Lorand, S. (1933). The Psychology of Nudism*. Psychoanal. Rev., 20:197-207.

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(1933). Psychoanalytic Review, 20:197-207

The Psychology of Nudism

Sandor Lorand, M.D.

Some of you may have received a questionnaire a few months ago. It was sent to psychiatrists, psychoanalysts, psychologists and medical men for the purpose of ascertaining their opinion and attitude on nudism. With your permission, I shall attempt to present my answers to this questionnaire.

The aim of the advocates of nudism seems to be, to try to prove the validity of the nudistic movement by implying that the beneficial effects of open air and the sun's rays on the nude body, are confirmed by medical men and that psychiatrists support nudism for its therapeutic value in nervous states. Primarily they believe that group nudism without discrimination will be most effective in the education of children as a preventive of many difficulties connected with sexuality.

It is not at all surprising that at the present when the structure of social life and it morals is undergoing such rapid changes, and when sexual matters are treated so much more freely than they were a few years ago,

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