Nudity is RIGHT!

What you have been reading in these pages is only a portion of the thousands of Internet pages written in support of nudism and Naturism, nudism and Naturism as whole or portions of religious rites and beliefs, as life-philosophies, and as simple, wholesome activities available to all human beings regardless of their race, religion, condition, size, age, or gender.

I do recognize Naturism as a unique philosophy deserving the respect and regard of anyone with a studious mind, and so I prefer to offer that as its name and capitalize it in all my writings from this point forward. Naturism can easily stand on principles of its own, and needs to borrow nothing from anywhere else to be complete and self-supporting. All one has to do to begin its practice is to remove one's clothing in the privacy of his or her home, and learn to grow accustomed to the freedom and ease of dishabillement.

The first thing you may notice, if you should dare to try this challenge to learn Naturism firsthand, is that most of your problems will come from people who insist upon always being clothed. They will knock upon your door, and you will have to cover yourself before you can answer, or risk their ire and expressions of shock, or the leers of those piqued by the sight of bare skin, perhaps accompanied by suggestive comments. If you are a man, your disadvantage is aggravated by perceptions about your aggression and the 'sexual exposure' of yourself.

Think about it: the problem is not yours, it is theirs, but they regard you as causing it. Put the shoe on the other foot: Visualize yourself as a person who insists on remaining clothed in a culture otherwise populated with naked people. You would appear to be out of place and your behavior in that regard would be deemed to be inappropriate. The problem would not be yours, it would be theirs, but they would regard you as causing it. Your oddball ways would be talked about, and you might become a subject of an investigation.

Now you can ask yourself: Would a culture filled with naked people begin to question the dressed-up person's morality and right to continue living freely in their midst? To be honest, I have seen evidence that they would. If Naturism is truly a philosophy, your actions make it evident you would not practice it and doubt its beliefs and worth.

As you can see, the political considerations become a numbers game: Whoever has like-minded people surrounding him or her self can claim and enforce a semblance of rightness. this does not, however, make them right nor those in minorities necessarily wrong.

This world is covered by human beings living in many kinds of cultures, any one of which has an antithetical assemblage elsewhere (we would hope) located. In a world of opposites, it is only the close proximity of any of them that makes them appear right (when favored by the numbers) or wrong (the minority position). In other words, in a country such as the United States, Naturism would be perfectly acceptable if practiced in, say, Europe, Asia, or maybe Australia. Just don't get caught walking naked down the streets of Nashville, Tennessee or you will get to spend several years of your life locked up in a jail.

What we have hopefully shown here is that our feelings have little bearing on the right and wrong of social nudity. We have too many points of contention, and too little data of any merit to work with. Historically, nudity has been a major component of religious practices and rites, a statement of intentions to retain purity, a political statement in times of rebellious disagreement with a government, a statement of one's philosophical position, a statement about one's own honesty, a statement that one has abandoned the things of the world in search of a higher aspiration, and many times simply a preferred mode of dress.

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