Women: Facing Issues, Overcoming Challenges 2

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  ConnorOriginal Poster

  Mar 17, 2016

  
  '' In many magazines photos of female bodies are altered -- our brave volunteers shed it all to show that
  any real body type is absolutely beautiful, Stein told HuffPost.
  
  We as an organization work to promote positive self-image in women, reminding them that nothing needs to be nipped or tucked to feel or look beautiful. ''
  
  
  "Real Women, Real Bodies":www.facebook.com/RealWomenRealBodies
  
  Their Story Here:
  www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/25/real-women-real-bodies-wyoming_n_5806798.html
  
  
  
  
  

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  ConnorOriginal Poster

  Mar 17, 2016

  
  ''The biggest revelation were the female bottoms. Freed of ungainly clothes, pear-shaped behinds reigned supreme.
  There were some skinny examples on show, but they looked pathetic compared to the magnificence of a rotund rear end.
  
  In the clothed world, we're crushed by the tyranny of a physical ideal that is unachievable and unhealthy. In here, perfection was freakish.
  
  Sometimes, we look at big people and presume they are lazy, greedy or lacking self-control.
  
  I realised how easy it is to create a norm - in the case of body shape, entirely artificially - and make everyone who doesn't conform feel bad about themselves.''
  
  Her Full Story Here:
  www.independent.ie/life/getting-naked-to-feel-free-31408910.html
  
  

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  ConnorOriginal Poster

  Mar 17, 2016

  
  ''It's not an easy task to feel Right in a world that body-shames and slut-shames and shame-shame-shames everyone into feeling deeply,
  inherently wrong. But I've always had very strong feelings about natural, real-life nakedness. I think it's an epic travesty that
  our culture doesn't support it...
  
  In high school, despite the fact that I grew up in a body-positive and sex-positive household, I was so flooded with anxiety about
  how ''wrong'' my natural body was, that I was completely unable to relax. There were so much about myself I needed to hide, and to distract from...
  
  Women have become obsessed with ''fixing'' the endless ways in which their bare faces and bodies are wrong, and we are constantly aware
  of the sexual performance that is expected of us. When we fail at any of the above (and we constantly feel like we are failing), there is shame... ''
  
  Her Full Story Here:
  jessikneeland.com/why-im-getting-naked-on-the-internet/
  
  
  
  

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  ConnorOriginal Poster

  May 16, 2016

  
  With no use of Photoshop or any other light or camera tricks to give any false illusions,
  the women were pictured naked, fully comfortable and fully loving their own unique bodies.
  ...
  ''When was the last time you saw an image of skin markings that looked just like yours?
  When was the last time you saw an image of breasts that looked just like yours?
  An ass that looked just like yours?
  Scars that looked just like yours?
  A belly that looked just like yours? ...
  
  It's been a while since we've (or maybe we've never) seen our body positively represented with that
  overwhelming flood of images that fills our social media feeds, televisions, and magazines.
  
  I think it's time to change that.''
  
  Her Full Story Here:www.elephantjournal.com/2015/03/your-body-aint-wrong-girlfriend-67-untouched-nude-photos/
  
  
  

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  ConnorOriginal Poster

  Feb 6, 2019

  "Alves grew up with body-image issues and depression but found liberation in naturism. I used to inflict self-harm," she says. "I would burn myself with an iron and cut myself on the stomach because thats where I felt I had the extra fat. I also went through a lot of depression relating to my self-image. Ironically, Alves decided to shed her clothes when she was five months postpartum. My whole outlook toward my body changed after I gave birth. I saw my body in a more self-centered way. I saw that it had purpose. It could feed a child and create a human. It made me love my body even more." Her full story:www.sheknows.com/health-and-wellness/articles/1118251/naturism

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  ConnorOriginal Poster

  Feb 6, 2019

  "Growing up, the message is always that you cover up certain parts of the body, otherwise people will assume you're up for sex, so I think that inhibits a lot of people, particularly women." Full story -www.independent.ie/life/what-it-feels-like-irish-naturist-50-on-why-shes-happier-with-her-clothes-off-even-in-the-snow-36812436.html

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  ConnorOriginal Poster

  Feb 6, 2019

  Woman poses naked on Instagram to prove nudity isn't sexualwww.indy100.com/article/naked-woman-instragram-nudity-sexual-naturism-travel-australia-body-positive-viral-8029206

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  ConnorOriginal Poster

  Feb 6, 2019

  "Ive never been naturally slim, petite or delicate and always felt like I didnt quite fit the cute, skinny, pretty girl box like the rest of my friends and that bothered me. I always strived to look like someone I was never going to be. In naturism it is totally different."www.scotsman.com/news/naked-britain-fashion-photographer-to-open-naturism-exhibition-1-4697209www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/body/a13119574/photographing-naturists-helped-me-love-my-body/

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  ConnorOriginal Poster

  Feb 6, 2019

  "I always felt good nakedwhy couldn't I feel like that all the time? I worked up the courage to try nudism as an act of confidence and freedom, and started reading about the nudist world. After lots of searching, I found a nudist group in my area that I thought I could try out. So a few weeks after my birthday, I wore my birthday suit to that athletic club." Her full story:www.womenshealthmag.com/life/a19974354/nudism-body-image/

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