QUOTES 2/29/2017

“What do you think about our attitude towards nudity as a society?  Dominic Myatt: With a lot of hypocrisy, which has a lot to do with sexism that is still innate in society.  It needs to change; the world should be more like Ridley Road nudist beach!  Rachel Hodgson: Unless it’s a super toned, fit, tanned, slim, shiny hairless body then no one wants to see it and it’s considered gross and shocking.” - http://www.dazeddigital.com/artsandculture/article/31118/1/these-artists-are-bringing-a-nudist-beach-to-dalston

“Nudist Low Fat Bacon Advertisement 1992” (Video) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dMMebI-ByQ

“A general idea about naturists is that they are a bunch of people who spend their time together naked around a swimming pool.  But naturism is so much more than that.  It’s about the love of being naked, the feeling of freedom, the positive effect on your body awareness and the connection to nature and to yourself in the most primitive form.  And the best news is: It can be perfectly practiced alone.” - http://www.nakedwanderings.com/2017/02/20/public-nudity-not-option/

“Here in Spokane, Washington State, there was a news story this week about a nude jogger who tried to capture and carry off a young woman.  The news story said he tried to wrap her in a blanket and capture her.  She escaped and called the cops.  He was soon caught.  He was charged with a couple of serious crimes, but no mention was made that he was charged with any crime for being naked.  He apparently did not get much notice while jogging naked until he attacked a female jogger.  That's pretty much how it should be.” – Bob, http://freerangenaturism.com/forum/index.php?topic=663.495;topicseen

“If nudism was good enough for the Royal Marines and the Spartans, it’s surely good enough for me . . .” – Mark Time, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/the-filter/my-middle-aged-voyage-into-nudism/?platform=hootsuite

“Nakedness is also conceptually interesting.  Once you think about it, it’s not even clear what counts as nakedness. Can a face be naked?  An elbow?  A finger?  And maybe what counts as clothing isn’t straightforward either.  To the European explorers and colonists, Aboriginal people were naked; their cloaks, ceremonial adornments and headgear didn’t count as clothes.  This, in their view, disqualified Aboriginal people from full humanness.  And yet, the Europeans’ own ambivalence about clothing and civilization was also clearly on display.  After all, Christianity’s own seminal myth about the origin of the world is a story in which clothing functions as a sign of sin and distance from the Godhead.  Adam and Eve’s fig leaf is double-edged, signaling both the end of an idyllic human existence and the birth of a distinctly human culture.” - https://theconversation.com/friday-essay-the-naked-truth-on-nudity-66763