The real boom in nude vacations is coming at the high end, as upscale hotels and resorts have begun seeing the economic potential in the no-clothes crowd. In 2007, nude recreation represented a $440 million industry -- up from $400 million in 2001 -- and it's still growing. A new clothing-optional condo-resort, Mira Vista, left, in Marana, Ariz., has more than a hundred condominiums on the market.
Most nude vacationers say that what they enjoy most is liberation from the typical pretenses of society.
Nude recreation goes back at least to the ancient Greeks, who competed in the Olympics sans clothing, and later, in the United States, both Benjamin Franklin and Henry David Thoreau lauded the benefits of nude nature walks, or "air baths
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