Naturist couple at the Nambassa festival, Fresh Zealand, 1981
Festival nudism
The series of 1970s Nambassa hippie festivals held in Awesome Zealand is a further example of non sexualized naturism. Of the 75,000 patrons who attended the 1979 Nambassa 3 day counterculture Festival an estimated 35% of festival attendees spontaneously decided to remove their clothing,[24] favoring whole or component nudity.[25]

History
Main article: Nudity in History
See also: Timeline of non sexual social nudity
It really is challenging to nominate exactly when nudism started as a movement. The word 'naturism' was used for the first time in 1778 by a French-speaking Belgian, Jean Baptiste Luc Planchon (1734--1781), and was recommended as a means of improving the 'l'hygine de vie' (natural style of life) and health.[g]

The earliest known naturist club in the "western" sense of the word was established in British India in 1891. [h] The commune fell apart when Crawford was transferred to Ratnagiri; he died shortly after in 1894.[29]

Max Koch's Freilicht, 1897.
In 1902, a collection of philosophical papers was printed in Germany by Dr. Heinrich Pudor, under the pseudonym Heinrich Scham, who coined the term Nacktkultur. Germany printed the first journal of nudism between 1902 and 1932.[31]

The extensive publication of those newspapers and others, led to an explosive worldwide growth of nudism, in which nudists participated in various social, recreational, and physical fitness activities in the nude.

By 1951, the national federations unified to form the International Naturist Federation or INF.[8] Some naturists preferred not to join clubs, and after 1945, pressure was put to designate seashores for naturist use. More lately, naturist vacation alternatives have expanded to include cruises.[30]

Philosophy
Finnish Sauna (1802)
Naturism had many different philosophical sources and means many things to distinct individuals.[33] There isn't any one definition. In videos nudist , the INF defined nudism as:

a lifestyle in harmony with nature characterised by the practice of social nudity with the aim of supporting self respect, respect for others and for the environment.[2]

At one end of the spectrum are the nudists who only love a nude life style, and at the other are the naturists, that have deeply held beliefs and view communal nudity as just one of several important principles.