Thank you for this, and I couldn't agree more to everything. One other thing that never fails to astound me is how much if the naturist community ITSELF that we must be consistently and constantly on guard against in this respect. I've had past experiences with fighting the idea that genAI is 'here to stay', and we must embrace it... FROM NATURISTS. People that simply can't or won't understand just how much the technology is destructive in every single way. From the root (massively harmful data center) to the end product, harming our minds and ideas and selves with tools that require us to cease using our creative and critical human skills in favor of convenience and time.
We should never stop calling this what it really is... A crisis of unprecedented proportions that dwarfs even the dreaded industrial revolution in scale, wrapped in a banner of 'freedom' and 'ease', a banner that is a quilt made from the labors of true artists and writers and other creatives, but infested with moths and maggots and bedbugs.
Only by wholly rejecting this technology can we keep humanity on a course that maintains our realism and dignity.
Thank you for sharing your thoughtful reflections on the evolving challenges facing nudists and naturists, especially the impact of AI-generated imagery and the shifting landscape of social media. These technologies, while full of potential, also pose new risks when used to distort, censor, or commodify genuine expressions of body freedom and self-acceptance.
Coupled with the resurgence of restrictive political climates, these forces make it more urgent than ever for naturist organizations and individuals to find allies who believe in the dignity of living authentically. Those of us who embrace nudism and naturism often fall outside conventional norms, and that vulnerability demands both courage and community.
Importantly, many of the strongest allies we can turn to are those who have faced similar struggles; women, ethnic minorities, LGBTQ+ communities, and others whose rights have been historically denied or are still under threat. These groups understand, often intensely, what it means to be misrepresented, silenced, or shamed. By reaching out and building coalitions across these lines, we affirm a shared commitment to bodily autonomy, freedom of expression, and the right to live without fear or stigma.
I’ve long believed that naturist and nudist communities must move beyond isolation and engage in broader movements for justice and inclusion. Together, we can insist that the rights of all people, especially those who challenge societal norms, be safeguarded, so that everyone has the chance to live openly, joyfully, and without shame.
Your essay touches on many vital points, and I appreciate the clarity with which you name both the threats and the opportunities. The path forward will require not just resistance, but creative collaboration and a renewed commitment to mutual respect. Thank you for helping to illuminate that path.
Point 1: AI is not going away. No amount of railing against it will have a significant effect.
Point 2: The problems naturism has faced since the very beginning, over 100 years ago, remain the same: NATURISTS ARE TOO SECRETIVE. The ONLY pathway to greater acceptance requires MANY more naturists mustering the gumption to tell as many possible people they know (extended family, friends, neighbors, etc.) about their participation in naturism, why they enjoy it, what's great about it, why it's neither sexual nor perverse, and why others should consider it.
Yes, of course, the fears most naturists have about opening up are obvious - embarrassment, ridicule, potential loss of friends or employment, etc. The issue is whether naturists choose to remain in the closet as naturism itself withers on the vine. Or do they want to help promote naturism - because if enough do so, then naturism can grow again. The benefits: adding many NEW friends who also enjoy naturism, reversing the closing of naturist venues, strengthening existing naturist organizations, and establishing new ones locally and regionally.
Dr. Krozy has done the right thing by attaching her real name (I assume) to her post. How many commenters will do likewise? There seem to be approximately 40 Substacks dealing with naturism (though most aren't very active). My real name is on the byline of my Substack (Revitalizing Naturism). But the majority are pseudonymous. And that's even more true, unfortunately, of those who post comments.
Dear Ronna, wow, you have written such a powerful article on the interface of AI and nudism-nudity. It really touches today's reality. I would like to see your wonderful voice heard loud and clear in the mainstream a lot more! I know you are doing so much already. We are on the right path as living authenticity. Activism is important right now more than ever to be all inclusive and bring our world to the rest of the world!
very briefly but well written article in simple words, about the disruptive aspects of AI & how naturism can help us to counter it..I liked it very much...
I am a long-term member of AANR, as well as TNS. I am a nonresident member of Bay Bares nudist resort in Bay County Florida. I say this to indicate that I have no ax to grind. Nevertheless, I agree with everything you say. I suspect that the future of nudism in America is going to belong to those folks who can afford to go to a dedicated nudist resort, as opposed to some out-of-the-way place where nude sunbathing was tolerated before the advent of GPS, cell phones, and Internet.
Have camera phones and the internet really had much of an impact or nude sunbathing? Celebrities have been under close observation even before the invention of photography when sketch artists used to follow around the rich and famous in the hope that they might do something outrageous. As for the rest of us, if someone did take a candid picture of me nude and post it on line what are the chances that it would be seen by anyone I knew and who would offended.
I kinda alwayts said that ppl would make sex and porn be totaly mainstream, no1 would give 2 shits about ai or "leaked nudes/porn" vids ect .. its literally like, if it was always day everywhere on the planet, we woudlnt have the word day, cause theres no oposite of it that exists
Even before the potential of 'AI' to produce pictures of ideal bodies I have from time to time heard of girls worried that their breasts, nipples or vulvas were developing in weird ways and that if a future partner ever saw them naked they would be shocked. Usually these girls bodies are turning out just fine but because they haven't ever seen a range of normal naked people they think that there must be something wrong with them.
This post needs more coverage. Too many people associate naturism to pornography instead of freedom and self acceptance. The social media and AI are destroying human perception of beauty especially for teenagers, which not only is harmful for naturists but also for the whole society. These AI apps promote pedo and r*pe culture so, it's important that we raise awareness against it
Also people who made negative remarks on your body are a victim to the social media culture, so please try to forgive them and change their point of view.
