“The forbidden fruit of mere physical sex differences has come to assume an undue importance, and nakedness regarded as an aphrodisiac subject to pornographic exploitation.” -Frances & Mason Merrill “…one of the reasons I think that naturism is such a death blow to pornography bondage... Because it means that since it is not any sort of sin or forbidden experience to see the nude human form, it totally deactivates the adrenaline rush that has always been associated with it.” — Matthew Neal, ...
Mar 13, 2024•1 min•Season 2Ep. 21
“Man is the sole animal whose nudity offends his own companions, and the only one who, in his natural actions, withdraws and hides himself from his own kind.” – Michel de Montaigne, writer, 1533-1592 “Sure, some people might believe they are offended by nude bathers, but, if you never encounter anything that offends you in your community, you are not living in a free society.” – Corky Stanton – Founder ClothesFree International. “We have come into the world naked, and all the animals are naked, ...
Mar 10, 2024•1 min•Season 2Ep. 20
“If you read Genesis 3, it's pretty easy to see that after Adam and Eve sinned, there was a "who" that told them that they were naked and evidently focused the need for covering on the genitals. That "who" can only be Satan. And oddly enough, I believe satan's focus on the genitals is very similar to what [many] pastors assert. Satan peculiarly hates our genitals because it is by our genitals that we participate with God in creating brand new eternal beings. Our genitals literally help us reflec...
Mar 06, 2024•1 min•Season 2Ep. 19
“How idiotic civilization is! Why be given a body if you have to keep it shut up in a case like a rare, rare fiddle?” ~Katherine Mansfield, writer, 1888-1923, Bliss and Other Stories “What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful than the garment with which it is clothed?” – Michaelangelo, Artist, 1475-1564 “There is nothing in all the world more beautiful or significant of the laws of the universe than the...
Mar 03, 2024•1 min•Season 2Ep. 18
“It’s not a girl’s responsibility how a man looks at her or how he acts…”—Olivia Dunne, Elle, https://www.elle.com/culture/celebrities/a44578096/olivia-dunne-interview-2023/ “Nudity is not and does not have to be inherently sexual. To expose our flesh does not “invite” sexual attention or excuse the behaviour of predators.” —Natasha Devon “Exposed to different bodies and breasts, my kids are seeing much more than the ones that exist in Hollywood or on social media feeds, and learning that their ...
Feb 28, 2024•1 min•Season 2Ep. 17
“Naturism is liberation from the attitude that you have to have the perfect body. What you’ve got doesn’t matter because naturists see people for their spirit, for what they are.” —Micaela Stanford, quoted in https://disabilitynow.wordpress.com/2012/12/07/the-naked-truth/ “Sunbathing nude was a liberating experience. It felt unbelievably crazy to take off all my clothes and play in the sun. I've not had that much fun in so long." —Amy Grant “Nudity is liberty. Our bodies thank us for disrobing a...
Feb 25, 2024•1 min•Season 2Ep. 16
“Body image is such a big thing in the 21st century. Most people feel there is something about themselves that is not so wonderful but people find when they get into naturism that no one is bothered about it. It’s the media and fashion industries that makes you feel you should hide yourself in a room if you don’t have the perfect body, which doesn’t exist anyway.” —Andrew Welch, quoted in https://disabilitynow.wordpress.com/2012/12/07/the-naked-truth/ "It is nonetheless something of an irony tha...
Feb 21, 2024•1 min•Season 2Ep. 15
“The whole point is it is freedom - the freedom of deciding if you want to wear clothing or not because you don't care about being seen naked.."There is a difference between wanting to be seen naked and not caring. It is an irrelevance whether I am nude or not. Naturism isn't something you do, it is not a hobby - it is a way of living." —Simon Berriman (@sberriman on x.com), https://www.mylondon.news/news/south-london-news/we-argued-over-husband-working-28599527?utm_source=linkCopy&utm_mediu...
Feb 18, 2024•1 min•Season 2Ep. 14
What I am getting at is that we build it all up in our minds that it's going to be crazy and weird to see penises and butts and breasts everywhere - that we're going to have some sort of sexual response, or be grossed out, or not know where to look, or be embarrassed. And I will admit that my first time, there were a few points when I asked myself what the heck I was doing - more when I looked down at myself than when I looked at other people. But all I had to do was quickly remind myself of eve...
Feb 14, 2024•1 min•Season 2Ep. 13
“We alternately think of nudity as a perversion and a state of innocence. Why is our response so contradictory and why is nudity treated so differently in different contexts?”—Ruth Barcan “Seeing these women with different body shapes entering the river uninhibited, I found my own body hang-ups diminished. One of our group commented that she saw all the things that she hated about her own body reflected back as beautiful when seen in others.” —Rebecca Clark “I can’t help but wonder how different...
