Freikörperkultur
- A German movement that roughly translates into Free body culture.
- A movement that endorses a naturalistic (a cultural/political movement defending social nudity) approach to sports and community living.
- They wished to experience the nature of being nude without a direct relationship to sexuality.
- The FKK movement is based on the attitude that the naked body is not a source of shame.
- The FKK culture does not involve secuality, nudity has to have prior group consent.
- The followers of this ideology are called Traditional Naturalist, FKK'ler, or nudist.
The beginning
- Before the 18th century
- People bathed naked in rivers, often divided by gender.
- Nude bathing was practiced by Lord Monboddo who preached the attitude that the Ancient Greeks had towards nudity
- After the ban
- In 1898 the first Freikörperkultur club was founded in Essen.
- 1900's: More Swedish baths arose in Berlin and the North and Baltic Seas.
- Between WWI and WWII
- First Nude beach established in Germany in 1920
- When Hitler came to power nudist organizations were either banned or integrated into Nazi organizations.
- By 1942 the German ban against nude swimming was softened by allowing nude swimming in some areas.
WWII to Present Day
- The Deutscher Verband fur Freikörperkultur (German Association for Free Body Culture) was founded in 1949
- 1950: The first naturist holiday resorts were opened in France
- Naturist organizations gain many new members in the 1960s
- Later in the 20th century Naturism became popular outside of Germany.
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