Thank you for this, and I couldn't agree more to everything. One other thing that never fails to astound me is how much if the naturist community ITSELF that we must be consistently and constantly on guard against in this respect. I've had past experiences with fighting the idea that genAI is 'here to stay', and we must embrace it... FROM NATURISTS. People that simply can't or won't understand just how much the technology is destructive in every single way. From the root (massively harmful data center) to the end product, harming our minds and ideas and selves with tools that require us to cease using our creative and critical human skills in favor of convenience and time.
We should never stop calling this what it really is... A crisis of unprecedented proportions that dwarfs even the dreaded industrial revolution in scale, wrapped in a banner of 'freedom' and 'ease', a banner that is a quilt made from the labors of true artists and writers and other creatives, but infested with moths and maggots and bedbugs.
Only by wholly rejecting this technology can we keep humanity on a course that maintains our realism and dignity.
Thank you for sharing your thoughtful reflections on the evolving challenges facing nudists and naturists, especially the impact of AI-generated imagery and the shifting landscape of social media. These technologies, while full of potential, also pose new risks when used to distort, censor, or commodify genuine expressions of body freedom and self-acceptance.
Coupled with the resurgence of restrictive political climates, these forces make it more urgent than ever for naturist organizations and individuals to find allies who believe in the dignity of living authentically. Those of us who embrace nudism and naturism often fall outside conventional norms, and that vulnerability demands both courage and community.
Importantly, many of the strongest allies we can turn to are those who have faced similar struggles; women, ethnic minorities, LGBTQ+ communities, and others whose rights have been historically denied or are still under threat. These groups understand, often intensely, what it means to be misrepresented, silenced, or shamed. By reaching out and building coalitions across these lines, we affirm a shared commitment to bodily autonomy, freedom of expression, and the right to live without fear or stigma.
I’ve long believed that naturist and nudist communities must move beyond isolation and engage in broader movements for justice and inclusion. Together, we can insist that the rights of all people, especially those who challenge societal norms, be safeguarded, so that everyone has the chance to live openly, joyfully, and without shame.
Your essay touches on many vital points, and I appreciate the clarity with which you name both the threats and the opportunities. The path forward will require not just resistance, but creative collaboration and a renewed commitment to mutual respect. Thank you for helping to illuminate that path.
Point 1: AI is not going away. No amount of railing against it will have a significant effect.
Point 2: The problems naturism has faced since the very beginning, over 100 years ago, remain the same: NATURISTS ARE TOO SECRETIVE. The ONLY pathway to greater acceptance requires MANY more naturists mustering the gumption to tell as many possible people they know (extended family, friends, neighbors, etc.) about their participation in naturism, why they enjoy it, what's great about it, why it's neither sexual nor perverse, and why others should consider it.
Yes, of course, the fears most naturists have about opening up are obvious - embarrassment, ridicule, potential loss of friends or employment, etc. The issue is whether naturists choose to remain in the closet as naturism itself withers on the vine. Or do they want to help promote naturism - because if enough do so, then naturism can grow again. The benefits: adding many NEW friends who also enjoy naturism, reversing the closing of naturist venues, strengthening existing naturist organizations, and establishing new ones locally and regionally.
Dr. Krozy has done the right thing by attaching her real name (I assume) to her post. How many commenters will do likewise? There seem to be approximately 40 Substacks dealing with naturism (though most aren't very active). My real name is on the byline of my Substack (Revitalizing Naturism). But the majority are pseudonymous. And that's even more true, unfortunately, of those who post comments.
Yeah Ronna! Well said. Everybody has a body! Celebrate real bodies. Art
Dear Ronna, wow, you have written such a powerful article on the interface of AI and nudism-nudity. It really touches today's reality. I would like to see your wonderful voice heard loud and clear in the mainstream a lot more! I know you are doing so much already. We are on the right path as living authenticity. Activism is important right now more than ever to be all inclusive and bring our world to the rest of the world!
very briefly but well written article in simple words, about the disruptive aspects of AI & how naturism can help us to counter it..I liked it very much...
I am a long-term member of AANR, as well as TNS. I am a nonresident member of Bay Bares nudist resort in Bay County Florida. I say this to indicate that I have no ax to grind. Nevertheless, I agree with everything you say. I suspect that the future of nudism in America is going to belong to those folks who can afford to go to a dedicated nudist resort, as opposed to some out-of-the-way place where nude sunbathing was tolerated before the advent of GPS, cell phones, and Internet.
Have camera phones and the internet really had much of an impact or nude sunbathing? Celebrities have been under close observation even before the invention of photography when sketch artists used to follow around the rich and famous in the hope that they might do something outrageous. As for the rest of us, if someone did take a candid picture of me nude and post it on line what are the chances that it would be seen by anyone I knew and who would offended.
I kinda alwayts said that ppl would make sex and porn be totaly mainstream, no1 would give 2 shits about ai or "leaked nudes/porn" vids ect .. its literally like, if it was always day everywhere on the planet, we woudlnt have the word day, cause theres no oposite of it that exists
Even before the potential of 'AI' to produce pictures of ideal bodies I have from time to time heard of girls worried that their breasts, nipples or vulvas were developing in weird ways and that if a future partner ever saw them naked they would be shocked. Usually these girls bodies are turning out just fine but because they haven't ever seen a range of normal naked people they think that there must be something wrong with them.
This post needs more coverage. Too many people associate naturism to pornography instead of freedom and self acceptance. The social media and AI are destroying human perception of beauty especially for teenagers, which not only is harmful for naturists but also for the whole society. These AI apps promote pedo and r*pe culture so, it's important that we raise awareness against it
Also people who made negative remarks on your body are a victim to the social media culture, so please try to forgive them and change their point of view.