A nude beach is one of the most popular ways to explore social nudity. So with nudism on the rise, largely being driven by the younger generation and inspired by dedicated accommodation sites like , we asked experienced naturists for their top recommendation for the best beaches around the world to get naked for the first time.
Elsewhere in Europe, public nudity has been popular for decades. In Finland, Denmark and France, women fought for and won the right to be topless on beaches and public swimming pools (a movement called top freedom) and nudism has long been accepted in Greece, Italy, Spain and Iceland. Tartu, in southern Estonia, where I spent the last European summer, had a nude beach on the Emajogi River, said to have been a naked swimming and sunbathing spot dating back to Soviet times.
Of course, the advantage of having nominated nude beaches and bathing areas is that if you don’t want to see naked folks, you simply pick another beach. What has happened to Australia’s live-and-let-live egalitarian mentality – especially here in the so-called “alternative” centre of northern NSW?
Denmark is known for its public nudity. But more than half of Danes are against naked people on the beaches
No beach is off-limits for the urge to strip off, although there are also designated nude beaches. But young Danes don’t like it. Young people under 29 are the most modest: 68 per cent of them think men should not be allowed to bathe naked, while 60 per cent of them think women should not be allowed to go skinny-dipping.
