Clothing creates a fantasy. It allows us to hide flaws, but it also prevents us from realizing that flaws are normal .

Naturism is the original body-positive movement. Before the hashtags, there were the German Freikörperkultur (Free Body Culture) movements of the 1920s, promoting health and equality. The path to body positivity is uncomfortable. You cannot think your way into loving your belly. You have to feel your way there by experiencing that the world does not end when the belly is exposed.

The naturism lifestyle offers a shortcut past the years of therapy and the self-help books. It offers exposure therapy on a massive scale. It shows you that your body is neither a masterpiece nor a disaster—it is just a vessel for your consciousness.

The naturism lifestyle is the ultimate form of .