Nudists march in Mexico City to celebrate body positivity - Video

(31 May 2025)
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++CONTAINS NUDITY PICTURES++

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Mexico City - 31 May 2025
1. Participants in the nudist march getting ready to undress and begin marching. One of them can be heard giving the signal UPSOUND (Spanish) "Ready, time to undress. One, two, three."
2. Nudists prepare to march
3. Various naked march
4. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Héctor Mártinez, 33 years old, content creator and nudist activist:
"Every year we have come to promote the normalization of the body, we want to break the taboos and prejudices attributed to the body and nudity. The reality is that we are all born with a body and there is nothing wrong with it, and we do not have to feel ashamed or hide it, and also being exposed to real bodies makes us question the beauty standards imposed by social networks, by marketing, and by the media."
5. Feet walking during the naked march
6. A naked woman with a headdress laughs during the demonstration
7. Various naked march
8. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Flor Cortés, 40 years old, photographer:
"As Mexicans, we should get rid of that morbid curiosity, of seeing the body as something bad or sexual, but rather as something natural. That's how God made us, that's how nature made us. Why not enjoy our body, and why not enjoy life naked?"
9. Naked laughter therapy class
10. A flag reading (Spanish) "Nudist community" and bare backs next to it
STORYLINE:
A downtown avenue in Mexico City was once again the stage on Saturday of a march in which hundreds of nudists celebrated the human body.

Starting from the city's Fine Arts Palace and to the shout of 'Ready, time to undress,' the march began and continued for several hundred meters.

According to the organizers, nudists of all ages demonstrated to remove the morbid curiosity and taboo surrounding the naked body.

"We are all born with a body and there is nothing wrong with it, and we do not have to feel ashamed or hide it," said Héctor Martínez.

At the end of the march, the event included yoga classes, laughter therapy, and even a capoeira dance and martial arts class.

Forty-year-old photographer Flor Cortés reflected on how Mexicans perceive the exposure of the naked body.

"That's how God made us; that's how nature made us. Why not enjoy our body, and why not enjoy life naked?" she said.

AP Video by Amaranta Marentes

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