{"tag":"nature","articles":{"blog\/society\/a-case-for-nudity":{"key":"blog\/society\/a-case-for-nudity","type":"article","published":true,"meta":{"createdAt":"2017-04-28T19:44:08+02:00","publishedAt":"2017-05-28T19:13:00+02:00","group":"nudism","category":"blog","subcategory":"society","slug":"a-case-for-nudity"},"content":{"en":{"slug":"a-case-for-nudity","title":"A case for nudity","intro":"\u003Cfigure\u003E\n                \u003Cnoscript\u003E\n                    \u003Cimg src=\u0022https:\/\/avris.it\/image\/nipple-censorship_small.jpg\u0022 alt=\u0022\u0022 class=\u0022border-bottom\u0022 width=\u0022480\u0022 height=\u0022480\u0022\u003E                \n                \u003C\/noscript\u003E\n                \u003Cspan class=\u0022hide-noscript\u0022\u003E\u003Cimg 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And I don\u2019t think it makes much sense. Our norms regarding nakedness seem quite arbitrary...\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Csvg xmlns=\u0022http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\u0022 style=\u0022display: none;\u0022\u003E\u003C\/svg\u003E","content":"\u003Cfigure\u003E\n                \u003Cnoscript\u003E\n                    \u003Cimg src=\u0022https:\/\/avris.it\/image\/nipple-censorship_big.jpg\u0022 alt=\u0022\u0022 class=\u0022border\u0022 width=\u0022537\u0022 height=\u0022537\u0022\u003E                \n                \u003C\/noscript\u003E\n                \u003Cspan class=\u0022hide-noscript\u0022\u003E\u003Cimg 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And I don\u2019t think it makes much sense. Our norms regarding nakedness seem quite arbitrary...\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EJust think about it. A guy without a shirt on a hot day in the middle of a city? Sure, why not! An equally topless girl in the same situation? Hell no!\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESure, her breasts are different than his, their roundness and size are sexy and tempting. But if you\u2019ve gotta censor it, just censor the areola and you\u2019re fine. The areola that looks in a woman exactly like in a man. Stupid, isn\u2019t it?\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWe claim that we forbid nudity because showing our sex organs would sexualise the public space, right? And what exactly counts as a \u003Cem\u003Esex organ\u003C\/em\u003E? Half of our bodies are sex organs, if you use them right! The biggest human organ, which we almost never cover in whole, is our \u003Cstrong\u003Eskin\u003C\/strong\u003E \u2013 certainly a sex organ (well, if you like \u003Cem\u003Egood\u003C\/em\u003E sex).\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAnd what about our \u003Cstrong\u003Emouths\u003C\/strong\u003E? Giving somebody a blowjob is for sure sex, even if you didn\u2019t use your genitals the whole time. But does the Western culture have any taboo regarding covering your mouth because of their possible use during sex?\u003Ca href=\u0022#ftn-1\u0022 id=\u0022ftn-ref-1\u0022\u003E\u003Csup\u003E[1]\u003C\/sup\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E? The same goes for giving handjobs and not having to cover our \u003Cstrong\u003Ehands\u003C\/strong\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EI find male \u003Cstrong\u003Ecalves\u003C\/strong\u003E very sexy. Thank goddess we don\u2019t have any taboos about them! Can you imagine having to sweat through a heat wave in long trousers just because someone might \u003Cem\u003Elike your legs\u003C\/em\u003E? Yet we did have such a taboo \u2013 showing woman\u2019s \u003Cstrong\u003Eankle\u003C\/strong\u003E used to be considered daring and inappropriate. What changed? Did they slowly become less and less sexy? No, we just got less prude.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EDifferent cultures and different groups have different rules regarding showing your body \u2013 nuns cover their \u003Cstrong\u003Ehair\u003C\/strong\u003E as a sign of modesty and chastity, some Arabic countries require women (and only women) to cover their \u003Cstrong\u003Ewhole body\u003C\/strong\u003E in public, while some ethnic groups in New Guinea only use a \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Koteka\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022\u003E\u003Csvg class=\u0022icon\u0022\u003E\u003Cuse xlink:href=\u0022#light-link\u0022\u003E\u003C\/use\u003E\u003C\/svg\u003E koteka\u003C\/a\u003E to cover their \u003Cstrong\u003E(male) genitals\u003C\/strong\u003E. Can\u2019t you see how \u003Cstrong\u003Earbitrary\u003C\/strong\u003E it all looks?