In dozens of interviews around the country over the last month, people who practice nudism in one form or another told correspondents for The New York Times that going nude simply felt good, filled heed for adventure, and fit with personal ideas about being open and honest with other people.

“Some things are too simple to be analyzed,” said Christopher Adams, a 22‐year‐old hairpsichord builder who swims and sunbaths in the nude on a beach near Truro, Mass., on Cape Cod. “If I come here and lie in the sun all day and go to bed at night, “I feel good,” he said. “There's a sense of freedom. That's all there is to it.”

A young administrator at the University of Michigan said he and his wife found more friendliness among nude bathers.

“The atmosphere of the place is much more congenial than I have found at any other public beach,” he said, “It seems that physical stripping is accom‐panied by psychological stripping — you feel completely vulnerable. Consequently, threatening acts are kept to minimum and in fact, people “go out of their way to be nonthreatening. They make special effort to be friendly, hoping for reciprication. And they usually get it.”

A Deeper Trend

Some psychologists see deeper trend of society maturing out of its inhibitions.

‘In this country we're beginning to do away with prudish ethics, but we're way behind the times,” said Dr. Dixon Spivy, vice chairman of psychiatry at the Illinois Masonic Medical Center in Chicago. “The real question should be, ‘Can you make people wear clothes?’ “ Dr. Spivy added:

“The bathing suit shrunk from Victorian Arctic underitear to the string bikini. The women's liberation movement has come up with the male centerfold. The young streakers have arrived to foil the life‐style of the middle‐aged. These are all beginnings of a new trend.”

Marc Danzis, a lay counselor in Tempe, Ariz., said:

“The commonly accepted erogenous zones for men and women serve as the center for primal insecurity. Uncovering those areas brings an exhilaration that can come only with a new‐found freedom. The freedom gained is the freedom from the fear of exposure. Having exposed yourself, you no longer have to fear that someone else may expose you. You have made yourself completely open to the world, but you have picked the conditions.”

“There is a move today to be more in tune with one's feelings, and the increase in public nudity is a reflection of this,” he added. “As the first trend continues, the latter will follow.”