Nudity is subversive. It’s okay for nudism to be too.
Why nudists should want nudism to retain some of Its rebellious edge
Nudity has been used by artists and activists as a form of protest and subversion throughout history. Nudity has been used to push back against oppressive regimes and to defy censorship. Performative art such as body painting, protest and political demonstrations, and even nudity in protests against racism, sexism, homophobia, and class discrimination all have been seen as ways of expressing dissent and a desire for change. Nudity has been used to shatter aesthetic conventions, to challenge the status quo, and to celebrate the beauty of the human body. It has served as a powerful symbol of freedom, of defiance, and of self-expression.
The nudism movement, ever-striving to become more mainstream, seeks to normalize nudity and help broader culture see social nudity as inoffensive and ordinary. Of course, that’s absolutely what it should be doing. That is how we achieve the utopian ideal of nudity as a daily way of life for any and all. However, in service of this, there is a tendency to …
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