Is acceptance of naturism in the UK increasing or decreasing? The official opinion from BN is that it is increasing. Certainly there is increasing tolerance of nudity in the media, but is there really more understanding of naturism? When there are complaints of behaviour on beaches, the official view is that the problem is nudity. Naturists may make fine distinctions between acceptable and unacceptable behaviour, but the official view is usually automatically that the problem is nudity and the solution is to ban nudity. And of course it is much easier to ban nudity, an easily observable fact, than unacceptable behaviour, to prove which may require extended observation or evidence of witnesses. Each time this happens at an established location, the naturist movement has to make another major effort to get its view across just to continue a use which in many cases has been tolerated for years.
There is a larger commercial naturist market of private resorts and leisure facilities allowing exclusive screened naturist use at set times; showing there is enough demand to make money, but this does not involve any degree of general acceptance, except for the establishments' need to find staff who don't claim to be offended by nudity.
In terms of places where public nudity is accepted, even away from popular areas, I suspect the situation is at present stagnant or going backwards.
