It is clear that times are changing, and with them societies. Now many things are normal that were unthinkable long ago, and in a few years things that now seem out of place, will be the most common.
Until that time comes, until something is normalized, there has to be a time in which that something is happening, it is receiving criticism and support and it evolves until it becomes common, or else the opposite happens, which ends up being rejected.
All this introduction to say that it is likely that in a few years nudism in the pools It is much more normal than we think, and in part thanks to initiatives such as the one that will take place in Madrid, where public swimming pools will celebrate the Day without a swimsuit or of Swimsuit Optional.
Everything is born from the Association for the Development of Naturism
As we read in El País, the General Directorate of Sports of the City Council of Madrid has contacted the different districts of the city to give each pool option, if you want, celebrate a day when people can go, also if wants, no swimsuit on the premises.
This celebration comes after a proposal from the Association for the Development of Naturism (ADN), not really being new, since it has already been held in previous years in a specific pool.
Ismael Rodrigo, president of ADN, has told the newspaper that:
The day chosen as Day without a swimsuit, which is a Spanish invention, is the third Sunday of July. Although, until now, some pools have celebrated it during Naturism Day, on June 5.
Why a day without a swimsuit?
Surely more than one is thinking that "they will tell me, what a need to do a day without a swimsuit if everyone goes so happy with theirs." Well Rodrigo explains it by ensuring that what they want is to educate:
What we intend with this day is to educate, transmit our values, which are the western values, even of Christians, if you hurry me (...) The body has nothing criminalizable and the best way we have found to transmit it is this, trying not to Use clothes when it is not necessary, and in the bathroom it is not, if it is a nuisance because the wet swimsuit stays. It is a custom built on prejudice and we want to convey this more open way of seeing the world since childhood.
That day they will put warning signs in the pools that carry it out, in case some people prefer not to enter. In the case of minors, they must enter accompanied by an adult, just like the rest of the year.
What do you think?
Here everyone will have their opinion, of course. So I simply give you mine: I dont think is bad. I do not think that day I went to the pool, because to take off your swimsuit you first have to overcome modesty, but once everyone did it (which is not the case, because it is optional), I would end up taking it off too: you know, the power of the group It is tremendous.
With regard to children, I worry very little. We are adults who have sexualized the body of people, and where we only see eroticism, they only see skin. Where desire appears, or repulses it, they only see a body like theirs, or like that of dad and mom.
If I go naked at home and it seems normal, why would it seem strange to see the bodies of other men and women? Of course, it would take them a bit to understand at first why people are naked where they usually aren't; but from there to reject it, or be ashamed to see naked or go naked ...
This could also help you, as Rodrigo says, to feel good about your body, to grow loving each other as they are. How many children have not yet reached adolescence and already have a few complexes? Well, it is our fault, of the elders, of the cult of the body, of the scale, of the comments we make among ourselves and that they hear: "how dare you go with that bikini", "that the belly reaches the feet "and that" with the cellulite you have, you could already wear pants ".
This is criticizable and this yes it is important that we stop doing it, because the concept they have of their body and the beauty model they believe will depend on everything they see on TV, magazines and the internet, and on all the comments they hear on a day-to-day basis when parents think they don't listen to us .
