I would like to draw this theme off from the law discussion ("The Law: My Suggestion" in Legal issues) where Stu and Rocket are denying the naturality and reasonability of nudity based on the facts about our environment.
Already said: "We are born without clothes" (Bob S.) "Nude when possible, clothed when practical. I think the environment can be adjusted to." (NudeAl) "It is something they have to experience, and they will soon know if it works for them." (Duneman) "There aint no reason why you cant stand in the shade nude." (Nudkiwi) I agree with all of them.
Our species homo sapiens has used clothing during thousands of years but not originally. I can honestly admit that clothing is one of the most remarkable early invents of human. Without it we couldn't have spread to all over the globe, we couldn't survive in most of the climate zones. These are facts.
But when humans started to wear clothes, they were first used only for body protection and physical comfort. The social aspects of clothing and finally its compulsory in certain cultures (ours included, but not every culture of the world) came later. I don't know when - can someone tell it? Anyway it is clear that the use of clothing always and everywhere is only a tiny scratch in the history of mankind.
Nudists or naturists are trying to put clothing back to its original and the most rational role. If you don't have a physical need to use clothes, why use them? (I use the words nudism and naturism as true synonyms, but prefer naturism because it includes the thought "back to nature".)
If you never try the experience of being nude, you don't know how it feels. Especially if you were nude in the free nature, you could feel the wonderful feeling of beeing free and a part of the nature itself. That's how I feel it.
Naturism is not adoration of sun. We know the good and bad things related to sun exposure.
That we cannot be nude constantly in our climates, doesn't take away the naturality of nudity and the pleasure it gives when we have the opportunity. We can even widen our zone of comfort to areas not initially seeming comfortable in the nude state. The body adapts, and if we stop thinking constantly of slight imcomfort ("brr, it's cold here") we can still get so much pleasure from just being naked that it is worth doing.
This is enough from me at the start about the naturality of nudity. I bring into discussion another natural thing, being barefoot.
Rocket said: "Bare feet aren't all that great to walk around in.."
This is also a thing where it is possible to widen one's zone of comfort by repeated excercise. Not all naturists are barefooters, but I am. In the summer I am almost constantly barefoot; in the winter I am barefoot at home, elsewhere in shoes with no socks removing the shoes where I can.
This morning I walked outdoors about 40 meters to get the paper from the mailbox wearing only a t-shirt and shorts, no footwear. The temperature was at freezing point, and there was a thin layer of ice on the ground. But I suffered of no pain nor felt even a slightest incomfort. I am not a masocist. What I did is really within my zone of comfort. For this short trip I don't have to wear more. Doing it this way was practical. (Could I have done it fully naked? For the physical aspect only, yes.)
Kari P
Already said: "We are born without clothes" (Bob S.) "Nude when possible, clothed when practical. I think the environment can be adjusted to." (NudeAl) "It is something they have to experience, and they will soon know if it works for them." (Duneman) "There aint no reason why you cant stand in the shade nude." (Nudkiwi) I agree with all of them.
Our species homo sapiens has used clothing during thousands of years but not originally. I can honestly admit that clothing is one of the most remarkable early invents of human. Without it we couldn't have spread to all over the globe, we couldn't survive in most of the climate zones. These are facts.
But when humans started to wear clothes, they were first used only for body protection and physical comfort. The social aspects of clothing and finally its compulsory in certain cultures (ours included, but not every culture of the world) came later. I don't know when - can someone tell it? Anyway it is clear that the use of clothing always and everywhere is only a tiny scratch in the history of mankind.
Nudists or naturists are trying to put clothing back to its original and the most rational role. If you don't have a physical need to use clothes, why use them? (I use the words nudism and naturism as true synonyms, but prefer naturism because it includes the thought "back to nature".)
If you never try the experience of being nude, you don't know how it feels. Especially if you were nude in the free nature, you could feel the wonderful feeling of beeing free and a part of the nature itself. That's how I feel it.
Naturism is not adoration of sun. We know the good and bad things related to sun exposure.
That we cannot be nude constantly in our climates, doesn't take away the naturality of nudity and the pleasure it gives when we have the opportunity. We can even widen our zone of comfort to areas not initially seeming comfortable in the nude state. The body adapts, and if we stop thinking constantly of slight imcomfort ("brr, it's cold here") we can still get so much pleasure from just being naked that it is worth doing.
This is enough from me at the start about the naturality of nudity. I bring into discussion another natural thing, being barefoot.
Rocket said: "Bare feet aren't all that great to walk around in.."
This is also a thing where it is possible to widen one's zone of comfort by repeated excercise. Not all naturists are barefooters, but I am. In the summer I am almost constantly barefoot; in the winter I am barefoot at home, elsewhere in shoes with no socks removing the shoes where I can.
This morning I walked outdoors about 40 meters to get the paper from the mailbox wearing only a t-shirt and shorts, no footwear. The temperature was at freezing point, and there was a thin layer of ice on the ground. But I suffered of no pain nor felt even a slightest incomfort. I am not a masocist. What I did is really within my zone of comfort. For this short trip I don't have to wear more. Doing it this way was practical. (Could I have done it fully naked? For the physical aspect only, yes.)
Kari P
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