QUOTES 9/12/2016

“ . . . how we react to nudity, both public and private, is a combination of personal upbringing and the milieu.  Traditionally, Indians really shouldn’t be bothered by nudity at all. . . Only two months ago . . . I saw two Jain men walk buck naked across the street surrounded by a small posse of chanting devotees. . . While the Slut March and the bikini are touted as signs of liberation in some big cities . . . in the less civilized parts of our country, nakedness is used as a tool to shame, to disempower, to punish women.” - Genesia Alves, http://scroll.in/article/808351/what-does-this-father-son-image-say-about-our-attitude-towards-nudity

“The Boy Scouts, YMCA members, and boys in U.S. K-12 schools would swim naked until a few decades ago.  Strangely and sexist enough, that wasn’t the case for the Girl Scouts, YWCA members, and girls in K-12 U.S. schools.  The females in the places and organizations have had to deal with using swimsuits.  It seems like more men participate in skinny dipping events than women too.  It has to do also with how women’s bodies have been seen as sex objects in the last two centuries.” - https://rfgjga1992.wordpress.com/2016/04/28/lets-do-all-this-to-promote-nudism/

“Above all, being nude is a wonderful way to end the day.  After all the hard work of work and play, there’s nothing like sitting down in front of the television or on the porch and enjoying a cool glass of water or lemonade. . . Just us and nature.” - http://thenakedtao.tumblr.com/post/130947798407/cloptzone-madeinthenude-board-shorts-get

“When your body goes into sleep mode, it has an automatic response to drop its temperature, and sleeping naked helps to regulate this temperature.  This act of regulation helps to maintain normal levels of cortisol.  When there is too much cortisol in the system, you experience higher levels of stress, anxiety, junk food cravings, and even weight gain.” – Raven Fon, http://iheartintelligence.com/2016/04/11/benefits-sleeping-naked/

“In my opinion it’s perfectly alright to have a variety of opinions about what nudism/naturism means, and it’s perfectly alright to just visit without buying into whatever philosophy is being promoted as long as you aren’t a threat to the community.  I think the question we really have to grapple with is what defines a threat to the community aside from bad behavior in one’s presence and maybe that even varies with the local community.  We can likely all agree that a pedophile represents a genuine threat, but other characteristics can vary significantly in terms of ‘threat factor’ depending on the prevalent views of the community . . . These issues aren’t unique to the nudist community, but are universal social issues which brings us full circle to the idea that nudists are just like everybody else, except they often prefer to be without clothes.” – John Anderson, http://youngnaturistsamerica.com/nudist-naturist-defined/