"Being natural and matter-of-fact about nudity prevents your
children from developing an attitude of shame or disgust about the
human body. If parents are very secretive about their bodies and go to
great lengths to prevent their children from ever seeing a buttock or
breast, children will wonder what is so unusual, and even alarming,
about human nudity."--Dr. Lee
Salk, Psychiatrist (from an article in McCall's Magazine, June,
1976)
Is This OK for Our Kids
To Be Naked?
Imagine two young boys. One has
visited a nudist club many times with his family, the other may have
only rarely seen a parent unclothed, and they may have seemed
embarrassed when that happened. The non-nudist boy says to his friend,
"Look what I've found!" as he shows the nudist kid a copy of Playboy
or some similar magazine, which he found somewhere.
As they look at the pictures of
scantily clothed, erotically posed women, the boy who has seen
hundreds of people of all ages and body types, will probably think,
"I've seen lots of naked people before. Why does he want to sneak
looks at this?" He might also think, "This isn't even what most people
look like."
Growing Up Without
Shame of Nudity
Puberty can be a very difficult time
for adolescents; their bodies are growing rapidly, their genitals are
changing, body hair is developing. Some kids feel clumsy. Many are
embarrassed by the changes that are taking place. They can become VERY
body-conscious. At that time, a wise parent will try to keep lines of
honest communication open but still give them privacy and time to be
alone in their room or with their friends. Most adolescents would
rather be ANYWHERE except where their parents are.
All these things happen to nudist
kids, too. The one big difference for kids who were lucky enough to
grow up in a nudist environment is that those kids have literally seen
those changes take place, as their older friends and/or siblings went
through that difficult time. Because of that experience, they are
better prepared for it themselves.
SAFETY When In Public
Nude
We read in the papers almost daily of
some teacher, youth leader, church official or some other trusted
individual who took advantage of a child in a sexual way. With
hundreds of nudist clubs in North America, that problem almost never
takes place at our nudists facilities.
A family which is open enough to have
experienced Naked, just like a healthy non-nudist family, is also
open enough to have discussed sex abuse with their children. These
children know that they can tell their parents immediately if they
ever suspect that something is wrong.
Been told by authorities that the
reason nudist clubs have a very low incidence of sex offenders is that
we have the reputation of prosecuting those individuals, while until
recent years, many other organizations have "swept those problems
under a rug", more concerned with their public image than with the
safety of the people they should have been protecting.
Historically, sex abusers have felt
much safer committing their misdeeds within organizations which have
tried to cover up their problems with molesters.
You may find it encouraging to know
that many nudist clubs, have a very good relationship with law
enforcement agencies. Some of their officers are members of our club.
You can be certain that if nudist clubs were doing anything illegal or
immoral, they wouldn't join. Instead, they would very quickly close
the club down!
Another fact to ponder: Almost all
sex offenders are males. At a nudist club, it would be very easy to
tell if a man were to become sexually excited.
Interesting Facts
About Nudist Families
Surveys show that overall, adults who
were reared as nudists think of their childhoods as having been
stable. They also find that nudists tend to be very slightly better
educated than their non-nudist peers.
The divorce rate is lower among
nudist families, and their children tend to make better grades than
similar children in non-nudist families. I don't think that this is
BECAUSE the families are nudists; it's more likely that the marriages
are more stable AND their kids make good grades AND the families are
nudists because the family members tend to communicate a little more
openly with each other in their daily lives.
Learning to Accept &
Respect All Bodies
In spite of what Madison Avenue would
have us think, human bodies really do come in all sizes, shapes, and
conditions. Few are "beautiful" using Hollywood's standards. We think
it's helpful for kids to learn this early on; you may be aware that in
those parts of the world where nudity is acceptable at places like the
beach and public saunas, there is a much lower rate of eating
disorders and suicides among youth.
In those cultures, where kids see all
types and ages unclothed, they learn acceptance of the maturing and
aging processes; they don't think they have to have face lifts, boob
jobs and collagen injections to become socially acceptable; they don't
grow up thinking "You are what you wear".