Feb 11, 2024•1 min•Season 2Ep. 12
"One thing that convinced me that naturism is good was asking myself which is healthier: to be afraid, bashful, ashamed, or embarrassed to look at another person's body, perhaps commenting that "nobody wants to see that" or objectifying it? Or to be able to look at a person as he or she really is without any fear, shame, judgment, embarrassment, or objectification, and just accept the person calmly without batting an eye? What would (and did) Jesus do upon seeing a naked person? Would He have tu...
Feb 07, 2024•1 min•Season 2Ep. 11
“Most people in current society only see a real live penis in a sexual setting and therefore only see it as a sexual object. There is no mental separation between the flaccid penis and the phallus their only experience with the penis is the phallus. The earlier cultures had the experience of seeing a penis as part of the normal events of living and could realize there is more to a penis than just being a phallus. Sometimes a penis is just a penis, nothing more than like a finger is just a finger...
Feb 04, 2024•1 min•Season 2Ep. 10
“What we learned was that the viewing of the unclothed human body, is far from being destructive to the psyche, seems to be either benign and totally harmless or to actually provide positive benefits to the individual involved.” —Dennis Craig Smith and Dr. William Sparks, Growing Up Without Shame “While this [children’s experience of social nudity] can be a highly emotional, even controversial issue, it seems prudent to gather and be guided by empirical evidence, rather than mere emotion, and to...
Jan 31, 2024•1 min•Season 2Ep. 9
“Many of us may be unaware that nudity is a normal condition that has prevailed throughout most of mankind’s existence.” —Aileen Goodson “Limiting the cultures mentioned to the Greco-Roman region is extremely limited and potentially misleading. Because nakedness being normal isn’t a Greco-Roman thing, it’s a human thing, across human history all over the globe it’s been pretty normal.” —Chris, MudWalkers, https://vimeo.com/876711217 “It was nudism that taught me to accept the normality of the hu...
Jan 28, 2024•1 min•Season 2Ep. 8
“It is no small thing to feel the warmth of the sun on your skin. —Marty Rubin “In terms of deep reverence, being naked allows us to feel more acutely the relationship with the breeze, the wind, the skies, the light and the dark … the fullness of the natural world, and so encourages a richer, more genuinely felt interaction.” — Emma Restall Orr “Nudity is liberty. Our bodies thank us for disrobing and allowing air to touch them. . . when we shed our clothes, it feels fantastic! It feels right! ....
Jan 24, 2024•1 min•Season 2Ep. 7
“There's nothing better than strolling down the beach the way God made you." —Bruce Willis “[When] one is nude, your senses are heightened ... You become open to the universe, not only physically, but emotionally, unprotected, unmasked. It may be symbolic of allowing the Divine and the World to see you as you really are.” —Alkemie Jane “Demystifying or desexualising doesn’t happen by hiding things away, it happens by bringing things into the light. We are called to be free, not to cling to the f...
Jan 21, 2024•1 min•Season 2Ep. 6
“The freedom that comes from exposing yourself, you’ll find you end up connecting soul to soul and not body to body, because that stripping bare brings you down to who you are inside” — Dee, minute 17:36-17:43, https://youtu.be/K6FrJP7zFYU?si=GrD9mvUmMnTNUCuv “Don’t let those who have body negative values define what is and what is not acceptable. Seize your freedom and restore your dignity!” – defunct website BodyFreedom.*** “Sometimes I like to run naked in the moonlight and the wind, on a lit...
Jan 17, 2024•1 min•Season 2Ep. 5
“When I free my body from its clothes, from all their buttons, belts, and laces, it seems to me that my soul takes a deeper, freer breath.” – August Strindberg, playwright, 1849-1912 “Sweet, sane, still Nakedness in Nature! –ah if poor, sick, prurient humanity in cities might really know you once more! Is not nakedness then indecent? No, not inherently. It is your thought, your sophistication, your fear, your respectability that is indecent. There come moods when these clothes of ours are not on...
Jan 14, 2024•1 min•Season 2Ep. 4
“When you’re nude, it doesn’t matter where you come from and it doesn’t matter what job you have or how much money you make,” she says. “The act of just stripping off and scrubbing – it’s like a universal relaxation.” — Mocca Masuoka. https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/dec/28/japanese-nude-public-baths-melbourne-ofuroya-collingwood-hiromi-masuoka “If you feel shameful of your body or don’t think you measure up, this is exactly what you need. You know, it’s, it’s this natural medicin...
Jan 10, 2024•1 min•Season 2Ep. 3
“I believe people are conditioned to the textile world- again clothes. The problem is social media is teaching us to be sexy. Right? I mean duck lips, and women are plumping up their breasts, and jeans with fake tushies in them. And you know just altering our bodies to what we are supposed to believe that is beautiful. We all have funny bodies. We all have lumps and bumps, stretch marks and beautiful parts of us, but we’re covered up. So, naturism is scary because it’s breaking down all of that ...
