"Be glad, my merry friends, and let the warm sunlight heat now heart and limb! Cast off these cold rags! Run naked on the grass, while Tom goes a-hunting!"
Tom Bombadil in J.R.R.Tolkien's Lord of the Rings

Naturists believe that having a body is natural, and that being naked is natural too. Recent public opinion polls carried out in the UK and the USA both found that over 80% of those polled supported the idea of clothes-free beaches. But if you think it is unnatural or wrong to go skinny-dipping or to have a clothes-free holiday or spiritual retreat then the following pages won't interest you and may even offend you, since they talk about or contain images of nudity. But if you'd like to explore further, please read on.

You have nothing to lose except, possibly, your clothes!

Naturism's central idea is that it is physically, psychologically and socially healthy to spend time naked. Here we add another dimension by suggesting that it can be spiritually healthy too. To explore all these ideas, visit the following areas: