Many times when nudists try to promote non sexual nudism and a naturist practice they are accused of being asexual, prudes. This couldnt be further from the truth. Most of the active social nudists/naturist I know myself included have active sex lives. The difference is we dont feel the need to broadcast or publicize our sex lives. We leave that to the swingers.

When you naturism is a way of life sex just becomes another thing that is done coincidentally without clothing. Being naked doesnt make sexual arousal any more or less likely as naturists like most other people are attracted to human beings and personalities not just naked bodies. As a recent study pointed out people who are comfortable with non sexual social nudity tend to have better sex lives because they have better body acceptance and self esteem.


Participants who socialized naked reported significantly improved body image and less physique anxiety.
Public nakedness contributes to self-esteem. It helps one appreciate the diversity of the human form and judge themselves less harshly.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/all-about-sex/202211/hate-your-body-public-nakedness-might-change

Papers by social psychologists suggest the reason for this is that social nudists/naturists have different intentions thats those who approach nudity with a sexual lens.

Naturist nudity is not interpreted through the prism of eroticism by naturists, because it does not have sex as an aim. Aleksandra Herman
Social nudism is mainly an outlook on life rather than an instinctive urge. Nudists, on the whole, are distinctly more ethical and social-minded than members of the general populace, and they should not be confused with isolated and invariably severely disturbed individuals who get into trouble with the law for exhibitionistic or voyeuristic acts. Albert Ellis psychologist quoted in the movie The Raw Ones
For the rakes', on the other hand, nudity is a sign of sexual readiness. Whats more, they are not sexually closed', but are rather open' ready to touch and be touched, ready for bodily contact and intimacy. This interpre-tation of nudity is in stark contrast to the one shared by naturists. Aleksandra Herman Naturist Utopia and Libertine Rebellion
We need to acquire the capacity to see the bodies of individuals of the other sex with such self-control and such natural instinct that they become non-erotic to us and can be gazed at without erotic feeling. Havelock Ellis -Psychology of Sex, Sex in Relation to Society (1929)

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