QUOTES 1/23/2017

“. . . when was it in history that women’s breasts became sexualized?  Where did it horribly go wrong?  After all, cave women did not cover their breasts.  Ancient Greek statues depict women’s breasts.  We feed our babies from our breasts. . . Yet my breasts, which provided nutrients for my child, are — in a way — dangerous to my safety, if exposed completely as I walked down the street.” – Koraly Dimitradis, http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/rendezview/why-cant-women-take-their-tops-off-in-public/story-fnpug1jf-1227615034240

“. . . displaying Truth unclad is also nostalgic, reminding of humanity’s state of naked innocence before our disastrous Fall away from truth.  A heretical dualism which exalts the spiritual and discounts the material automatically overlooks the way our ‘naked and ashamed’ first parents bodily imaged the mutual openness within the Trinity.  Perhaps part of the ‘very good’ in God’s evaluation of our original nudity was how it socially reflected the absolute frankness shared among the Eternal Society of Three.  But God’s command to ‘be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth,’ definitely shows his desire to broadcast throughout creation this divine self-portrait in his naked image-bearers.  As nakedness manifests truth, so hiding identifies falsehood.  In Genesis 3, after ‘the eyes of both of them were open’ to decide ‘good and evil’ on their own, God implies that satanic deception led our first parents to doubt the true ‘good’ of their unadorned bodies (i.e., ‘Who told you that you were naked?’).  God’s rhetorical question comes after the fallen sin-nature attempted to hide the true and natural human appearance under fabricated ‘girdles.’  This original cover-up imaged not the Creator, but humanity’s deceiver.” - Rev. David L. Hatton, The Naked Truth Naturists, vol. 16, No. 11

“It’s nice to have something consistent to fall back on: you get home, the clothes come off, whatever was stressful that day is left behind with them . . . It helps to give me a safe psychological space where I know that everything important is, in the end, going to be all right.” – Matt, http://mic.com/articles/124242/6-reasons-you-love-being-naked-from-the-people-who-do-it-24-7

“Today, there are about 600,000 Germans registered in more than 300 private nudist/FKK clubs and a further 14 affiliated clubs in Austria.  Members visit these clubs to sunbathe nude or indulge in a spot of nacktjoggen or nacktwandern — naked jogging or rambling through the countryside wearing only backpacks, boots or running shoes.” – GANTDaily, http://gantdaily.com/2015/05/06/naked-people-all-around-how-to-be-nude-in-germany/

“. . . regular and controlled nude sunbathing enhances resistance to disease, provides more effective and natural vitamin D and calcium balance, reduces the effect of stress, decreases blood pressure, decreases resting heart rate, decreases blood cholesterol, decreases excessive blood sugar, increases muscular strength and endurance, improves many skin diseases such as psoriasis, reduces depression, reduces risk of internal cancer as well as heart and blood vessel disease. . . If the thought comes to mind that NEARLY nude would pretty much accomplish the same thing, remember that there are important reasons to particularly expose the very body parts that ‘modesty’ might want covered.  It is precisely the skin of the genitalia, buttocks, perianal areas and breasts which benefits most from the drying and cooling effect of free air flow as well as the drying antimicrobial and other desirable attributes of sunlight itself.  Logically if any parts should be covered at all it would make more sense to cover the face and hands since the skin of these parts is already liable to more than its share of sunlight, etc. by ordinary daily activities in the clothed state.  TOTALLY nude at appropriate times is really the only way the full benefits can be obtained.” - Dr. Conrad Manning, MD