QUOTES 9/2/2017

“If it’s warm, and it’s legal, I’ll strip down and soak up some rays.  I’m long over any hang-ups about the size and shape of my own body and really couldn’t care less what yours looks like either.  I have a body.  I’m on the beach.  So like it or not, I therefore have a beach-ready body.” - https://macpsych.me/2016/08/28/nudity-the-great-leveller/

“10 Places Where People Bare It All In Public” (video) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJyXtx5dilg

“There’s nothing wrong with wanting to look ‘good’; just make sure it’s your own version of ‘good’ and not someone else’s, because that someone else is making a mint off you.” – Nora Whelan & Andrew Richard, https://www.buzzfeed.com/norawhelan/body-positivity-101?utm_term=.liY4w9rDME#.yv38Exlv5Q

“Some women pulled off their clothes and Wednesday protested completely naked in a square in the Argentinian capital Buenos Aires.  The ladies wanted in their own words do not provoke or reduce the protest to something sexual, they just wanted to make it clear that nobody has the right to wear women what they should do with their bodies.”.(Video included) - http://www.gva.be/cnt/dmf20160921_02479989/argentijnse-vrouwen-protesteren-naakt-tegen-de-objectivering-van-vrouwen

“Prior to the 60s we had a long tradition of gender separate skinny dipping in rural areas. . . The YWCA and YMCA both had gender separate nude pools.  Boy Scouts at the lake had nude swimming.  There were countless literary references to childhood skinny dipping and nudity, many of which have been bowdlerized out or just forgotten.  Probably the most famous is Tom Sawyer - but did you know Peter Pan was actually nude in the original novel?  (The Lost Boys had to wear clothing as a sign of their lower status!)  Even when he went off to do final battle with Hook he was wearing nothing but a short sword. . . So were the fairies and mermaids.  It wasn't a big deal, just casually mentioned.  I don't know exactly where it got turned around.  In America, land of the free, freedom became less cool.  I think some of it has to do with youth becoming a smaller segment of the population.  Youth loves freedom, middle age is just trying to make the next mortgage payment and old age is jealous of youth and doesn't want them to have the same fun they did.  We had a wave of pedophile cases, some valid, some not, combined with the wide availability of easily concealed cameras that pretty much ended showers after PE for kids and summer camp skinny dipping.  Nude representation of children in art used to be common, but just ask Sally Mann what it gets you today.  Gender desegregation is what killed it at the Ys.  When you are never nude around anyone it is more difficult to accept it as a way of life.” – AuNaturelOne, https://www.truenudists.com/groups/view.php?action=viewthread&id=226&idt=108359&page=last