QUOTES 7/5/2019

“. . . when Jesus was baptized by John the Baptist in the river Jordan he would have been naked, and was portrayed as such in paintings and mosaics.” – Philip Carr-Gomm, A Brief History of Nakedness, 2013, p. 75

“Nudists on canal boat cruise” Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xsw8AkHmNA

“You feel so much adrenaline when you’re about to get naked in public.  You know it’s illegal, and yet, there’s something magical about the moment, being out in the city streets so late at night.” - Elizabeth Narins, http://www.cosmopolitan.com/health-fitness/a8273373/dancers-after-dark-interview/?utm_source=Subscribers&utm_campaign=5b855fddd2-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_01_05&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_56fcfa5d4f-5b855fddd2-48273425&mc_cid=5b855fddd2&mc_eid=d48c508625

“My early morning summer walks in the nude usually were uneventful as far as meeting people until a neighbor decided to walk his dogs earlier than usual.  I was more concerned about his dogs jumping up on me than having met him nude.  We stopped for a moment and chatted a little then said good morning to each other as we parted. . . After that I started making my own nature trails off of the main forest path.” – Naturelover, https://www.truenudists.com/group/hiking-nudist-sitting-in-the-woods/1/107802/3/

“Here were these people, staring at explicit images of naked humans, for minutes on end, not only OK with them but commenting to each other about their appreciation of them, yet Orlando Bloom enjoying a bit of nude recreation with a friend while on vacation is the day’s biggest scandal!  We live in a nude-hysterical society. . . When nudity is billed as art, it’s suddenly given a free pass . . . what are we as a species if we have to shunt our deepest expression into mediums and objects instead of real life?  Why have this distance from what we love the most about ourselves?  Why can’t we TOUCH our dreams?  I’ve now realized why nudity in art is comfortable for people – the emotional reason for it being ‘OK’.  In art we don’t have the responsibility of dealing with a living human being on the other end of the nudity.  It’s a bit like porn vs. sex – it’s a one-way interface with only one person giving, and another receiving.  There’s no living, conscious being to have to ‘respect’ – we can just view the person as an object, objectifying that subject and doing whatever the hell we want to do with them in our mind. . . It’s crazy to think we’re all ‘violating’ the dignity of nude human beings in artworks because they’re not alive – and that we’re ‘objectifying’ them.  We peer, and leer and stare at them, and it would never be ‘right’ to do that outside of art.  That makes art an outlet.  It’s an invitation to look and appreciate – a safe, controlled and non-threatening platform.  And because of this it’s sacred.  In the case of nudity, it’s a way to communicate – by simply showing – the neutrality of the sexiness of the naked human body.  Aspects like that are why people crave it.  They desperately want it, and they come to it to worship.  No wonder people call creativity spiritual.  It’s a space free from judgement, a realm of boundless self-expression . . . It’s a temple of freedom of expression, and freedom of speech.” – Nude Movement, http://www.naktiv.net/blog/1139/why-does-art-make-nudity-ok/