Short Reading About Nudist Culture
Have you ever met a nudist? You almost certainly have, because they are among your friends, neighbors, and co-workers, though you are likely not aware of it. Nudists generally don't go naked where you might see them, nor do they tend to advertise their presence. They aren't wild-eyed radicals, either, just very ordinary-seeming folks when they have clothes on. They often don't admit, even to close friends, that they really like not wearing clothes.
Because, in most "advanced" societies, the Youngs around nudity are even stronger than those around sex. People in casual conversation or on national televison may happily ramble on about the details of their sex life. Nudists have generally not been so open, even though by conservative estimates, several million people in North America enjoy certain kinds of recreation (like swimming) in the nude, or simply like being naked when at home.
This secretiveness is changing, however. People have been talking about recreational nudity on the rec.nude newsgroup for many years. (It was one of the first newsgroups in the early days of Usenet, because computer people seem to be likelier than average to enjoy nudity.) And now many personal Web pages are appearing, announcing the owner's interest in Naked and candidly advocating its advantages over "clothes compulsiveness". I keep pretty good track of this, since one goal of my pages is to catalog all the Web sites - around 500 of them - that have something of interest to people who like to be naked. It's now quite easy to meet nudists on the Web if you want to fathom why anyone would rather not wear clothes.
What do nudists put on their Web sites? Occasional pictures - generally the kind only family and friends could like - very disappointing to porn hounds. Stories about adventures au naturel. But often: essays that try to explain Why. Nudists feel they've been badly misunderstood by mainstream society.
With some justification. Misinformation in mainstream media often receives the blame for the Young on nudity. For instance, many nudists, prefer to be called "naturists", and they refer to their philosophy as "naturism" rather than "Naked" - because being naked is natural. We were born that way. The underlying philosophy is acceptance of the body just as it is.
One of the two main nudist organizations in the U. S. is known as The Naturist Society ( http://www.naturist.com). Yet most outsiders have never heard of the terms "naturist" and "naturism". If they have, the assumption is of having to do with watching birds or collecting bugs, confusing "naturists" with "naturalists". Also, naturists never refer to places where they gather as "colonies". "Parks", "camps", or "resorts", please. The American Association for Nude Recreation (http://www.aanr.com) wants to emphasize the recreational connotations of these latter words.
In fact, naturists have in the last few decades been able to enjoy the outdoors in public (though usually remote) beaches, rivers, and forests. Word about the best places to go, or to avoid, spreads rapidly over the Net. This has led to a predictable backlash from the "family values" crowd, who have mounted an aggressive effort to stamp out nudity everywhere. Such people would be astonished to learn that there are many conservative religious folks who like to be naked with others, and see no conflict between that and their religion. Religious naturists even have their own organizations and Web pages.
But most irritating to naturists is the mainstream tendency to confuse nudity with sex. Adult naturists enjoy sex as much as anyone else, but that isn't the reason they like not wearing clothes. What they do like is the comfort, relaxation, stress reduction, and feeling of freedom that being naked offers, as well as the camaraderie and openness they find in socialing with others of similar mind.
Most of the problems that naturists have to contend with stem from this misconception that naturism is a sexual interest. It incurs the wrath of conservative religionists, it deters families and body-conscious young adults from participating, and it attracts people whose interest actually is sexual. On the Net, this confusion has hampered networking among naturists. Yahoo! usually ignores requests to add naturist sites to their index. Excite classifies nudist sites as an "X- & R-rated Subtopic", along with prostitution and strip joints. This is badly mistaken, but Excite has ignored protests. Some other search engines don't even index nudist sites because "Naked" is assumed to be a code word for sexual content.
In spite of such problems, naturism, as a lifestyle and a philosophy, is definitely coming out of the closet, thanks in part to the Net. So it's no longer difficult to find people who like to talk about just why naturism deserves not to remain a well-kept secret.
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