“If they go textile, they have a broader clientele,” Stout said. That’s not because Americans are growing less interested in communal nakedness, she believes: “There’s a whole lot of nudists out there.” But the venues in which people want to be naked together are changing, from the nudist resorts popular with baby boomers to events such as Burning Man, which is “very nude friendly”, Stout said.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/26/silicon-valley-nudist-resort-lupin-lodge~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Once of the biggest misconceptions regarding Burning Man is the idea that everybody is naked, and there are a few, I think I counted 42 people in their birthday suits, a tiny number really.
I’ll be at Saline hot springs over New Years, and it’s a haven of nakedness, but really only pretty much in the tubs. About 8.4 out of 10 will be naked while soaking, and you’d almost guess that those with bathing suits on would feel kinda weird being outcasts.
My theory about nakedness in the USA, is we are only ever naked when having sex, and there’s this assumption that if we saw each other in the flesh in such a way elsewhere, well, there’d be no way to control our animal urges!
This is Naked Capitalism after all, and one thing I think it does while soaking with others also not attired, is it strips away one last layer of bullshit, and conversations in the hot springs are simply out of this world, aided by the idea that nobody has a smartphone welded to their hand, avoiding avoidance as it were,