Jan 07, 2024•1 min•Season 2Ep. 2
“The human body is not essentially nasty. I mean, God made us without clothes. And you look at that famous statue of David that's considered one of the masterpieces of the Renaissance…The body is not essentially pornographic, and I think to make it so is a mistake. It's what's in your mind.” —Pat Robertson, The 700 Club “Oddly enough, when you realize that you actually do have permission before God to see a naked body, it rather loses its mystique and emotional power in your life” —Matthew Neal,...
Jan 03, 2024•1 min•Season 2Ep. 1
“Our clothes … are on us to expose us -- to advertise what we wear them to conceal. They are a sign; a sign of insincerity; a sign of suppressed vanity; a pretense that we desire gorgeous colors and the graces of harmony and form; and we put them on to propagate that lie and back it up.” — Mark Twain, Following the Equator “Nudity is not and does not have to be inherently sexual. To expose our flesh does not “invite” sexual attention or excuse the behaviour of predators.” —Natasha Devon “Now, I’...
Dec 31, 2023•2 min•Season 1Ep. 79
“Right from the beginning, clothing was man’s feeble attempt at self righteousness. It still is.”—BertlessOne, Naturist-Christians.org “[T]o undress is to expose our story. When someone has the courage to stand truly naked before us, the courage to share that story, something deep within us has the potential to be unveiled too.” —Maria Ede-Weaving (quoted by Philip Carr-Gomm) “Naturism allows people to make peace with their bodies as-is, without all the unrealistic ideals and judgments our socie...
Dec 27, 2023•1 min•Season 1Ep. 78
“Clothing has been put on us from the day we were born, and we were trained to wear it at a pre-rational, purely emotional stage in life. It was never questioned; we never ask *whether* we are going to wear clothes, but only what clothes we are going to wear. This lesson was instilled in us with dogmatic vehemence by our parents, who reacted with horror and embarrassment if we didn't follow the rules, further impressing on us the seriousness of the rule.” —Name Withheld “Nudity’s normalisation c...
Dec 22, 2023•1 min•Season 1Ep. 77
“What would happen if we accepted our bodies the same way we accepted everything else? What would happen if we stopped covering up and started stripping down? What would happen if we all just let our bodies hang out in the open and didn’t hide them in dark worlds of porn, indecency and fetishes?” —Lauren Martin, https://www.elitedaily.com/life/scientific-reasons-just-always-naked/971796 “When approached with maturity and respect, nudity can offer society profound benefits. It promotes body posit...
Dec 20, 2023•1 min•Season 1Ep. 76
“There are also many important grounds of health in favour of nudity in suitable circumstances, such as out-of-doors in sunny weather. Sunshine on the bare skin has an exceedingly health-giving effect. Moreover anyone who has watched children running about in the open-air without their clothes must have been struck by the fact that they hold themselves much better and move more freely and more gracefully than when they are dressed. The same thing is true of grown-up people. The proper place for ...
Dec 17, 2023•1 min•Season 1Ep. 75
“I think it is important for everyone to be exposed to natural and normal bodies.” —Camille Brandon, Photographer 'Personally, I believe that human bodies are beautiful and the more we can do to normalise and de-politicize nude bodies of all types, the better we will all be for it,' — (Adelaide) Waldrop.—https://www.elle.com/uk/life-and-culture/culture/a45971672/frull-frontal-nudity-in-film/ “According to Manning, it’s our clothing that creates our insecurities and inability to accept and love e...
Dec 13, 2023•1 min•Season 1Ep. 74
“Demystifying or desexualising doesn’t happen by hiding things away, it happens by bringing things into the light. We are called to be free, not to cling to the falsehoods that tie us to this twisted world.” —Martin Cliffe, Naturist-Christians Facebook post “That nudity=sex is an axiom in our culture; no need for me to elaborate here. Christians who uphold the sanctity of marriage are horrified by the idea of sharing something they believe is as intimate and private as sex with someone outside t...
Dec 10, 2023•1 min•Season 1Ep. 73
“According to Manning, it’s our clothing that creates our insecurities and inability to accept and love each other the way we should. We put materialistic value on the human form and it’s created mental illness along with body dismorphia and an undesirable environment for humans to live and communicate within.”—Lauren Martin, https://www.elitedaily.com/life/scientific-reasons-just-always-naked/971796 “Textiles do not so much make us as hide us.” —Jeannette Cooperman https://commonreader.wustl.ed...
Dec 07, 2023•1 min•Season 1Ep. 72
“A girl in the Pacific islands wearing hardly any clothes and a Victorian lady completely covered in clothes might both be equally 'modest,' proper, or decent… and both, for all we could tell by their dress, might be equally chaste (or equally unchaste).” — C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity “Still, it is clear that many people perceive an association between nudity and overt sexuality. From the standpoint of scientific psychology it can be demonstrated that this connotation of nudity is no more than...
Dec 04, 2023•1 min•Season 1Ep. 71
