“I’m an enthusiastic outdoor swimmer, swimming throughout the year wherever I can find a body of water. Sea, river, lake, large pond, I’m not fussy,” writes Rebecca Clark. “But this naked stuff is new.”
I’m not alone in loving it. There is a “new naturism” emerging amongst women across the country , and when I reached out to the swimming networks I am part of to find out why, I was inundated with women with similar stories to mine.
Take Jen, the friend who introduced me to this. She’s 35, and a planning director for a London advertising firm. “It’s such a contrast from my daily life,” she says. “Which is offices, PowerPoints, being professional. It felt like a wild and liberating thing to do.” Gemma, 35, a Londoner who works in fashion, says naked swimming “brings [her] back to [her] primal self”, that “it is so healing… an antidote to the conditioning and constraints imposed by modern life”.
These motivations aren’t novel, or unexpected. We swim naked because it connects us more intensely to things: the water, the natural world, our bodies. But the simplicity of the motives doesn’t make the practice any less powerful. And as Rhia, 36, a holistic therapist in Norfolk who started naked swimming a couple of years ago says, there’s also an ecological factor too. It is “a way to reconnect to the earth”; after all, “we are water”.
So are these women bringing nudism into other aspects of their lives? Almost resoundingly no. I feel largely the same. While I’ve told a university friend I’ll join her in exploring some of the country’s nudist beaches, and agreed with Jen that participating in World Naked Gardening Day might be within our comfort zone, I certainly don’t see myself participating in naked bike rides across London in the future.
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