The Ethical Naturist



Stephane Deschenes from the Naturist Living Show in a recent podcast coined the term "Ethical Naturist". He draws a contrast between the "ethical" and the "recreational" Naturist as those that take the naturist values outside of the free beach or club and applies them to the everyday world is the ethical Naturist. The recreational Naturist just enjoys the experience of being naked in their chosen location and don't think too much about the philosophy.

You can still be an Naturist and be clothed - hey I'm naked under these clothes aren't I?

Back in my posting in October 2010 I proposed that there were 3 types of people that enjoy the clothes free experience the Nudist the Skinny Dipper and the Naturist.

From the descriptions that Stephane gives he has simplified this down to his 2 types, and uses the term Nudist and Naturist interchangeably as is increasingly common practice, especially in Australia.

In fact the ANF has recently changed it's name from the Australian Nudist Federation to the Australian Naturist Federation.

So we now have a new term in our Naturist lexicon. It's main function I believe will be to provide food for thought amongst those Naturists that are already "ethical Naturists" by action and attitude because the rest are happy just to continue to enjoy their clothing free time, and there is nothing wrong with that!