Created Naked

“Are we so narrow minded that we show war, murder, rape, etc. on TV, but we do not allow to show one of the most wonderful creations (the human body) in its natural form.” – Mario Roman “[B]eing nude is not obscene. Being ourselves is what's important. If everyone practised being themselves, instead of pretending to be what they aren't, there would be peace.“ —John Lennon “The body seems to feel b...

Nudeness is truth, it is beauty, it is art. Therefore it can never be vulgar; it can never be immoral. I would not wear my clothes, if it were not for their warmth. My body is the temple of my art. —Isadora Duncan 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 a holy temple.—Stephanie McManus “At all stag...

“Discovering naturism has given me the freedom to be myself, free from judgement & expectation, teaching me to love & embrace my body. Society gives us an unrealistic idea of what a beautiful body is. Naturism breaks us free of that. Everyone’s body is unique & beautiful!”—author unknown “I think clothing is about control and power. One of the loveliest elements of being nude with others is there...

“I would disagree with you on the idea that men are visual, this is a mistake promoted by purity culture to excuse men for lust, it is a misconception ubiquitous in our culture, but one visit to a naturist venue will teach you that it’s untrue if you think to question it. If men were truly visually stimulated, every nudist park would be a forest of erections… not so. Visual stimulation is learned...

“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 the body...

“So many of us are primarily exposed to body types through the media that appear flawless. But take one step onto a nudist beach and you’ll realise how poorly that represents the actual population. The more diverse bodies that I see, the less I care about my own physical differences.” —Sofie Louise, The benefits of embracing a 'clothing optional' house The philosophies of ethical, biblical naturis...

“Now, I’m not delusional. I’m aware that we’ve sexualized the human body to such an extent that it’s hard for many to see it in another light. But nudity and sex aren’t always linked, in fact, in most cases they aren’t. And it’s really nice to be around people who understand that.” —Spencer Jones “In learning to become comfortable without clothing , you learn to separate nakedness from the idea of...

“I’m a naturist at heart, I love being on beaches where everyone is naked. Ugly young people, beautiful old people, whatever. It’s so unsexual and so liberating…” Dame Helen Mirren. “If only we are as upfront about our nakedness as God originally intended, we will dispel the dark lies of pornography and also come To appreciate our own unique, very real beauty “ —Jim Cunningham “Nudity is the pures...

“There is nothing in all the world more beautiful or significant of the laws of the universe than the nude human body. In fact it is not only among artists but among all people that a greater appreciation and respect for the human body should develop. When we respect the nude we will no longer have any shame about it.” — Robert Henri, The Art Spirit “Discovering naturism has given me the freedom t...

“I cannot hide how I feel about myself or my body. If I feel shame I will teach shame. If I feel love I will teach love. The choice is mine.” — ‪https://embodyproject.com/erica/‬ “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...

“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 we desire gorgeous colors and the graces of harmony and form; and we put them on to propagate that lie and back it up.” — Mark Twain, Following the Equator “Right from the beginning, clothing was man’s feeble attempt at self righte...

“When people sheathe their bodies to make certain details indiscernible, they’re making their bodies appear less human.” @walker_mud “With humble nakedness, there is no rich and no poor, there is no genius or simpleton, no powerful king or vassal. All become amazingly similar. All become like God really sees every human; as someone created in His own image.”—Paul M. Bowman, Nakedness and the Bible...

“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 garments. It is merely the correcting or counteracting of some of civilization’s evils through the laying aside of clothes, not when the latter are useful, but when they are detriment...

“Many of us may be unaware that nudity is a normal condition that has prevailed throughout most of mankind’s existence.” —Aileen Goodson “Why does one want to go naked? Good god, what an impertinent question! Why does one want to study a sunrise, listen to a thunderstorm, eat a vine-ripened tomato, smell the hair of someone he loves, or hug a dog?” —Bare in Mind, May, 1974 “There’s something joyou...

Our bodies were created “very good”, not dirty or obscene, even in a “naked and unashamed” state.” -Phillip Oak, Surprised into Freedom ( https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C7T7WVGL? “While non-Christian and some Christian naturists may merely find naturism simply an enjoyable way to be (that's totally ok), I for one absolutely find a deeper meaning in it. I am made in the image of God, that God is good,...

“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-C...

“Sometimes I like to run naked in the moonlight and the wind, on a little trail behind our house, when the honeysuckle blooms. It’s a feeling of freedom, so close to God and nature.” Dolly Parton “Nakedness means freedom, and although dancing on a sun-kissed hillside with shorts on seems pretty similar to dancing with shorts off, there is all the difference in the world. It is as if your clothes t...

iding the body is symptomatic of the soul’s need to hide from God.” -Wayne Olson (no known relation). “Christians have been partly responsible for this in their attempts to control people's sexual expression and thereby actually increasing the sexualization of the human body. Clothing actually does nothing to suppress lust and often accentuates it.” -Bob Horrocks, Uncovering the Image “Oddly enoug...

“Don’t let those who have body negative values define what is and what is not acceptable. Seize your freedom and restore your dignity!” – BodyFreedom.org “The path to body acceptance is quickly accomplished —and is fun. Since nudity is our natural state, so is body acceptance our natural state. We are born with it and are returning to it; and since we have already been there, there is nothing new...

In honor of International Skinny Dip Day I simply can’t understand Why swimsuits are in such demand They’re soggy and damp, Bind like a clamp, And hold about three pounds of sand! -D.R. Benson “O to bathe in the swimming-bath, or in a good place along the shore, To splash the water! to walk ankle-deep, or race naked along the shore. —Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass “I like it here. When I go to the...

This unclad human body is either morally neutral, or it is not. Naturists are moral reformers, whether they think of themselves in those terms or not. Naturism calls upon people to regard their own bodies and those of others as acceptable, not something to be feared or reviled. —Gregg Gatewood (https://nakedtruthjournal.blogspot.com/2010/10/transparency-in-facebook-age.html?m=1#comment-form) “Disc...

“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.” —Mark Twain “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.” – Michael Montaign...

“Man has a deep-seated impulse to be naked. Most of us do not recognize this impulse because of our training and traditions. It is suppressed from early childhood and if we feel it, we consider it as evil. We all know the delight of children at being undressed, a perfectly natural delight.—Hartman, Fithian, & Johnson 1970, 1991 “The enemy sought to split the body from the integrated whole of our b...

“If nakedness is so wicked, why do we place it prominently in our art?” —Unknown to Me “We see ourselves positioned between Puritanism on the right and pornography on the left—the will to exploit the human body on one side, and the anxious need to suppress the human body on the other”—Lee Baxandall “It makes no more sense to compulsively cover body parts because someone might look and lust, than i...

“It is the undressing, not the being nude, that is sexually arousing, because it leads the viewer to the association of a sexually intimate experience.” —Marilyn Horn “If you are used to seeing people naked, you don’t give much thought about appearances.” —Sylva Sternkopf “Something anti-climatic happens when socially nude. Since nothing is left to the imagination, the body loses its power of sedu...