Can we know how many naturism followers or nudists exist in Australia?
Hello,
I wanted to see if anyone here had any statistics on the naturist population in Australia. It seems to be emergent and was growing as of the 2010s, based on information that I read earlier.
I think it is interesting to see if this question can be answered, easily or with difficulty, so if anyone has time, that seems like an interesting thing to learn in spare time, that is, if anyone is not terribly busy.
I might follow-up with my own post if I later get better information. I probably will look later this week or before December 2024.
So, without further delay, just a few things I would think would be relevant to determining how many naturism people live in Australia:
1) Definition of Australia (Territories, Norfolk Island, Western Australia, South Australia, Northern Territory, Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria State, and Tasmania) (Easy to define with proper populations)
2) estimates or records for Total Population of Australia the nation or for each state or territory (I can easily retrieve from Wikipedia or the CIA World Factbook, or the Australian Census records.)
3) Population in the year 2024 for Australians registered to the Australian associations for naturism. (Australian Naturists (if that is the name), and so on.)
4) Other estimates of how many Australians in 2024 practice or have heard of naturism or nudist practices. Polls would indicate some surveys, and other records or sources indicating responses of Australians to naturism wold be good to establish how popular is naturism.
No answer is the wrong answer, it helps to have respect and collaboration over this.
I will post my response to my own post here in the original post on December Second. I will be looking into some research on my own in the meantime.
Anything that might impart knowledge on how the culture really is in Australia, with a respectful or otherwise impartial literary "tone" or style of writing, might complete the picture of Australia's people and of the naturists in Australia.
And yes, Australia has millions of people living in it.
And has much to offer in culture and food and other goods and tourism.
Australia is a beautiful place in many areas, including, among other areas or places, Tasmania.
The Blue Mountains are also nice.
Western Australia also has some very nice places that are in that state.
I could go on, but there are many other nice and interesting places in Australia.
Thank you for reading this, I will try to get back on my answer to these questions later.
An interesting question, but how would the data be obtained? Most nudists are not part of an official organisation, so that source would be erroneous. Also, what would define someone as a nudist?
I see that there will be difficulty in gathering statistics for "official and accurate" estimates of how many naturists there are in Australia.
Unless I can find some reliable polls about "social nudity," "naturism," and "nudism" and "naturist resorts" and "nude beaches" and their support, I will likely be using some data that might leave an incomplete picture.
Over the next two weeks I will try to look for polls on such topics, and try to see how many total people completed each of these polls about the topics mentioned.
Besides those data points from polls, I will use percentages of naturists relative to "The Total Population of Australia" in total number estimates, and I will compare the total size of members of official organizations to that of the population.
I also will compare favorable percentage in polls that are favorable to the naturism topics in poll questioning, to the estimates of coverage of population by such polls, and try to round out a number of the percentage of the population covered by the polls that spoke favorably by comparing the poll survey population size to the general population total for Australia the United Nations Member state.
I will try to estimate using 2024 numbers.
Thank you all for your questions, I will try to answer other questions in this forum. Many Thanks to the group moderators for letting me become and stay a member of this group.
Also, what would define someone as a nudist?
What defines someone as a nudist would be this:
"Anyone visiting a nude beach or other "naturist area" regularly who practices "social nudity" which would be the nudity of a person in a group setting,
or, a person self-claiming to practice the philosophy of "naturism" or of another philosophy called "anarcho-naturism" or "FreiKorpurKultur" and regularly practices social nudity.
Or anyone identifying as "Nudist" or "naturist" and can say they have been socially nude at any point in their life.
The key is the definition of social nudity and whether one has done it or not in a deliberate and respectful setting.
Naturism, often called social nudity, is defined by the International Naturist Federation as " way of life in harmony with nature characterised by the practice of communal nudity with the intention of encouraging self-respect, respect for others and for the environment."
Another, more simple definition is "respectful community nudity with the idea of respect for the environment."
"Body Acceptance is the idea, Nude Recreation is the way" - Lee Baxendall
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