QUOTES 3/13/2017

“Lifestyles that are incompatible with the natural patterns of nature (including clothes-compulsiveness) may be psychologically damaging. . . Clothes are barriers to the natural image of higher powers, nature, and the universe, which only serve to dehumanize us all.” - https://rfgjga1992.wordpress.com/2016/04/28/lets-do-all-this-to-promote-nudism/

“For the most part, I love being naked . . . It's very comfortable and I find most clothing, especially footwear, to be very restricting.  I am that person that tries to go barefoot as much as possible every summer.  I also sleep so much better naked than wearing even the softest, loosest PJs.” - Sarah, 29, https://mic.com/articles/112782/there-s-good-news-for-people-who-just-love-being-naked#.9ODmIzvab

“Now it was time for another shower and our first sauna.  Our American friends had maintained their modesty until this stage but a sign on the sauna door showing a swimsuit with a big red cross through it made it clear this was a swimsuit-free zone.  The sauna was around 80 degrees celsius (176 Fahrenheit) and as we entered we could hear a group of women outside singing Finnish folk songs. . . Verena commented that she’d much prefer to sauna with friends than alone, as it is a social experience to be shared.  After a final shower we went upstairs to have something to eat before dressing and being ushered out by the staff as we were the last ones to leave.” - Mel Inhelsink, https://heyhelsinkiblog.com/2015/01/05/finlands-oldest-public-pool-swimsuits-optional/

“Yet the hysteria and paranoia about public nudity remains at a feverish pitch, as someone may well be offended by another’s nakedness, to the point that there have been recent citations and arrests on US beaches as a result of mothers helping their 2-year-olds change into a swimsuit – in public – on the beach!  Such ‘reckless behavior’ apparently represents child endangerment.  Try that as an adult, and you risk being labeled a sexual predator.  Apparently, in the minds of so many, the simple state of nudity can’t be as innocent as purported… by naturists… to be.” - https://meanderingnaturist.wordpress.com/2014/07/

“Hesiod was an ancient Greek poet with a few interesting opinions about how to conduct yourself while farming, including the apparent belief that you should inspire fruitfulness in your crop by doing all the hard work without any clothes on.  ‘Sow naked, and plow naked, and harvest naked,’ he recommends, ‘if you wish to bring in all Demeter's fruits in due season.’  Demeter was the goddess of seasons and harvests, and why exactly she'd be fond of a bunch of naked farmers running around doing their work without proper health and safety regulation clothing remains unclear; but his advice is pretty unequivocal.  It wasn't just a poet being fanciful, either; we have artefacts from ancient Greece devoted to Demeter in which men are shown ploughing without a stitch.” – JR Thorpe, http://www.bustle.com/articles/172288-7-strange-beliefs-about-nudity-in-western-history?platform=hootsuite