QUOTES
11/14/2017
“The most important function of naturism, as I see it,
is to challenge every aspect of society’s dysfunctional relationship with the
human body. I call the totality of this
dysfunction the Body Shame Culture and contrast it with a hypothetical model of
a Free Body Culture where humans would be raised without the pervasive
anxieties about the body we experience now.
The Body Shame Culture is manifested in a number of ways, but its
central component is the simple fact that there is a near universal expectation
that you will be clothed at all times.
In a Free Body Culture, by contrast, you would be free to be dressed or
undressed as you see fit, so long as you are not using your nudity in a
sexually provocative manner.” - https://medium.com/@reformnaturism/what-do-you-call-the-opposite-of-nudism-537375d41db7#.vh5dbarpm
“Consider the body.
In Sydney's art world this is shaping up as the Summer of the Body. . .
And perhaps because we all have one, or because we all like them, or because
summer, nakedness and desire seem to target our lowest chakras, we generally
presume that body-based art suits the untutored. But what these shows actually demonstrate is
just how profoundly what you see depends on what you know. Any conversation on the nude begins, even
now, with Kenneth Clark's famous 1956 distinction between the nude and the
merely naked. To be naked, argued Clark,
is to be ‘deprived of our clothes’ – with a degree of implied embarrassment in
the ‘huddled and defenceless body’. The
nude, by contrast, gives us the human body ‘balanced, prosperous and
confident’. For Clark, the nude was ‘the
body re-formed’, an exercise in perfecting nature. . . the nude reconstituted
the body as art. Here, we turn art back
into body, hoping more nakedly to expose the human condition and the deep truth
that we are both physical and metaphysical; both situated in space and engaged
in the collective unconscious.” - Elizabeth Farrelly, http://www.smh.com.au/comment/a-good-nude-tell-us-more-than-just-a-naked-body-20161110-gsmr1n.html
“At a workshop several teens attended (where everyone
is naked) and the subject came up - is it okay to look? - and the consensus was
of course. Part of the beauty of nudism
is the fair exchange we bring to the table, our nudity. . . We've got nothing
to hide.” – Ed, http://nudistscorp.com/Nudist-Girls.htm
“Nudity at the beach is simply determined by the
people who arrive first and undress.
Others often are happy to follow their example.” – Rupa, https://twitter.com/Rupa2105/status/793826806818156544
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