The 2020 Naturist Declaration

Preamble: As members of an increasingly globalised world with constantly updating and refined ways of seeing our interactions with each other and with ourselves, we can no longer stick our heads in the ground and resist moving on with the world.

For this reason, I feel it indispensable to declare the following:

I. LGBTQ+ people must be at the front of the movement, and we are failing them by failing to support them, whether in resorts or on the street. Our lack of presence at Pride and at political rallies showing our commitment to a better world rather than self-imposed isolation in the banlieus only stands to make us lost to time.

II. We must not let the resentment for creeps turn us anti-sex.

II.a Sex and sexual relations are a natural and beautiful part of the human experience and everyone deserves the right to explore their sexuality with anyone else who can and does consent. We must realise that we cannot tolerate sexual material in our spaces as a measure of interacting with contemporary politics, where our spaces become threatened both legally and in terms of safety when they attract sex-seekers that make women and sexual minorities feel unwelcome or unsafe with disrespectful and misogynistic behaviour, not because sex is an act that should be discouraged, repressed, suppressed, or regarded as evil.

III. Everything is political. So is naturism.

III.a We cannot idly sit by as the world moves past us. Bodily freedom is an important, inviolable right and our cause is too important to fall to teh wayside as the relic of a bygone hippy lifestyle. We must be on the forefront, and we must be part of the catalysts for change. We cannot afford "political neutrality". We cannot afford becoming wide tent enough so as to lose track of a better world. We must move leftwards, and we must boldly stand face-to-face with teh Capitalist rot wrecking havoc across our world. One cannot be still on a moving train.

III.b When there is a protest against the neoliberal reforms and increasingly authoritarian states across the world from Europe to Oceania to the Americas, we need to be there.

III.c When there is a protest against police brutality perpetuated predominantly against the disenfranchised in our societies, we need to be there.

III.d When women stand strong and indignant in the face of cultures that perpetually treat them like a lesser gender, we need to be there.

III.e When people protest the climate change that threatens to kill well over 90% of life on the planet and create billions of refugees, we need to be there.

IV. We must prioritise safety.

IV.a In a time of extremely contagious and deadly viral outbreaks, we must follow the instructions given by knowledgeable institutions such as the World Health Organisation and the UN (knowledgeable institutions does not include the US or other undeveloped administrations)

IV.b We must remind naturist resorts to close down for the entirety of the outbreak as necessary, and we must practice social distancing as necessary. We live in the world and it is impossible to ignore this fact. We must press all our facilities to be up-to-date with health and safety information. If any place remains open during an outbreak, we must all do our part to remind them of the risks imposed by deadly viruses and the social responsibility we all bear.