Tuesday, August 29, 2017
QUOTES
8/29/2017
“Swimsuits were not invented until the 1870's and so
most folks swam or bathed nude. Even
after the advent of the swimsuit, they did not catch on in the rural areas
until the middle of the 20th century.
Often these swims were mixed gender.” – DDF, https://in.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20120919174851AAdYoh1#
“Minster FM - Naked Protest” (Video) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcB7XvJkXT8
“Warm weather has made me want to drive naked all I
can. . . It was only recently I got the courage to drive completely nude during
the day, instead of just at night. Today
I had to run an errand. After I
completed it I had the urge to take off all my clothes for the drive home. So I did.
And I took the long way! All
windows down, sunroof open and a glorious breeze. Driving naked is one of the most relaxing and
exciting feelings there is. If anyone
reading this is curious about driving naked, don't be hesitant. If you can't muster the courage to do it
immediately during the day, work up to it like I did. . . I guarantee you will
enjoy it.” – Rapidi, https://www.truenudists.com/groups/view.php?action=viewthread&id=8077&idt=90164&page=last
“Under the influence of media, we tend to be overly
critical of our bodies, and we try to hide our physical ‘flaws’ with
clothes. As such, being a nudist
provides the opportunity to accept one’s body as it is.” – Jordan Blum, https://youngnaturistsamerica.com/top-10-reasons-to-be-a-nudist/
“The first thing I notice is that everyone is so
calm. How could they be so comfortable
in a room of naked people?! Class starts
and we begin to warm up. I try not to
look but how could I not? Everyone is so
naked! But you know what? It’s such a relief to see real bodies as
opposed to the unrealistic ones we see in the media. . . here in this room I
find myself reminded that real bodies are gorgeous. There is an array of shapes, sizes, and
color. There are some people who had
cellulite and others who did not. There
are people who don’t have one hair on their body and others who have a
lot. And as I realize this I begin to
feel more comfortable in my own body and am able to concentrate on my [yoga]
practice rather than obsessing over whether or not the person behind me thinks
my thighs are too large for my body. As
we go through the different poses I almost forget that I’m naked. . . Things I
normally obsess over weren’t important anymore.
It wasn’t weird anymore! . . . overall it was a very liberating
experience. . . I feel empowered. I am
the kind of woman who is brave enough to move through a series of positions in
a group of strangers completely in the nude and not give a crap. I am now the kind of woman who can do that!”
- Monika Werner, http://www.peopleenespanol.com/article/i-went-naked-yoga-and-what-happened
Monday, August 28, 2017
QUOTES
8/28/2017
“It's just so invigorating to be naked. You get given a towel, but it's way more
exciting to take a risk and walk everything with nothing on." - Jorgie
Porter. The 'Hollyoaks' actress who plays Theresa McQueen in the Channel 4
soap, https://www.sundayworld.com/style/showbiz/jorgie-porter-getting-naked-is-invigorating?platform=hootsuite
“Bare-chested Bicycle Ride Through NYC (Queens,
Brooklyn, Manhattan) Aug 2017” (Video) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLUyz1q2x5M
“Nudists
all love to get naked. Some will get
naked only in a naturist setting, like a clothing optional resort or beach,
others will get naked in nature, others will be naked at home, but all nudists
share that same love of being naked with others. The one thing you can be sure is that by
inviting nudists to a dinner or a pool party, you can confidently say this is a
clothing optional meetup so everybody can shed their clothes.” - https://nuetheureux.wordpress.com/2015/06/29/5-ways-nudism-will-enhance-your-social-life/
“I like to go nude around the house and backyard. My wife and I do housework nude: vacuuming,
dishes, laundry. I like to do yard work
nude: watering plants, trimming the hedge . . . even mowing, hoeing, and
weeding, etc. In the house, I am
probably undressed.” – Verygary, https://clothesfreelife.com/2016/10/10/its-down-to-you/
“I was reluctant to tell my parents but did get as far
as testing the water by, for example, not wearing a dressing gown between
bedroom and bathroom. My mum, who I
thought would be the greater obstacle to me being naked around the house, saw
me a few times. She was shocked the
first time, but crucially, didn’t tell me not to do it. Each time she saw me after that, she didn’t
react at all and all was normal.
