criticism or negative judgement by other people.
However, even if they don’t practise naturism, Natural Humanists always believe that nudity is the only natural state for human beings to be in, and they always advocate and defend the moral right of every human being, of every age, gender, race and appearance, to be fully or partly naked at any time, and in any indoor or outdoor location, either alone or in the company of other people, whenever they wish to be and whenever this is legal, including in public and social settings, and they support a change in the law, worldwide, to allow this.
Natural Humanists recognise that no other species of living thing wears clothes, that it would be ridiculous if they did, and that human beings are happy for their pets (or ‘slaves’) to spend all of their lives naked in the family home, and outdoors, and in public spaces, but they see such nudity of members of their own species, which is equally 100% natural, to be somehow offensive.
They believe that no human being should ever be required to wear clothes, or be negatively judged, punished or criminalised if they don’t, and believe that nudity should be incapable of causing offence, or harm, to any human being, as human beings were born to be naked, all of the time, throughout their lives.
They believe that nothing that’s natural is offensive, as long as it’s not intended to cause harm or distress, or could reasonably be expected to do so, however, they care deeply about other people’s feelings, and acknowledge that many people have suffered a lifetime of immoral grooming, by family, friends, religious organisations and the media, and so now have unhealthy and unnatural beliefs about both nudity and sex, and also have the inability to see natural nudity as being anything other than sexual.
They believe that unwanted sexual behaviour is totally inappropriate, and is potentially distressing and harmful, and they believe that this can include ‘flashing’ somebody unexpectedly or against their will, but they believe it’s this sexually aggressive behaviour that’s harmful, not the sight of the natural human body itself.
They also acknowledge that, due to either bad experiences of sexualised nudity or sexual abuse, some people may find the sight of another person’s body, or any natural signs of sexual arousal, distressing, and they may therefore prefer to only be naked in front of others after obtaining their meaningful consent, or in designated naturist or ‘clothing optional’ areas, such as beaches, saunas, swimming pools and social clubs, or in their own, or another naturist’s home.
They believe that no friendship or relationship should ever be superficial, but should always be based on respect, trust, openness and honesty, and should always be between people who genuinely value and care about each other, as whole human beings, and as equals.
They therefore recognise that anybody who doesn’t trust or care about them enough to be seen naked by them occasionally, frequently or at least once, is unlikely to care about, respect or trust them enough to be worth having as a friend or partner. They also recognise that this reluctance may also be due to their friend considering them to be ‘not good enough’ to deserve to see their naked body, which is a clear sign that they don’t value them, are not interested in being open with them, and don’t care about their happiness, or their natural needs.
Many Natural Humanists consider their own body to be a ‘gift of nature’, which they have a moral duty to share freely, on a reciprocal basis, with everybody who wishes to see it, as nature intended, rather than only ‘trading it’ with people whose own physical beauty, social status, or sexual attractiveness they consider to be of equal or greater ‘value’ to their own.
Naturism and the Law
Natural Humanists recognise that public nudity, including naturism, is sometimes, in law, considered to be ‘indecent exposure’, which is the ‘deliberate public exposure by a person of a portion of their body in a manner contrary to local standards of appropriate behaviour’ [xii], so they recognise that laws that criminalise it, vary greatly from country to country, and have also changed significantly over time.
In England and Wales, in addition to the law prohibiting indecent exposure, it’s illegal to ‘outrage public decency’, even if the only people that were there at the time didn’t actually see it happen[xiii] and also, since 2003, it’s been illegal for anybody to intentionally expose their genitals, if they intend someone to see them, and intend them to be alarmed or distressed by them[xiv](so no mention of naked buttocks or breasts). However, neither the Crown Prosecution Service[xv], nor the College of Policing[xvi], recommend prosecution for public nudity, if there is no implied intention to cause alarm or distress.
In Britain, and many other western countries, during Victorian times, it was considered indecent for a girl or woman to show her legs, and, until the 1930s, men were expected to swim in bathing suits which also covered their upper body[xvii]. Even in the 1960s and 1970s, it was considered indecent for a woman to wear clothing that revealed her navel, whereas by the 2000s, wearing a thong bikini in public, which revealed the naked buttocks, was considered acceptable[xviii].
