My Rant About Nudity

[The Good Citizen]

I think the argument I don't want a nudist society as I would feel uncomfortable is sort of missing the point as its the adopting a dependency on clothing as the norm that developed the insecurity in the first place, of course nudity makes you feel uncomfortable, thats the point being made. Clothing is a product of civilisation but I think in turn it is only civilised because we have developed a dependency on it.

A lot of indigenous tribes whose lifestyles are very simplistic eschew clothing and when you strip down the complexity of life to a more simplistic level I think there is an argument that happiness increases. Not just clothing, material things, stuff, all the paraphernalia that makes life so complicated. I don't think it enhances our quality of life, what you've never had you don’t miss, so it doesn’t improve our lives it just validates it. Of course science and medical advances do and I'm not a complete ludite but the trick nowadays is to choose what enhances your life and what just weighs you down.

So I think on a theoretical level the OP has some good points but I am a product of the civilised world and I'm in no rush to see everyone let it all hang out. Maybe if the bomb drops tomorrow and we have to start all over again it would be good to drop the reliance on clothes if the climate allows it (there is always a more basic human need for warmth) but we've gone thousands of years beyond that point now and there's more pressing needs in the world than everyone taking their clothes off.

But as for naturism and a movement to free yourself from inhibitions and problems of self image on an enclosed site, if thats what people want to do I applaud them. Personally like most people I'm happy to live with the inhibition and don't ever want to be sat next to a 90 year old nudist on the bus.

 

[floffyschneeman]

ehm.. the posts are too long... but I would just like to comment that I think clothes are essential. Hence, even cave men wore protection from too much cold or heat. It's one thing to embrace your own natural body and another thing to impose it on other people that might not feel the same way as you do.

I will most certainly feel SUPER UNCOMFORTABLE seeing a naked person, unless he is my (1) my husband/bf/partner and (2) a kid. and I can't explain why. It's probably brought about being raised in an asian society. But please let us keep our clothes on just so no one would get skin cancer or pneumonia

 

[The Good Citizen]

I think on a practical level the local climate is a big factor and having a skin tone that is acclimatised to exposure to the sun, although on a sunny day most people strip down as far as decency allows anyway and cover up their skin with sun block.

You know a couple of hundred years ago a flash of an ankle was considered scandalous

 

[Doubt The Rabbit]

Hey, you don't have to be nude to have sex. Just zip down your fly, flip up her skirt, and get down to business

If you wanna go to a nudist beach, that's your choice. Society has the right and freedom to be reserved about their bodies, and if they want to, they can. If people don't want to see dangly wrinkled old man penis, they shouldn't have to. I, for one, am perfectly fine with roaming my house ass naked but would rather NOT see my neighbors in the buck. It's simply aesthetically unappealing (unless they're hot, then that's another story). People who feel otherwise have entire ******* clothes-optional villas in their name. You're entirely free to retreat to one. Leave everyone else alone to do what they want.

But, hey, good luck with melanoma - didja know it comes from prolonged skin exposure to harsh UV rays?

 

[The Good Citizen]

I know naturism is not about continually being able to check each others bodies out so it is sort of intriguing about how the barriers shift. If no one is wearing clothes ever you lose the err 'ceremony' of undressing each other and I suppose just get down to it? Surely there will be times where you are sat thinking "oh, are we getting it on now, I had no idea?" And how do you go about asking a girl to dance, do people dance naked? Surely a slow dance would be tricky. I dunno its baffling! Maybe seeing nakedness all around you all the time might dampen the senses to it!

I don't think I'd ever want to take up naturism but I'd finding it pretty interesting to observe from an anthropological perspective! Just to see how it works.

No one would believe that though would they.

 

[Doubt The Rabbit]

Provided that continuous visual and physical stimulation to the hormones and genital area (sitting, rubbing/bumping against things, "accidental" grabbing and slapping) doesn't get rid of boners altogether, you can always make a ritual out of "dressing up"

"Honey, get the arm binders and the pony suit - we're having sex tonight!"

 

[Sci-Fi]

You know what, if we still roamed the earth in the nude mostly no one would be saying how uncomfortable it makes them. It's just being naked has been shunned for so long its become the norm. I'll go around naked at home but I certainly wouldn't do it around other people, cause you know it's the way we've been raised all these years. Yet go to a gym and no one bats an eye at it, unless you are that squeamish about it. Then again you wouldn't catch people who were in places like that much. I know I hate them, but that's not cause other people being naked bothers me, I just don't want them to see me naked, lol.

