‘People want to get their clothes off’: naturists catch eye of UK businesses

It is legal to be a naturist in the UK, where people have a right to freedom of expression. Photograph: Stuart McGowan/Alamy

Justine Drury did not want to upset the fishers, but her customers wanted to swim naked.

“And if that’s what the people of Nottingham city want – if that’s their way of connecting with nature – then who am I to stand in their way?” said the co-owner of the WholeHealth swimming club. “But we did have to think of the fishermen. They are quite old school.”