During the late 20th century, it was considered acceptable for women to sunbathe topless on beaches, wearing just a skimpy bikini bottom, even around strangers and children, but totally unacceptable for them to just wear this anywhere else, and today, in many countries, it’s, quite rightly, not classed as indecent exposure for a woman to expose her naked breasts while breastfeeding in public[xix].
In Afghanistan, it’s normal for most of the body to be covered, and in parts of the Middle East, a woman’s or adolescent girl’s whole body, neck, head and face must be covered[xx].
In New Zealand, ‘indecent exposure’ is intentionally and ‘obscenely’ exposing any part of the genitals,[xxi] with no mention of any other parts of the body, whereas, in Canada, it’s down to judges to decide what is indecent, and some judges have ruled that naked sunbathing,[xxii] and naked swimming,[xxiii] in public, are not indecent, and that girls’ and women’s breasts being naked in public is not, in itself, indecent or sexual[xxiv].
In some African cultures, it’s acceptable for girls and women to be naked above the waist, but their thighs must always be covered[xxv], and in tribes like the Mursi or Pirahã, its normal to be fully naked, without this being seen as sexual[xxvi].
In the Spanish city of Barcelona, it’s legal to sit or lie naked in a public place, but it’s illegal to walk around naked,[xxvii] whereas, in Scandinavia, neither the genitals nor the breasts are usually considered indecent or obscene, and it’s normal for people to use public saunas fully naked[xxviii], and, in the Netherlands, it’s seen as unacceptable not to be naked in mixed-gender saunas[xxix].
Legalising Natural Nudity
Natural Humanists believe in being sympathetic to others’ feelings and beliefs, but also believe that being naked is so central to our humanity that, as long as those around us have been informed in advance that we intend to be naked, and have had reasonable opportunity to leave the area, or make sure that they look in the opposite direction, then full nudity is always morally acceptable, including outdoors and in public places, but only in public buildings or on public transport, which people opposed to nudity also need to use at the same time, if a specific section is available for nudity, for example a screened off section of a room, bus, train or plane. They believe that public facilities like swimming pools should be made available to naturists at particular times of the day or week, if demand for this exists, and that this should be a legal right.
Natural Humanists advocate the full legalisation of optional nudity in every situation, but are against any form of sexual aggression, or unwanted or unexpected sexualised nudity, and believe that all human beings should be considerate of others’ feelings about their own nudity, taking all reasonable steps to reduce any discomfort or distress caused. They discourage social nudity wherever this is illegal, but encourage all reasonable means to bring about a change in the law that prevents such healthy and natural nudity.
They believe that, at the very least, every new, unoccupied residential building, residential road, or new village or ‘new town’ should be able to declare itself a ‘clothing optional’ zone, allowing all future residents full exemption from laws preventing public nudity, as long as signposting, at all entrances to it, clearly advertise this fact.
They also believe it should be possible to apply to make certain public buildings, parks, areas of woodland, sections of secluded farmland, rural public footpaths, beaches, lakes and stretches of rivers, and many other areas, accessible to the public on a ‘clothing optional’ basis, on certain days, or at certain times of day, or even to allow nudity absolutely everywhere, or in every outdoor location, for at least half an hour of every single day, or week.
Natural Humanists value highly their (ideally daily) connection with nature and many feel that this is best achieved while naked, whether it’s a daily naked wild swim, walking naked through a wild meadow or woodland, climbing and sitting in a tree naked, or just lying on grass naked and feeling its connection with our bodies. Doing so communally can simultaneously connect us both with other natural human beings and with all other forms of nature and, for some, is a truly beautiful and emotional experience and is the ultimate form of ‘nature-ism’.
They believe that clothing physically separates us from nature, preventing us from connecting with, experiencing and feeling ‘at one’ with nature fully and meaningfully; for example, experiencing breezes blowing over our bodies, feeling the sun on our naked skin, or having real contact with water while swimming, or real contact with the Earth, while sitting or lying down, or walking across the Earth.
Body Image
Natural Humanists, as naturists, recognise that many people have a negative and critical view of their own body, which can significantly affect their happiness, confidence and mental health, something that’s made worse by the ‘perfect’ bodies that we’re bombarded with, through magazines, films, television, pornography and social media. However, according to research by the University of London[xxx], people who regularly take part in naked group activities are more satisfied with their lives and more comfortable and content with their own bodies, and this increases, even further, the more they take part.
