QUOTES
5/23/2018
“The feeling you have when your friends finally agree
to try naturism is incredible!” - https://twitter.com/ohionaturist/status/806175544945455105
“I walked down the steps towards Rec Beach with my
friend and ran straight to the water. I
hiked up my skirt and played in the water. . . I relaxed there in the setting
sun when a hippy boy with long sandy blonde hair, a fin hat, and no pants
walked up to us . . . Me and my friend started talking about freedoms and I had
stated how much I wanted to take off my top and how restricting I felt stuck in
my bra. She said that we should do it
together. A minute later I was laying
back, breasts exposed in the sun, and feeling liberated from my bra and
comfortable in my body. Sitting there
watching the sunset nude was one of the most memorable moments from my
Vancouver Adventures.” – Hippy-Traveler, http://arizonavichi.tumblr.com/
“I’m one of those women who has always been on the
heavy side, but I was lucky to grow up in a family that allowed me not to be
afraid of my looks. Soon after I started
dating my future husband, he revealed he was a nudist and asked if I would come
to a local nudist resort. Believe it or
not, it was easy for me to take my clothes off the first time in front of
strangers. I know that’s not usually the
way it is, but I just felt safe with him there, along with that inner
confidence my dad gave me as a girl. I could
stop here and sound like being a nudist is easy. But, it isn’t all the time. Sometimes I still feel self-conscious about
my size. I must tell you I feel a lot
more comfortable and safe when I am with my nudist friends, because I don’t
feel like I’m constantly being judged.
So this is complicated. On the
one hand, it was easy for me. But on the
other hand, I still sometimes struggle with the cultural influences that
conspire to make all women feel that if they aren’t pencil-thin, there must be
something wrong. And that’s why I keep
coming back.” – Cynthia, https://socalnaturist.org/membership/womenspeak.php
“I think naturists are sometimes the least tolerated
of people, expressly because of their belief in the practice of social nudity.
. . When we practice our naturism, though we’d like to see more people join us,
we’re not twisting anyone’s arm. We’re
not saying that, in tolerating our naturism, people have to accept its
practice. On the flip side, however,
what does society in general do all the time?
Right, they want to force us into clothes. Oh, we’ve gotten past the days when the cops
will raid a nudist park, just because of the thought that people are doing
who-knows-what naked behind its fences, but let some man or woman garden in the
nude, strip off at remote beach, or hike naked in the wilderness and there will
always be some person, finger-pointing and screaming, ‘Shut that down!’ Where’s the love? Where’s the tolerance? . . . people in
general don’t understand the concept of tolerance. To tolerate something doesn’t mean we have to
accept it or practice it and that is where I feel people in general go wrong:
tolerance does not imply acceptance. . . we naturists have a tough row to hoe
for intolerance is a strong, pervasive force in any society and the cause of so
much mischief. I’m not saying we should
just give up and hide behind fences. No,
but we need to understand the hurdles we must clear toward acceptance of our
idea. Nudist and naturist pioneers have
labored long and hard to get us where we are today, sometimes against daunting
odds. We owe it to them to carry on, but
we won’t be able to make any progress if we sit idly by the pool at our
favorite nudist retreat ignorant of all the effort our forebears have
made. Along with our other work, let’s
work to educated people as to the true meaning of tolerance and, when we do, so
very, very many will benefit from it.
Forewarned is forearmed” - Tom Pine, The Naked Truth Naturists
Newdsletter, October 1, 2016, V. 17, #10
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