Created Naked

“What nudity does seem to unleash is a levelling up. Without the social markers clothes provide, everyone, whether a high flyer or one afflicted by low self-esteem, appears freed from the shackles of their everyday life and therefore better able to make friends.” ~ Antonia Hoyle, ANTONIA HOYLE: How Nudefest made me feel comfortable in my own skin “With humble nakedness, there is no rich and no poo...

“Bombarded by images of social-media perfection, I’ve often felt inadequate, but a nudist festival like nowhere else offers an antidote to that pressure to look good, a reminder of the power of the human body in all its forms.” —Antonia Hoyle, ANTONIA HOYLE: How Nudefest made me feel comfortable in my own skin “When people actually try naturism who have poor body image, their body confidence incre...

“This stigma is precisely why many naturists feel the need to keep their lifestyle private, sharing it only with a select group of like-minded individuals. But I believe that staying quiet only reinforces the idea that naturism is something to hide. The more we cloak our lifestyle in secrecy, the more we allow misconceptions to thrive. And let’s face it: society will never change if we wait for it...

“Naturism paves the way for seeing yourself and others as God sees, and elevates the concept of Imago Dei to new and greater heights.” -Phillip Oak, Surprised into Freedom “The Imago Dei is a profound truth that shapes our understanding of who we are and how we are to live. It elevates our view of the human body, seeing it as a sacred reflection of God’s image and a vessel for His glory. When appr...

“Communal nudity—when it occurs in a safe space—has the potential to significantly improve body image. It makes people feel less anxious about how others view their bodies which, in turn, makes them appreciate their own appearance even more.” ~Justin L. Lehmiller, Ph. D. “My nude hiking experience is limited, but I’ve never felt more connected to nature. It’s so primal! I feel like it’s instantly...

“Being naked somehow felt like a superpower. I was deeply connected to the nature around me, the hot air wrapping its arms around my bare body. My naked skin, not divided by the barrier of a swimsuit, was cleansed and cooled down by the rush of the water. My feet felt the groove of the rocks and the sand pushed itself through each one of my toes. I was as connected to nature as humanly possible, t...

“Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet hide not the unbeautiful. Though you seek in garments the freedom of privacy, you may find them a harness and chain. Would that you could meet the sun and the wind with more of your body and less of your raiment.” —Khalil Gibran, The Prophet  “We have come into the world naked, and all the animals are naked, why should man hide his body behind clothes...

“All prejudices and expectations about the body just disappear in the sauna, there we can meet as people regardless of where we came from. As a person who is racialized in Sweden, there is a care for me in this place by people who might not have given it to me in other contexts.” —Cristian Quinteros Sotos, Nudism rise in Sweden; “This is an antidote,” « Euro Weekly News “All humans are of equal in...

“Nudity is allowed for entertainment and voyeurism but not for comfort.  People can handle nude art but why not normal naked bodies?” —Why are we taught shame about nudity and our bodies? — https://rfgjga1992.wordpress.com/2016/01/12/why-are-we-taught-shame-about-nudity-and-our-bodies/ “We had a sermon a while back from our pastor talking about how shaming someone is to go against everything Chris...

“Group nudity can be personally beneficial. Nudist camps are places where people can emerge from hiding behind their clothes and become more self-accepting, revealing and honest.” ~Abraham Maslow “I slowly grew numb to all the naked bodies around me - the “judgement” chatter in my brain drifted away. I was in the moment and could now “see” people much more clearly. It was incredible!” ~RMNC Member...

“Adam and Eve entered the world naked and unashamed—naked and pure-minded. And no descendant of theirs has ever entered it otherwise. All have entered it naked, unashamed, and clean in mind. They entered it modest. They had to acquire immodesty in the soiled mind, there was no other way to get it.” —Mark Twain “Nudity is the purest expression of the beauty which is visible, perfect and manifest wo...

“It is no small thing to feel the warmth of the sun on your skin.” —Marty Rubin “The body seems to feel beauty when exposed to it as it feels the campfire or sunshine, entering not by the eyes alone, but equally through all one’s flesh like radiant heat, making a passionate ecstatic pleasure glow not explainable.” John Muir, founder of The Sierra Club "Go into the water sometime without swimm...

