“What nudity does seem to unleash is a levelling up. Without the social markers clothes provide, everyone, whether a high flyer or one afflicted by low self-esteem, appears freed from the shackles of their everyday life and therefore better able to make friends.” ~ Antonia Hoyle, ANTONIA HOYLE: How Nudefest made me feel comfortable in my own skin “With humble nakedness, there is no rich and no poor, there is no genius or simpleton, no powerful king or vassal. All become amazingly similar. All be...
Oct 14, 2024•1 min•Season 2Ep. 78
“Bombarded by images of social-media perfection, I’ve often felt inadequate, but a nudist festival like nowhere else offers an antidote to that pressure to look good, a reminder of the power of the human body in all its forms.” —Antonia Hoyle, ANTONIA HOYLE: How Nudefest made me feel comfortable in my own skin “When people actually try naturism who have poor body image, their body confidence increases hugely and their mental health also improves. We are so conditioned to seeing perfect Photoshop...
Oct 10, 2024•1 min•Season 2Ep. 81
“This stigma is precisely why many naturists feel the need to keep their lifestyle private, sharing it only with a select group of like-minded individuals. But I believe that staying quiet only reinforces the idea that naturism is something to hide. The more we cloak our lifestyle in secrecy, the more we allow misconceptions to thrive. And let’s face it: society will never change if we wait for it to accept naturism without nudists standing up and explaining why this lifestyle is both healthy an...
Oct 06, 2024•2 min•Season 2Ep. 80
“Naturism paves the way for seeing yourself and others as God sees, and elevates the concept of Imago Dei to new and greater heights.” -Phillip Oak, Surprised into Freedom “The Imago Dei is a profound truth that shapes our understanding of who we are and how we are to live. It elevates our view of the human body, seeing it as a sacred reflection of God’s image and a vessel for His glory. When approached with respect, humility, and a desire to honor God, nudity can be a way to embrace this truth ...
Oct 02, 2024•1 min•Season 2Ep. 79
“Communal nudity—when it occurs in a safe space—has the potential to significantly improve body image. It makes people feel less anxious about how others view their bodies which, in turn, makes them appreciate their own appearance even more.” ~Justin L. Lehmiller, Ph.D. “My nude hiking experience is limited, but I’ve never felt more connected to nature. It’s so primal! I feel like it’s instantly undoing the mental and spiritual “damage” caused by years of conforming to society’s norms.” ~RMNC Me...
Sep 29, 2024•1 min•Season 2Ep. 56
“Being naked somehow felt like a superpower. I was deeply connected to the nature around me, the hot air wrapping its arms around my bare body. My naked skin, not divided by the barrier of a swimsuit, was cleansed and cooled down by the rush of the water. My feet felt the groove of the rocks and the sand pushed itself through each one of my toes. I was as connected to nature as humanly possible, totally enabled by lack of clothing.” —Ella Kopelman, https://www.michigandaily.com/uncategorized/the...
Sep 25, 2024•1 min•Season 2Ep. 77
“Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet hide not the unbeautiful. Though you seek in garments the freedom of privacy, you may find them a harness and chain. Would that you could meet the sun and the wind with more of your body and less of your raiment.” —Khalil Gibran, The Prophet “We have come into the world naked, and all the animals are naked, why should man hide his body behind clothes?” —Osho “Textiles do not so much make us as hide us.” — Jeannette Cooperman https://commonreader.wus...
Sep 22, 2024•1 min•Season 2Ep. 76
“All prejudices and expectations about the body just disappear in the sauna, there we can meet as people regardless of where we came from. As a person who is racialized in Sweden, there is a care for me in this place by people who might not have given it to me in other contexts.” —Cristian Quinteros Sotos, Nudism rise in Sweden; “This is an antidote,” « Euro Weekly News “All humans are of equal inherent value, but clothing, probably more than anything else, conveys a false sense of hierarchy. Wh...
Sep 15, 2024•2 min•Season 2Ep. 70
“Nudity is allowed for entertainment and voyeurism but not for comfort. People can handle nude art but why not normal naked bodies?” —Why are we taught shame about nudity and our bodies? — https://rfgjga1992.wordpress.com/2016/01/12/why-are-we-taught-shame-about-nudity-and-our-bodies/ “We had a sermon a while back from our pastor talking about how shaming someone is to go against everything Christian. Yet children are natural nudists. The only way to keep them dressed is to teach them shame. "Do...
Sep 11, 2024•1 min•Season 2Ep. 73
“Group nudity can be personally beneficial. Nudist camps are places where people can emerge from hiding behind their clothes and become more self-accepting, revealing and honest.” ~Abraham Maslow “I slowly grew numb to all the naked bodies around me - the “judgement” chatter in my brain drifted away. I was in the moment and could now “see” people much more clearly. It was incredible!” ~RMNC Member, https://x.com/rmnaturist/status/1824274932106444949?s=46&t=fpiEy5CqbBOXR1N66BxSTw “What's it l...
