He said successive Covid lockdowns had acted as a catalyst for many young people who wanted to “get back to the taste of the essential” and “get closer to nature”.
His new book outlines the profile of the “naturist 2.0, mainly urban and surfing on the healthy trend”, saying the image of the new naturist was “a far cry from the grandpa playing boules and living in a shack”. But recently, there has been an explosion among 18-to-25 year olds,” he told Le Parisien.
“Naturism has always been for mixed ages. A new generation of young, urban “2.0 naturists” is on the rise in France as Covid lockdowns and environmental concerns prompt a growing number of the under-30s to bare all outside of old-style nudist camps, according to the authors of a book on the subject.įrance has long been a bastion of naturism, with the southern resort of Cap d’Agde famous as Europe’s largest 'village naturiste', attracting up to 45,000 people per day in the height of summer.īut according to Julien Claudé-Pénégry, spokesman of the Paris naturist association and co-author of the guide “See France Naked”, a growing number of “ultra-connected” young naturists are shedding their clothes - and not just in designated nudist colonies.
