QUOTES
10/20/2019
“. . . most people who are naturists have a wish to
meet and socialize with others who are the same. Different people enjoy socializing nude for
different reasons, but social activity of some kind has always been a big part
of the naturist movement and if you enjoy being nude alone, you will probably
enjoy being nude with others just as much.” - https://getnakedgetawesome.wordpress.com/2013/08/10/how-to-be-a-naturist/
“I finally got caught! . . . I was hiking to a nude
swimming area that I've never been to before.
When I saw that there was nobody else there I decided to check out some
of the trails that were around the pond so I took off my t-shirt and bathing
suit and went for a walk. . . I heard someone on a mountain bike and he just
laughed and let me know that there were three more behind him. They were all in their fifties and three out
of the four of them were men and nobody seemed to care that I was naked.” –
Jantinc, https://www.truenudists.com/groups/view.php?action=viewthread&id=132&idt=57646&page=3
[At] “Sydney Dance Company’s Nude Live at the Art
Gallery of New South Wales . . . the experience of walking through the Gallery
while six naked dancers sat, knelt and glided around the space was a whole lot
less titillating that we imagined. . . What was surprising about this series of
sequences was how simultaneously vulnerable and empowering the dancers were
within the spaces they occupied. It was
a more sober and contemplative experience than we would have imagined . . .
What a difference it would’ve made if the nudity on show reflected the nudity
celebrated in the artworks hanging on the walls. How empowering would it have been to
celebrate difference – in age, body shape, skin color, scars, tattoos, pubic
hair . . . Which is why our biggest regret of this year’s Sydney Festival is
not joining the few nights of Nude Live in which the audience also stripped
bare. It would have taken the experience
from voyeuristic to immersive, from meditative to celebratory. After all, our favorite nudes in the
exhibition were those that had fat rolls, crooked features, hairy feet and
sagging breasts. That’s the kind of
nudity we’re conditioned to turn away from, and what better way to protest the
‘perfect nude’ images that are presented to us every day though advertising and
beauty magazines, than to strip away all that anxiety and throw ourselves in
the deep end – fully immersing ourselves in the art.” - https://www.timeout.com/sydney/blog/our-biggest-regret-at-this-years-sydney-festival-not-getting-naked-012717
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