Created Naked

“In all nudity that you ever get to see, whether it’s in movies, strip clubs, or museums, it’s always meant to trigger a feeling or emotion in the viewer. Whereas in naturism, there is no viewer. There are no emotions to be triggered in other people, only in ourselves.” Nick & Lins, Naked Wanderings, https://www.nakedwanderings.com/getting-comfortable-around-naked-people/

“I think clothing is about control and power. One of the loveliest elements of being nude with others is there are no misconceptions or judgements on external factors. Clothing provides (mis)information on wealth, politics, it can act as a barrier to getting to know other people.” —Name Withheld, http://www.naturist-Christian’s.org

“For girls especially, there is so much pressure in our society to be a perfect size. As a result, there is a whole generation of people killing themselves to meet a standard that is impossible. Part of living a naturist lifestyle is accepting your body and regaining a normal body image.” —Nicky Hoffman

“Discovering naturism has given me the freedom to be myself, free from judgement & expectation, teaching me to love & embrace my body. Society gives us an unrealistic idea of what a beautiful body is. Naturism breaks us free of that. Everyone’s body is unique & beautiful!” —author unknown

“The trouble with these men who try to adjudicate upon what is moral or immoral in dress is that they really know nothing about the subject.”— George Bernard Shaw

“Inherent in the condition of laws that prohibit exposure of certain body parts is the circular justification revealed by the following: we know exposure of these parts should be outlawed because showing them is immoral. We know exposing them is immoral because doing so is against the law. Bring into the equation religious dogma based on shame, ignorance and misguided beliefs concerning cause and effect, along with the gullibility of the masses, and you have the major components for maintaining the hysterical elements of what Majorie Heins calls “body phobia”.” —Dennis Craig Smith, Naked Fear

“So it's being a follower and devotion to Christ first, then naturism is an aid given to me by God to help me walk in the Christian way,... But now I see how the very idea of thinking nudity is a moral crime, is a moral crime. Because it's a moral crime to blame God for creating live porn and tempting us to sin just by what He created” —DaveT, naturist-Christians.org

“But treating the body as “decent” only when dressed, and “obscene “ when naked , slanders the moral purity of the Maker’s handiwork.”— David L. Hatton, Who Said You were Naked? Reflections on Body Acceptance

“Christians have fallen into the trap of equating nakedness with sin alongside a culture which uses intimately revealing clothing and nakedness to entice and seduce. Such a heady combination has created an unhealthy and unbiblical attitude to the human body.” - Bob Horrocks, Uncovering the Image https://a.co/d/7iseHu1

“You, reader, were created by the divine Word in your mother’s womb no less truly than Adam & Eve were created by Him. The same beautiful, wonderful, creative God still creates beautiful, wonderful things, including your body.” -Jim Cunningham, Nudity & Christianity https://a.co/d/0ZipWCG

“Furthermore, because God created it, The human body can remain nude and uncovered and preserve its splendour and its beauty.” – Pope John Paul II

“The driving force behind my desire to be nude with others is authenticity. It is an intentional letting go of who I think I'm supposed to be or others expectations of me and embracing who God made me to be. Being naked with others is vulnerable and it is much more difficult to hide. It develops my own self-awareness and practices intuitive empathy with others.

Being naked with others cultivates the courage to be imperfect, exercising compassion that comes from knowing that we are all made from strength and struggle and from knowing that God made us all to be enough. Being naked is one way to invite grace, joy, and gratitude into my life.” —Sean, naturist-Christians.org

“Full nakedness! All my joys are due to thee as souls unbodied, bodies unclothed must be, to taste whole joys.” —John Donne

“The freest people I know are those who have the least to hide, defend or protect. Naked is powerful.” —Alan Cohen

“What we need is both freedom from prudery and the freedom to express our feelings.” —Margaret Mead

“A body is a body is a body. There is nothing innately sexual about exposing your torso — it’s not suggestive or provocative, simply freeing and enabling.” —Ulrika Jonsson

“Nudism is not about seeing others naked or being seen naked, per se, but I also think it would be disingenuous to say that seeing and being seen are not part of what makes nudism so liberating and empowering. Overcoming the fear instilled in us throughout our upbringing and, for many of us, throughout much of our adult lives, by confronting head-on the anxiety associated with being nude in front of others is one part of it.” Almost Wild Blog https://almostwild.blog/2022/05/29/on-seeing-being-seen/

“To put a loincloth on what God allowed to be stripped off is a sign of our own fears regarding spiritual nakedness.”—Michael A.Kowalewski

“Our aim is the healthy mind in the healthy body. We aim to make nudism not merely a fad, but a new social practice. We believe nudism can rid the world of sex ignorance and prudery by making the human body familiar and accepted without eroticism. People ask us why we’re organized, why we don’t just practice nudism as individuals. Well, sir, we believe in this thing, we want it extended and legalized in public places, not merely in such hidden spots as this.” -Rev. Illsey Boone

“In learning to become comfortable without clothing , you learn to separate nakedness from the idea of titillating sex. It’s important to learn that when people are undressed together it doesn’t mean sexual arousal is automatically triggered; and if there is arousal, it doesn’t mean you have to act on any sexual feelings. Group nudity works as a method of behavior modification.” —Barbara Roberts

“Body acceptance is radical and risky. It runs against the cultural current by blowing three whistles on how we see and treat the body. First, it denounces Western society’s propagation of the “perfect” body—an illusory standard of ideal beauty popularized by media and marketing. Second, it debunks slanderous fallacies and conventional fantasies about our naked anatomy by refusing to see he body as a sexual indecency and by esteeming all body parts as elements of personal identity. Third, it turns up the volume for listening to the visual “body language “ of human physiology.” —David L. Hatton, Who Said You were Naked? Reflections of on Body Acceptance

“Nudity, therefore, may be welcomed as a contribution to morality with no need for worry lest it makes us too good for our own happiness. The abandonment of our traditional prudery regarding the naked body would bring the natural instincts of man into better harmony with the requirements of civilized society. He would be healthier mentally, his behavior could improve, and his joy of life would be increased immeasurably.” —Frances and Mason Merrill