I grew up going to the sauna. Most people I know did. It's just what you do in Finland. On Saturdays, after sports, at the summer cabin, on Christmas Eve, any time really. Family sauna nights. Sometimes with people you just met. And you go naked. Nobody thinks much about it.

I didn't realise this was unusual until I left Finland and people started asking me questions. Aren't you uncomfortable? Isn't it awkward? How do you know where to look?

The questions confused me more than the nudity ever had.

When you grow up seeing real bodies your whole life, all shapes, all ages, all sizes, you stop attaching so much meaning to it. It's just a body. It keeps you alive. It gets you from place to place.

I think a lot of body image issues come from never seeing normal bodies. Just edited ones, filtered ones, bodies that were specifically selected to be looked at. Then you compare yourself to that and feel like something is wrong with you.

Finnish sauna culture is the opposite of that. A sixty year old and a twenty year old sitting there together and nobody is performing anything for anyone. It's just people. It gets boring in the best way.

I'm not saying every Finnish family is the same, but this was a completely normal part of life for me and for most people I grew up with. Nobody treated it as a big deal.

That doesn't mean you need to join a naturist club or make it your whole personality. I'm just saying maybe nudity doesn't have to be as loaded as it feels for a lot of people.

Once a year in Mexico, many people gather to take a photograph at a monument and then walk to a park to do activities like dancing, drawing, eating, playing soccer, etc. This year I was able to participate and had a great experience.

I can answer how the experience was and how people reacted

Día al desnudo ciudad de México

Una vez al año se convoca para un marcha pacífica para la visibilidad del nudismo y sus beneficios este año se realizo en el auditorio Nacional de México, se tomó una fotografía y luego caminamos hasta llegar al parque de la Amistad México Azerbaiyán donde se realizaron actividades de baile, yoga, pícnic, body paint y mucho más puedes ver como fue el proceso y la experiencia en...

https://youtu.be/iq1CKu_EYU4?si=z8yp4C8aZJ0GuPGV

For those who don’t know, Día al Desnudo is an annual gathering a peaceful, clothing-optional manifestation to normalize nudity and promote body acceptance.

This edition took place in Guadalajara, and the next one will be in Mexico City.

Normalizing nudity isn’t easy; it means unlearning shame, confronting judgment, and choosing vulnerability.
But every time I see people show up with curiosity, openness, and a real desire to reconnect with their bodies, it reminds me how powerful this movement is.

It's a collective journey — slow, beautiful, and absolutely worth it.
🌞💛

The most common assumption is that it's some kind of lifestyle you sign up for. Like there's a membership card involved. A community you join, events you attend, a whole identity you take on.
For me, it's just. not wearing clothes sometimes. That's it.

The other one is that everyone is constantly looking at each other. I genuinely don't know where this comes from. In my experience, it's the opposite. Nobody cares. You stop noticing after about five minutes, and then you're just sitting there thinking about what you want for lunch.

I think nudity gets so loaded in people's heads because they've mostly seen it in contexts where it means something. So when you take away the context, it still feels like it should mean something. But it doesn't have to.

Sometimes it's just a warm day, and you'd rather not wear clothes.

Went on a hike with my local nudist group out to Deep Creek Hot Springs. It was great meeting people there (many of whom were nude, but there were some clothed people who were very chill about us being nude), and it was especially nice meeting other young nudists there who were around my age. It was a very lovely day!

I'm the one with the cowboy hat 🤠 roughly in the center of the picture.

Over the years we've made so many great friends in St Martin that we do fun byob days twice a year. This was one of those days.

The captain (me 😁) gets to partake doesn't have to worry about driving the boat all afternoon. We can have up to 22 people on board and these days we're always at capacity.

We're anchored right in front of the nude beach so it's the perfect spot to enjoy a day on the water.

If you're ever on that beach and see us, feel free to come by and say hi.

In Mexico, a nude photograph is taken at a monument, and then people walk naked to a park where activities such as dancing, yoga, body painting, picnics, etc. take place.

The reason is to raise awareness of nudism and its benefits and to show more people what it's like.

You can see what the experience and the whole process are like in this video.

https://youtu.be/iq1CKu_EYU4?si=r0bdqTjm8KQF5z2Z

I think this is one of the things that's hardest to explain to people who have never actually spent time at a nudist resort. The nudity isn't really the activity. You're playing darts at the bar, swimming, eating dinner, talking to people, going for a walk — you're just doing all the same ordinary things you'd do anywhere else.

And after a surprisingly short amount of time, you genuinely stop noticing that nobody is wearing clothes. I think that's actually one of my favorite things about social nudism. The extraordinary part isn't getting naked; it's discovering how completely ordinary being naked can feel.

For people who regularly visit nudist resorts, was there a particular moment when you realized you had stopped noticing the nudity?

We visited Montalivet 3 years ago and went to Valalta, Croatia 2024 and 2025 but this time we are going to Euronat for the first time and wonder about the differences compared to Monta.

When we went there 2023 everyone advised us to rent bikes but we didn’t and we found the distances totally acceptable since we enjoy walking and also had our (then) 3yo in a stroller.

What can we expect this time? Is the layout of Euronat even more demanding on the walks?

Any other advice you can give regarding our destination? We will arrive by rental car and our hopes is to both have a nice time in the sun but also get to know new people, participate in activities, have our daughter find friends and simply enjoy life.

We can only speak Swedish and English but our 6 yo daughter is actually fluent in both too. Will there be a problem we don’t know any French?

Also, is there an age limit on the pool waterslides? I remember there was in Monta.

Any and all info possible would be appreciated.

(Pic from last year’s visit to Valalta)