History of naturism in Canada
For most of human history, nudity was a natural and normal part of life. People were naked when the environmental conditions favored them. The “bathing suit” is a very recent invention dating back about a century. It is only with the advent of industrialization that humans began to be ashamed of their bodies. When we began to replace our natural world with manufactured products, we grew up to see everything that was not man-made as imperfect. The human body became an object of shame to be hidden and shaped by clothing.