Created Naked

"One thing that convinced me that naturism is good was asking myself which is healthier: to be afraid, bashful, ashamed, or embarrassed to look at another person's body, perhaps commenting that "nobody wants to see that" or objectifying it? Or to be able to look at a person as he or she really is without any fear, shame, judgment, embarrassment, or objectification, and just accept the person calmly without batting an eye? What would (and did) Jesus do upon seeing a naked person? Would He have turned away until he or she had put on some clothes, or would He have looked at the person in love, compassion, and acceptance? Which is the godlier response to nudity? Why is it considered godlier to be horrified of each other's bodies and to turn away as if one has just witnessed something monstrous and grotesque? —Young Female Naturist, Name Withheld

“Most people in current society only see a real live penis in a sexual setting and therefore only see it as a sexual object. There is no mental separation between the flaccid penis and the phallus their only experience with the penis is the phallus. The earlier cultures had the experience of seeing a penis as part of the normal events of living and could realize there is more to a penis than just being a phallus. Sometimes a penis is just a penis, nothing more than like a finger is just a finger, the penis has no greater meaning than any other part of the body. Normalizing nudity puts the penis in its proper place, it is just part of the whole human body. The penis doesn’t deserve the attention it gets from current society, which has morphed our view of the person’s masculinity into a visible object, rather than an assessment of the person’s character.” —Ted Hillberg

“What we learned was that the viewing of the unclothed human body, is far from being destructive to the psyche, seems to be either benign and totally harmless or to actually provide positive benefits to the individual involved.” —Dennis Craig Smith and Dr. William Sparks, Growing Up Without Shame

“While this [children’s experience of social nudity] can be a highly emotional, even controversial issue, it seems prudent to gather and be guided by empirical evidence, rather than mere emotion, and to avoid unhelpful or inaccurate stigmatization. The empirical evidence to date, including this current research, has failed to find negative effects or associations between naturism and outcomes for children. Following that evidence, calls to ban children from naturist events seems premature and unhelpful,” —Keon West, “Think of the Children!: Relationships between Nudity-Related Experiences in Childhood, Body Image, Self-Esteem and Adjustments,” Children & Society 37.4(July 2023): 1187-1202.

“Many of us may be unaware that nudity is a normal condition that has prevailed throughout most of mankind’s existence.” —Aileen Goodson

“Limiting the cultures mentioned to the Greco-Roman region is extremely limited and potentially misleading. Because nakedness being normal isn’t a Greco-Roman thing, it’s a human thing, across human history all over the globe it’s been pretty normal.” —Chris, MudWalkers, https://vimeo.com/876711217

“It was nudism that taught me to accept the normality of the human body in any form. Everyone is different, and that’s normal. People don’t exist to please other people’s eyes.” —Naked_Mike_Writes, How I went to my first nudist’s beach and started loving my body, https://medium.com/nude-positive/how-i-went-to-my-first-nudists-beach-and-started-loving-my-body-1395462a2e5b

“It is no small thing to feel the warmth of the sun on your skin. —Marty Rubin

“In terms of deep reverence, being naked allows us to feel more acutely the relationship with the breeze, the wind, the skies, the light and the dark  … the fullness of the natural world, and so encourages a richer, more genuinely felt interaction.” — Emma Restall Orr

“Nudity is liberty.  Our bodies thank us for disrobing and allowing air to touch them. . . when we shed our clothes, it feels fantastic!  It feels right! . . . it’s magic!” – Izaera

“There's nothing better than strolling down the beach the way God made you." —Bruce Willis

“[When] one is nude, your senses are heightened ... You become open to the universe, not only physically, but emotionally, unprotected, unmasked. It may be symbolic of allowing the Divine and the World to see you as you really are.” —Alkemie Jane

“Demystifying or desexualising doesn’t happen by hiding things away, it happens by bringing things into the light. We are called to be free, not to cling to the falsehoods that tie us to this twisted world.” — Martin Cliffe.

“The freedom that comes from exposing yourself, you’ll find you end up connecting soul to soul and not body to body, because that stripping bare brings you down to who you are inside” — Dee, minute 17:36-17:43, https://youtu.be/K6FrJP7zFYU?si=GrD9mvUmMnTNUCuv

“Don’t let those who have body negative values define what is and what is not acceptable. Seize your freedom and restore your dignity!” – defunct website BodyFreedom.***

“Sometimes I like to run naked in the moonlight and the wind, on a little trail behind our house, when the honeysuckle blooms. It’s a feeling of freedom, so close to God and nature.” —Dolly Parton

“When I free my body from its clothes, from all their buttons, belts, and laces, it seems to me that my soul takes a deeper, freer breath.” – August Strindberg, playwright, 1849-1912

“Sweet, sane, still Nakedness in Nature! –ah if poor, sick, prurient humanity in cities might really know you once more! Is not nakedness then indecent? No, not inherently. It is your thought, your sophistication, your fear, your respectability that is indecent. There come moods when these clothes of ours are not only too irksome to wear, but are themselves indecent. Perhaps indeed he or she to whom the free exhilarating ecstasy of nakedness in Nature has never been eligible (and how many thousands there are!) has not really known what purity is–nor what faith or art or health really is.” —Walt Whitman, Specimen Days

“When you’re nude, it doesn’t matter where you come from and it doesn’t matter what job you have or how much money you make,” she says. “The act of just stripping off and scrubbing – it’s like a universal relaxation.” — Mocca Masuoka. https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/dec/28/japanese-nude-public-baths-melbourne-ofuroya-collingwood-hiromi-masuoka

“If you feel shameful of your body or don’t think you measure up, this is exactly what you need. You know, it’s, it’s this natural medicine. And, to be perfectly honest I see naturism as a radical act of self acceptance.” —Dee, minutes 11:13-19:03: https://youtu.be/K6FrJP7zFYU?si=GrD9mvUmMnTNUCuv

“Because true belonging only happens when we present our authentic, imperfect selves to the world, our sense of belonging can never be greater than our level of self-acceptance.” —Brené Brown

“I believe people are conditioned to the textile world- again clothes. The problem is social media is teaching us to be sexy. Right? I mean duck lips, and women are plumping up their breasts, and jeans with fake tushies in them. And you know just altering our bodies to what we are supposed to believe that is beautiful. We all have funny bodies. We all have lumps and bumps, stretch marks and beautiful parts of us, but we’re covered up. So, naturism is scary because it’s breaking down all of that stuff, you can’t hide anything in naturism.” —Michelle, minutes 14:40-15:15, https://youtu.be/K6FrJP7zFYU?si=GrD9mvUmMnTNUCuv

“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