My Bare Travel

Clothing Optional Resorts come with varied public acceptance and it is interesting to take a look at the history of the clothing optional when trying to understand the general public perception of our living spaces. Science indicates that humans began wearing clothing about 70,000 years ago which means that for over half of our existence (counting the years of Homo Sapient existence), clothes were not being worn.

The first colonies of people who enjoy being unclothed began in British India in the late 1800’s, however Germany is where clothing optional really took off. In the early 1900’s, the concepts of shame and self-hate were published, along with other writings describing how the human body is beautiful and not sinful. Attempts to suppress the clothing optional movement were made by a well known German party, but not even they were able to put an end to it. The movement spread through France and the Mediterranean and came the United States in 1929. It is in the United States that the prohibition of alcohol on resorts began to establish family values within colonies.

Much of the social stigma roots from the public viewing the colonies as sexual in nature, or even pornographic. Much of the stigma has dissipated, but in many ways still exist. It is interesting to look at our history as we all know, history repeats itself!

To learn more about the history of bodily exposure, please check out the following study and report:
Facts about Nudism.