Every mother
concerned about "family values" should find out about the
extensive scientific research demonstrating the positive benefits of nudism for kids. Every
woman concerned
about pornography should know how strongly the doctrine and practice of Naturism
repudiates the objectification
of women's bodies. Every lawmaker concerned about honoring the original intent of our
country's creators should
know that many of them were unabashed skinnydippers. Christians concerned about
upholding sexual morality
should realize that the first Church leaders accepted nudity as an all-natural element of life,
and not in the least inconsistent
With all the teachings of Christ. The world-weary businessman in his urban office and threepiece suit should know
how relaxing and healing a weekend at a nudist park may be. The mother on the beach with
sand in her
swimming suit ought to know that there are places in the world where she may take pleasure
in the feeling of sunlight and water on
her body without bringing unwanted attention.
It is my hope that this record may help you to share this great news, also to talk articulately
about the
native good of the body in its natural state.
Nudity is frequently nudity as a scapegoat for problems including rubbish and drug use that
necessarily appear in high-use recreation areas and practical than clothing.
1. There are times when clothing is physically uncomfortable. Nudity, on the flip side, is
generally considerably
more comfy.
2. For several activities, nudity is often much more practical than clothes.
Bernard Rudofsky writes: "The custom of wearing a bathing suit, a desperate effort to
recapture some of
our lost innocence, represents a graphic expression of white man's hypocrisy. For, obviously,
the bathing suit is
Inconsequential to any activity in and under water. It neither keeps us dry or These three
inquiries are as old while the philosophical , nor is it an aid to swimming. If the
Intention of bathing is always to get wet, the bathing suit does not make us wetter. At best, it
really is a social clothing, such as the dinner
jacket." 1 Yet Americans spend $900,000,000 each year on bathing costumes.2
3. Garments also restricts motion, and encumbers the athlete. Studies done by the West
German Olympic
swim team revealed that even swimsuits slow down a swimmer.3
Naturism encourages mental health.
4. A nudist isn't a body lacking something (that's, clothes). Instead, a clothed individual is a
whole and
10. The sense of "liberty" that comes from the nudist experience is consistently rated by
nudists as one of
the main reasons they remain in it.10
11. Nudism, by freeing the body, helps free the mind and spirit. An irrational clothescompulsiveness may
inhibit psychological development and health.
Dr. Robert Henley Woody writes, "fear of revealing one's body is a defense. To keep clothes
on at all