Natural Humanists believe that naturism promotesself-respect and self-esteem, respect for others and for the environment, and celebrates our own and each other’s individuality and true equality. They also recognise that it’s been linked to improved life satisfaction, body image and self-esteem,[xxxi] and to people feeling accepted, regardless of differences in their age, body shape, fitness and health.[xxxii]
Natural Humanists recognise that it’s common today for adults and even young children to have body-image issues, and that this problem is increasing, due to toxic social media, but they recognise that this has been proven to be significantly less of a problem in naturist communities and environments, where nobody is judged on their body, and difference is celebrated.
Not living a naturist lifestyle pollutes people’s minds about what a ‘natural’ and ‘normal’ and ‘acceptable’ body should be like, resulting in people feeling inadequate, unattractive and negatively judged, all of which have been proven to be far less of a problem in naturist communities.
They acknowledge that society usually conditions us to believe that we’re not good enough, and that we don’t measure up, but Natural Humanists believe that naturism, and the openness, honesty and acceptance that it nurtures, allows us to see that we’re all beautiful, that we’re all wonderfully different, and that we all have true value, but also, that, at our core, we’re are all the same, we’re all together and we’re all one.
People new to naturism often feel far less self-conscious, and far less judged about how they look and who they are, when they’re in a supportive, welcoming, accepting, inclusive naturist community, than they ever do when they’re in the ‘clothed’ world. They also often find that conversation with, and relationships with people they meet in naturist settings, are deeper and more meaningful and beneficial.
Being ‘open and honest’ about our bodies through shared nudity can ‘open the door’ to us also being open and honest in our relationships with other naturists, which can improve the quality and longevity of these relationships.
Many people treat older people as irrelevant and as unattractive, but many older people have youthful minds, and youthful bodies which their clothing hides. Nudity allows us to instantly view each other’s true physical attractiveness, without support garments, push-up bras and the like, allowing us to base our physical attraction on what a person is really like, not on pretence or secrecy, but also, due to the openness and honesty that social nudity creates, it allows us to develop attraction to people’s true personalities as well, regardless of their body shape or size.
Natural Humanists believe strongly that all friendships and relationships, between all human beings, should be based on openness and honesty, and that wearing clothes which disguise, or deliberately lie about, the shape, size and appearance of our bodies is dishonest. Natural Humanists wish to be seen and loved deeply for who they are, not for what they pretend to be, and seek to love others in the same way, noticing and valuing everything about them that’s unique, beautiful, admirable, fun and lovable, and never expecting or wanting them to conform to societal expectations of behaviour, appearance or beauty.
They believe that everybody has the potential to be lovable, if they reject toxicity from their lives, and that only then can even the most physically attractive person ever become truly beautiful.
Many consider the most beautiful part of anybody’s body to be their smile, which is a window to the love and beauty that lies within. Natural Humanists value the marks of time that both nature and life experience leave on the body and celebrate the unique life story that they tell. They see all human beings as the beautiful people that they were, the beautiful people that they now are, and the beautiful people they have yet to become, and they value all three. They also recognise that, if connected to a ‘loving heart’, the physical beauty of youth remains within, and never fades.
Many adults see adolescent children as their inferiors, or view them in a patronising way, but, as many children are fully sexually mature and have adult bodies by their early teens, they’re more likely to be seen as mature and as ‘equals’ when they’re naked.
Socialising naked allows people to see each other as the unique individuals that they are, so is the ultimate form of openness and honesty. Nobody is hiding parts of themselves that they’re uncomfortable with (and we all have one or more of those). Everyone has removed all of the barriers between them, so they’re giving an honest and accurate account of themselves, which inevitably results in people being more open and honest with each other in conversations, and in relationships as well, which can lead to deeper, more meaningful and longer-lasting relationships, built on both honesty and trust. If we trust somebody enough to let them see our ‘bits and pieces’, then we’re naturally more open to trusting them, and to being more open and honest with them generally.
Naturism and Health
Natural Humanists encourage everybody to become naturists and acknowledge that naturism has a wide range of important benefits for human beings, including the fact that naturists appear to live longer, on average, than those who don’t practice naturism[xxxiii].