Sep 08, 2024•1 min•Season 2Ep. 72
“Adam and Eve entered the world naked and unashamed—naked and pure-minded. And no descendant of theirs has ever entered it otherwise. All have entered it naked, unashamed, and clean in mind. They entered it modest. They had to acquire immodesty in the soiled mind, there was no other way to get it.” —Mark Twain “Nudity is the purest expression of the beauty which is visible, perfect and manifest work of God.—Alexandre Najjar” “In the "real" world, where everyone is wearing clothes, there is judge...
Sep 04, 2024•1 min•Season 2Ep. 71
“It is no small thing to feel the warmth of the sun on your skin.” —Marty Rubin “The body seems to feel beauty when exposed to it as it feels the campfire or sunshine, entering not by the eyes alone, but equally through all one’s flesh like radiant heat, making a passionate ecstatic pleasure glow not explainable.” John Muir, founder of The Sierra Club "Go into the water sometime without swimming trunks clinging to your body. Walk around in a gentle breeze sometime without having any clothes on. ...
Sep 01, 2024•1 min•Season 2Ep. 70
“I just think that people are so weird about nudity and the human body. Sex is not bad, naked bodies are not bad, and naked bodies don't always have to be connected to sex.” —Emily Browning “Social nudism/naturism is a transformational and healthy way to live. It involves accepting one’s own and others’ bodies, embracing nature without the influence of clothing, and celebrating one’s connection with the environment in a remarkable and unique way.” —William J. Schroer, https://www.planetnude.co/p...
Aug 28, 2024•1 min•Season 2Ep. 69
“When people actually try naturism who have poor body image, their body confidence increases hugely and their mental health also improves. We are so conditioned to seeing perfect Photoshopped models in magazine adverts which no one can measure up to. When people see real naked bodies of all shapes and sizes, they realise that we are all imperfectly beautiful.” —Gary & Noreen Kennedy, https://m.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/life/features/naturism-ni-when-people-see-real-naked-bodies-of-all-shapes-an...
Aug 25, 2024•2 min•Season 2Ep. 72
“Shame is really easily understood as the fear of disconnection. Is there something about me, that if other people know it or see it, that I won’t be worthy of connection?” —Brené Brown “We believe that everyone is born a nudist. They are taught to be textiles using methods like shame and sexualization…” —@KimandJim1 on x.com “—as where nudity is the natural heritage of a people in which all natural functions are regarded without shame or embarrassment in a life of unhurried simplicity— love, wo...
Aug 21, 2024•1 min•Season 2Ep. 67
“Through nakedness we express our wonder and joy at being living, physical, organic beings ... Many gain greater self confidence and self esteem, improve their physical and mental health, and have deeper and more meaningful social interactions.” —Roger Coupe "Have you seen a toddler running around when freed from a diaper? They always grin from ear to ear as they enjoy their newly found freedom. Well, that's pretty much what it feels like when you first step outside into the warmth wearing absol...
Aug 18, 2024•1 min•Season 2Ep. 64
“The convention mis-called “modesty” has no standard, and cannot have one, because it is opposed to nature and reason and is therefore an artificiality and subject to anyone's whim—anyone's diseased caprice.” —Mark Twain The whims of this “diseased caprice” are played out across cultures throughout the centuries of history. From the modern burka to the koteka or penis gourd , worn in New Guinea, the examples of what is “modest” are almost innumerable. Let us flee from these self imposed rules an...
Aug 14, 2024•1 min•Season 2Ep. 72
“The human body is the crown of God‘s creation, consummated by his declaration that it was good. That God’s people are unable to view the body without sinning is not an indictment of the body itself, but of the immaturity of the postmodern evangelical mind.” —Chad W. Thompson, That Famous Fig Leaf, https://a.co/d/9HNEh1g “So it's being a follower and devotion to Christ first, then naturism is an aid given to me by God to help me walk in the Christian way, overcome the carnal lusts, cancel them o...
Aug 11, 2024•1 min•Season 2Ep. 64
“There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth” – F H Bradley, Philosopher, 1846-1924 “What would our marriages, our friendships, our churches, and our communities look like if men and women were not afraid of connecting with each other in deep ways? What if men and women could really know each other without sex getting in the way? What if we did not have to be afraid of our own and others bodies that we cannot trust ourselves with them?” —Debra Hir...
Aug 07, 2024•1 min•Season 2Ep. 63
“we humans are 60% water and come into existence floating in amniotic fluid; so the urge to return can feel overwhelming and the requirement to wear a swimming costume nonsensical.” —Rowan Pelling, Inside the nudist renaissance - UnHerd “Despite its puritan roots, the U.S. has a long history of skinny-dipping. Social nudity is celebrated in the writings of Walt Whitman and the landscape paintings of Thomas Eakins. Benjamin Franklin took a daily naked “air bath,” while presidents John Quincy Adam...