 

[The Good Citizen]

Provided that continuous visual and physical stimulation to the hormones and genital area (sitting, rubbing/bumping against things, "accidental" grabbing and slapping) doesn't get rid of boners altogether, you can always make a ritual out of "dressing up"

"Honey, get the arm binders and the pony suit - we're having sex tonight!"

"Just wait there while I slip into something less comfortable"

 

[nerdygirl]

The things you're saying are half opinion and half theory, but I do hope you eventually make it into some sort of setting that would be ideal for you.

 

[Lost Soul]

Many things I say are facts and my own experience. Some have been posted on numerous Naturists websites, like Naturists being more mature, children brought up in Naturism have a better understanding and smarter.

 

[Lonesome Crow]

well...in the last century.

People actaully banded or removed table clothe from dinning room tables or resturants.
The damn table's legs and table clothe triggers sexual thoughts in certain men.
Lots of sexual guilt or fantacy.

Had sex plenty of times with my woman without intercore or taking our clothe off...
Mess around while she was in heat or on her period.
You can have intercore while she's on her period. It gets bloodie and might
be gross to some people. As I thought it was gross.
But if you're mature or informed on the matter..it's not rreally as bad as it looks....
Just gotta have plenty of throw away towls around and clean up during and after.lol
There's a lot of trust involved becuase we're dealing with blood.
You can use a condem....PLAstic..the earth wants more plastic.lmao

My sponsor is a MD and also a gynecologist.
No wonder his hair turns white N looks like he saw a ghost...
Digging and looking into ***** all day and night dose strange things to a man.lmao

 

[Doubt The Rabbit]

Many things I say are facts and my own experience. Some have been posted on numerous Naturists websites, like Naturists being more mature, children brought up in Naturism have a better understanding and smarter.

Did you read what you just said? Posted on NATURIST websites? Naturist websites are BIASED TOWARDS NATURISM. Nothing you said is based on hard scientific fact. Children brought up in naturism being "smarter"? By what standard? More mature? Better understanding of WHAT? There is no standard by which you can compare maturity or "understanding" for any of that to be fact. That's the biggest load of self-serving BS I've ever laid eyes upon.

 

[Barbaloot]

You've suggested several times that nudity somehow correlates to peacefulness. But this is false. There are several tribes of people in the Amazon who wear little to no clothing on a daily basis, but are renowned for their remarkably brutal violence, such as the Yanomami, and more recently, encounters with the Mascho-Piro Indians. How can entire social-ethnic groups who are regularly nude or near nude be so violent?

 

[Felix]

Luckly for op, his fake user agrees with him

 

[Barbaloot]

Luckly for op, his fake user agrees with him

So others notice it too.

 

[Felix]

Luckly for op, his fake user agrees with him

So others notice it too.

yeah :rolleyes2:

 

[Doubt The Rabbit]

You've suggested several times that nudity somehow correlates to peacefulness. But this is false. There are several tribes of people in the Amazon who wear little to no clothing on a daily basis, but are renowned for their remarkably brutal violence, such as the Yanomami, and more recently, encounters with the Mascho-Piro Indians. How can entire social-ethnic groups who are regularly nude or near nude be so violent?

You're so sexy when you own people with facts. (yum)

Luckly for op, his fake user agrees with him

So others notice it too.

yeah :rolleyes2:

They're perfect for each other. :rolleyes2:

 

[Lost Soul]

Why don't you study Naturism, before you have your say. You're saying Naturist sites can't have facts?

Look up facts about Naturism, shouldn't be that hard. Or are you bothered you see nude people if you do?

You should make it a project, visit a naturist resort, talk to the people etc.

 

[Doubt The Rabbit]

Oh I love seeing nude people. It's called porn.

What I am SAYING is that proclaiming that "naturist" people are smarter, more mature, and have a better "understanding" of whatever it is you think one is supposed to be understanding, is OPINION. It is not FACT. I don't care what website you got it from.
Any site leaning towards ANY belief system will post a combination of fact and opinion in their own favor.

I don't see why I need to make a project of anything, because, point blank, I wouldn't be a naturist, so I don't care for anything other than argument's sake. I don't believe prancing around in my birthday suit makes me any smarter or dumber; if anything, it simply makes me more susceptible to illness and infection. THAT is a fact.

 

[nerdygirl]

Before you get so defensive, I'd like to state that I'm not bothered by the nudity of others. I see naked people all of the time at work. I actually wanted to find proof that you were right, and went looking for scientific backing of some sort. I found none. It's totally okay for you to believe in the things you say, but that doesn't make it a fact.