The Screte of Night Yoga

Timeline of non-sexual social nudity

Young Spartans exercising , depicted by Edgar Degas, Circa 1860

Contents
1 Prehistory - 1800
2 1800 - 1899
3 1900 - 1974
4 1975 - 1989
5 1990 - 1999
6 2000 – present
7 Repeating events
8 See also
9 References
10 Further reading
11 Sources

Prehistory - 1800
170,000 BP Humans first wore clothing, a date suggested by evidence based on Lice DNA which shows when the clothing louse first began to diverge genetically from the human head louse. [1]
From c. 650 BC in Sparta, both women and men occasionally went nude in certain festivals and exercise.[2]
720 BC: According to one legend, an athlete, Orsippos of Megara who discards his loincloth wins his race at the Olympic Games. A variation of the legend asserts that the loincloth accidentally falls off a runner at the Olympics who trips on it, strikes his head, and dies.[3] So for reasons of either improved athletic performance or for safety, ancient Greek Olympic athletes compete naked.[4]
393 AD: Students in ancient Greece exercised and received instruction naked and athletes competed naked. This tradition ends in 393 AD, when the ChristianEmperor Theodosius I bans the Olympic Games because he considers them Pagan.[5]

The Adamites, a Christian sect that practiced holy nudity, date back to the 2nd century AD
1st century AD: Historian Diodorus Siculus records that the Celts commonly fought naked in battle.[6] Nudity is mentioned several times in the New Testament, although none of the examples give it the sexual meaning it carries today. For example refusal to wear clothes could be a sign of insanity during this period.[7] Nakedness was also used as a symbol of poverty or vulnerability [3] [4] . There are a few New Testament references to actual nudity, such as (Mark 14:52 ) in which a young man runs away naked from the Garden of Gethsemane, and (John 21:7 ) where Peter is described as naked while he is fishing. Some say that the term means semi-naked, arguing that it is unlikely that a Jewish person would go completely unclothed in public, although others argue that fishermen in the Sea of Galilee did actually work naked .

1800 - 1899

Swedish Sauna(1802)
1840s: Nude bathing was common on the beaches of the United Kingdom by this decade.[5]
1868: Approximate year of the introduction of the swimming-costume. Most swimming, if not all, was done naked up to this point, because wearing clothing of any sort was extremely cumbersome and thus dangerous to the swimmer.

1900 - 1974

The Doukhobors, a sect of Russian origin marching nude in a protest in Langham, Saskatchewan, Canada, 1900s
1900: The Cult of the Nude by German sociologist Heinrich Pudor, and German nude public bathing is seen as starting the nudist movement.[13]


Organised nudism. Postcard of the Zoro Garden Nudist Colony, San Diego, California. (1935)
1933: In Germany, Nazi edict banned many nudist organizations; but nudists re-formed as "sports" groups and were re-legalized.[22]

[edit]1975 - 1989

Nambassa hippie festival New Zealand 1978
1975-02: Australia's first legal nude beach is created when the section of Maslin Beach south of Adelaide is proclaimed legal for both clothed and naked bathing.
1976-1981: The Nambassa festivals in New Zealand, where thousands enjoy the festivals in little or no clothing.

1990 - 1999

NakedBerlin Group of nude men among hundreds of tourists at Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate; photographed by Team Henning von Berg.

]2000 – present

NakedSydney Photographer Henning von Berg and his group of nude women in front of Sydney’s Opera House, 2005

FEMEN in Ukraine, 2008

A Spencer Tunick Nude Installation , 2010

World Naked Bike Ride (WNBR) in Zaragoza, Spain, 2009
Spencer Tunick (born January 1, 1967) is an American photographer. Tunick is best known for organizing large-scale nude shoots. Since 1994 he has photographed over 75 human installations around the world

SYDNEY (Associated Press) -- About 5,200 naked people have embraced each other on the steps of Sydney's iconic Opera House for a photo shoot by Spencer Tunick.

Tunick, who is known for his nude group photos in public spaces, posed participants for more than an hour in a variety of positions Monday.

Nude people raise their hands as they gather on the steps of the Sydney Opera House while they pose for a photo by Spencer Tunick of the U.S. , Monday, March 1, 2010. 5,200 people stripped off for the commissioned photo that is title "Mardis Gras: The Base." (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft)

Sydney Strips