Shouldn't Nudity be Encouraged?

[Buttons*]

That's nice, Dallas, but studies consistently show that nudists have better body-images than non-nudists. Especially, female nudists.

May I ask why body image is such a huge concern? What does it help accomplish? Why bother making everyone naked?

I, for one, am perfectly happy walking around naked in my house. No issue there. I think I'd face far more scrutiny if I walked around town naked, versus the conventional t shirt and jeans.

In fact, sometimes a well made and well tailored outfit can make me feel wonderful about myself (not exactly sure why...). Whether I'm naked or not, I am still me, and I need to accept myself.

Is that what this idea is? The idea that people need to be more accepting of themselves? Because there are more ways to do this than just strip to nude. IMO.

 

[MoonWater]

I think that walking around general public people should at least be required to wear pants of some kind just for sanitation purposes. (and I'm not talking just underwear I mean actual pants) But if your at say the beach or swimming or nudist areas I don't see anything wrong with letting it all hang out. I personally think it's sexist that women have to cover their chest while men don't though. Especially when you consider that there are many men out there with breasts bigger than the women you see in sports illustrated.

 

[rojse]

Been there done that.

And did your husband (or other lover) stop concentrating on your breasts?

 

[dragonflygrrrrl]

Sure. Just be careful not to get raped. It would be so much easier to get raped if you were already naked.

LOL :clap

 

[tumbleweed41]

Sure. Just be careful not to get raped. It would be so much easier to get raped if you were already naked.

Instances of rape per capita are higher among the general public than in Nudist parks and resorts.

 

[DallasApple]

I'm throwing in with Sunstone, from personal experience. The first time I mustered up the courage to go naked at a nudie beach, my body image improved noticeably, and instantly. It was like coming out of a cage. I swim in the buff now - or at least topless - whenever the mood takes me, whether I'm officially on a "nudie beach" or not. In Cornwall, there are a lot of sparsely populated, secluded beaches surrounded by cliffs and people are very laisser-faire about clothes.

There's a time and a place for everything though. I don't think it would be as liberating if I were, say, on a crowded train on the commute to work, and I wouldn't want to be naked in front of somebody else's family picnic with little kids running around, just in case their parents are weird about it. I really admire the woman who challenged Toronto's prohibition on female toplessness and won, but I can't picture myself doing my Sunday shopping with my baps a-dangling, no matter how hot it was.

O.K,...I have ZERO probllem with that..If you are talking about nudity with limits.As to where and when And only voluntary as to what you have to be exposed to.

Love

Dallas

 

[DallasApple]

I think that walking around general public people should at least be required to wear pants of some kind just for sanitation purposes. (and I'm not talking just underwear I mean actual pants) But if your at say the beach or swimming or nudist areas I don't see anything wrong with letting it all hang out. I personally think it's sexist that women have to cover their chest while men don't though. Especially when you consider that there are many men out there with breasts bigger than the women you see in sports illustrated.

ROLFLA!!!(I agree)

Love

Dallas

 

[DallasApple]

I think that walking around general public people should at least be required to wear pants of some kind just for sanitation purposes. (and I'm not talking just underwear I mean actual pants) But if your at say the beach or swimming or nudist areas I don't see anything wrong with letting it all hang out. I personally think it's sexist that women have to cover their chest while men don't though. Especially when you consider that there are many men out there with breasts bigger than the women you see in sports illustrated.

Also I wanted to add to the sexism idea on wearing a top.

Especially with little girls and boys who have THE SAME stuff going on.I'll never forget running around in the heat and humidity in Florida as a child.I followed my brother everywhere..He got hot and took his shirt off...and so did I ..I was quickly informed I couldnt take my top off because I was "a girl".Im like..But Im hot..and it was sort of like.."too bad". I was 6.I had ZERO breast.I remember thinking that wasnt fair..but obviously as a girl I needed to cover up moreso than my brother because I was female.Two flat chest.One could be exposed..the other couldnt.

Love

Dallas

 

[DallasApple]

It's a good thought, but eventually, once nudity became the norm, people would just go back to picking on each other again. The good body image effects afforded by nudity would disappear along with the novelty.

I agree with this too.Being nude would not eliminate people from forming standards of beauty (body types) that people compared themsleves against or critisized others for not meeting or being close enough too.

We are doing it to each other with clothes on why would it stop with clothes off?In fact it might even be worse.We would have more "area" to compare and judge ourselves and others by.