It’s not insignificant that frequent social nudity also allows us to easily notice changes in each other’s bodies, like the development of potentially cancerous moles or lumps, or an unhealthy increase in body weight, which allows us to deal with these issues early on, before they compromise our health or reduce our lifespan.
Undoubtedly, exercising, bathing, swimming, dancing and sex are five activities where clothing makes no sense at all! Natural Humanists believe that nudity is usually the most appropriate option when performing any physical activity that doesn’t require the use of protective clothing, or when in any warm or humid environment, both to allow the body to cool down efficiently by perspiration, and to allow the body to move more freely and comfortably, and they acknowledge that, in many modern tropical cultures, nudity is seen as normal at some sports events and competitions[xxxiv].
Naturist dances, discos, music concerts and raves, as well as being fun, help to keep our bodies comfortable and well ventilated, as do naked exercise, yoga and dance groups, naked cycling, and naked tennis, beach volleyball and other individual and team sports, as long as there’s necessary protection for delicate areas in any contact sports. Nudity also allows the body totally unrestricted movement and, when it comes to artistic dance and artistic gymnastics, this can also significantly add to the beauty of the experience for spectators.
Swimming and bathing naked are sensual pleasures, both when water touches and flows over the naked body and when a breeze blows over the body after bathing. ‘Wild swimming’ and bathing in the sea, lakes, rivers and streams has been proven to be good for our health and to be able to boost our immune system. Doing this socially, can also be great fun and can allow people to bond, deeply, over a shared interest and shared experiences.
Replacing a daily shower or bath at home with social bathing in the sea, or in a river or lake, is also good for the environment, and saves on energy bills. Washing our bodies communally is also part of many cultures, both today and historically, including during Roman times.
Historical and Global Perspective
Natural Humanists acknowledge that Adam and Eve, who Christians believe to have been the very first human beings on Earth, were effectively full-time naturists, and that nudity is also an important part of European history.
For example, in Greek mythology[xxxv], goddesses called ‘Nymphs’, were considered to be the personification of nature and to be sexually-free, polyamorous girls, who were often depicted naturally naked.
In Britain, right up to the 1860s, it was considered normal, and was fully legal, for men to bathe fully naked in the sea, alone or in groups of other men[xxxvi], although, completely immorally, women were required to be modest, and had to wear head-to-ankle clothing while bathing, and also often had to be wheeled out to sea, hidden inside a wheeled ‘bathing machine’, so that nobody could see them in their extremely modest bathing suits[xxxvii].
During the Victorian era, in many British homes, the only bath was usually a portable tin bath, which family members would use in front of the fireplace, without concern about nudity, and younger family members would often bath together.
In the early 1900s, two French physicians discovered that when the human body has contact with clean air and sunlight, it can significantly improve health and well-being[xxxviii] and, in 1902, Dr Heinrich Pudor discovered that nudity could be beneficial in mixed-gender education, and in sport[xxxix] and, from 1906, Richard Ungewitter[xl],[xli] reported that combining outdoor nudity with sunlight, fresh-air and physical fitness helped to improve mental, physical and moral health[xlii], which led to a huge increase in naturism worldwide.
This then increased further when it was discovered that exposing skin to sunlight could help to cure rickets, a disease that was fairly common in many children at the time[xliii]. The more skin that’s exposed to sunlight, the more vitamin D our bodies can create, which is even more important in regions of the world where the hours and intensity of sunlight are insufficient to produce enough Vitamin D during winter.
In Germany, naturism was part of the youth movement of 1896, and in 1903, Heinrich Pudor’s ‘Nacktkultur’, which promoted a healthy lifestyle and Utopian ideals, connected nudity, vegetarianism and social reform, and was practiced by 200 clubs in the 1920s[xliv].
Adolf Koch, a left-wing primary-school teacher, believed social nudity freed people from the authority and control of their parents, the church, mass media and the law, and he used ‘Organic-Rhythmic’ exercises in schools from the 1920s, and encouraged naked mixed-gender outdoor exercise, with about 70,000 children attending his schools by 1932[xlv].
