Timeline of non-sexual social nudity Nudity in social contexts has been practised in various forms by many cultures at all time periods. The commune was based in Matheran and had just three members at the beginning; Crawford and two sons of an Anglican missionary, Andrew and Kellogg Calderwood. Heinrich Pudor , under the pseudonym Heinrich Scham, who coined the term Nacktkultur. In he went on to write a three volume treatise with his new term as its title, which discussed the benefits of nudity in co-education and advocated participating in sports while being free of cumbersome clothing.