Born Naked?

[Aaron Adams]

The phrase "If God had meant for us to be naked we would have been born that way" is somewhat popular among nudists. I was thinking recently about the fact that culture has a profound impact on people from the moment they are born. Given the way culture shapes our lives are we really born "naked" and can we ever truly be "naked"?

[Aaron Adams]

The phrase "If God had meant for us to be naked we would have been born that way" is somewhat popular among nudists. I was thinking recently about the fact that culture has a profound impact on people from the moment they are born. Given the way culture shapes our lives are we really born "naked" and can we ever truly be "naked"?

[luvnaturism]

Aaron, you've asked a perceptive question.

The book Freakonomics, which applies the data analysis methods of economics to non-economic questions, finds that the single most important factor in a child's development is who the birth parents are [are they healthy? Successful? Happy in life? Or the opposite of any of those?] This recognizes that so much in life comes from the genetic makeup we inherited.

Beyond that the influence of a child's peers [friends, schoolmates] is also important.

Taking the two together, a child born to parents who model their own happy relationship to their own nude bodies, and who socialize with other naturist families with children of similar age, should be likely to become people who truly are "born naked" and who truly know how to live naked.

But that would be the probabilities within a large group of people. If you start pointing at specific individuals, it wouldn't mean a thing.