Created Naked

“Naturism is clearly very different from the nudity portrayed in magazines, newspapers, video and television. It is not for titillation. Mass nudity is far from erotic. Uncovered genitalia do not lead to an inability to control sexual urges. Nor does clothing prevent rape or assault, or hinder amorous advances.”—Karen Gorham & Dave Leal “Social nudism/naturism is a transformational and healthy way...

“Hollywood blockbusters suggest nudity can only exist to invoke a sense of sexuality or for shock value, and given how affected we are by the media we consume, these sensationalizing portrayals could be affecting your personal relationship with nudity. —Kavya Racheeti, https://utdmercury.com/films-should-respect-naked-bodies-not-stigmatize-them/ “Mental aversion to nude bodies effectively blinds u...

“To be naked is to be oneself..” John Berger, ‘Ways of Seeing’. “Nature was not meant to be experienced clothed. Once you feel the breeze on your naked skin and the cool earth beneath your bare feet, you’ll realize that all earlier experiences were like looking at the world through a darkened window.” —Author Unknown “We’ve become so desensitized to everything, but the one thing that makes us huma...

“Nudism is such a worthy cause. We must bring the message to the people. We must teach them to unmask their poor suffocating bodies and let them breathe again. Clothes are the enemy.” —Billy Wilder & George Axelrod “Removal of clothing helps to unmask the protective roles we tend to project socially.’”—Barbara Roberts “I danced. I felt then that my shoes and clothes hindered me ... So I took every...

“Our genitals are neither vulgar or shameful, but the way we have been taught has made us subconsciously feel uneasy about the entire matter.” —Dennis Craig Smith, Naked Fear “As a naturist myself I find it astonishing that a religion can worship a particular deity yet regard its most miraculous creation - the human body - as obscene and wicked and so shameful that it should be hidden from view. —...

“Seeing other naked bodies, though, did not make me feel disrespectful. It was wondrous. The shared ease made being human more palatable. And I soon realized there is nothing exhibitionist about being naked.” —Jeannette Cooperman https://commonreader.wustl.edu/c/naked-beneath-our-clothes/ “I realized that skinny dipping normalized naked bodies as something natural and universal. Bodies are much le...

“Scripture, tradition, reason, experience: all point to the value of body acceptance, not to the virtue of body shame. Some argue that church tradition doesn’t corroborate the experience of body acceptance. No, the modern church’s tradition certainly doesn’t. But the early church’s rejection of a Gnostic devaluation of the human body says otherwise. Its outdoor nude baptisms say so even louder! To...

“We believe that everyone is born a nudist. They are taught to be textiles using methods like shame and sexualization…” —@KimandJim1 on x.com “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 “Neither I nor anyone else can convince another person just by...

“Of course, there is nothing to stop you thinking immoral thoughts in a naturist environment. But most people think they look much better with their clothes on. That may be the main reason why so many people worry so much about the 'need' to keep wearing clothes - it is not modesty, but pride.” — Bob and Sue Hazelden, http://www.hazelden.org.uk/l3_sauna_belief.htm “…The role of being nude, especia...

“If anything is sacred the human body is sacred.” —Walt Whitman “If you equate nudity with sex, then you will understand anything promoting nudity as encouraging promiscuity. But once you realise the two are quite distinct in the Bible - as they have been through most of history - then nudity becomes a practical, not a moral issue. In other words, not an issue at all.” —Bob and Sue Hazelden, http:...

“The forbidden fruit of mere physical sex differences has come to assume an undue importance, and nakedness regarded as an aphrodisiac subject to pornographic exploitation.” -Frances & Mason Merrill “…one of the reasons I think that naturism is such a death blow to pornography bondage... Because it means that since it is not any sort of sin or forbidden experience to see the nude human form, it to...

“Man is the sole animal whose nudity offends his own companions, and the only one who, in his natural actions, withdraws and hides himself from his own kind.” – Michel de Montaigne, writer, 1533-1592 “Sure, some people might believe they are offended by nude bathers, but, if you never encounter anything that offends you in your community, you are not living in a free society.” – Corky Stanton – Fo...