Although this encouraged me to be naked a bit more, it was only at
certain times rather than as a normal day to day occurrence. I remained too reserved to ever talk to them
about it, even after they came home earlier than I expected from a shopping
trip and caught me naked in the garden.” – Sunny Jim, http://www.naturist-corner.net/community/index.php?topic=21209.25
“There is an irrational fear of the bare female body
in culture today. From stringent dress
codes for high school girls to censorship of female nipples in public and on
Facebook, there is a message that the body’s capacity to arouse must be hidden
and squelched at all costs. Meanwhile,
mainstream images of the female body are usually airbrushed and hyper-sexualized,
devoid of vulnerability or truth. These
glossy, unreal images tell women that the process of aging is something to
fear.” – Devi, http://modelsocietymagazine.com/your-body-is-your-biography/
Sunday, August 27, 2017
QUOTES
8/27/2017
“Naturists believe in body acceptance. Most report feeling less self-conscious on a
nude beach than on a traditional clothed beach. . . suggestively clothed people
are more arousing than completely nude people.
It can be more sexual to wear a bathing suit which subtly hides and
emphasizes certain parts of the body.” – Leah Moore, https://www.facebook.com/groups/nuddism/permalink/1779245615686085/
“TARZAN AND JANE / Banned swimming scene” (Video) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omhwAV2DEIc
“Nude swimming became less and less common in the
mid-1970s . . . But nude swimming is sort of an interesting exception to the
general pattern of our culture becoming less Victorian as time goes on. Today, if some head of aquatics at the Y suggested
naked swimming, let alone tried to actually implement it, they’d probably lose
their job immediately.” - http://www.vocativ.com/culture/fun/fairly-recently-ymca-actually-required-swimmers-nude/
“Finland’s oldest public pool – swimsuits optional -
Helsinki’s Yrjönkadun uimahalli (swimming hall) opened in 1928 and while
swimsuits have been allowed since 2001 they are still optional. This is Finland’s oldest public swimming pool
and men and women swim on separate days.” – Mel Inhelsink, https://heyhelsinkiblog.com/2015/01/05/finlands-oldest-public-pool-swimsuits-optional/
“The Puritanical Legacy! Damn those Puritans! Made all that much worse by the Victorian Age
which brought us crazy inventions like the girdle and petticoats. Who, exactly, sat down and decided that it
would be good for humanity to obscure every contour and curve of the female
body, while at the same time, creating the ultimate phallic symbol known today
as the necklie.”
“. . . there has been a consistent pattern over the
past hundred years when it comes to humans getting naked. . . People were
looking for a place to get naked . . . The tradition grew until it was no
longer possible to mandate, let alone enforce ‘acceptable behavior,’ until
eventually, some of the naked people decided to push the boundaries of
sexuality. . . fill in any number of ‘naturist places’ that begin with the best
of intentions, but at the end of the day, people come to spend their naked
dollars (euros, francs) or they don’t.
Money speaks louder than an imposed sense of morality. . . the right to
get naked followed some initiative of commercial development.” - https://meanderingnaturist.wordpress.com/2015/08/23/actually-things-are-getting-better-for-naked-people/
Saturday, August 26, 2017
QUOTES
8/26/2017
“The feeling of your body moving through the water
without the resistance of clothes is one of the best and most freeing feelings
in the world. . . Once you swim nude, it’s hard to go back to a bathing suit.”
- http://www.naturismisthewayforward.com/2016/07/6-best-things-to-do-while-nude.html
“WNBR London 2017 Parliament St” (Video) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiCSX5JfAVE
“. . . nudists . . . regularly find themselves in
venues where they dare not expose their chosen lifestyles. But - oh!