Natural Humanists believe that absolutely nothing about nudity is rude, obscene or offensive, that siblings should see each other naked throughout their lives, and that all schoolchildren, of all genders, should see each other naked regularly, throughout their childhoods. They believe that this is essential to allow children to develop a healthy opinion of non-sexual nudity, to develop respect for each other, and for each other’s bodies, and to allow them to clearly understand how each other’s bodies are changing.
They believe that this shared nudity can also help to prevent children from developing an unhealthy fascination with sexual nudity and sex, which, although they’re both potentially highly pleasurable, are far less important and beneficial to human beings than emotional connection and meaningful relationships with people to whom they’re emotionally attracted. They believe that it is children not frequently seeing the people they’re attracted to naked,that leads to this unhealthy fascination or obsession with sex, not the other way around. If we never saw the sun, we’d long to see the sun, but if we saw it all the time, it would be of no real significance.
In Germany, in addition to Adolf Koch’s belief in ‘Organic-Rhythmic’ exercise, Hans Surén also believed that naked gymnastic exercise could be beneficial in numerous ways[xlvi] and later, naturism went on to be important in the politics of East Germany[xlvii], where many clubs, parks and beaches are now open to naturists today[xlviii].
Naturism gradually became more popular in Germany, France, the UK, and other European countries in the 1920s, and in the USA in the 1930s[xlix],[l], partly due to a literary movement that was based on the French concept of ‘joie de vivre’, which involved freely enjoying physical sensations, direct experiences, and a spontaneous approach to life,[li] all of which are very important to Natural Humanists.
After 1945, naturist beaches started to appear in Europe[lii], but at that time, it was not unusual in the UK for children up to the age of puberty, or even slightly beyond, to be fully naked on beaches, and to swim or paddle naked in the sea, as is evidenced by a scene in the mainstream classic British 1946 film, ‘A Matter of Life and Death’, in which a man is seen talking to a naked boy that he unexpectedly meets on a beach, without either showing any signs of shock or embarrassment. Such full nudity on family beaches still occurs infrequently today, particularly if children are having a day out and unexpectedly want to paddle or swim in the sea.
Natural Humanists acknowledge that, in today’s world, attitudes to social nudity vary considerably, with public nudity being permitted on all beaches in some European countries, including Denmark[liii] and Sweden[liv], on some beaches in places like Britain, Crete and Spain, and in naturist sunbathing areas in many public parks in Germany and France[lv],[lvi], whereas, in some places, nudity is permitted at music festivals, or at naturist festivals, which sometimes include nude body-painting and, in Japan, it’s often socially acceptable for a family to see each other bathing naked[lvii].
Since 2000, tolerance of public nudity has increased[lviii], particularly among younger people,[lix] and naturism also became more popular with younger people in France and Germany, in the 2010s[lx],[lxi] partly because they didn’t want to be bound by ‘social norms’ or traditional ideas of beauty[lxii].
In Finland, whole families often spend time naked together, while they’re bathing, or using a sauna or swimming pool, or playing on a beach, and children also sometimes play naked outside their own home[lxiii], and, in Thessaloniki, Greece, a court ruled, in 2015, that non-sexual public nudity was “not lewd or lascivious”, and so it recognised people’s legal right to be fully naked in public, even in urban areas[lxiv].
In Italy, girls and women can be topless, in a non-sexual context, on every beach in the country, whereas, in the Netherlands, people are usually very tolerant of full nudity on beaches and, in Spain, public nudity is not usually illegal, and the law doesn’t require girls or women to cover their breasts while swimming in public, including in public swimming pools in some towns[lxv], or on any beach in Spain[lxvi], whereas, in New Zealand, social nudity is part of many summer music festivals, and a large proportion of New Zealanders are tolerant of nudity, especially on beaches[lxvii].
Natural Humanists believe that the only sensible thing to do, is to be naked when we’re hot, or are exercising, and to wear clothes when we’re cold. They believe that the sight of others naked should be the most natural thing in the world, totally incapable of causing offence, just like the sight of every other species of living thing on Earth completely naked, doesn’t cause us, or any other species, the slightest embarrassment or offence.
Inappropriate Clothing
For Natural Humanists, equality is at the very heart of their philosophy, and they acknowledge that naturism is the ‘great leveller’, which removes any signs of ‘superiority’, wealth or status, and highlights that, under our clothes, no matter how rich or poor we are, we’re all equal when we’re naked.