\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIf you wanna be truly \u003Cstrong\u003Econsistent\u003C\/strong\u003E, you\u2019d have to either ban showing any part of human body for any gender, or admit that \u003Cstrong\u003Enudity \u2260 sex\u003C\/strong\u003E and let people wear whatever the fuck they want.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ENudity doesn\u2019t necessarily mean sex. And sex doesn\u2019t always require nudity.\u003C\/strong\u003E I\u2019m sure you\u2019ve seen hundreds of adverts trying sell a non-sex-related product using a sexy photo of an attractive girl. There\u2019s not an inch of nudity more than you\u2019d normally see on a beach \u2013 but it \u003Cem\u003Eis\u003C\/em\u003E using sex to get to your wallet. On the other hand you have naturists, not wearing an inch of fabric, but still being totally not sexual in their nudity.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBy the way, isn\u2019t it funny, how the naturist being all \u003Cstrong\u003Enatural\u003C\/strong\u003E and \u201chow the god created us\u201d, are looked down on by the same prudes, who condemn \u003Ca href=\u0022\/tag\/homosexuality\u0022\u003E\u003Csvg class=\u0022icon\u0022\u003E\u003Cuse xlink:href=\u0022#light-tag\u0022\u003E\u003C\/use\u003E\u003C\/svg\u003E homosexuals\u003C\/a\u003E for being so \u003Cem\u003Eunnatural\u003C\/em\u003E? \ud83e\udd23\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAnyways... I\u2019m obviously not saying that wearing clothes is in any way wrong \u2013 our species is not naturally adjusted to all the environments we ended up living in, so clothes are an obvious \u003Cstrong\u003Enecessity\u003C\/strong\u003E for most of us most of the time. I\u2019m using their goodness right now for keeping my feet from freezing. But in an outfit consisting solely of socks, I wouldn\u2019t go out on my sunny balcony, would I? I don\u2019t want any shocked and judging looks from my neighbours, so for getting a tan without tan lines I need to walk\/ride a couple of kilometres.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ERight now I\u2019m not even trying to convince anyone to become a naturist themselves. It\u2019s really awesome, liberating and everything, but if you don\u2019t try, it\u2019s your loss, not mine. I respect your decisions about your body and whether or not you want to cover it\u003Ca href=\u0022#ftn-2\u0022 id=\u0022ftn-ref-2\u0022\u003E\u003Csup\u003E[2]\u003C\/sup\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E. I\u2019m just asking you for the same thing: \u003Cstrong\u003Erespect\u003C\/strong\u003E other people\u2019s choices not to cover theirs.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EOn a beach, there\u2019s not really much use for clothes, is there? (Except for hats, do protect your head from sun!). Quite the opposite, they make your tan uneven. But we wear them anyway, because of some stupid taboo. Yes, it is stupid. All of us have bodies, half of the population have the same kind of genitals as you do. They come in different shapes and sizes, and that\u2019s fine. There shouldn\u2019t be anything embarrassing about them, nothing shameful, nothing immoral, nothing intrinsically sinful.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESo let\u2019s get over that taboo. We\u2019ve already freed the ankle \u2013 now it\u2019s time to free the nipple, the pussy and the cock as well.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Chr\/\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022small\u0022\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022#ftn-ref-1\u0022 id=\u0022ftn-1\u0022\u003E\u003Csup\u003E[1]\u003C\/sup\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E It certainly does, when it comes to yawning and chewing, but that\u2019s a different story \ud83d\ude09\u003Cbr\/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022#ftn-ref-2\u0022 id=\u0022ftn-2\u0022\u003E\u003Csup\u003E[2]\u003C\/sup\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E Unless your choices are actively harming people around you. Wear the damn mask!