Here’s a social media-style post exploring the connection between and the naturist lifestyle :

Portable camcorders allowed resort members to record events like pageants for personal or community archives.

At first glance, these two concepts seem complementary. In practice, naturism is arguably the most effective, visceral application of body positivity available today.

: In textile (clothed) society, we only see unclothed bodies in highly curated contexts: pornography, medical diagrams, or advertising. Naturism floods the brain with images of real bodies—bodies with scars, cellulite, stretch marks, mastectomy scars, uneven breasts, hairy backs, paunches, and prosthetic limbs. Within hours, the brain stops judging these features as "flaws" and begins seeing them as simply human variation .