However, body positivity’s broader goals—dismantling systemic appearance discrimination, centering marginalized voices, and challenging beauty standards in all areas of life—extend beyond the naturist beach. Naturism could benefit from adopting more explicit anti-racist, disability-justice, and fat-liberation frameworks. Conversely, body positivity could learn from naturism’s emphasis on non-sexual, non-commodified bodily experience.
The naturism lifestyle argues that clothing acts as a social signal. Clothes denote status, wealth, fashion sense, and adherence to beauty standards. They allow us to sort each other into "acceptable" and "unacceptable" categories instantly. centering marginalized voices