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I believe that the separation of the mind and the flesh is responsible for the general aversion toward nudity in society. Such separation is physically impossible if you consider what we are in context to other living things. To separate mind and body you would have to separate the brain so that it could not receive signals, and that means, for all intents and purposes, dead.

The dualistic notion of separation of mind and flesh has a long history and is embedded in religion. Religion...

Perhaps the secret to body acceptance is to accept nudity of others first.

While visiting Vancouver my son-in-law asked me what I would like to do. I replied that I would like to go to Wreck Beach. His response was something like, 'That would be great if everyone there was not so ugly.'

In effect he was saying that he would go there to see beautiful naked women, but there would be few of those that would look like well-endowed models. I doubted that he would have actually...

I apologize for the random nature of the following.

The word naked, or a state of nakedness, sounds too harsh for me. I prefer nude or nudity.

Naked seems the appropriate word when describing someone who is without clothing due to circumstances beyone his or her control. This might apply to someone who is wearing no clothing when a fire alarm sounds and there is not time to find any clothing; a naked person in this case escapes the fire. Another case is when someone...

The circumcision thread was interesting in that in tailed off into interpretations of Biblical scriptures (I hope I am referencing them correctly). I believe, and I pretend that I can reason in doing so, that interpretations of scriptures are responsible for the negative attitudes toward nudity that I referred to in my previous blog entry.

Interpretations of scriptures can justify any act or belief, good or evil. Of course, once having an interpretation of a scripture that justifies...

Living as one who likes to be nude in a textile world is difficult.

I have had dreams where I was nude in a public place where everyone else was wearing clothes. There was no alternative but to walk past them all to get to a place where there was clothes that I could put on. That I did. In all occurrences of that dream no one notices, or seems to notice, that I am not wearing any clothes. The looks that I receive are what I would normally expect if I was fully clothed. Just as I am...