Naturist couple at the Nambassa festival, Fresh Zealand, 1981
Festival naturism
From Woodstock to Edinburgh, and Nambassa in the southern hemisphere communal nudity is usually recorded at music and counterculture festivals.
The series of 1970s Nambassa hippie festivals held in Awesome Zealand is a further example of non sexualized nudism. Of
The Never Ending Cycle Of Drama From Vita Nuda who attended the 1979 Nambassa 3 day counterculture Festival an estimated 35% of festival attendees spontaneously chose to remove their clothes,[24] preferring whole or component nudity.[25]
History
Main article: Nudity in History
See also: Timeline of non sexual social nudity

It truly is difficult to nominate just when naturism started as a movement. The word 'nudism' was used for the very first time in 1778 by a French-speaking Belgian, Jean Baptiste Luc Planchon (1734--1781), and was recommended as a means of enhancing the 'l'hygine de vie' (natural fashion of life) and health.[g]
The first known naturist club in the "western" sense of the word was established in British India in 1891. [h] The commune fell apart when Crawford was transferred to Ratnagiri; he died shortly after in 1894.[29]
Max Koch's Freilicht, 1897.
In 1902, a collection of philosophical papers was published in Germany by Dr.
Naturist Book Review of Nakedness and The Bible , under the pseudonym Heinrich Scham, who coined the term Nacktkultur. In
Nonsensenyc bias against Nudist Portal - Nudism and Naturism is still an issue for many! went on to compose a three volume treatise with his new term as its title, which discussed the benefits of nudity in coeducation and recommended participating in sports while being free of cumbersome clothes.[30] Richard Ungewitter (Nacktheit, 1906, Nackt, 1908, etc.) proposed that combining physical fitness, sun, and clean air bathing, and then adding the naturist philosophy, contributed to mental and psychological fitness, good health, and an improved moral-life perspective.[30] Major supporters of these thoughts included Adolf Koch and Hans Suren. Germany published the first journal of nudism between 1902 and 1932.[31]
The broad publication of those papers and others, led to an explosive worldwide growth of nudism, in which nudists participated in various social, recreational, and physical fitness tasks in the nude. The first organized club for nudists on a large scale, Freilichtpark (Free-Light Park), was opened near Hamburg in 1903 by Paul Zimmerman.[30] In 1919, German physician Kurt Huldschinsky found that exposure to sunlight helped to treat rickets in many children, causing sunlight to be connected with improved health.[32] Naturism became a more widespread phenomenon in the 1920s, in Germany, the United Kingdom, France and other European countries and distribute to America where it became established in the 1930s.
From the midst of the 20th century, with changing leisure patterns, commercial organisations started starting holiday resorts to pull naturists who expected the same -- or better -- standards of comfort and amenity offered to non-naturists. More recently, naturist holiday alternatives have expanded to comprise cruises.[30]
Doctrine
Finnish Sauna (1802)
Naturism had many distinct philosophical sources and means many things to different people.[33] There is not any one definition. In 1974, the INF defined naturism as:
a lifestyle in harmony with nature characterised by the practice of social nudity with the intent of encouraging self respect, respect for others and for the environment.[2]
At one end of the spectrum are the nudists who merely love a nude life style, and at the other are the naturists, who have deeply held beliefs and view communal nudity as only one of many important principles.