I’ll be pilloried for this, but I think nudism is about mostly about transgression.  It “feels great and liberating” to old people because they were so aggressively made to be afraid of being naked or to consider it a sin or whatever.

I think most people my age or younger (and now that’s most people) didn’t get that growing up.  Everyone I know has gone to nude beaches, and apart from being able to get a more even tan I don’t think any of us are that excited about them.

And when you’re not feeling particularly “freed” and “liberated” mostly you’re thinking about whether it’s going to get chilly soon, and shouldn’t I have brought more sunscreen, and where the hell am I going to keep my keys.

So far as I can tell, nudists are the only organization more demographically doomed than the Republicans.

Are people worried that nudists’ skin-cooties will rub off on their own skin? Don’t these people touch doorhandles? When using payphones, do they squirt it with antiseptic and speak through a handkerchief? Truth is, on the public seats that we all sit on every day, members of the public fart their intestinal flora and wipe their grubby fingers and wet and crap themselves and so on. Public stuff is not antiseptically hygenic. And yet the perception is that somehow wearing a g-string makes us magically leave a seat sit-onnable; and wearing a few square inches less makes the seat irredeemably tainted unless you didn’t see us sitting on it.

Still, to address these fears, nudists tend to either carry a towel to sit on; or just to stand rather than sit. Problem solved through social means, no need for anti-nudism laws, yay :)

San Francisco Nudists Are Revolting