Sobre o Dia Mundial do Naturismo - Minha reflexão e autobiografia

I have been practicing naturism for years. Naturism isn't just about taking off your clothes - it's a way of being that completes me and the friends I have here.

Sure, I respect non-naturists and have no desire to impose naturism on anyone. Just consider this: take away the Gucci or the Levi’s, and we are all the same. The human body and its natural sensuality are not inherently shameful - what is truly shameful is how our society normalizes violence, harm, and the destruction of life, yet turns the natural human form into something taboo, offensive, or prudish.

For those who practice it, naturism offers a profound sense of completeness and shared humanity.

At its core, clothing serves as a primary marker of social hierarchy, wealth, and status. When we remove brand labels and societal uniforms, we strip away the artificial barriers that divide us. Naked, every human being exists on equal footing. In a naturist environment, individuals meet not as CEO and worker, wealthy and poor, or insider and outsider, but simply as human beings existing in their most authentic, unvarnished form.

It is one of the great hypocrisies of modern culture that the unadorned human body - the most natural thing in existence -is routinely treated as something taboo, offensive, or shameful, while visual and structural violence, harm, and environmental destruction are normalized and consumed as everyday entertainment. Society has systematically hyper-sexualized and censored the physical form, conflating natural presence with impropriety. Naturism challenges this distortion by intentionally decoupling social nudity from sexualization, creating a safe, neutral space that fosters genuine self-acceptance, healthy body image, and a harmonious connection with the natural world.

To embrace naturism is to reject the manufactured shame imposed by cultural conditioning and to reclaim the human body as inherently worthy, peaceful, and free.

Foundational and Historical Texts

Ungewitter, Richard. Nacktheit (1906). A foundational text from the early 20th-century German Freikörperkultur (FKK) movement, advocating for physical health, mental well-being, and social egalitarianism through natural body acceptance.

William Welby’s nudist trilogy

Naturism, nature and the senses in early 20th century Britain

Sociological and Philosophical Critiques of Body Taboos

Elias, Norbert. The Civilizing Process (1939). A classic sociological study detailing how European notions of shame, manners, and body concealment evolved over centuries as mechanisms of class division and social control.

Foucault, Michel. The History of Sexuality, Vol. 1: An Introduction (1976). An influential analysis of how state and cultural institutions regulate, police, and discourse-control the human body.

Baudrillard, Jean. The Consumer Society: Myths and Structures (1970). Examines how modern consumerism hyper-sexualizes and commodifies the human body while alienating individuals from their natural form.