The function of women’s nipples in lactation makes sense. But why do men have nipples? It’s a great question. And there are many who have given their two cents: science, religion, ancient myth… But I prefer a different question: Why do we all (almost all) have nipples? To show that the sexes exist on aContinue reading “A Nipple For Your Thoughts”
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Naturist Family Values
Naturist families face any number of questions about how to deal with making known their naturist values. Do you tell the neighbors? Co-workers? What about close friends and family? What about if your family is already well-known, celebrity-status? Maybe you want to keep the paparazzi at bay as much as possible. Probably all celebrities do,Continue reading “Naturist Family Values”
Why Get Mad About Naturism?
Don’t get mad, get naked. On NPR. Lately there have been some elevated agitations regarding online petitions and organizational leadership in the naturism community. Let’s recognize that there are motives for concern. For example, it may well be that the idea of naturism, at least in the US, would be better served by a moreContinue reading “Why Get Mad About Naturism?”
Naturist Trolls?
Disney’s über-popular Frozen debuted months ago, but I didn’t see it until this weekend, and there are a couple of quick pro-naturist points I would like to make about the film. The story is set loosely in Scandinavia, maybe Norway. In the scene in which younger sister Anna meets ice-cutter Kristoff, a storekeeper is haggling overContinue reading “Naturist Trolls?”
Populate the Nudescape
I’m driving along an avenue in town, one I drive frequently, and I’m noticing these small green areas every so often along the sides of the avenue – areas bigger than yards but not big enough to be parks. They are easements, or “green belts,” areas around drainage ditches – places nobody thinks about exceptContinue reading “Populate the Nudescape”
Public Health Advocacy for Nudity
Nudity is a public health issue, but not for the reasons many people might assume. It is not because of the need to shield bus seats from bare buttocks, or to protect diners at restaurants from pubes in their salads. No. Nudity is a public health issue because nudity is the beneficial, natural state ofContinue reading “Public Health Advocacy for Nudity”
Fishing for Nude Insights
Fellow naturist blogger Robert Longpré has produced a volume called Naked Poetry by the Sea and on the Prairies. The polished, succinct poems of his collection guide us to the naked core of truths both spiritual and physical. These are terrific poems! I had the honor of contributing a brief preface to the volume, whichContinue reading “Fishing for Nude Insights”
Nudity is a Human Right
WHEREAS human beings manifest bodies that occupy physical volume in space as a necessity of existence; WHEREAS human beings are born naked into these bodies and thus begin, naked, the basic acts of life through the intake of breath and breast; WHEREAS nudity is thus the essential and most natural state in which human beings manifestContinue reading “Nudity is a Human Right”
Freedom of Dress
Today is a day to celebrate freedoms here in the United States, freedoms such as those depicted by the celebrated mid-20th-century American realist painter Norman Rockwell in his series called the Four Freedoms (clockwise from top left, below): Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Worship, Freedom from Want, and Freedom from Fear. These 1943 paintings, if not exclusively propaganda,Continue reading “Freedom of Dress”
The Naked Eye
One of the big attractions of naturism and social nudism is the exhilaration of moving naked through space. It’s all that “frolicking” that nudists seem to be universally known for. One of my earliest memories as a toddler was shimmying my clothes off to run naked around my room, jumping on and off the bed. But just aContinue reading “The Naked Eye”