\u003Cbr\/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Csvg xmlns=\u0022http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\u0022 style=\u0022display: none;\u0022\u003E\u003C\/svg\u003E","tags":["advertisment","body","censorship","naked","natural","nature","nudity","society","taboo"],"hasMore":true,"image":"https:\/\/avris.it\/image\/nipple-censorship_small.jpg","introLite":"\u003Cfigure\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/avris.it\/image\/nipple-censorship_big.jpg\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022\u003E\u003Cimg src=\u0022https:\/\/avris.it\/image\/nipple-censorship_mini.jpg\u0022 alt=\u0022\u0022 width=\u0022240\u0022 height=\u0022240\u0022 loading=\u0022lazy\u0022\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/figure\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThere\u2019s obviously a big taboo around nudity. And I don\u2019t think it makes much sense. Our norms regarding nakedness seem quite arbitrary...\u003C\/p\u003E","contentLite":"\u003Cfigure\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/avris.it\/image\/nipple-censorship_big.jpg\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022\u003E\u003Cimg src=\u0022https:\/\/avris.it\/image\/nipple-censorship_mini.jpg\u0022 alt=\u0022\u0022 width=\u0022240\u0022 height=\u0022240\u0022 loading=\u0022lazy\u0022\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfigcaption\u003E\n                    \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/lina-esco\/facebook-war-on-nipples_b_4548832.html\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022\u003E\u003Csmall\u003Ehuffingtonpost.com\/lina-esco\/facebook-war-on-nipples_b_4548832.html\u003C\/small\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\n                \u003C\/figcaption\u003E\u003C\/figure\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThere\u2019s obviously a big taboo around nudity. And I don\u2019t think it makes much sense. Our norms regarding nakedness seem quite arbitrary...\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EJust think about it. A guy without a shirt on a hot day in the middle of a city? Sure, why not! An equally topless girl in the same situation? Hell no!\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESure, her breasts are different than his, their roundness and size are sexy and tempting. But if you\u2019ve gotta censor it, just censor the areola and you\u2019re fine. The areola that looks in a woman exactly like in a man. Stupid, isn\u2019t it?\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWe claim that we forbid nudity because showing our sex organs would sexualise the public space, right? And what exactly counts as a \u003Cem\u003Esex organ\u003C\/em\u003E? Half of our bodies are sex organs, if you use them right! The biggest human organ, which we almost never cover in whole, is our \u003Cstrong\u003Eskin\u003C\/strong\u003E \u2013 certainly a sex organ (well, if you like \u003Cem\u003Egood\u003C\/em\u003E sex).\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAnd what about our \u003Cstrong\u003Emouths\u003C\/strong\u003E? Giving somebody a blowjob is for sure sex, even if you didn\u2019t use your genitals the whole time. But does the Western culture have any taboo regarding covering your mouth because of their possible use during sex?\u003Ca href=\u0022#ftn-1\u0022 id=\u0022ftn-ref-1\u0022\u003E\u003Csup\u003E[1]\u003C\/sup\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E? The same goes for giving handjobs and not having to cover our \u003Cstrong\u003Ehands\u003C\/strong\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EI find male \u003Cstrong\u003Ecalves\u003C\/strong\u003E very sexy. Thank goddess we don\u2019t have any taboos about them! Can you imagine having to sweat through a heat wave in long trousers just because someone might \u003Cem\u003Elike your legs\u003C\/em\u003E? Yet we did have such a taboo \u2013 showing woman\u2019s \u003Cstrong\u003Eankle\u003C\/strong\u003E used to be considered daring and inappropriate. What changed? Did they slowly become less and less sexy? No, we just got less prude.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EDifferent cultures and different groups have different rules regarding showing your body \u2013 nuns cover their \u003Cstrong\u003Ehair\u003C\/strong\u003E as a sign of modesty and chastity, some Arabic countries require women (and only women) to cover their \u003Cstrong\u003Ewhole body\u003C\/strong\u003E in public, while some ethnic groups in New Guinea only use a \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Koteka\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022\u003E koteka\u003C\/a\u003E to cover their \u003Cstrong\u003E(male) genitals\u003C\/strong\u003E. Can\u2019t you see how \u003Cstrong\u003Earbitrary\u003C\/strong\u003E it all looks?