“I just think that people are so weird about nudity and the human body. Sex is not bad, naked bodies are not bad, and naked bodies don't always have to be connected to sex.” —Emily Browning “Social nudism/naturism is a transformational and healthy way to live. It involves accepting one’s own and others’ bodies, embracing nature without the influence of clothing, and celebrating one’s connectio...

“When people actually try naturism who have poor body image, their body confidence increases hugely and their mental health also improves. We are so conditioned to seeing perfect Photoshopped models in magazine adverts which no one can measure up to. When people see real naked bodies of all shapes and sizes, they realise that we are all imperfectly beautiful.” —Gary & Noreen Kennedy, https://m...

 “Shame is really easily understood as the fear of disconnection. Is there something about me, that if other people know it or see it, that I won’t be worthy of connection?” —Brené Brown  “We believe that everyone is born a nudist.  They are taught to be textiles using methods like shame and sexualization…” —@KimandJim1 on x.com “—as where nudity is the natural heritage of a people in which all na...

“Through nakedness we express our wonder and joy at being living, physical, organic beings ... Many gain greater self confidence and self esteem, improve their physical and mental health, and have deeper and more meaningful social interactions.” —Roger Coupe "Have you seen a toddler running around when freed from a diaper? They always grin from ear to ear as they enjoy their newly found freed...

“The convention mis-called “modesty” has no standard, and cannot have one, because it is opposed to nature and reason and is therefore an artificiality and subject to anyone's whim—anyone's diseased caprice.” —Mark Twain The whims of this “diseased caprice” are  played out across cultures throughout the centuries of history. From the modern burka to the  koteka or penis gourd , worn in New...

“The human body is the crown of God‘s creation, consummated by his declaration that it was good.  That God’s people are unable to view the body without sinning is not an indictment of the body itself, but of the immaturity of the postmodern evangelical mind.” —Chad W. Thompson, That Famous Fig Leaf, https://a.co/d/9HNEh1g “So it's being a follower and devotion to Christ first, then naturism is...

“There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth” – F H Bradley, Philosopher, 1846-1924 “What would our marriages, our friendships, our churches, and our communities look like if men and women were not afraid of connecting with each other in deep ways? What if men and women could really know each other without sex getting in the way? What if we did not...

“we humans are 60% water and come into existence floating in amniotic fluid; so the urge to return can feel overwhelming and the requirement to wear a swimming costume nonsensical.” —Rowan Pelling, Inside the nudist renaissance - UnHerd “Despite its puritan roots, the U.S. has a long history of skinny-dipping. Social nudity is celebrated in the writings of Walt Whitman and the landscape paintings...

Due to the recent “updates” and partnership with Spotify for Podcasters and Riverside, and lack of features for mobile producers some previous elements to the podcast are missing. I will try to improve these as I can. In the meantime ponder these thoughts: “I had to shrug off the urge to snigger when I first encountered a nudist beach (the long-established one at Brighton) because the sense that b...

“The whole of nature is nude except man. And by your clothes you have become disconnected from nature”, —Bhagwan Shrew Rajneesh “We’ve become so desensitized to everything, but the one thing that makes us human. We’ve come to accept almost every negative aspect of human nature, yet refuse to condone the most natural state a human being can be — the nude.” —Lauren Martin, https://www.elitedaily.com...

“Our archaic religious teachings have pitted man’s body and spirit against one another, whereas common sense would suggest that God intended the body, mind, and spirit of man to be in harmony. What strange sort of religion have we evolved, that places the godly part of a man in opposition to the whole of his physical being?” —The Raw Ones “The enemy sought to split the body from the integrated who...

“The body is a sacred garment. It’s your first and last garment; it is what you enter life in and what you depart life with, and it should be treated with honor.” —Martha Graham “Apparently it cannot be repeated to often the ideal of the nudist is not a “return to nature,” in the sense of the wholesale scrapping of modern civilization; indeed it is not even an immediate sloughing of all its garmen...

A note from history: The American Sunbathing Association “We believe in the essential wholesomeness of the human body and regard it neither as an object of shame nor a subject for degrading exploitation. We believe that sunlight and air are vital to human life and well-being, and that exposure of the entire body to these elements is desirable at such time and at such places as are fitting and prop...