QUOTES 1/13/2017

“As a nudist I find it hard to comprehend that people are quite so titillated by the sight of breasts, penises, vulvae, and butts.  If our society were more accustomed to human nudity it would be no big deal - they wouldn’t see naked people, they’d just see people.  It may seem counterintuitive to the textile crowd, but it’s the prudes who make human nudity sexual, not the nudists.  Keeping body parts taboo and adding mystery to it all is what creates this unhealthy obsession.” – http://thoughtsonnaturism.tumblr.com/post/141085485720/we-are-all-human?is_related_post=1

“The word ‘nudist’ comes with some baggage.  It conjures the image of sexual deviancy and a world where standard rules of etiquette don’t apply.  Jordan Stead, a staff photographer for seattlepi.com, found the contrary to be true.  Nudism, or ‘naturism,’ has a lot of rules.  Most of the etiquette at the nudist park . . . is common sense.” - https://clothesfreelife.com/2016/04/10/a-photographer-learns-that-baring-it-all-isnt-so-bad/

“. . . researchers are finding serious vitamin D deficiencies in virtually all of the population of the United States, Canada, and northern Europe. . . we have been hiding from the Sun for decades.  The results may be even worse than we realize.  Many researchers now fear that the explosive increase in autism is a result of pregnant mothers having close to no vitamin D in their bodies and then young babies and infants being similarly shielded from the Sun.  The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) says that virtually no infants are getting enough vitamin D. . . 90 percent of infants are deficient. . . it might be wise for pregnant women and mothers of small children to immediately start exposing themselves and their kids to more sunlight.” - Bob Berman, http://www.nudist-resorts.org/talk/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=6347

“Ask any guy who grew up in the 1950's and belonged to his local YMCA and he'll let you in on a well-known ‘secret.’  Guys used to swim naked there!  Moreover, there were often ‘solariums’ or outdoor sunning porches where nude sunbathing was common.  Old and young, grandpas, dads and their sons, those in shape or who needed to get in shape, had one great equalizer: you swam and sunned in what God gave ya.  Sometime, perhaps during the 1960's or so, things began to change.  No doubt it had some to do with going co-ed. . . But the change also probably had much to do with the ways society was morphing too.  The sexual revolution made some circumstances take on a sexual dimension where there hadn't been one before.  Decades later, many adults had come to be very uneasy about being nude in the presence of minors, even in the locker room and showers, due to growing awareness of the problems of abuse.  Consequently, nudity is disappearing in many changing areas and the group shower room has been replaced with individual cubicles.  It's a bit sad, actually.  The same camaraderie created by the . . . characteristic of a Finnish sauna is unknown to many . . . patrons today.” - http://bareplatypus.blogspot.com/2013/01/why-oh-y.html?spref=tw

“I was a hamster on a wheel, operating in the confines of morality and judgement.  ‘Don’t!’, ‘Stop!’, ‘Confess!’, ‘Fast!’  The messages condemned me before they even knew me.  I was wrong.  I was broken.  I needed to be fixed.” - http://www.onequestionaway.com/sample-page/