Paradoxically, the Chinese society has long put up with social nudity. Someone told me of women in rural places, young and old, who in the old days did not bother to wear tops in the suffocating heat of summer.
It is civilization, I realized, that put the camouflage of clothing on those who did not feel awkward before. In a sense, it is like the topless men who wander out of their urban homes in the summer. The government has made efforts to discourage them from the old habit, which dies hard. I guess you will not see such an "ungainly" sight during the Olympics because their neighbors will talk them into wearing a T-shirt.
My first time at a nudist beach was by pure accident. It was my first trip overseas - to Vancouver. I took an aimless walk along a beach near a university, and one turn, I found myself among a group of totally naked people.
One cannot separate nudity from sexuality until one has been to a nudist colony. No amount of squabbling can convince the non-believer. I am still amazed that China has nude models at fine arts academies. It took someone like the painter Liu Haisu to pioneer it and Mao Zedong to prevent it from being abolished. Actually, Mao called the efforts to ban it "feudal thinking", adding that even when bad incidents came out of it, it is a small sacrifice for the sake of art.
I am sure there are people who go to a nudist beach mainly to ogle. When China reintroduced social dancing in the early 1980s, people were also worried that it could lead to a spurt of extramarital affairs. If you ask around at one of those ubiquitous park dancethons, they will laugh and say the idea is ludicrous.
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