They do. The hypocrisy! The puritanical playacting that goes on. The people will castigate you on their
interpretation of your possible moral low-ground while they live their private
lives . . . hiding away all manner of possibly perverted variations of
strangeness of which they are so terrified that they figure everybody ought to
be just as miserable – and guarded - as they are. . . Just the word naked and
family in the same sentence could be enough to set free repressed fantasies you
wouldn’t even want to know about . . .” – Victoria Pendragon, NUSA Sun, Vol. 8,
#9
“If you find yoga wear that bit too restrictive, a
retreat in northern Ibiza may be just the ticket. Held at a villa within 20 acres of private
land, Naked Yoga London’s week-long retreats . . . include daily yoga and
mediation sessions (without clothes, of course). There’s also a pool within the grounds, and
the beach is a 25-minute walk away.” – Loulla-Mae Eleftheriou-Smith, http://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/naked-restaurant-paris-park-bunyadi-nude-cruise-nudist-resort-hotel-greece-pictures-a7346721.html
“I just like to be completely nude whenever I can
because I feel the most alive when I don’t feel anything stitched up to my skin
and I strongly believe that it’s our natural form of being . . .” – Nick and
Lins quoting Madushan, 23 years young, from Sri Lanka, http://www.nakedwanderings.com/2016/09/22/the-naturist-talks-madushan-from-sri-lanka/
“I took my first completely naked drive during the
daylight on an assortment of roads. . . It was a beautiful morning - sunny and
warm. I left naked and returned naked,
although I took clothes. I drove on a
two lane backroad, a two lane federal highway and an interstate. All together I drove around 60 miles. It was refreshing and invigorating. And I finally realized that if you're careful
no one will ever see. . . obey all traffic laws, it's pretty easy. And fun!” – Rapidi, https://www.truenudists.com/group/driving-naked/last/119869/
Friday, August 25, 2017
QUOTES
8/25/2017
“Average as in normal.
Typical. Expected. Outside of the tiny percentage of women who
are tall, wafer thin, cellulite-free, big breasted, and have no curves
(otherwise known as the scantily clad women who dominate the media,
advertising, film, TV, etc.). . . It always seemed to me like a paradox that
it’s not difficult to walk the streets among average Americans and realize that
most people are not hiding the super skinny idealized body type under their
clothes. And yet to be confronted with
this fact is to cause shock, controversy, and disgust. Perhaps I simply underestimate the
brainwashing done by the media and advertising industry.” - Lena Dunham, star
and writer of an HBO television series Girls, https://youngnaturistsamerica.com/naked-tv-why-naturists-should-love-lena-dunham/
“Le boom du naturisme sur les plages de France”
(Video) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zn8UR5XK2c
“If clothes aren’t physically or emotionally healthy,
why are we horrified when people don’t wear them?” - https://goodmenproject.com/featured-content/the-scientific-reasons-why-you-should-just-always-be-naked-dg/
“We believe that bringing children up in such an
environment and with wholesome, honest and open body attitudes leads to better
sexual health outcomes for young people, fewer body image disorders, and more
sensible attitudes to life. Prudery, not
openness or nudity, harms children.” – Report from British Naturism, http://www.secularsociety.scot/sex-education-sunday-times/
“Did you know that women artists in Europe and the
United States were prohibited from studying the nude figure until the end of
the 19th century? . . . In both Europe and the U.S., women gained marginal
admittance to art academies beginning in the 1860’s. Because of their gender, women were
prohibited from studying the nude figure until the end of the century. . . It
is both fascinating and alarming that men in Europe and the United States
received acclaim and have remained pillars of art even today for studying our
nude bodies, while we were not allowed to study ourselves.” – Hontouniheart, https://clothesfreelife.com/2016/09/21/wow-free-to-art/
“Brighton environmentalists are invited to take off
their clothes and join a naked beach clean-up campaign. Strip The Beach . . . Beach clean-ups are
conducted around the world with the aim of removing man-made debris from the
coastline and recycling or disposing of the collected waste accordingly. . .
the event is BARE AS YOU DARE . . .” - http://www.givingtimes.co.uk/environmentalists-go-naked-to-strip-brighton-beach/
Thursday, August 24, 2017
QUOTES
8/24/2017
“Science has delivered more good news to fans of
sleeping in the nude. Wearing underwear
to bed could damage sperm and possibly decrease a man's fertility . . . The
study, conducted by the National Institute of Child Health and Human
Development, tracked the underwear choices and sperm quality of 500 men for up
to one year . . .It found that those who wore boxers during the day and slept
naked had 25 percent less DNA fragmentation . . . in their sperm, compared with
those who wore tight briefs day and night.