Aug 04, 2024•1 min•Season 2Ep. 62
Due to the recent “updates” and partnership with Spotify for Podcasters and Riverside, and lack of features for mobile producers some previous elements to the podcast are missing. I will try to improve these as I can. In the meantime ponder these thoughts: “I had to shrug off the urge to snigger when I first encountered a nudist beach (the long-established one at Brighton) because the sense that bare bodies were both absurd and embarrassing had been deeply imbued in me.” —Rowan Pelling, Inside t...
Jul 31, 2024•49 sec•Season 2Ep. 61
“The whole of nature is nude except man. And by your clothes you have become disconnected from nature”, —Bhagwan Shrew Rajneesh “We’ve become so desensitized to everything, but the one thing that makes us human. We’ve come to accept almost every negative aspect of human nature, yet refuse to condone the most natural state a human being can be — the nude.” —Lauren Martin, https://www.elitedaily.com/life/scientific-reasons-just-always-naked/971796 “Social nudism/naturism is a transformational and ...
Jul 28, 2024•1 min•Season 2Ep. 60
“Our archaic religious teachings have pitted man’s body and spirit against one another, whereas common sense would suggest that God intended the body, mind, and spirit of man to be in harmony. What strange sort of religion have we evolved, that places the godly part of a man in opposition to the whole of his physical being?” —The Raw Ones “The enemy sought to split the body from the integrated whole of our being. As such, he could then use it through his lies (about nudity being sinful) to tear ...
Jul 24, 2024•2 min•Season 2Ep. 59
“The body is a sacred garment. It’s your first and last garment; it is what you enter life in and what you depart life with, and it should be treated with honor.” —Martha Graham “Apparently it cannot be repeated to often the ideal of the nudist is not a “return to nature,” in the sense of the wholesale scrapping of modern civilization; indeed it is not even an immediate sloughing of all its garments. It is merely the correcting or counteracting of some of civilization’s evils through the laying ...
Jul 21, 2024•1 min•Season 2Ep. 58
A note from history: The American Sunbathing Association “We believe in the essential wholesomeness of the human body and regard it neither as an object of shame nor a subject for degrading exploitation. We believe that sunlight and air are vital to human life and well-being, and that exposure of the entire body to these elements is desirable at such time and at such places as are fitting and proper for the purpose. We believe that we are entitled to enjoy the benefits of such exposure, without ...
Jul 17, 2024•2 min•Season 2Ep. 57
“we humans are 60% water and come into existence floating in amniotic fluid; so the urge to return can feel overwhelming and the requirement to wear a swimming costume nonsensical.” —Rowan Pelling, Inside the nudist renaissance - UnHerd [Being] naked out of doors and in the water [restores] my sense of blissful innocence. It takes me back to that place of my almost forgotten childhood, where I got to run around undressed without anyone telling me I had to cover up or be embarrassed.—Elizabeth Ro...
Jul 14, 2024•1 min•Season 2Ep. 56
“Generally speaking nudists feel that nudism represents an ideal type of non verbal sex education with resultant wholesome heterosexual attitudes and nonvoyeuristic and nonexhibitionistic tendencies “ —Hartman, Fithian, & Johnson 1970, 1991 “Because naturists don’t think of sex when they undress, because naturists don’t think of sex when they are engaged in wholesome family activities. Because naturists don’t grab a towel for cover, after taking a shower in fear of having others view them in...
Jul 10, 2024•1 min•Season 2Ep. 55
“In nakedness I behold the majesty of the essential instead of the trappings of pretension” —Horatio Greenough “We find that relaxing with clothes off at Elysium Fields [Naturist Resort] is a great tension reliever, for ourselves and our kids, too.”- Actress Lynn Redgrave “The concept of a body being ’summer ready’ is divisive and really quite disgusting…An important aspect of naturism is acceptance and in an environment where people aren’t wearing their clothes, you quickly learn that what you ...
Jul 07, 2024•1 min•Season 2Ep. 54
“In a moment when trust is in short supply — not just between individuals in intimate relationships, but on a societal scale — perhaps the desire to curtail nudity stands in for a fear of intimacy, and from the sense that we just can’t tolerate being so vulnerable around people we don’t know well.” —Kat Rosenfield, https://unherd.com/2023/04/the-case-for-getting-naked/ “I am convinced that there is an intimacy that we are missing out on walking around in our clothes. It is an intimacy so deep th...
Jul 03, 2024•1 min•Season 2Ep. 53
“What we try to de-emphasize by pretending to ignore, we actually focus on by avoidance. If our intention is to focus attention away from the genitals and our sexuality, then we are achieving exactly the opposite by demanding they be covered up and denounced.” —Dennis Craig Smith, Naked Fear “Anyway, because teenagers are the way they are, all we’re really doing by shielding them from nudity is allowing their entire education about the normal range of human anatomy to be dictated by the material...
Jun 30, 2024•1 min•Season 2Ep. 52