“If you read Genesis 3, it's pretty easy to see that after Adam and Eve sinned, there was a "who" that told them that they were naked and evidently focused the need for covering on the genitals. That "who" can only be Satan. And oddly enough, I believe satan's focus on the genitals is very similar to what [many] pastors assert. Satan peculiarly hates our genitals because it is by our genitals that...

“How idiotic civilization is!  Why be given a body if you have to keep it shut up in a case like a rare, rare fiddle?”  ~Katherine Mansfield, writer, 1888-1923, Bliss and Other Stories “What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful than the garment with which it is clothed?” – Michaelangelo, Artist, 1475-1564...

“It’s not a girl’s responsibility how a man looks at her or how he acts…”—Olivia Dunne, Elle, https://www.elle.com/culture/celebrities/a44578096/olivia-dunne-interview-2023/ “Nudity is not and does not have to be inherently sexual. To expose our flesh does not “invite” sexual attention or excuse the behaviour of predators.” —Natasha Devon “Exposed to different bodies and breasts, my kids are seein...

“Naturism is liberation from the attitude that you have to have the perfect body. What you’ve got doesn’t matter because naturists see people for their spirit, for what they are.” —Micaela Stanford, quoted in https://disabilitynow.wordpress.com/2012/12/07/the-naked-truth/ “Sunbathing nude was a liberating experience. It felt unbelievably crazy to take off all my clothes and play in the sun. I've n...

“Body image is such a big thing in the 21st century. Most people feel there is something about themselves that is not so wonderful but people find when they get into naturism that no one is bothered about it. It’s the media and fashion industries that makes you feel you should hide yourself in a room if you don’t have the perfect body, which doesn’t exist anyway.” —Andrew Welch, quoted in https://...

“The whole point is it is freedom - the freedom of deciding if you want to wear clothing or not because you don't care about being seen naked.."There is a difference between wanting to be seen naked and not caring. It is an irrelevance whether I am nude or not. Naturism isn't something you do, it is not a hobby - it is a way of living." —Simon Berriman (@sberriman on x.com), https://www.mylondon.n...

What I am getting at is that we build it all up in our minds that it's going to be crazy and weird to see penises and butts and breasts everywhere - that we're going to have some sort of sexual response, or be grossed out, or not know where to look, or be embarrassed. And I will admit that my first time, there were a few points when I asked myself what the heck I was doing - more when I looked dow...

“We alternately think of nudity as a perversion and a state of innocence. Why is our response so contradictory and why is nudity treated so differently in different contexts?”—Ruth Barcan “Seeing these women with different body shapes entering the river uninhibited, I found my own body hang-ups diminished. One of our group commented that she saw all the things that she hated about her own body ref...

"One thing that convinced me that naturism is good was asking myself which is healthier: to be afraid, bashful, ashamed, or embarrassed to look at another person's body, perhaps commenting that "nobody wants to see that" or objectifying it? Or to be able to look at a person as he or she really is without any fear, shame, judgment, embarrassment, or objectification, and just accept the person calml...

“Most people in current society only see a real live penis in a sexual setting and therefore only see it as a sexual object. There is no mental separation between the flaccid penis and the phallus their only experience with the penis is the phallus. The earlier cultures had the experience of seeing a penis as part of the normal events of living and could realize there is more to a penis than just...

“What we learned was that the viewing of the unclothed human body, is far from being destructive to the psyche, seems to be either benign and totally harmless or to actually provide positive benefits to the individual involved.” —Dennis Craig Smith and Dr. William Sparks, Growing Up Without Shame “While this [children’s experience of social nudity] can be a highly emotional, even controversial iss...

“Many of us may be unaware that nudity is a normal condition that has prevailed throughout most of mankind’s existence.” —Aileen Goodson “Limiting the cultures mentioned to the Greco-Roman region is extremely limited and potentially misleading. Because nakedness being normal isn’t a Greco-Roman thing, it’s a human thing, across human history all over the globe it’s been pretty normal.” —Chris, Mud...

“It is no small thing to feel the warmth of the sun on your skin. —Marty Rubin “In terms of deep reverence, being naked allows us to feel more acutely the relationship with the breeze, the wind, the skies, the light and the dark  … the fullness of the natural world, and so encourages a richer, more genuinely felt interaction.” — Emma Restall Orr “Nudity is liberty.  Our bodies thank us for disrobi...