For all the hopeful fathers out there, researchers advise wearing
loose-fitting boxers during the day and nothing at night to optimize your
chances of getting your partner pregnant.” – Rebecca Dancer, http://www.details.com/story/science-says-men-should-sleep-naked
“Festival Topless Libre 2016” (Video) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOjYD9xEWjs
“Naturism is all about respect. Respect for nature, for yourself and for
others. This sounds very hippy like, but
has some interesting advantages: people are polite and friendly and there’s
little to no garbage around.” - http://www.nakedwanderings.com/2016/10/10/7-reasons-want-nudie/
“I was naked in the middle of New York City. Outside on a rooftop, with a crowd of people
I’d never met, there I was with my bare butt in a soft chair, eating a
chocolate chip cookie and drinking a bottle of water. And everyone around me, including my husband,
was similarly naked. No, it was not some
weird dream. It was real. . . at our
rooftop event, I was surrounded by people who, I feel very sure, recognize that
the body is more than a sexual object.
And as we recognize that the body is more than sexual, we recognize that
humans are more than we can imagine.” (Many Photos) - https://toplesspulp.com/2016/10/01/an-end-and-two-beginnings/
“Zogby Poll reveals 1 in 4 people are nudists, they
just never tell anyone. Say something!”
- https://twitter.com/socalnaturist/status/776465371754704896
“How many times have you heard something like: ‘Get
your clothes on!’, or ‘Cover that nasty thing up!’, or maybe ‘Running around
naked is just plain WRONG!’. We have all
heard those statements at some time in our lives, but why? Is there something ‘shameful’ about our
bodies? Is God’s image in us, which He
called ‘very good’, somehow ‘shameful’?
Why are Adam and Eve described as being ‘naked and unashamed’, and then
a few verses in that narrative later, Adam told God that ‘I was afraid because
I was naked’? Is it really ‘shameful’ to
be ‘naked’? What I would submit to you
is that the shame they felt was shame of the heart, not shame of the body, and
being physically ‘naked’ had nothing to do with it.” – Steve, https://www.myclothesfreelife.com/2016/08/the-shame-of-nakedness/
Wednesday, August 23, 2017
QUOTES
8/23/2017
“What’s wrong with my tits? . . . Why must I keep them
covered up? Why can’t they come out to
play? If it weren’t for tits, nobody
would be alive. On what would babies
feed? . . . And what is so evil about tits anyway? Does anyone think they are dangerous? How many people have been killed by
tits? Do looking at them make people go
blind? Does anyone think they are gross? My tits aren’t gross. My tits are awesome! What would happen if I went shopping topless?
. . . Would you really arrest me? For what
crime? If I can go topless at the beach,
or even completely nude, then why can’t I strip down anywhere? What difference would it make? Give us women our freedom . . . Give us this
right. Let our tits be bare.” - http://thenudewriter.tumblr.com/post/145105892063/virgin-skin
“Dutch naturists enjoy working out in the nude - 2015”
(Video) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ykuaeh91zsM
“Why are we embarrassed by nudity? Why is it that just the idea of being naked
in front of anyone else make people feel embarrassed? Is it that we are simply conditioned by a
culture that has a standing taboo with regard to nudity. You subconsciously don’t want to bring
attention to yourself breaking the taboo or you don’t want to offend people who
don’t want to see you that way. Neither
is a problem with a close partner, within families who don’t reinforce the
taboo at home, at nude beaches, or at naturist clubs and resorts. When in an appropriate setting, people very
quickly get used to nudity and aren’t embarrassed, or embarrassed by it. So why really should anyone be embarrassed by
nudity?” - https://naturallynaturist.wordpress.com/2016/04/15/embarrisingoffensive-no/
“Forbidding children to see naked bodies can damage
their self-confidence and only creates body shame in them.” - https://rfgjga1992.wordpress.com/2016/04/28/lets-do-all-this-to-promote-nudism/
Tuesday, August 22, 2017
QUOTES
8/22/2017
“. . . we fail to understand that human body is not
something so secretive that we can only look at it with immense curiosity, and
sometimes even a sense of guilt or shame.
