There's more to naturism...

There's more to naturism than taking your clothes off

It's a quote that I have on file, and sometimes that comes up.

First off, this is not going to be a never-ending discussion if naturism is nudism or the other way around or not all or perhaps if. Pick your name for it and run with it. Or jog, if you're not built for speed.

If naturism/nudism/being naked/clothes-free is just taking your clothes off, then anyone going for a shower, or preparing for some fun physical time, is doing 'naturism'.

Nope. That's not it.

Reminder, this is my interpretation, feel free to disagree.

Getting out of the clothes is a first step.It's following the feeling of wanting to be free. Naked. Uninhibited by clothes. Doing things without the fabric around the body.

That, for me, is the basis of naturism/nudism/etc.

Whatever more a person in that state of blissful undress does, is up to them. Even if they want to do some ironing. (Whoever invented that??)

In this view, naturism, for me is a state of mind. The deliberate taking off the garments, because you want that.

Just taking them off and then standing there, pondering "okay, and now what?", is not the naturist attitude. Unless, perhaps, someone's new at it.

I can imagine a first-timer will not be ready to just 'do naturism'. The habit of doing things in the cloth prison could be too strong, and the concept of doing that in nude freedom can be daunting, the more as the entire physical sensation is different, strange. It's something to get used to.

But once a person's there, in that nudist state of mind, the 'feeling of life' gets a new meaning. A nude, liberating, self-being meaning. And then, there's more to naturism than just taking your clothes off.