The Miracle of Social Nudity

I’d been to my fair share of 'bikini beaches' before and only ever noticed all the firm and gorgeous bodies that in my eyes, I looked absolutely nothing like. I was this fat and disgusting blob!

But here at this clothing optional resort (where no-one chose to wear clothing I might add) with everyone going naked, I suddenly noticed something in the midst of all this nudity that I'd somehow never registered before.

Bodies came in all shapes and sizes and mostly looked nothing at all like models. Surprise! Surprise! the vast majority of bodies looked comfortingly like mine. It was such a relief to feel so normal, to suddenly find myself fitting in. To feel so blissfully comfortable and free in my body was the most incredible feeling.

With the wisdom of hindsight, I can say I was doing what humans do naturally – picking up on information that fits in with our 'truths' and disregards any evidence to the contrary. No wonder my 'truth' that: I wasn't good enough had only grown stronger.

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You won't believe how social nudity changed me

Surrounded by social nudity and going naked myself I no longer noticed people’s shapes and sizes but what started to jump out at me was the depth of their spirit and the size of their personalities. It’s not to say I didn’t notice bodies, it’s just that they became so irrelevant.

One particular woman really brought this miracle home to me. Here she was going naked weighing about 200 kgs, and when she got up to walk to the beach she walked with such confidence that you could see it and feel it in every pore of her body. I would never have believed that possible!

She was vibrant, she laughed, she was fun to be around, and most importantly, as I discovered, she was in love with herself and life.

If she could love herself, fat wobbles and all – why couldn’t I? By comparison, my body was tiny and yet I was wasting my life wrapped in self-disgust.

She blew the myth that men don't like fat women right out the window. Wherever she went, she drew people (and plenty of men) to her like a magnet. When I got to know her and I asked her about her body image and how comfortable she looked going naked, I discovered her secret that made me sit bolt upright.

"Cari," she said, "show me one holy text that says that 200 kgs makes me any less worthwhile in God's eyes than someone who weight only 70 kgs. So until someone proves me wrong - if God can love me, then surely I'm allowed to love myself!"

Zero Eating Disorders
where social nudism is found

Years later as eating disorders . Wow thought the ex-anorexic me – it’s incredible that social nudity could have such a powerful impact. But the genesis for all eating disorders has nothing to do with food but rather body dissatisfaction.

So, I've been visiting a few clothing optional resorts because I wanted to see if I'd still feel as comfortable with social nudity in my body sixteen gravity-fuelled years later. I discovered that nothing has changed... it still feels amazing freeing to go nude. I still feel more comfortable going naked in this context than I do wearing a swimsuit on a bikini beach. It's actually quite amazing.

Eventually, I took my microphone along to do research with others to get their views to try and evaluate why eating disorders are non-existent in naturalist villages. I want to know what it was about clothing optional resorts and social nudism that so successfully dissolves body dissatisfaction that eating disorders don’t exist.

They all seem to agree that when everyone goes nude it:

Here finally was the answer to why you don't find eating disorders within a social nudism environment: YOU DON'T GET EATING DISORDERS WHEN YOU AREN'T JUDGING YOUR BODY HARSHLY.

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