Created Naked

“In all nudity that you ever get to see, whether it’s in movies, strip clubs, or museums, it’s always meant to trigger a feeling or emotion in the viewer. Whereas in naturism, there is no viewer. There are no emotions to be triggered in other people, only in ourselves.” Nick & Lins, Naked Wanderings, https://www.nakedwanderings.com/getting-comfortable-around-naked-people/ “I think clothing is abou...

“For girls especially, there is so much pressure in our society to be a perfect size. As a result, there is a whole generation of people killing themselves to meet a standard that is impossible. Part of living a naturist lifestyle is accepting your body and regaining a normal body image.” —Nicky Hoffman “Discovering naturism has given me the freedom to be myself, free from judgement & expectation,...

“The trouble with these men who try to adjudicate upon what is moral or immoral in dress is that they really know nothing about the subject.”— George Bernard Shaw “Inherent in the condition of laws that prohibit exposure of certain body parts is the circular justification revealed by the following: we know exposure of these parts should be outlawed because showing them is immoral. We know exposing...

“So it's being a follower and devotion to Christ first, then naturism is an aid given to me by God to help me walk in the Christian way,... But now I see how the very idea of thinking nudity is a moral crime, is a moral crime. Because it's a moral crime to blame God for creating live porn and tempting us to sin just by what He created” —DaveT, naturist-Christians.org “But treating the body as “dec...

“Christians have fallen into the trap of equating nakedness with sin alongside a culture which uses intimately revealing clothing and nakedness to entice and seduce. Such a heady combination has created an unhealthy and unbiblical attitude to the human body.” - Bob Horrocks, Uncovering the Image https://a.co/d/7iseHu1 “You, reader, were created by the divine Word in your mother’s womb no less trul...

“The driving force behind my desire to be nude with others is authenticity. It is an intentional letting go of who I think I'm supposed to be or others expectations of me and embracing who God made me to be. Being naked with others is vulnerable and it is much more difficult to hide. It develops my own self-awareness and practices intuitive empathy with others. Being naked with others cultivates t...

“The freest people I know are those who have the least to hide, defend or protect. Naked is powerful.” —Alan Cohen “What we need is both freedom from prudery and the freedom to express our feelings.” —Margaret Mead “A body is a body is a body. There is nothing innately sexual about exposing your torso — it’s not suggestive or provocative, simply freeing and enabling.” —Ulrika Jonsson

“Nudism is not about seeing others naked or being seen naked, per se, but I also think it would be disingenuous to say that seeing and being seen are not part of what makes nudism so liberating and empowering. Overcoming the fear instilled in us throughout our upbringing and, for many of us, throughout much of our adult lives, by confronting head-on the anxiety associated with being nude in front...

“Our aim is the healthy mind in the healthy body. We aim to make nudism not merely a fad, but a new social practice. We believe nudism can rid the world of sex ignorance and prudery by making the human body familiar and accepted without eroticism. People ask us why we’re organized, why we don’t just practice nudism as individuals. Well, sir, we believe in this thing, we want it extended and legali...

“Body acceptance is radical and risky. It runs against the cultural current by blowing three whistles on how we see and treat the body. First, it denounces Western society’s propagation of the “perfect” body—an illusory standard of ideal beauty popularized by media and marketing. Second, it debunks slanderous fallacies and conventional fantasies about our naked anatomy by refusing to see he body a...

“I'm fairly convinced that our current culture's clothing compulsion and obsession is counter to God's design (call it "sin" or "perversion" if you like). I'm not saying everyone should be a nudist, and we should all be naked everywhere. But there is a troubling spirit around the way nudity is treated in modern America - and the Church is probably the worst offender. “ —Name Withheld , Naturist-Ch...

“Nudity is the purest expression of the beauty which is the visible, perfect and manifest work of God.—Alexandre Najjar” “Furthermore, because God created it, “The human body can remain nude and uncovered and preserve its splendour and its beauty.” – Pope John Paul II “How is it possible for the human body, which was created in the image of God, to be offensive to anybody? Satan would love to see...

“Body shame, like prejudice, is not natural. It is learned from others and benefits no one.” —Author Unknown “When we are ashamed of God’s handiwork, it is really God Himself whom we are setting ourselves up to criticize. Instead of being a mark of piety or reverence, the obscenity superstition is itself the most filthy and brazen insult in which mortal man ever aspired to fling into the face of h...