\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIf you wanna be truly \u003Cstrong\u003Econsistent\u003C\/strong\u003E, you\u2019d have to either ban showing any part of human body for any gender, or admit that \u003Cstrong\u003Enudity \u2260 sex\u003C\/strong\u003E and let people wear whatever the fuck they want.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ENudity doesn\u2019t necessarily mean sex. And sex doesn\u2019t always require nudity.\u003C\/strong\u003E I\u2019m sure you\u2019ve seen hundreds of adverts trying sell a non-sex-related product using a sexy photo of an attractive girl. There\u2019s not an inch of nudity more than you\u2019d normally see on a beach \u2013 but it \u003Cem\u003Eis\u003C\/em\u003E using sex to get to your wallet. On the other hand you have naturists, not wearing an inch of fabric, but still being totally not sexual in their nudity.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBy the way, isn\u2019t it funny, how the naturist being all \u003Cstrong\u003Enatural\u003C\/strong\u003E and \u201chow the god created us\u201d, are looked down on by the same prudes, who condemn \u003Ca href=\u0022\/tag\/homosexuality\u0022\u003E homosexuals\u003C\/a\u003E for being so \u003Cem\u003Eunnatural\u003C\/em\u003E? \ud83e\udd23\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAnyways... I\u2019m obviously not saying that wearing clothes is in any way wrong \u2013 our species is not naturally adjusted to all the environments we ended up living in, so clothes are an obvious \u003Cstrong\u003Enecessity\u003C\/strong\u003E for most of us most of the time. I\u2019m using their goodness right now for keeping my feet from freezing. But in an outfit consisting solely of socks, I wouldn\u2019t go out on my sunny balcony, would I? I don\u2019t want any shocked and judging looks from my neighbours, so for getting a tan without tan lines I need to walk\/ride a couple of kilometres.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ERight now I\u2019m not even trying to convince anyone to become a naturist themselves. It\u2019s really awesome, liberating and everything, but if you don\u2019t try, it\u2019s your loss, not mine. I respect your decisions about your body and whether or not you want to cover it\u003Ca href=\u0022#ftn-2\u0022 id=\u0022ftn-ref-2\u0022\u003E\u003Csup\u003E[2]\u003C\/sup\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E. I\u2019m just asking you for the same thing: \u003Cstrong\u003Erespect\u003C\/strong\u003E other people\u2019s choices not to cover theirs.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EOn a beach, there\u2019s not really much use for clothes, is there? (Except for hats, do protect your head from sun!). Quite the opposite, they make your tan uneven. But we wear them anyway, because of some stupid taboo. Yes, it is stupid. All of us have bodies, half of the population have the same kind of genitals as you do. They come in different shapes and sizes, and that\u2019s fine. There shouldn\u2019t be anything embarrassing about them, nothing shameful, nothing immoral, nothing intrinsically sinful.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESo let\u2019s get over that taboo. We\u2019ve already freed the ankle \u2013 now it\u2019s time to free the nipple, the pussy and the cock as well.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Chr\/\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022small\u0022\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022#ftn-ref-1\u0022 id=\u0022ftn-1\u0022\u003E\u003Csup\u003E[1]\u003C\/sup\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E It certainly does, when it comes to yawning and chewing, but that\u2019s a different story \ud83d\ude09\u003Cbr\/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022#ftn-ref-2\u0022 id=\u0022ftn-2\u0022\u003E\u003Csup\u003E[2]\u003C\/sup\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E Unless your choices are actively harming people around you. Wear the damn mask!\u003Cbr\/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","words":827,"readTime":4,"lang":"en"}}}}}