There are no designer labels on a ‘birthday suit’ and there’s no clothing to indicate any ‘social hierarchy’, which is in sharp contrast to ‘normal’ life, where people often only talk to, and mix with, people who dress like them, or whose clothing suggests a similar level of social-standing or wealth, or a similar sub-culture[lxviii].
Wearing clothes can often be uncomfortable, so some Natural Humanists believe that, even in environments where clothing is compulsory, due to local rules or laws, it’s perfectly acceptable, regardless of gender, just to wear, for example, a long t-shirt, possibly with a weighted-hem, or a jumper, sweatshirt, jacket, tunic, dress, skirt or kilt, particularly on a hot day, without any other clothing at all.
Some Natural Humanists may choose not to wear underwear, unless it’s important for health or support reasons, rather than for modesty, as it’s common for people to have to frequently adjust clothing or underwear to prevent discomfort, with boys’ and men’s clothing sometimes trapping the penis or testicles, and many girls and women often wanting to adjust underwear, or to remove an uncomfortable bra when they get home from work or school at the end of the day. Similarly, they may consider swimwear to be inappropriate, unless rules or laws require this, as it can leave tan-lines, or unattractive strap or elastic marks on the body, and can also prevent pleasurable contact with water, and full immersive contact with nature if wild-swimming.
They may choose to be naked in bed, or to just wear a long t-shirt or nightie, to improve ventilation and comfort, to reduce perspiration and body odour, and to keep the body comfortable. In warmer weather, and even in cold weather if using a high-TOG duvet, sleeping naked allows perspiration to evaporate efficiently, which keeps the body at a comfortable temperature, reduces the build-up of bacteria, and improves sleep[lxix], which has been proven to be essential for both our health and our longevity, with poor sleep being considered as bad for our health as smoking.
Men and boys who sleep naked, and don’t wear underwear or tight jeans or trousers, are more likely to have healthy sperm[lxx], and girls and women who sleep naked, and don’t wear underwear during the day, particularly on warm days, are less likely to suffer from yeast infections[lxxi]. If two or more people spend the night in bed together naked, it also increases their skin-to-skin contact, which increases their bodies’ release of the hormone oxytocin, which seems to result in them being more likely to remain in a relationship[lxxii].
Natural Beauty
Natural Humanists believe strongly that all human beings’ bodies are an important part of the world’s natural beauty, and that it’s immoral to deny any other human being the joy of experiencing any such beauty. They believe that covering mountains, forests, waterfalls, lakes and other examples of nature’s infinite beauty and variety, so that nobody can ever experience them, would be wicked, and that, similarly, forcing or requiring human beings to cover up their own natural beauty and variety is immoral, as is grooming any young person to believe that this is appropriate.
A body does not need to be conventionally ‘perfect’ or ‘beautiful’ for Natural Humanists to value it, it just needs to be natural, because it’s nature, in all of its rich variety and contrasts, that Natural Humanists consider to be truly beautiful.
Consequently, whenever nudity is not possible, or appropriate, or legal, Natural Humanists try to avoid any clothing, or underwear, that’s designed to unnecessarily hide the natural shape of the human body, or which covers any more of the body than is necessary. They believe that, ideally, all clothing, including underwear and swimwear, should ideally hug the body’s natural contours fully, and shouldn’t have any built-in modesty features, or any features which hide, or lie about, the body’s true shape and size, so that it honestly shows, and celebrates, the true natural size and shape of every part of the body.
Natural Humanists recognise that bras are often unnecessary for girls at the start of puberty, and also for many girls and women with smaller breasts, possibly with the exception of during exercise, and they believe that, even when necessary, they should ideally not hide the shape of the nipples or areolae, just like male underwear and trousers shouldn’t unnecessarily hide the shape or size of the penis, and female underwear and trousers shouldn’t hide the contours of the vulva, as if wearers of this clothing are genital-less dolls. Natural Humanists love their natural bodies, and as naturists, happily share them with others, whether they’re clothed or naked.
They believe that all children should be free to share natural consensual nudity with anybody they wish, in person, preferably with the knowledge, and possibly the supervision, of an adult involved in their care, but they recognise that taking photos of children naked puts them at risk of a variety of distressing crimes, including revenge porn, ‘deepfake’ porn and the sharing of their naked images, globally, via the internet, with people they wouldn’t wish to see them naked, or who are likely to use the images for masturbatory purposes.