“[When] one is nude, your senses are heightened ... You become open to the universe, not only physically, but emotionally, unprotected, unmasked. It may be symbolic of allowing the Divine and the World to see you as you really are.” —Alkemie Jane “The state of Nakedness increases and demonstrates humility and increases our openness towards our fellow man.” —Phillip Oak, Surprised into Freedom ( ht...

“Many of us may be unaware that nudity is a normal condition that has prevailed throughout most of mankind’s existence.” —Aileen Goodson “If there had been no fall and clothes had never been invented, we would have no word or concept of "nude". Everyone being nude would never have seemed strange. In a way it is clothes that make us nude. Nudity really is our natural state. Interesting how powerful...

“People without clothes are in their natural, default state. It is being clothed that is artificial and alien. I think our souls know it, deep down. We shouldnt even have a knowledge that our naked bodies lack anything. It is part of the fall.”—Name Withheld “The key to being Naked is not just about taking your clothes off ... It's about seeing, feeling and acknowledging every inch of your skin as...

“Clothes, as crafted objects, are victim to the whims of stylistic fads, but ‘the artifice of Nature [i.e. the naked body] is supreme, no period fashions change it”, as the character of Leonello d’Este said in Angelo Decembrio’s On Literary Polish (c.1462).—Jill Burke, Nakedness and Other Peoples: Rethinking the Italian Renaissance Nude “When I free my body from its clothes, from all their buttons,...

“Forget not that modesty is for a shield against the eye of the unclean. And when the unclean shall be no more, what were modesty but a fetter and a fouling of the mind?” —Kahlil Gibran “The convention mis-called “modesty” has no standard, and cannot have one, because it is opposed to nature an reason and is therefore an artificiality and subject to anybody’s whim— anybody’s diseased caprice.” —Ma...

“We have come into the world naked, and all the animals are naked, why should man hide his body behind clothes?” —Osho “By its very essence, clothing is a cover-up that is a reminder of the naked body underneath.” —Aileen Goodson “Our clothes … are on us to expose us -- to advertise what we wear them to conceal. They are a sign; a sign of insincerity; a sign of suppressed vanity; a pretense that w...

“Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue” – John Kenneth Galbraith “Primitive societies have moral values, of course, but since they do not associate shame with genitalia, their social signals tend not to concentrate on those areas.” — Aileen Goodson “Actually, in light of the Bible, there is no sin in nudity itself; but if a person uses the nudity for lustful or immoral purposes he has misused it, a...

“Clothes put a barrier between our selves — which are our bodies— and the rest of the world. They not only prevent us from establishing contact with others but also from contact with our selves, serving as a first layer of disguise.” —Ashley Montegue “We insult ourselves by calling our bodies obscene, pornographic, lewd, base, dirty, immoral, or evil, and in so doing deny the basic truth of our ow...

“I am not a naturist, a nudist, a streaker, nor an exhibitionist. Labels are for clothes. My unclothed appearance is also not motivated sexually nor out of any gratuitous need to seek attention. I believe that while society continues to have a fundamentally negative relationship with the human body and appearance, we can never be a free or mature society. It’s the 21st century. Time to evolve.” –...

“Naked you are unencumbered with human decorations and coverings that cover God’s human masterpiece. Naked with others, you will be more aware of being as God sees you, someone He has created in His own image who is not unlike everyone else. You will have to be humble before Him and others.” —Paul M. Bowman, Nakedness & the Bible. “Clothes make the man, but nakedness makes the human being.” – Kevi...

“Nudists are fond of saying that when you come right down to it everyone is alike, and, again, that when you come right down to it everyone is different.” —Diane Arbus “Modesty concerning the body makes no sense at all. Feeling shame about what you have when everyone has one as well is an affront to logic, common sense and the human struggle to understand ourselves.” — Dennis Craig Smith, Naked Fe...

“We have built gymnophobia, it’s called, it has a name, fear of nudity, gymnophobia, we have built gymnophobia into society. We have lots of social rules, we have architecture around it, we have little changing cubicles and doors that locked and everything else,.” —Stephane Deschenes “To put a loincloth on what God allowed to be stripped off is a sign of our own fears regarding spiritual nakedness...