Notice the absence of the word "sexy." Notice the absence of "beach body."

As long as you are wearing clothes, your body is a statement. Your jeans are a political argument about your waistline. Your shirt is a negotiation about your shoulders. Clothes create a constant state of comparison: "Does this fit?" "Does this flatter?" "What does this signal?"

But what if there was a place where body positivity wasn't a trending hashtag or a political debate, but simply a biological fact? A place where you don't have to try to love your body; you simply exist in it.

Not looking in the mirror and saying "I love my belly," but looking at your belly and feeling nothing about it at all. Neutrality. Acceptance. Peace. Deconstructing the "Flaw" In the textile (clothed) world, flaws are magnified. A scar is a story of trauma that must be hidden. Stretch marks are failures of skin elasticity. Body hair is a political statement. Cellulite is a disease to be cured.

This is not theoretical. The Journal of Happiness Studies published research on nudist camps, finding that participants consistently reported higher body image, higher self-esteem, and lower levels of appearance-based anxiety than the general population.