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By ESTHER MARSHALL Published: 12:46 BST, 16 April 2025 | Updated: 12:54 BST, 16 April 2025
A naturist club in Merseyside has revealed it has a ‘three-visit strip rule’ for newcomers. The Liverpool Sun and Air Club is one of the UK’s ‘longest established naturist clubs’ and was first established in 1933. Naturists can stay in a caravan or campervan on the site or visit for the day to swim in its pool and relax in the sun. The Widnes-based site also has a games room with a ‘small snooker table, table top shuffleboard and various games for adults and children’. But there are a few rules that guests will need to follow at the camp. Day visitors need to complete a short form before travelling to the Sun and Air Club. Photography is forbidden unless people have received permission from a committee member. The club explains that this rule is in place in order ‘to preserve everybody’s privacy’. The Liverpool Sun and Air Club is one of the UK’s ‘longest established naturist clubs’ and was first established in 1933 Naturists can stay in a caravan or campervan on the site or visit for the day to swim in its pool and relax in the sunGuests are allowed to be naked anywhere inside the club but must not strip off when they’re in the main car park. The club states on its website: ‘Clothes must be worn at all times in the main carpark. No exceptions. When the gate is open, people passing can see into the club.’ And if you’ve visited three times and still haven’t taken your clothes off, you won’t be welcomed back. On a recent visit to the Sun and Air site, Liverpool Echo reporter Paul McAuley was told by a member: ‘We have a three-visit strip rule. ‘If you have been and gone three times and haven’t taken off your clothes, you’re likely not a naturist and we aren’t here for sexual gratification. That’s not what we are about at all.’ Nick and Lins, a naturist couple from Belgium, recently told MailOnline Travel that people assuming naturism is sexual is one of the biggest misconceptions about the practice. And Tom Dryer-Beers, a resident at the St-Albans-based Spielplatz naturist resort, says that new members must prove they have a history of naturism to visit the club. He told MailOnline Travel: ‘We do ask that if any visitors come, they give evidence of having had naturist experiences before, because we are looking for people who know what it is like to respect the movement and the residents. Day visitors need to complete a short form before travelling to the Sun and Air Club Guests are allowed to be naked anywhere inside the club but must not strip off when they’re in the main car park If you’ve visited three times and still haven’t taken your clothes off, you won’t be welcomed back’It’s for everybody’s safety and security. ‘There are people who don’t understand naturism and don’t respect those who just enjoy being socially naked with friends and we don’t want them visiting.’An Ispos survey published in 2022 found that 6.75 million Britons identify as a ‘naturist’ or ‘nudist’. It also found that 39 per cent of those surveyed had previously skinny-dipped, sunbathed nude of visited a nude beach or resort. Naturism is popular in many countries around the world and there are designated beaches across Europe, North and South America and Australia. Mexico’s Zipolite Beach is one of the best-known across the pond while Spain has a huge range of nude spots for naturists to choose from. Find out where the world’s best nudist beaches are in this interactive map from MailOnline Travel.
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Inside the British naturist campsite where everyone has to ‘get naked’
