Why Germans love getting naked in public

[Gerald]

“Free-body culture” promotes harmony with nature, and today some Germans sunbathe nude, strip down to play sports and even hike in the buff.

After four years of living in Berlin, I’ve learned to embrace Germany’s http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/2020...ans-so-orderly and more casual approach to nudity than where I grew up in the Midwestern US.

While nudity in mainstream American culture is generally considered to be sexual, here in Germany, stripping down isn’t uncommon in certain everyday situations. I’ve grown used to nude-by-default saunas; taken dips in pools where swimming suits were birthday suits; and surprised a massage therapist when I disrobed unprompted before a treatment, leading him to remark that Americans usually need to be asked to take off their clothes.

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Is it still the case that there is "some form of fixation on this"?