The Culture of Nudism and Its Affect on Teens

The "Bathing Suit" was only invented about a century ago. Only after the advent of scientific advancement and industrialization that humans began to be ashamed of their bodies. The culture of nudism began to take shape.

As the natural world began to be replaced with manufactured goods, it became known that all that was not man-made was imperfect. That's when the human body became something that people were ashamed of and began to be shaped by clothing.

During the nineteenth century, the culture of nudism began as a self help reform movement in reaction to the debilitating aspects of industrialization and urbanization. This was a time when medicine could neither explain nor cure disease and many believed that crowded and unsanitary cities, tenement housing, restrictive Victorian clothing, and oppressive working conditions all led to poor health and rampant illness. It was said that what people needed was exposure to the natural healing elements of fresh air, sunlight, and water, without the misery of clothing. Experimental clubs opened in Germany and later in France and England as places where people could practice their natural lifestyle without outside interference. Again, turning the face of the culture of nudism.

Though many today's times, nudity is even more popular among teens. Although unless you are above a certain age, you cannot get into a private resort for nudism. Teenagers, however have found that they feel more comfortable naked.

Here in America, the culture of nudism has opened up people's eyes through T.V., movies, and magazines. Many teenagers face pressures growing up from peers about drugs and smoking. Also they get pressure from teachers and parents about grades. Most teenagers today have found that nudism is a relaxing, free feeling that they otherwise, do not get to feel. Though most (even adults) have not made the division between the concept of sex and harmless nudity.