Editing Sylt (section)

===The ''Freikörperkultur'' and nude bathing===
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At the beginning of the 20th century, the bathing beaches on Sylt were [[Sex segregation|segregated by sex]] into "ladies' bath" (''Damenbad'') and "men's bath" (''Herrenbad''); one bathed in long bathing dresses of that time period. From the beginning of the 20th century - starting from the Free German Youth camp Klappholttal and the intellectuals and artists in the village of [[Kampen (Sylt)|Kampen]] - a social movement developed that lived a beach life without clothing (part of the German ''[[Freikörperkultur]] - FKK'' and ''[[Lebensreform]]'' movement). The first official nude bathing beach in Germany was opened on Sylt in 1920.<ref name="DW1">{{Cite news|title=Why Germany's nudist culture remains refreshing|url=https://www.dw.com/en/why-germanys-nudist-culture-remains-refreshing/a-43917929|first=Richard|last=Loxton|publisher=[[Deutsche Welle]]|location=Bonn|date=2019|page=|language=en|access-date=2021-07-24|isbn=}}</ref> Nude bathing and sunbathing (also erroneously referred to as "nudist" or "nudism") spread over the entire island. "Sylt" was associated with nude bathing and the ideal environment for supporters of the ''Freikörperkultur (FKK)''. Since the 1960s, there have been designated [[nudist]] beaches (marked ''FKK-Strand'') with names such as "Abyssinia", "Samoa" or "Zanzibar" on the entire west beach. The most famous nudist beach on Sylt became the "[[Groyne]] 16" (''Buhne 16'') in Kampen through regular reports in the tabloid media. Today the boundaries between nude and textile beaches are becoming more and more blurred. While nude beaches have lost some of their popularity, it is no longer unusual or sensational to bathe or sunbathe on "normal" beaches with no clothes on.