They believe that, just as it’s illegal in some countries to ‘upskirt’ somebody, which is taking a photograph or video up somebody’s dress or skirt without their permission, so it should be illegal to take a photo of a naturist, or any naked person, or of any topless woman, or topless girl after the start of puberty, without their permission, and that a legally binding permission form, or video consent app, could safely facilitate this.
They believe that taking photos of a naked child, whether they’re a naturist or not, should only be permitted if it’s with their permission, and even then only if all such images are then immediately securely stored, so that they can’t ever be accessed or viewed, even by that child or the person who took the photo, without the full consent of that child when they become an adult, possibly using a not-for-profit secure cloud storage service dedicated to the safe storage of such images, to which all such images could be sent the moment they’re taken, with anybody found to possess any naked image of a child, when that child has not since become an adult and given their consent to this, being punishable by law.
They believe that the taking and storage of photos in these circumstances should be made fully legal, worldwide, and that this would allow every human being to be free, throughout their childhood, to take and store photos of themselves naked in any naturist situation that was an important part of their life, without any fear that these images would be misused, or that they would be considered to be illegal.
Natural Humanists believe that nobody, including members of a naturist family or naturist community, should ever feel under any pressure to be naked at any time, and that nudity should only ever be compulsory at a designated naturist-only club site, naturist beach or naturist-only social event, but only when these are solely for the use of members or visitors who’ve signed to give their consent to these restrictions, and these people are capable of meaningfully consenting to this, or they appear to happily agree to it and can be safely and legally enabled to take part, for example with the supervision of a suitable chaperone.
Natural Humanist boys and men recognise that they should always be sensitive to any embarrassment or discomfort that may be experienced by other people, if they have an involuntary erection while naked outdoors, or in any social or public setting, and, consequently, they may consider it appropriate to go elsewhere, or to temporarily cover their penis, should an erection ever occur, unless they know the people they’re with and know that they’re not uncomfortable or embarrassed by this most natural of body changes.
Improving Access to Social Naturism
Natural Humanists believe that every human being should be able to safely practice social naturism, and the naturalhumanism.co.uk website hopes to set up a worldwide network of venues in every city, town and village in the world, where any naturist can spend time amongst others in their natural naked state, ideally every day of their lives.
This might include woodlands, farmland, houses, gardens, beaches, communal showers, gyms, community centres, bars, restaurants, cafes, nightclubs, saunas and swimming pools, as well as groups, in each area, which practise wild swimming or naturist rambling socially. Every venue and every group would be open only to registered members, who would agree to any inappropriate behaviour being recorded on their file and taken into account when giving access to groups and venues in the future, both locally and further afield.
All owners and organisers of such venues or groups, and everybody who attends them, would sign a contract, agreeing to never photograph, or record or stream images of any other person attending, at any time, and would agree to have their name and full details of any breaches of this contract reported to the police and publicly displayed on the naturalhumanism.co.uk website, indefinitely, as well as being banned from all future naturist events and groups.
Whenever considered appropriate, children could also attend, at any age, but only if strict rules were in place regarding inappropriate behaviour of both adults and children, and if children were accompanied by and supervised, at all times, by one of their parents, or by an adult chosen by one of their parents, with any inappropriate behaviour being permanently recorded and, when appropriate, reported to the police.
Natural Humanists believe that it’s important for every human being to have the opportunity to share natural, non-sexual reciprocal nudity whenever they wish to, ideally daily, with as many people as they choose, but they acknowledge that many people rarely, if ever, have the opportunity to safely do so.
They recognise that anybody can already create fully believable naked photos of anybody they choose, for free, online, without their permission and, as an antidote to this, the naturalhumanism.co.uk website plans, in the future, to allow all adult members to register a detailed profile of their personality, beliefs, interests, hopes, dreams, goals and experiences, together with a non-sexualised naturist image of themselves, whenever this is legal, in both their home country, and in the UK, which is where the naturalhumanism.co.uk website is based.
Any other Natural Humanist in the world would be able to view this naturist image, but only if they agreed to the person in that photo automatically being informed that they’d viewed their image, and had agreed to that person also being given a naturist image of them as well, so that all nudity was always reciprocal, as social nudity always should be.