Being a nudist will familiarize people with naked bodies and what they
look like. It’s especially great for
kids to learn what bodies look like.
They’ll grow up without body shame, and they can also learn what their
bodies will look like as they get older.” – Jordan Blum, https://youngnaturistsamerica.com/top-10-reasons-to-be-a-nudist/
“Nudeyman Selfie” (Short Video) - http://iamnudeyman.tumblr.com/post/147590221933/behind-the-scenes-this-is-how-i-do-my-nude
“It is a very liberating feeling. Everyone is the same here [Haulover
Beach]. People don't hide behind their
clothes or judge anyone because of their clothes here. People just walk up and start a conversation. I wish there were more places like this!” - http://www.nudevacationinfo.com/haulover-beach.html
“Make America Nude Again. It used to be normal for boys to swim naked -
let's go back.” - https://twitter.com/anakedartist/status/765155126000521216
“I’ve seen comments in news articles where people are
disgusted with the whole nudity thing . . . The human body isn’t something to
be disgusted by. We all have one and
it’s time for these people to wake up and realize that everyone is beautifully
unique. . . Part of the world naked bike ride . . . is about body acceptance.”
- https://thenaturistpage.wordpress.com/2016/07/19/world-naked-bike-ride-montreal-2016-daytime/
“One of the biggest fears about clothing optional
places is indeed the ‘voyeur’ aspect.
And indeed, when you’re naked you don’t want to feel like you’re stared
at. But doesn’t this exist in clothing
prohibited places as well? We imagine
that there are also voyeurs who don’t mind taking off their clothes
themselves.” – Nick&Lins, http://www.nakedwanderings.com/2017/01/16/clothing-optional-new-nudism/
“Nudism may be the best way to boost your
self-esteem. Sure, standing in the
mirror every morning may not be the most flattering, self-esteem booster in the
world. But why is that? Society has put heavy restrictions on what
people should look like. Often, these
are unrealistic ideals. Being naked can
help you get in touch with who you really are.
You can appreciate every little perfection and tell the world that,
‘this is me’ . . .” – Stephen Nels, http://clapway.com/2016/06/22/reasons-nudism-makes-people-healthy/
Monday, August 21, 2017
QUOTES
8/21/2017
“I strived to have the perfect bikini body thinking
that would make me happy, but it took too much time, too much energy, too much
sacrifice. I discovered on the road to
working out that my body is not an ornament.
When you’re weighing food and counting parts of food, it’s such a deep
obsession. For me to have that perfect
bikini body, it’s a struggle for my body.
We are under immense pressure from society to have the perfect bikini
body, but that’s not life! . . . No matter who I spoke to; women from the
Dominican Republic, France, Germany – the story was still the same: negative
language about their body. . . women need a platform to feel empowered to
pursue active change. . . you don’t have to be at war with your body! You can embrace your body.” - Taryn Brumfitt,
http://amysmartgirls.com/meet-taryn-brumfitt-director-of-body-positive-documentary-embrace/
“Tom Brady and his supermodel wife, Gisele Bundchen,
traveled to Italy . . . During the couple’s sojourn, the New England Patriots
quarterback was spotted on a lounge chair completely naked, making him the
latest celebrity to join the coven of men who sunbathes in the nude. . . Over
the summer, Orlando Bloom was photographed paddleboarding and frolicking around
Sardinia wearing absolutely nothing.
Around the same time, Justin Bieber went commando during a trip to
Hawaii.” – Patricia Garcia, http://www.vogue.com/13485903/male-nude-sunbathing-vacation-tom-brady-orlando-bloom-justin-bieber/
“Welcome to L’Italo Americano, Italy’s first and only
nudist restaurant that recently opened its doors near Milan. The only rule is: in order to get in and
taste divine food you must be totally naked. . . Clients are led to this
undressing room where they leave all their belongings in separate drawers . . .
Ladies are allowed to take a little clutch for their make-up and the guys a
pouch for cash. But that’s it. At the entrance you’re handed a soft white
cotton towel to sit on for hygienic purposes. . . After dinner the place turns into
a nudist disco with live music featuring ‘70-80’s revivals and group dances. .
