Naturism is not about being naked. It is about being real .
Anna has now been a naturist for eight years. She reports no longer owning a scale. She wears a swimsuit at textile beaches only to comply with local laws, but she feels like an anthropologist studying a strange tribe of clothing-wearers. "I see women at the public pool pulling at their bikini bottoms, sucking in their stomachs, miserable. I want to whisper to them: There’s another way." A common critique of the body positivity movement is that it has been co-opted by thin, white, able-bodied women posing nude to prove they are "brave." True body positivity is supposed to be for marginalized bodies—fat bodies, disabled bodies, scarred bodies. Naturism is not about being naked
Naturism has no likes. No followers. No filters. She reports no longer owning a scale
