Nude Swimming Makes Waves In China

The practice of skinny-dipping in public is accepted in various parts of the world, although more so in Europe than in most places in the United States.

Now it seems that swimming in the buff has become a cause celebre in China. That may be because longstanding doctrines within the Communist Party seem positively Puritanical in their sexual morality. Some of that conservatism comes through even in today's more relaxed China, where onlookers were shocked recently that bathers at a public beach would strip down to their birthday suits while venturing into the water.

See: Reuters story.