Nudist Quotes & things to think about...

[color=#000000]ot when the nanny is around. But I will with my wife and kids." [/color]- Kevin Bacon speaking of his preference to be nude at his home. /div hr / div Bathing led to nudity. Nudity led to promiscuity. So believed the colonial lawmakers of Pennsylvania and Virginia. Philadelphia was especially strict in those early years. You could be jailed there bathing more than once a month. /div hr / div Forcing others to wear clothes because we cannot control our own lust, is abuse of others. /div hr / div "I don't want to facilitate the power structure with my conformity," - THE NAKED GUY, Andrew Martinez /div hr / div Is it normal for us keep to our bodies covered in cloth 100% of the time? For some people, walking from the bathroom to the bedroom with no towel handy will cause them extreme panic and stress. Is this healthy? Being naked should just be another form of dress, nothing more, nothing less. /div hr / div Television nudity is accepted in Brazil, Germany, the United Kingdom, Japan and Australia. Why not the United States? /div hr / div Protect children from the tyranny of government intrusion into every aspect of their lives rather than the possibility that they might (shock, horror) see a image of a nude person. /div hr / div Warning: Clothing has been shown to cause extreme psychological dependence. Wear it at your own risk -- Ben Thornton /div hr / div "We find that relaxing with clothes off at Elysium Fields is a great tension reliever, for ourselves and our kids too." - actress Lynn Redgrave /div hr / div "Being natural and matter-of-fact about nudity prevents your children from developing an attitude of shame or disgust about the human body. If parents are very secretive about their bodies and go to great lengths to prevent their children from ever seeing a buttock or breast, children will wonder what is so unusual, and even alarming, about human nudity." - Dr. Lee Salk, Psychiatrist /div hr / div "I come from a country where you don't wear clothes most of the year. Nudity is the most natural state. I was born nude and I hope to be buried nude." - Elle MacPherson, Australian model and actress. /div hr / div Why would anyone want to teach their children their bodies are disgusting, unacceptable and offensive to even look at? Why would anyone want to teach their children self shame, self disgust and to despise their body or any one else's body? Why would anyone set a bad example to their children by having a prejudicial bigotry against another group of people? /div hr / div "Some day people will grow up and realize that the only thing vile about human bodies is the small minds some people have developed within them." - Dick Hein /div hr / div "The best dress for walking is nakedness." - Colin Fletcher, "The Complete Walker III" /div hr / div "We was always naked, day and night, whenever the mosquitoes would let us," said Mark Twain's river hero Huck Finn. /div hr / div Despite its puritan roots, the U.S. has a long history of skinny-dipping. Social nudity is celebrated in the writings of Walt Whitman and the landscape paintings of Thomas Eakins. Benjamin Franklin took a daily naked "air bath," while presidents John Quincy Adams, Theodore Roosevelt and Lyndon Johnson enjoyed a refreshing nude dip. According to National Geographic Magazine, John Quincy Adams (1825-29), the sixth President, customarily took a nude early morning swim in the Potomac River. See National Geographic /div hr / div A Nudist is simply a human being without 'Artificial Additives'! /div hr / div "Nudity is undignified and an error of taste." - Adolf Hitler /div hr / div "On the fourth day of telecommuting, I realized that clothes are totally unnecessary." - Dilbert /div hr / div Quoting from Genesis, "They were nude but they were not ashamed." Furthermore, because God created it, "The human body can remain nude and uncovered and preserve its splendor and its beauty." - Pope John Paul II /div hr / div Because naturists don't think of sex when they undress, because naturists don't think of sex when they are engaged in wholesome family activities. Because naturists don't grab a towel for cover, after taking a shower in fear of having others view them in a 'sex obsessed' manner? Who are the perverts then? /div hr / div "Clothes make the man, but nakedness makes the human being." - Kevin Kearney /div hr / div "I just love having no clothes on outside, and the only time to do that is when the sun's shining. It's a wonderful sensation to not have any clothes on." - P.J. Harvey, singer. /div hr / div "Clothes therefore, must be the insignia of the superiority of man over all other animals, for surely there could be no other reason for wearing the hideous things." - From Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs /div hr / div Walk Nude, and people won't need to undress you with their eyes. /div hr / div "The best thing to do would be to designate everywhere as clothing optional, and we could leave little fenced in areas for the prudes to prance around in. Call them "Prudist Camps". They could peer out of their fences and indulge in their offensive "I'm offended" behavior whenever they saw a natural person walk by, without bothering the rest of us." /div hr / div "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 /div hr / div "Nudity is a state of fact; lewdity, to coin a phrase, is a state of mind." -Paul Outerbridge, Jr. /div hr / div I think on-stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body, it would be artistic, tasteful, patriotic and a progressive religious experience. --Shelley Winters /div hr / div If we aren't concerned about children seeing adult facial hair, then why are some concerned about children seeing adult pubic hair? /div hr / div Have you ever noticed how a little child can run naked through a room full of strangers without embarrassment? Just as Adam and Eve were not embarrassed in their innocence. But after Adam and Eve sinned, shame and awkwardness followed, creating barriers between themselves and God. Ideally we have no barriers, feeling no embarrassment between each other or God. But, like Adam and Eve, we put on fig leaves (barriers) because we have areas we don't want anyone or God to know about. Then we hide, just as Adam and Eve hid from God. Jesus died for our sins so there is no longer any barriers we need to have. Jesus told us to be like little children in order to enter the Kingdom of Heaven. /div hr / div How is it possible for the human body, which was created in the image of god, to be offensive to anybody? Satan would love to see God's greatest creation be considered offensive. /div hr / div Many come to bring their clothes to church rather than themselves. --Thomas Fuller /div hr / div "A child who has never been allowed to see his parents and brothers and sisters naked sees nudity as something shocking." - Dr. Helga Fleischhauer-Hardt /div hr / div When wearing only a smile - be sure to smile a lot. /div hr / div "If we were meant to be nude, we would have been born that way." /div hr / div "What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful that the garment with which it is clothed?" - Michelangelo /div hr / div If possible, compute in the nude. - From the book "Supercharging MS-Dos" by Microsoft Press, 3rd Ed., pg. 393, under the section "Static Electricity Is A Killer" /div hr / div HUMANITY AT PRESENT IS ILLEGAL. YOUR HUMAN BODY IS NOT ALLOWED. IT IS SUPPRESSED BECAUSE YOU ARE ILLEGAL - STOP THE OPPRESSION AND LEGALIZE YOURSELF. IN REALITY, BEING HUMAN IS NOT A CRIME. From: The Freedom to be Yourself /div hr / div "The human body: Legalize it" /div hr / div I am not a naturist, a nudist, a streaker, nor an exhibitionist. Labels are for clothes.…