QUOTES 6/12/2017

“. . . my girlfriend and I have never discussed naturism with our families . . . It’s not really been a conscious, ‘let’s-never-tell-anyone’ secret for us.  It’s just never come up.  We live in our own house and do our own things. . . So I haven’t felt the need to tell . . . anyone else in my family. . . I’m sure they’d be fine but until I feel like sitting down and explaining it to them, I’m leaving it as it is.  As for my girlfriend, I have left that up to her.  At the moment she hasn’t wanted to talk about it with anyone in her family except her sister.  She doesn’t think her parents would have a problem with it though.  They used to go to nude beaches in France when she was a kid and their household has always been pretty relaxed about nudity . . . I have friends who have told their non-naturist parents, with varying results.  Some have had no problem with it, others have given a grudging acceptance . . . Nobody I know seems to have irreparably damaged their relationship with family by telling them they are naturists.” - https://getnakedgetawesome.wordpress.com/2013/08/16/families-and-naturism/

“Daniel Léveillé Danse” (Video) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3Lbc1hYgTg

“The term ‘naturist’ may conjure up the image of jolly elderly hikers walking bare-bottomed clutching hiking sticks - but it might be time to update the stereotype.  Indeed, over the past three years, the phenomenon has begun to attract a younger audience . . . seeing many more young families showing up to camps with their children. . . with the [French Federation of Naturism] federation reporting an increase of 40 percent in memberships between 2014 and 2015 alone. . . in the past three years alone, the number of naturists in France has leaped from 1.5 million to 2 million.” – Hattie Ditton, http://www.thelocal.fr/20160613/young-french-naturists-spark-boom-in-nudism

“It is hard to trust someone who is wearing clothing among a group of people who are willing to bare it all.” – Mark Blinch, https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/the-bare-oaks-naturist-park?utm_campaign=web-share&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter

“Yoga is more beneficial when practiced in the nude.” – gr, https://twitter.com/ANAKEDLIFE/status/679544133392986112

“. . . children, if not chided, don’t mind being naked.  Often we think it’s cute and encourage it.  Child nakedness seems to offend in proportion to the age of the child; it’s okay to have photos of infants in the buff, but upwards of two years old, the public perception changes and such nudity has suspicious implications and is generally controlled or banned.  Yet… in classical literature and art, the innocence of naked children was deemed an appropriate subject, leading to statues of little nymphs and cupids placed in gardens . . .” - http://homestead.org/BarbaraBambergerScott/NakedGardening/Exposed.htm