. the unclad clients get down on the dance floor to burn the calories they’ve
just piled on, shaking their lower and upper parts in utter freedom and without
any kind of constraint. . . ‘I’ve been going to naturist shores my entire life
but have never had the chance to have a meal totally undraped at a real
restaurant, sitting normally on a chair at a table with my friends’ [Luigi
Moroni] . . . ‘It makes me feel free.
Italy badly needed a restaurant like this one.’ . . . It’s a naturist
restaurant where people share the pure philosophy and culture of nudism.” -
Silvia Marchetti, http://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-ideas/weird-and-wacky/inside-italys-first-and-only-nudist-restaurant-litalo-americano/news-story/5f644365a2a627f94ceb484f05def07d
Sunday, August 20, 2017
QUOTES
8/20/2017
“I thought about the relationship between nakedness
and sexiness. Perhaps because of my
family, or perhaps because I have spent much of my adult life in and around the
theatre, where people are never happier than when taking off their clothes, I
have more or less separated nudity and sex.
I don’t automatically sexualize other people’s naked bodies, and I don’t
feel that I’m behaving in a sexual way just by virtue of being naked. If I suggest to my partner that we have a
naked hula-hooping competition, that’s because I think it will be funny, not
sexy. If it were socially acceptable to
propose naked hula-hooping competitions to all my friends, I would.” – Emer
O’Toole, http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/jan/02/nudes-art-painting-manet-goya-spencer-tunick-emer-otoole-women
“WNBR LONDON 2016” (Video) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVbecDr6ayg
“Since my garden is in my back yard and fully screened
off from outside view, I make no effort to keep spare clothes handy. After all, the way I figure it, if you are in
my garden you are either there with my permission or you are trespassing, and
either way you have no grounds to complain at how I dress, or how I don't!” –
oscarthegoldfish, https://www.truenudists.com/groups/view.php?action=viewthread&id=92&idt=108077&page=2
“. . . the Bible, is not only NOT anti-nudity, but
that He looks with favor on those who are willing to shed their clothing
disguises. . . prophets who prophesied naked (Saul, Isaiah, Micah), a king who
danced naked before the Lord in the middle of Jerusalem (David), a high priest
(Aaron) who was stripped naked in front of all of the children of Israel when
he was consecrated and anointed, and the list goes on and on. . . in Leviticus
and Deuteronomy . . . Public nudity wasn’t shameful. It just meant that they were going about
their normal daily business of life. We
are the ones who have made nudity shameful.” – Steve, https://www.myclothesfreelife.com/2016/08/out-of-the-shadows/
“. . . one of the things my wife has found most
unexpected about being naked in front of others is that it is much less
intimidating than in a normal environment where she might be wearing a bikini
or swimming costume. This surprised me,
but she explained that when women are around a pool or at the beach in their
swim suits they tend to look each other up and down, even if it's subconsciously
and are almost 'grading' each other as their natural insecurities play out -
there is an expectation to 'look good', from the type of bikini to how a
woman's figure looks in it. . . she said that when you take the bathing costume
away, like in nudist environments, nobody is like that, which she said was
incredibly liberating. Nobody looked at
her body and made any judgements, she hasn't had any glances or catty looks and
everyone acted kindly and caringly to each other. . . my wife has found being
naked around others much more relaxing and less stressful than, for example,
being at the local swimming pool in a bathing suit’” – Charenton-waltz, http://www.naturist-corner.net/community/index.php?topic=21242.0;topicseen
Saturday, August 19, 2017
QUOTES
8/19/2017
“Elders say you will be dressed at all times except
when bathing. You don’t understand as
you spent your first few years of life running around outside in nothing but
your skin. You are dazed in confusion
but do as told; you wear clothing in fear of getting in trouble.” – Jordan
Blum, https://youngnaturistsamerica.com/life-social-acceptance/
“El nudista” (Video) - https://vimeo.com/202262977
“Fearless. My
true self is not afraid, ashamed or ever feels like hiding. I am confident, unapologetic and offensive
about who I am. I own my body and my
image. (Ephasini Lamabhudango Toppfree
African Video) - https://vimeo.com/170676277,
http://dynamicafrica.tumblr.com/post/146713896098/ephasini-lamabhudango-reclaiming-dreams-deferred
“Naturism is a hugely liberating experience, but when
other people are naked around you, too, you feel like you are part of something
