QUOTES 1/17/2017

“Norwegian youth are seeing more porn than ever.  At the same time, they are so shy that they don’t dare shower naked after gym class at school.  70 percent of all middle schools in Norway report that students shower in boxer shorts. . . young girls know everything about anal sex, but have never seen their classmates naked.  We have created a debate which was unthinkable a few years ago: Is it a violation of human rights that students don’t get to shower alone? . . . It has to do with poor self-perception that actually makes many people psychologically ill. . . Use of doping substances and growth hormones is on the rise – not to improve performance in sports, but to obtain the ideal body.  A body that isn’t just thin, but also muscular. . . Researchers note the correlation between poor body image and dependency issues such as drug use or eating disorders.  It’s a paradox that we see more nudity in media and advertising while at the same time young people don’t dare shower naked . . . But – is it a paradox, or a correlation?  If the model for what the body should be comes from porn and advertising, it’s natural that many people will feel bad about their bodies.” - Lars Egeland, https://youngnaturistsamerica.com/natural-nudity-lars-egeland-naturist/

“Good friends spend time together.  Great friends spend time together nude.” - http://heartlandnaturists.tumblr.com/post/145778708956/good-friends-spend-time-together-great-friends

“Now as for YMCAs and nude swimming.  If one researches this Nation's newspapers, one will find that when YMCAs ran ads for learn-to-swim, it was stated in both the display ad and in the reporter's commentary that boys swam nude and only needed to bring a towel.  In a few cases, the boys were photographed swimming nude and the photographs published in the town newspaper.  It was a socially expected practice since they were men and boys and had nothing to be ashamed of.” – Jumper Swim, https://sites.google.com/site/historicarchives4maleswimming/home/archives---mid-20th-century-to-current/stories/jumper-swim

“There's nothing disturbing about nudity itself, just the meaning that people ascribe to it.  Yet when nudity isn't being used as sexual semaphore, it's presented as something grotesque, to frighten the observer and make the subject a symbol of ridicule. . . We may be regularly exposed to representations of naked flesh but we only ever see gods and monsters.” - Daisy Buchanan, http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jan/07/naked-rambler-public-nudity-stephen-gough?CMP=share_btn_gp

“Do something to legalize public nudity.” - https://rfgjga1992.wordpress.com/2016/04/28/lets-do-all-this-to-promote-nudism/