“Our naturist revolution” is not like a coup d’état or the 25th of April Revolution. The success of our revolution will essentially follow up from our maturity as Naturists, spreading the message and getting involved in its defence. Only our testimony, day after day, will change the dominant habits and mentality. On the one hand, the Manichaean concept of good and bad, as defined in the Judeo-Christian tradition, and on the other, the exploitation of nudity for commercial purposes, which, in pornography, often reaches extremes of indignity towards the human body, particularly that of women, are one and the same thing.
On the contrary, Naturism means to assert the harmony and welfare which can be achieved following the whole acceptance of the complete body without exceptions. Exceptions, such as the refusal by some to accept some of its parts, particularly those which appear as visible signs of our sexuality, are taken by us as a natural manifestation, without any trace of voyeurism or exhibitionism.
That is our position, a natural one, which some condemn to secret practice, based on subjective moral principles, and some others to explore it to the edge of indignity. Both oppose us because they know that when the day “our revolution” comes true and nudity is seen with familiarity, their postulates will lose social support and their stalwarts vanish.
Our search for the harmony of a healthy body in a healthy mind, as we say, contrasts with the “pseudo moral chastity” of some or the out-of-focus and twisted curiosity, turned so often by anxiety into an obsession, of others.
Naturism is a Philosophy of Life which reveals itself present in many circumstances which affect our wellbeing. However, we understand that the Naturism can only be fully expressed as the voluntary practice of nudity. Only a set of healthy habits, practised in full nudity, will give meaning to the harmony between body and soul, between the physical and the psychological worlds, which is what we defend.
Our nudity, free and collective natural nudity, heightens our human condition and contributes to a better relationship with and understanding of the environment, and Nature as a whole, thus becoming the basic tenet of our Naturist Movement.
Throughout our history, we have seen how many Naturist principles and attitudes have proved right and have been naturally accepted by society. However, nudity is, unfortunately, still controversial and a source of doubts and constraints, if not a taboo anymore. That is why we must keep on Dignifying Nudity, considering it not just as part of our freedoms, but as an inalienable right which is inherent to the human condition, for we are not born with our clothes on.”