even greater, and have a common understanding of the world. And it is even more liberating to find that
being in a state that some unfortunate souls would find awkward or even
offensive has the opposite effect on your present company. The more normal the activity you are doing,
the more liberating it is, so nothing beats walking naked in the woods, for
example - except walking naked in the woods and seeing other naked people
walking towards you!” – AtouristUK, http://www.truenudists.com/forum/viewthread.php?id=100881
“We are a group of friends from the north west of
England who . . . meet up regularly, we wine and dine, we party, we do all the
things that any group of friends does the world over. But – whatever we are doing, we do it
clothes-free. We do all our socializing
clothes-free. We don't wear any clothes
when we meet. We enjoy being completely
nude for a few hours when we are relaxing amongst our friends. We have yet to find a better way of driving
away the stresses and strains of the daily round. For us clothes freedom is for relaxing at
home with friends, not just for the naturist beach or Club. We could not live without our regular few
hours of quite literally casting off our clothes and our cares. . . By the way,
we should make it clear that we are not swingers. If that is your lifestyle, good luck to you
but you won't find it at the Sociable Bares. . . We just get on with enjoying
doing the normal things that any group of friends does, but without our
clothes. . . We all firmly embrace our four guiding principles, which are: we
only invite male/female couples to be Sociable Bares; we never wear any clothes
when we meet, whatever we are doing; we devote ourselves entirely to fun and
relaxation and not taking anything else seriously; we always treat each other
with the highest personal respect and never cause embarrassment or harm to
other Bares. When we arrive at a Bares
gathering the first thing we do is to get rid of our clothes. We just leave them in another room along with
our cares, and because of that we relax more and enjoy ourselves more.” - http://www.sociablebares.com/
Friday, August 18, 2017
QUOTES
8/18/2017
“Researchers tell us that sleeping under lower
temperatures accelerates the release of anti-aging hormones like melatonin as
well as growth hormones in the body.
Sleeping naked keeps the body at a lower temperature, this in turn is
conducive for the release of both these hormones in the body. A body tightly packed and toasted is more
likely to suffer because the release of both these hormones reduces drastically
in high temperature conditions.” - http://drprem.com/health/sleeping-naked-could-bring-benefits-to-your-health
“How can you communicate how wonderful it is to run,
walk, climb or swim through such landscapes clothed or naked when the very
quiet and solitude is threatening?
Wearing clothes is a layer of protection. Sometimes the weather demands it. But the protection sought by those that
cannot even step out of a van in a developed national park is not found by
wearing outdoor gear or even everyday outfits seen in the city. Failure to see and understand how we can be
connected to and be a part of nature is at the root of that type of fear and
uncertainty. It is what developers prey
on when seeking to obliterate yet another pristine landscape with a patina of
cookie cutter communities masquerading as civilization. When I see those [outdoor] photos I am
motivated to go there, not hide. When I
stand on a bluff and view 360 degrees of nothing but the natural world I do not
run to my car to escape. I would rather
learn how to live in it. I don’t
understand the reaction of the children.
I am aware of it and why they think that way and that is what I find
sad.” – Duane, http://freerangenaturism.com/forum/index.php?topic=857.0;topicseen
“For naturists clothing is physically uncomfortable,
and good friends don’t let clothes come between them.” – Rupa, https://twitter.com/Rupa2105/status/776440548391424000
“There's nothing quite like a swim in the buff to invigorate the senses and revitalize
your body.” – Rohese Devereux Taylor, http://www.glasgowlive.co.uk/whats-on/where-to-swim-naked-glasgow-11674934
“When you spend more time naked, your body image
improves, and you become less concerned with how you look and instead focus on
how you feel in your own skin. We have
been taught to hide our bodies in shame (e.g., dress to hide your so-called
'problem' areas), and these messages take a toll on our relationship with our
bodies. Being naked helps us to reclaim
the entire body as the beautiful vehicle that carries us around across a
lifespan.” – Joni Sweet, https://www.thrillist.com/health/nation/health-benefits-getting-naked-nudity
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