No profile would give a member’s name, or even their locality, if any member wished this to remain confidential and, if preferred, anybody’s own naked images could be shown with their face concealed, so that they couldn’t be used to shame them.
Similarly, if preferred, only a naturist image of a member’s body and a separate image of their face would be displayed, with the two images having been taken at different times, so with different lighting, preventing them from being joined to form a full naked image of their face and body. One image could also be black and white, or sepia, and the other could be colour, so that nobody could ever prove that the naked image was of the person whose face appears on the Natural Humanist site.
Some members may choose to only have a naked image of their body available via the website, but no image of their face at all, to give them full anonymity, while still allowing them to share consensual, reciprocal naturism with anybody they choose. Other members may prefer to only exchange naturist images with members whose own images have been certified to be real and not to have been faked using internet ‘fake porn’ websites.
Some members may prefer the website itself to only display a photo of their face, with any naturist image of them only ever being sent to members by email, on request, and not showing their face at all. Some may also prefer this anonymous naturist image to only be emailed to members at the same time as similar images of numerous other members with similar build and skin colour, so that the recipient couldn’t prove to others that a particular body belonged to them.
The naturalhumanism.co.uk website could enable them to anonymously link up with such a group of people with similar body types, to mutually agree to their own naturist images always being sent out at the same time as each other’s, so that nobody could ever prove that a particular body was theirs, eliminating the risk of shaming.
Of course, one of these members could, privately, let any particular member know which of these bodies was actually theirs, if they wished to do so, possibly by sending an anonymous message, from a phone which had ‘caller ID’ disabled.
Members could choose to allow all other members to request either an image of their face, or of their body, or both, or to only allow one or both of these to be made available if somebody has read their profile, which didn’t state their age, or show their face, and had then chosen to ask for this image, which would have been because of a belief that they were in some way compatible or admirable as a human being, in which case, these images would be sent to everybody who requested them, without prejudice.
Some members may choose to only allow their naturist image to be sent to people who’ve requested less than a preset number of images of other members in the past month, or the past 6 months, if they were worried that some members might simply be asking everybody for a picture, but other members may consider this unnecessary, as all image sharing would be reciprocal and, to Natural Humanists, all human beings are of equal value, regardless of their background and physical appearance, and naturism is about freely sharing reciprocal natural nudity with anybody, not just with a carefully chosen few.
Toxic Textiles
Natural Humanists acknowledge that our unhealthy nudity-averse society encourages materialism, including an unhealthy desire to own designer-label clothing. They acknowledge that the fashion industry, particularly in today’s ‘throwaway’ society, is one of the most polluting and damaging in the world, causing harm to nature, and denying some communities and other species access to water, as well as creating billions of tonnes of often non-biodegradable waste every year[lxxiii].
Today, we buy 60% more clothing than we did 15 years ago[lxxiv] and, worldwide, the huge 56 million tonnes of clothes we buy each year[lxxv] is expected to increase to a totally unsustainable 160 million tonnes by 2050[lxxvi], which is potentially disastrous, as the fashion industry is already responsible for 10% of all greenhouse gas emissions[lxxvii] and for 20% of the world’s waste-water[lxxviii].
The fashion industry uses a large amount of non-renewable resources, including petroleum, as well as huge amounts of water, while polluting the environment and degrading ecosystems, all to produce clothes which are often thrown away after a short amount of time, which, again, significantly harms the environment[lxxix].
Worldwide, we currently recycle only 12% of the material used for our clothing, and we’re expected to throw away more than 134 million tonnes of textiles every year by 2030 [lxxx]. This is despite the fact that technology already exists, which is in use in the UK by at least one charity, to detect material types and to quickly and automatically sort clothing on a conveyor belt, into items that are, for example, 100% polyester, which is easily recycled into new polyester fibre. However, the sorting and recycling of clothing that’s made of mixed-fibres is significantly more of a problem, and no clothing is recyclable, if, as is usually the case, it’s thrown in the bin.
In contrast to the toxic fashion industry, naturism causes no harm to the planet at all, is the most natural thing on Earth, is great fun, and allows human beings to be their true, natural human selves, to connect fully with nature and the elements, and to make deep, meaningful human connections with other human beings.
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