Although connected to the heatwave in the suffocating Europe and adjustments in attitudes towards the body, surveys show that the growing popularity of nudism in many countries around the world is also related to Covid-19 containment.
Naturist associations have noticed an interest in nudism and accumulation in the number of its members of the coronavirus pandemic, and the media is paying attention to it:
“You can leave your mask: nudists bring an article in Covid Times,” the Wall Street Journal titled in a recent article. Vice’s takeover: “The war underway to convince nudists to wear a mask,” while The Telegraph publishes “Taking off their clothes, putting on the mask: American nudist centers reopen.” France 24 reports that “nudists are adapting to the Covid era,” as CTVNews reports on “Naked in Quarantine: Interest in the Nudist Lifestyle Is Increasing.”
In other words, nudism has something.
The renewed interest in wasting garments while others flock to beaches, mountains, nature trails and beach resorts in this hot summer has been linked to the thirst for a new sense of freedom as we leave months of confinement or, as Vice explains, “some nudes to remove materialistic barriers.”
The case is that naturist associations in Great Britain, France, Italy and the United States, among others, report an increase in the number of members in recent months, up to 31% between May and July in the case of Ireland, for example. , as indicated. through Newstalk.
“The number of new people joining us has nearly tripled since the UK lockdown began in late March,” British Naturism advertising director Andrew Welch told CNN.
“Now that more and more people are fleeing home, Welch believes that “fewer people are worried about what to wear, or don’t care at all about clothes.” British Naturism has registered more than 370 new members since the start of the pandemic.
For Laurent Luft, president of the Association of Naturists of Paris (ANP), a very active nudist organization since 1953, the increase in interest in nudism may simply be due to the fact that “when one feels confined and locked up. Array. undressing becomes a way to get a little lost. So even in our small Parisian apartments, no lawn and no balcony or anything, we still have this possibility.”
This is helping to move to virtual platforms in recent months of closure and many other organizations to propose new approaches, adding nude yoga, gymnastics classes, cooking seminars and artistic competitions such as the World Naked Gardening Day photography contest.
The French Federation of Naturism has organized live broadcasts and raised demanding situations at home to its members of the lockdown – occasions adding the organization of nature photo shoots and the organization of a contest for the most productive nude photographs of gardening, among other activities, with a transparent condition: members must comply with facial masks.
Luft, of the AnP in Paris (which organizes nude visits to art galleries, bowling evenings as an optional costume and sunbathing in the domain reserved for nudists in the Bois de Vincennes in Paris) confirms the change: “People have followed our videos and sent emails saying, “He encouraged us to try.”
The Irish Naturist Association, which celebrates more than 50 years of naturism, also connects its members practically a complete calendar of social activities, adding large coffee warehouses and the World Day of Naked Gardening birthday.
Leticia Medina, event coordinator of the Irish Naturist Association, told Insider that the organization’s discussions are attracting nudists from Mexico, France, Spain, Great Britain, Brazil, Slovenia, Hungary, Serbia, Norway, Sweden and Denmark, among others.
“Naked and sharing a hot tub with other naked humans probably wouldn’t seem as productive as you can do in the time of a pandemic,” the Telegraph writes in an article about the big question surrounding nudist circles: when you wear a mask, are you naked?
As TMZ explains more crudely, “the controversy over the face mask is officially everywhere, as even nudist resorts require visitors to be covered with canopy, a resolution that spoils some bare butts.
The Wall Street Journal reports that while most naked visitors to the station adopt the bachelorwear rule in the process, there are others who refuse. A hotel without clothes in Connecticut, the newspaper says, boasts of its motto “no tan lines.” This has been a complicated fit and some consumers have complained about the tan lines of the mask.
Before the lockdown, the newspaper explains, “nakationing” – a clothesless vacation – in the United States “was a billion-dollar-a-year industry, Florida claimed more complex nudist than any other state, and Generation Y and Generation X led the party forward as a trend. Even globally, leisure and nudity accounted for a healthy $400 million percentage of the industry’s tax pie.”
As with others in the tourism industry, nudist destinations are “trying to regain a sense of normalcy.” To do this, they obey the maximum and identify aptitude and defense protocols for visitor and personnel coverage.
But for some, as Vice writes, “covering your face is at odds with the naturist lifestyle.”
Even Cape Agde, a well-known nudist beach destination considered the world’s largest naturist resort, vice says, “where there are supermarkets, shops, hairdressers and even a workplace with a undress code, visitors are strongly advised to wear a mask with their birthday suits.
I am a freelance journalist from Colombo-Luxembourg, a determined traveller founded on the world’s only Grand Duchy. I’m writing a column on European affairs