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59. Clothes conceals the natural beauty of the body, as created by God.
In the words of Michelangelo: "What spirit is really empty and blind, that it cannot
comprehend the very fact that the
human foot is more noble than the shoe and human skin more beautiful than the garment
with which it is clothed?"
60. Garments makes people look older, and accentuates rather than conceals unflattering
body characteristics.
Paul Fussell writes: "Naked, elderly people appear younger, particularly when quite tan, and
younger individuals look
even younger. . . . In http://termx.net/flavi/russian-teen-nude-beaches-art.php look far less
offensive naked than clothed. Garments, you understand, have the
effect of sausage casings, seriously outlining and marketing the shape of what it is that they
comprise, pulling it all into an
Abnormal form which couldn't fool anyone. . . . The start Naturist doesn't take long to master
the paradox that it
is stockings that make varicose veins noticeable, belts that call attention to forty-eight-inch
waistlines, brassieres that
Stress sagging breasts." 81
61. Clothes harbors and encourages the development of odor-causing bacteria.
Naturism is socially constructive.
62. Naturism is a socially constructive doctrine.
As defined by the International Naturist Federation, "Naturism is a lifestyle in harmony with
nature
characterized by the custom of communal nudity, with the objective of encouraging self
respect, respect for others
and for the surroundings." 82
63. Naturism, by philosophy, is tolerant of others as well as their differences. It expects just
the same in return.
Naturism rejects obstreperous, provocative nudity--but because it is anti-social effrontery and
disorderly
Actions, not because it's nudity.
64. Nudity boosts social equality, feelings of unity with http://beachphotos.net/contribution/nudist-photos-amateur-male-masturbation-at-the-beach-videos.php ,
and much more comfortable social interaction in
general. As mentioned previously, clothes locks us into a collective unreality that prescribes
complicated responses to
social status, roles and anticipated conducts.83 As the man-made barrier of clothes is done
away with, social class and
status disappear. Folks begin to associate to each other as they are, and not as they seem to
be.
This really is a happening that's intimately familiar to the Finnish people. L.M. Edelsward
writes: "People can
relax in the sauna in a sense that is difficult to do in other contexts and with others than one's
family, for here the
tensions related to keeping one's social cover disappear. . . . Without their social covers,
sauna bathers are
able to satisfy others not in relation to their social personas, but in terms of their inner
personalities. . . . Sweating
Collectively in the sauna, removed from the impinging demands of everyday life, Finns can
be the folks they'really'