QUOTES 10/10/2017

“Take swimwear . . . In Victorian times, women couldn’t even be seen in their full-body swim costumes at the beach and would enter the water vi private ‘bathing machines.’  In 1907, Australian professional swimmer Annette Kellerman was famously arrested for wearing a one-piece suit that showed her arms and legs.  She was charged with indecent exposure.  In America, during the 1920’s, there were male swimsuit police at public beaches.  These ‘modesty’ enforcers who would check women’s hems to make sure they weren’t too short and exposed too much of their skin above the knee.  Though it was quite controversial at the time, men did win the right to go topfree in public during the 1930’s.  Now, over 80 years later, women are still trying to obtain the same topfree rights as men (and they are being confronted with the same controversy and arguments that men faced almost a century ago).” – Felicity, http://youngnaturistsamerica.com/why-naturism-has-lady-women-problem-today/

“Rural village to bare all when it becomes NATURIST gathering spot” (Video) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3KG-gFFUEo

“Charco del Palo has a strange attraction, being a naturist village.  In a way it was like coming home.  I got to the apartment, took off my clothes and that was it. . . It didn’t take me long to get the first nude hikes behind me.   total I walked over 32 km (that is about 20 miles I think) during my stay, and all of them unhindered by looks of people who don’t understand what it is to be free.  The clothed local population . . . don’t blink at a naked body.” – Paul, http://zjuzdme.org/blog/2016/10/19/lanzarote-my-second-visit-part-1/

“We find ourselves terrified of nudity because we associate it with potential impropriety and load it with sexual connotations.  Communal changing rooms have gone, replaced with cubicles so small they aren't fit for purpose.  PE teachers send pupils home sweaty rather than risk being accused of some terrible crime if they insist they shower.  Meanwhile, we have mothers scared to be seen naked in front of their kids in case they mention it at school and the whole thing gets misconstrued.  You end up with the two places where you are most influenced as a child — school and home — bogged down with such paranoia that girls are indoctrinated in the same way they were a century ago that the female form is something to hide.” –Dr. David Holmes, clinical psychologist,  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3835249/Would-let-friends-naked-s-idea-horrify-key-loving-body.html

“I think naturism might be one of few pastimes that unite the generations with a common bond that all can enjoy in different ways.” - Roni Fine, http://www.bn.org.uk/news/information/about-naturism/roni-writes/young-naturists-can-have-it-all-r385/