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ManOfWicklowOriginal Poster
Apr 25, 2012In the late 1700s nudity came to be linked with hygiene. Doctors advised people to ‘bathe’ their bodies in the ‘vital’ elements of the air, sun and water. Water bathing became a popular leisure activity and air and sun bathing was turned into a ‘nature cure’ therapy. The first nature cure ‘sanatoriums’ were opened in the mid-1800s. People lived in open-air ‘huts’, and ‘bathed’ naked in the sun, or even in the snow. Sunlight and fresh air were used in an effort to treat tuberculosis (TB) patients in open-air hospitals.
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- MAManOfWicklowOriginal PosterApr 26, 2012[quote]First there was nudism, and then came prudism. And that was progress?
[/quote]As with many aspects of modern civilization, perhaps the word progress needs to be redefined.ReactReply - WE
westheathenApr 26, 2012AndyDi: I think you will find this is done for the patient's benefit rather than for the staff. Remember that now some folks are not comfortable exposing themselves to people, partly in some cases due to religios hang-ups.
MOW: I went on a guided tour of Brighton last year, during it the guide mentioned how it used to be fashionable to drink the seawater, because of the health benefits it gave. YUK!!!ReactReply - DA
danglinApr 26, 2012I think I may have written about this elsewhere, but what the heck?
My last physical I asked the nurse if I had to mess with that silly gown that doesn't close in the back. She said I didn't, so I just stripped and laid a towel across my lap while sitting on the table. My doc comes in and doesn't bat an eye. He, of course, has seen me from every possible angle.
At one point he's examining me for skin lesions. So, I'm standing there naked and we start a conversation. I stand there naked for 5 or 10 minutes while we have a conversation totally NOT about my physical. Eventually, he gets on with the examination. No clothes were no problem.
He does live in my neighborhood, so he's jogged by while I was using my outdoor shower (which is visible from the street but has knee to shoulder translucent privacy screen). I know he know's I'm not shy. But, I just haven't come out and said "I'm a nudist" to him." Bought time, I guess.ReactReply - MAManOfWicklowOriginal PosterMay 8, 2012[quote]I dont know why the gown or underware, she saw every body part I have and parts my wife never saw.[/quote]My wife doesn't even know such parts exist.ReactReply
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Brian1955May 9, 2012I can't tell if I'm off topic. But when I'm at the venue I'm a member of three/four showers a day is not uncommon.
~Dancing on cinder blocks as stepper blocks for fun 'n bit of cardio in the sun I keep the water hose handy to squirt directly
overhead. Cools one down quite instantaneous and brings about joy of as child once again~
all said it does wonderful things for the inside of my head~Now that's therapy. ;)
I need no validation that ima nudist acting brave/carefree to bare my chest or arse in public. that I feel would be poser.
just follow protocol/rules and enjoy being a minority. :)ReactReply - MAManOfWicklowOriginal PosterMay 9, 2012A nurse who cracked a saucy joke as she helped to restrain a patient having an epileptic fit was unfairly fired, the Appeal Court has ruled. Laura Bowater, 34, quipped, 'It's been a few months since I have been in this position with a man underneath me' as she straddled his naked body while doctors tried to give him an injection. The trousers of the 'extremely strong' 31-year-old patient had been removed so doctors could inject his buttock and Ms Bowater sat on his ankles to control his flailing legs.
So reports the Daily Mail. They go on to say that a panel at Watford Employment Tribunal upheld her unfair dismissal claim but North West London Hospitals NHS Trust successfully challenged it at the Employment Appeal Tribunal. The NHS Trust did what? Who works for these outfits? Conservative MP Nadine Dorries, herself a former nurse, called the sacking insane. I get the impression that insanity is a top requisite for working in the NHS these days.ReactReply