What is Hadaka no tsukiai?
'''''Hadaka no tsukai''''' is an idea in [[Japan|Japanese culture]]. It is the idea of spending time together [[nudity|naked]]. Hadaka no tsukai friendships are not [[sex|sexual]]. They are [[platonic love|platonic]]. A family, a group of housewives from the same neighborhood, a group of businessmen, or a group of classmates might spend time together naked at a [[sentō]] bathhouse, at an [[onsen]] hot spring, or at a health club. This [[psychological bond|makes them feel like a group]].<ref name=Ord>{{cite book|title=Re-made in Japan: Everyday Life and Consumer Taste in a Changing Society|author=Scott Clark|accessdate=July 7, 2021|chapter=The Japanese Bath: Extraordinarily Ordinary |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IR_QNxQSaA0C&dq=history+of+sent%C5%8D&pg=PA89|editor=Joseph Jay Tobin|publisher=Yale University Press|year=1992|pages=89–104|isbn=0300060823}}</ref><ref name=BBC>{{cite news|publisher=BBC|accessdate=July 9, 2021|title=Japan's naked art of body positivity|date=February 3, 2020|author=Lily Crossley-Baxter|url=https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20200202-japans-naked-art-of-body-positivity}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{Japan-stub}} [[Category:Japanese customs]]