Created Naked

“Clothes put a barrier between our selves — which are our bodies— and the rest of the world. They not only prevent us from establishing contact with others but also from contact with our selves, serving as a first layer of disguise.” —Ashley Montegue

“We insult ourselves by calling our bodies obscene, pornographic, lewd, base, dirty, immoral, or evil, and in so doing deny the basic truth of our own existence. Our anatomy is us— and it is none of those terrible things.”— Dennis Craig Smith with Dr. William Sparks

“Removal of clothing helps to unmask the protective roles we tend to project socially.” —Barbara Roberts

“I am not a naturist, a nudist, a streaker, nor an exhibitionist. Labels are for clothes. My unclothed appearance is also not motivated sexually nor out of any gratuitous need to seek attention. I believe that while society continues to have a fundamentally negative relationship with the human body and appearance, we can never be a free or mature society. It’s the 21st century. Time to evolve.” – Russell Higgs

“The universal or widespread practice of nudity would involve the obliteration to a large extent of class and caste distinctions. It would mean more democracy and individual freedom through the disappearance of many oppressive conventional, moral and legal restrictions. It would restore to the body the importance and dignity to which it is entitled.” —Maurice Parmelee

“Naked you are unencumbered with human decorations and coverings that cover God’s human masterpiece. Naked with others, you will be more aware of being as God sees you, someone He has created in His own image who is not unlike everyone else. You will have to be humble before Him and others.” —Paul M. Bowman, Nakedness & the Bible.

“Clothes make the man, but nakedness makes the human being.” – Kevin Kearney

“Human beings to me are as much a part of nature as trees or birds, and the unclothed body expresses this belongingness directly and powerfully.” —Wynn Bullock

“Nudists are fond of saying that when you come right down to it everyone is alike, and, again, that when you come right down to it everyone is different.” —Diane Arbus

“Modesty concerning the body makes no sense at all. Feeling shame about what you have when everyone has one as well is an affront to logic, common sense and the human struggle to understand ourselves.” — Dennis Craig Smith, Naked Fear

“We all have the same parts. Some parts are bigger, some are smaller, some sag, and others don’t. It doesn’t matter! We are all beautiful. We are the pinnacle of God’s creation and vary in our beauty in the same way no two trees are alike.”—Phillip Oak, Surprised Into Freedom

“We have built gymnophobia, it’s called, it has a name, fear of nudity, gymnophobia, we have built gymnophobia into society. We have lots of social rules, we have architecture around it, we have little changing cubicles and doors that locked and everything else,.” —Stephane Deschenes

“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

“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 of on Body Acceptance

“Are we so narrow minded that we show war, murder, rape, etc. on TV, but we do not allow to show one of the most wonderful creations (the human body) in its natural form.” – Mario Roman

“[B]eing nude is not obscene. Being ourselves is what's important. If everyone practised being themselves, instead of pretending to be what they aren't, there would be peace.“ —John Lennon

“The body seems to feel beauty when exposed to it as it feels the campfire or sunshine, entering not by the eyes alone, but equally through all one’s flesh like radiant heat, making a passionate ecstatic pleasure glow not explainable.” —John Muir, founder of The Sierra Club

Nudeness is truth, it is beauty, it is art. Therefore it can never be vulgar; it can never be immoral. I would not wear my clothes, if it were not for their warmth. My body is the temple of my art. —Isadora Duncan

The key to being Naked is not just about taking your clothes off ... It's about seeing, feeling and acknowledging every inch of your skin as a holy temple.—Stephanie McManus

“At all stages of life, our bodies remain sanctuaries that embody God’s image. Until our dying day, goodness and grace shine out from these fleshly temples.” — David L. Hatton, Who Said You were Naked? Reflections of on Body Acceptance

“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

“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.” —Mtannanguy, naturist-Christian’s .org

“I would disagree with you on the idea that men are visual, this is a mistake promoted by purity culture to excuse men for lust, it is a misconception ubiquitous in our culture, but one visit to a naturist venue will teach you that it’s untrue if you think to question it. If men were truly visually stimulated, every nudist park would be a forest of erections… not so. Visual stimulation is learned and can be unlearned.” —Naked Preacher, Naturist-Christians

“If Christian homes, instead of portraying the human body as pornographic, taught a godly, incarnational view of our Creator’s embodied “image” and potential “temple,” then we would not only porn proof our children but render porn addiction either rare or unknown in our churches.” — David L. Hatton, Who Said You were Naked? Reflections of on Body Acceptance

“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 the 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