QUOTES 10/14/2016

“We love fashion as much as the next person, but what is more interesting than clothes is what is going on in our heads – and how we feel about our bodies." - Helen Renshaw, Editor of Weight Watchers magazine, http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/weight-watchers-naked-issue-nudity-body-image-survey-women-a7167726.html#gallery

“Our only desire as nudists is to retain our freedom, our liberty, and our independence to practice our lifestyle without any unwarranted restraint or restriction from others.  We are well aware that non-nudists of the so-called 'textile world' do not share our views, but that does not mean that they cannot tolerate these convictions, and grant us the courtesy of respect through their tolerance.  We do not seek the complete approval of others who do not practice the nudist lifestyle themselves, but we only wish others to grant their discreet indulgence to our beliefs and convictions without prejudice; not to fully condone our actions, but at least to allow them without reservation; not to openly protest our conduct, but to endure it with tactful discretion; to consider our lifestyle not worthy of high regard, since it might not be compatible with their views of normality and propriety, but at least to receive openly into their minds and understand that our lifestyle, our wanting to go nude in the open air for physical, social, and often mentally therapeutic reasons, is in fact an inevitable trait of the human condition.” – Walt Alder, https://www.facebook.com/groups/PromotingNudism/permalink/1140571122683724/

“The fear and prudery that some people carry regarding the naked human body is rooted in a deep, dark place of vulnerability and shame.” – Karen Grant, Tom Pine’s The Naked Truth Naturists Newdsletter, v.17, n7, July 1, 2016

“In 1936, the Vana Vana society, a group of nudist colonists, set sail for the Virgin Islands to establish a ‘nudist-socialistic utopia’, but had to return to Tampa when their captain wouldn’t take his clothes off.” – Philip Hoare, http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/sep/04/nudity-isnt-indecent-british-tradition-naked-rambler?CMP=share_btn_tw

“Fifty years ago, in many parts of the country, regular physical education classes were taught by a special P. E. teacher rather than by our regular classroom teacher.  Classes were separate for girls and boys.  If the school had an indoor swimming pool – as many did in the Midwest – the schools combined all the age groups together for ‘swim class’ and the boys were required to swim nude. (Girls in most districts wore a regulation ‘tank suits’ although we heard some schools had required nudity for them also.)  Day after day as many as four dozen boys would tussle and push, shove, and kid around by the pool and race, play water polo, enjoy ‘free play’ in the warm water and think nothing of the fact they were naked as the day they were born.” - G. Mussell, (Tom Pine’s) The Naked Truth Naturists Newdsletter, Vol 17, #6, June 2016