What percentage of the population are nudists
This is no study or anything, just my brain enjoying thinking about nudism, and I realise this question will have a country by country answer - but that's okay, so please feel free to comment.
Lets face it as a nudist (in all its various forms including naturists etc) we are considered a minority of almost any population. But we also need to consider its because nudism is not a highly visible lifestyle when compared to many other lifestyle and past time choices. Because of this in most any country its almost impossible to ascertain the percentage of the population that embrace nudism, even if only on a part time basis or a desire to 'try'.
So here's my thinking for Australia:
Committed nudists (ie those who are nude most of the time or as soon as they can be) are about 1%
Casual nudists (ie those only nude when the time/mood/moment takes them there) are about 10%
Dabbled nudists (ie those who've done it once/twice or 'only when they were a kid') are about 10%
Curious nudists (ie would like to be but for various reasons aren't) is about another 10%
My conclusion is that around 30% of the adult population here are in one form or another a nudist, or have an underlying nudism part to their thinking.
If your reply wasn't so funny I'd probably not appreciate the facetiousness!
Its not a study - I have nothing to do with any work of that nature. It is as I said my brain going over this topic. Why?
Because its related to Questions raised by many others like, should I come out as a nudist at work; clearly if you understand the probability of others being of similar thinking and/or lifestyle it helps you make the decision to come out with work colleagues and let them know you're a nudie!
And how do you define a nudist?
Is it someone who has a casual relationship with clothes? Check. Who is unashamed of being seen naked? Check. Who enjoys the social dynamics of being naked with others? Check. Who calls him/herself a nudist and is welcome to and fits in at a nudist resort? Not me.
Where I live in the US Midwest, nudist resorts discriminate against single fathers like me, and there are no sanctioned outdoor public venues. If there's a suitable term for men who aren't coupled with a female nudist chaperone or drawn to groups of naked gay/bi sexually demonstrative men, it certainly isn't nudist.
I'd say less than 1% of the population is willing to get arrested for "indecent exposure" and a good 99% is a shower/bathtub nudist. It's the middle ground which is hard for me to define.
I think a better definition is: how many percent of the population are going into a naked spa? how many percent of the population are doing naked holidays? how many percent of the population are members of a nudist/naturist organization? There should be some numbers, we should discuss about proofed statistics not about our phantasy or other observations.
If your reply wasn't so funny I'd probably not appreciate the facetiousness!Its not a study - I have nothing to do with any work of that nature. It is as I said my brain going over this topic. Why?Because its related to Questions raised by many others like, should I come out as a nudist at work; clearly if you understand the probability of others being of similar thinking and/or lifestyle it helps you make the decision to come out with work colleagues and let them know you're a nudie!
This probability you can only answer with scientifically methods. 1. define percents of population in which we are interested (be realistic, do we have numbers of that?) 2. google these numbers 3. discuss the results
I checked Google Scholar in the last 30 minutes for the question what percentage of the populationa are nudists. Ok one needs more time to search. It is difficult to find hard numbers. There was one paper which mentioned INF membership as a technique to calculate the percentage of nudists in the population. So for Germany roughly 40,000 members out of a population of 80,000,000.
That's interesting stats. This would need to be extrapolated to also consider the many that are not members. And as you say this would take some real in depth research.
What I can tell you about clubs of many past times, interests and lifestyles is that many have declining numbers, why? The rise of social media allows for people to exchange and interact without fees and political hang-ups of being a member of a club.
Even here in TN if you checked the number of Members from any given country you'd still have to extrapolate for those who are actually from that country but have either not declared that they are or not given a country at all in their profile...all stats need some extrapolation and deeper research hey!
so if somebody is nude 99% of the time, but is so at home and in other completely private settings and is usually on their own - they are not a nudist in your definition?
A good question here would be: how many of the population are naked sleepers?
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