QUOTES 9/16/2016

“Most nudists/Naturists don’t want to walk down their high street naked . . . However, an increasing number of Naturists are not happy to be confined to sun clubs or a few short sections of the many beaches we have on our shores, we would like to be able to walk in the countryside naked, to swim naked wherever swimming is available . . . to tend our gardens naked without having to wait for our neighbors to go out and even to be able to lie naked in the sun in our local park.  This is the kind of acceptance we are trying to achieve.  It will not be easy, but that has to be the goal.” – Brian Taylor, http://jillianpage.com/2014/04/03/nudismnaturism-the-persecuted-majority/#comments

“People are so fearful that they take offense at almost everything that suggests that a different world view is valid.  Even wearing clothing is offensive if the clothing doesn’t fit within what the collective tells us is appropriate.  We are offended by baggy pants with boxers showing; we are offended by no clothing; we are offended by women’s breasts; we are offended by men in skirts; we are offended by women in burkas and men in turbans – the list of things that offend us are legion.  We see ourselves as victims of those who offend us.  Somewhere along the way, we began to believe that those who offend us should be punished, and if possible – punished harshly.  We claim that our rights and freedoms have been trampled by the offensive others who don’t live life or believe as we do.  There is no way for us to understand that this kind of thinking attacks the rights and freedoms of others.  We become so ethnocentric that all else becomes heresy, evil, and a threat to our very existence.  So, we do our best to deny the rights of others, putting into law everything we find offensive.” - http://rglongpre.ca/naturistlens/2016/01/20/who-traumatises-children-in-the-presence-of-nudity/

“My wife and I have a nudist pool party every month from April till October and always put it out as clothing optional and almost everyone gets nekkid eventually.  We have from 30 to 50 nekkid people at our backyard party. . . Never been an issue for the nudist or non-nudist.” – JerryandBillye, https://www.truenudists.com/forum/viewthread.php?id=10565&page=1

“Let me explain to you what social nudity is all about.  As I stood there all eyes were now on me and I said.  First of all, it is a non-sexual experience, and the first thing you need to know is that people may look at first.  It is human nature.  I turned around to be sure that everyone could see, and I said, ‘Now that you have all checked me out, I ask you to do this to make a point.  It shows you that I know you are looking and that I am not ashamed or embarrassed and it tells you that your natural tendency to look . . . is not wrong, not nasty and it is not unacceptable to me.  I then entered the water, and introduced myself to each of the people.  The tension eased, and everyone relaxed and we talked for several hours about all topics from social nudity to physics to good movies, occupations, school and families.  They were a wonderful group of young people: university students, a disabled veteran, a Registered Nurse, a multimedia producer, a US National Park Ranger, and I don't remember what the other woman's occupation was.  All were relaxed, no one else got naked, but the social interaction was amazing.” - John Collins, El Paso, Texas, http://aanr.com/first-time-nudist-experience&page=20

“In some ways nudism has regressed.  Historically people have only swum nude.  Swimsuits are only a little more than a century old and don’t help with swimming at all.  The YMCA, Boy Scouts, and boys in K-12 schools would swim nude in the United States and it ended sometime between the 1960s and 1980s.  It ended for one absurd reason in the YMCA just because of women beginning to be admitted to swim with the men together in the 1970s.  The sexual revolution of the 1960s caused more bans of swimming naked.  The AIDS discovery of 1981 caused nudity to become more sexualized and even more restricted.  Globalization of the United States’ stuff around the world has caused more frowning upon of nudism overseas as well.  The last three decades were especially terrible times for nudism in the United States.” - Randomfactsgeekjga, https://rfgjga1992.wordpress.com/2016/01/12/why-are-we-taught-shame-about-nudity-and-our-bodies/