A Tripadvisor nude beach survey of 12,000 people finds that 49% of Americans would like to take a nudist vacation themselves. In a similar survey by CNBC two years ago, 40% of respondents said they'd like to try a nude vacation. Now 53% want to do it. In a nation with about 300 million citizens, that would be quite a lot of nudists.
This is not to say that nude recreation is new. As the American Association for Nude Recreation points out, “For centuries skinny-dipping has been widely accepted as
