QUOTES 2/17/2018

“Swimming naked is one of the top naturist activities that you should do regularly.  It is a refreshing, relaxing, stimulating and therapeutic experience that gives you an intense feeling of freedom and happiness. . . the water feels amazing against your skin, as opposed to when you swim wearing a swim suit. . . [It] is also a great way of learning to accept your body, and it helps to get rid of the negative concept that your naked body is something to be ashamed of.  It is also a liberating experience that helps you to enjoy the wonders of the nature . . .” - http://blog.vritomartis.com/top-18-things-to-do-naked/

“Bowling naturiste Association naturiste phocéenne ( MARSEILLE)” (Video) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1NhNtlTm6Y

“Stated plainly, a person’s attitudes towards nudity often reveal an underlying racism . . . naturist magazines can’t be sold on the newsstand (unless they’re in the XXX adult section) because they have naked CAUCASIAN people.  Nudity is, apparently, only fitting for people of ethnicity whom we expect to be naked ‘savages.’  Pictures of breast feeding infants are okay if the infants are ‘tribal’ but Facebook bans North American moms from posting breast feeding photos . . . Kids raised in the Amazon jungle who romp and swim naked? . . . Kids raised in Arizona running around or swimming naked? . . . Aborigines naked in the Australian Outback may be filmed, studied, interviewed. . .Nudists on a beach in Queensland, Australia may need to be locked up. . . Take a picture of a naked child in the jungles of South America and you’re an anthropologist.  Take a picture of a naked child in North America and you’re a child pornographer. . . A British Royal Marine retires from service and decides to walk rural roads of the UK naked (physically harming no person) and the UK locks him up indefinitely. . . Men go hunting buck naked in the African bush and velds, throwing spears or shooting arrows . . . filmed in vivid detail for the Learning channel [which] . . . visits a nudist park and everyone is carefully pixelated to avoid causing ‘offense’ to the viewer. . . these examples demonstrate a kind of thinking that is more degrading than anything . . . When the people of a given race stay in the category and clothes that are expected of them (savage red man or black woman versus enlightened civilized white family) then no harm, no foul.  But when people don’t stay ‘in their place’ we’ll cry obscene!” – Bare Platypus, http://bareplatypus.blogspot.com/2012/04/nude-attitudes-reveal-raw-racism.html?spref=tw

“. . . nudists/naturists face all sorts of discrimination around the world — from countries in which social nudism is illegal to others that have allowed nowhere near enough public spaces for naturists to journalists and celebrities who take a wink-wink-nudge-nudge approach to the subject and, finally, to misinformed individuals who confuse social nudism with wild swingers’ events.  And all most naturists want to do is just free themselves from the confines of textiles and to overcome body image hang-ups — because social nudism does those things, and more.” – Jillian Page, http://jillianpage.com/2014/01/15/nudismnaturism-discrimination-2/