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Hong Kong

There are no official nude or clothing optional beaches in Hong Kong. Some remote beaches are occasionally used by nude or topfree sunbathers, but this list is both incomplete and inaccurate. I will improve it when I have time. There is one local naturist organisation which has had occasional press coverage - does anyone have contact details?

Other countries

Asia as a whole offers few legal opportunities for naturists, but many countries have unofficial places for social nudity: Thailand, Bali, the Philippines, Goa and others, not to mention Japan's onsen (hot springs). Any list would need to be updated frequently as the situation can change quickly. Typically a remote beach area first becomes popular with backpackers who often swim nude, then as it becomes more popular and developed and attracts mainstream tourists, enforces anti-nudity legislation while the original discoverers move on to somewhere more remote. A few upscale beach resorts also permit nudity or topfreedom.

Most Asian cultures are conservative about nudity, and the majority of nude beach users are generally foreigners plus some westernised locals. Rodparkes 05:20, 3 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Japan

People bathe in the nude at spas in Japan, but there are no de facto or de jure nude beaches, let alone any beaches where toplessness is accepted. One model posing nude at a random seaside doesn't quality as a *social* nudity place by any notability standard. --MangoCurry 17:48, 4 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Update: The pic in question was also commented on over at Talk:Suruga Bay, with people saying it's not a nude beach. --MangoCurry 18:12, 4 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thailand

I have heard rumours that there should be somewhere in Thailand that it should be possible to practice naturism, although it is in theory forbidden in thai law. Anyone who knows about this? I wonder if it was at Ko Phangan or Ko Samui. By the way, it is strange that none has opened naturist resorts that are closed off from none-visitors (that is hotels) --Oddeivind (talk) 18:20, 22 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Eurocentric concept

Isn't the very concept of a "list of social nudity places in Asia" Eurocentric? Nudity is traditionally common, if not the norm, in most of Asia. The idea of nudity for recreational purposes is alien to cultures which regarded clothes as optional in the first place. The term is also very bad English.101.98.175.68 (talk) 00:07, 28 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Certain countries in Asia

Why is public nudity is illegal in for certain countries in Asia

There are no nudist venues in Sri Lanka

Nudism is prohibited in Sri Lanka, and there are no places where social nudity is accepted in the country. There was some talk of converting Calido beach, Kalutara to a nudist beach in 2011 by the then government, but was officially debunked due to public pressure. The two beaches previously listed in the article are textile beaches, and are not presented with any citations either, making them false information; and have therefore been removed forthwith.--Lankan wikier (talk) 14:27, 27 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Irrelevant content should be removed

This and related articles are about places not laws. Interested editors should help remove sections containing no legal social nudity places. - TheMagnificentist 19:31, 28 July 2017 (UTC) - TheMagnificentist 19:31, 28 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the reminder on this point. I've had a go at trimming the article. - Polly Tunnel (talk) 10:31, 31 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Cleanup

The section on China cited sources that stated that nudity has been outlawed, so I deleted the section. Unless there is opposition, I will likely also delete the section on Hong Kong, since it is seems to be a collection of personal observations.

I am going though all the social nudity lists applying a definition of the topic as being places where public nudity is legal, or where there is a recent WP:RS that nudity is tolerated.

--WriterArtistDC (talk) 21:17, 2 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Nudism in Russia?

The Soviet Bloc was famous for nude swimming, but it seems Putin is against it?--WriterArtistDC (talk) 00:10, 3 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]