Here is a small but genuinely wild fact: one of the most sophisticated philosophical defenses of naturism was written not by a 20th-century nudist reformer or a German Lebensreform enthusiast, but by a Roman emperor in the second century AD. Marcus Aurelius never visited a nudist resort, obviously. But read Meditations with naturist eyes and you’ll find…
The Stoics were basically naturists (they just wore togas)
What a 2,000-year-old philosophy gets right about the body, vanity, and living without performance
