Naked Hiking in the Press and in the Public Eye

 

We're very pleased that recent articles in H&E Naturist magazine and BN magazine about our naked hiking holidays generated so much interest. Personally, we need no convincing that naked hiking is a concept that's really establishing itself in the public consciousness, or that it is becoming increasingly popular in so many countries, and we are only too happy to form a part of this concept and its growing popularity!

In several, mostly Western European, countries, visible nudity in public spaces is becoming more and more acceptable to the wider population. Or it may be that the population as a whole is becoming more tolerant of other people's different and "peculiar" ways. Or it might well be that some of this recently-discovered tolerance for public nudity is riding on the back of all the hard work that's been done by the LGBT+ community over the last few decades in gaining wider acceptance of different bodies, identities, sexuality and other aspects of our lives that were previously deemed too personal to talk about. It's most likely that all these circumstances have had a part to play.

The nudist community has also been working hard at making nudity more commonplace and acceptable. The last 20 years has seen an increasing amount of nudity in public; at parades, protests, festivals, concerts and celebrations such as Burning Man, Mardi Gras, Día del Desnudo, Glastonbury and the immensely popular, and visible, WNBRs, that are celebrated annually in several locations across the globe, from Sydney to Seattle.

Various national naturist associations are doing far-reaching promotional work in their respective countries, both together with and independently of the INF. In the UK, for example, British Naturism has been working hard at raising the profile of naturism in the media, with TV appearances, radio interviews and mainstream newspaper and magazine articles. These appearances are only now possible because a critical mass of people has come to understand that there is another kind of nudity which is completely at odds with the titillating, "Page 3-style" nudity of the 70s and 80s.

The promotion and coverage of naturism, nudism, nudity, naked hiking and other naked activities by individuals and smaller, independent organisations across the internet, and particularly on social media, is now hugely extensive (despite the restrictions levied by frustratingly prudish social media platforms and service providers), and the sum of this buzz of internet activity translates into a sizeable chunk of the sum of published nudist material.

We are only too pleased to be amongst the growing number of people discussing and promoting naked living in blogs, web pages, social media accounts and other digital platforms; and we're thrilled to be creating further opportunities to do stuff naked in real life, here in Vera Playa. There's already much more about exactly what we're doing in the other pages of our blog, and it will keep on coming in the future, so watch this naked space!

Kind thanks to H&E Naturist magazine and BN magazine for the use of their cuttings.