QUOTES 3/22/2017

“Nudists Camping - What could be more natural than being completely nude outdoors in nature?  You can sunbathe naked, skinny dip or just enjoy the relaxing feeling of being outside.  There is simply no better way to experience nature unless you are taking it all in while naked.” – Jordan Blum, http://youngnaturistsamerica.com/nudists-and-the-nudist-lifestyle-defined-by-yna/

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“I also . . . made very good friends . . . I guess there’s a certain air about being naked together and then bonding over it.” - http://onwardstate.com/2016/05/02/penn-states-best-kept-tradition-reflections-of-a-perfect-mifflin-streak-quadfecta/

“The naturist movement is not new.  Many notables have experienced garments to be a barrier to spiritual experience.  Henry David Thoreau advised us not to ‘allow artifacts like clothing to intervene between ourselves and the Other.’  Walt Whitman rhapsodized, ‘There come moods when these clothes of ours are not only too irksome to wear, but are themselves indecent.’” - http://homestead.org/BarbaraBambergerScott/NakedGardening/Exposed.htm

“Some people think that nudist venues are a branch of some kind of black market, that they keep their lifestyles secret and unknown to law enforcement for fear of being arrested and prosecuted. . . in most places, laws do not strictly target nudism.  In most countries, it is simply illegal to be nude in a public place, and law enforcement generally treats nudist venues as being exempt from that law as everyone who visits agrees to be nude, and the venue is kept out of public view.  Many nudists advertise and communicate their lifestyle through the media, and law enforcement treats their lifestyle as a legitimate cause.  Some nudists are even police officers, judges or lawyers themselves. . . Nudism is officially illegal in the state of Arkansas and in the countries of Iran, Iraq and Saudi Arabia.  Sometimes, the police even make frivolous arrests, such as a crack-down on a nude beach, or arresting typical parents who take innocent nude photos of their young children, but in these cases, the court usually sees reason and dismisses the charges as unlawful and unsubstantiated.” – David Hopkins, http://listverse.com/2011/02/23/top-10-misconceptions-about-nudism/

“I have noticed one thing about my attempts at promoting naturism.  Whenever I'm home from a naturist outing and I post the photos taken at the naturist resort or place and I show my face clearly, people tend to soften towards naturism. . . What the world badly needs is a deluge of decent nude photos.  Most nude photos on the internet are pornographic in nature and that may explain why the world thinks nudity is sexual.  The only way to correct this imbalance is for there to be more online photos of decent nudity.” – TL Lim, http://www.naktiv.net/blog/1088/promoting-naturism-in-asia/