The point is there would still be a "standard" of what beauty is and I dont think it would narrow down to your eyes just because you are nude.

Love

Dallas

 

[Sunstone]

You're once again resorting to speculation without a basis in fact.

 

[DallasApple]

P.S I used to pee standing up when I was 3.I would stand in front of the toilet and pee just like my brother did.I coudlnt figure out what to grab..or why it was running down my legs apparently.

Sorry ..

Love

Dallas

 

[DallasApple]

You're once again resorting to speculation without a basis in fact.

How would people being nude magically stop societal standards of beauty including body types? Sure I'm specualtion But so is saying that everyone would just accept each other for eternity and never judge or critisize or compare themselves to others nude bodies.

Love

Dallas

 

[DallasApple]

Lets put it this way..If being clothed doesnt stop us..How would being nude?

IOW maybe the only reason its liberating and feels like freedom now is because most people who will go nude have made a decsion already to NOT care what other people think.

That doesnt mean if everyone tomorow went nude and from this day forward people would never care what anyone thought about there body.Or that no one would make judgments or critisize other peoples body..or there wouldn't be a standard of beauty.(including body types).

HECK people who are dressed worry about bad skin or their weight . how tall they are .and wrinkles the shade of their teeth.. body hair.. and on and on ..

Suddenly if you are naked all that goes away?

No body image problems? I highly doubt it.

Love

Dallas

 

[Sunstone]

But so is saying that everyone would just accept each other for eternity and never judge or critisize or compare themselves to others nude bodies.

Dallas, you've created a straw man argument. In case you don't know what the means, it means you are putting words in my mouth. I never said what you attribute to me. All I've said is that several studies seem to show the practice of nudity increases favorable body-image.

Now, you have a very active imagination. Somehow, in your head, that means I've said "that everyone would just accept each other for eternity and never judge or critisize [sic] or compare themselves to others nude bodies."

How you get from my statements to what you think my statements are is a question I can't answer. Except to say this: So long as you are going to put words in my mouth, I am simply not going to debate you. Go play your petty little games with someone else.

 

[Alceste]

Lets put it this way..If being clothed doesnt stop us..How would being nude?

Hi, Dallas, I touched on it before. We can hide things with clothes. They are invariably things we are afraid of letting other people see.

It's not just a simple matter of having clothes on or taking them off. Going naked in public is a transformative experience, like Luke Skywalker going into the cave on Dagobah. He comes out a different person - not because he happened to physically go into a cave and come out again, but because while he was in there he conquered his worst fear.

To quote Margaret Atwood (Payback),

"In the 1950s, the age of girdles and deodorants, the [bus advertisers] evidently felt that the most anxiety-making thing imaginable was to have your body lolloping about unconfined, and stinking up the place into the bargain. It was the body that might get away from you, so it was the body that had to be brought under control; if not, that body might get out and do things that would bring a shame upon you so deep and sexual that it could never be mentioned on public transport."

 

[TurkeyOnRye]

In recent months, I have begun to remove all or most of my clothing while at home, no matter what the time. Since I started, my body image has improved dramatically and I know my body better than I ever have. I used to feel incomplete without clothes on, like something was missing from my self-image. Now, clothes are mostly a utilitarian thing to me and if I'm inside my warm house, I feel more comfortable with them off.

 

[Humanistheart]

That's true. Religious taboos are always creating significant issues with progress.

Very true. All the more reason we as a sepcies should be working to shed the shackles of religious oppresion.

 

[Rise Above]

Its also only "natural" to throw up or urinate or defecate..We arent "allowed " to do that anywhere we want no matter how "natural" it is.

We should be.

Our "creases" in our private areas hold bacteria.Do you get that?

And the creases in our pants don't?

its also NATURAL to put a diaper on a baby.

If you actually believe this to be true you have an appallingly poor understanding of what "human nature" entails. Strapping a Huggies on your toddler is not exactly something that's characteristic of all humans at all times.

If "she should be nude" WHY put a diaper on a baby?..Why should a woman wear "feminine"protection ..why dont we just bleed all over the place..ITS NATURAL after all...

Well, exactly.

 

[England my lionheart]

I think nudity is ok,in France you can be on a Beach where fat thin old young wearing only a postage stamp and nobody battersan eyelid.
I was in a play where i had to be naked with two Women,i was a south American Indian and had to be painted along with the Women every night by a make up girl,it is a little strange at first but you soon get used to it.

 

[Willamena]

We should be.

No :no: no, we shouldn't.