I was talking to a friend from Canada on MSN and she mentioned that her neighbors are nudists. They sometimes have guests over and close all the curtains or go outside in the hot tub. I've never met any nudists though I did see a documentary about them once. I'm just wondering why it would really appeal to someone that much. Has anyone had contact with nudists before?
Nudists
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Formaldehyde
Both Fair And Balanced
Nude beaches are great. They are some of the few things I really miss about no longer living in California. There are only a handful of nude beaches in Florida, all on the other coast.
Nude swimming definitely feels great and I think it would be comfortable to be nude on the beach too. Otherwise, I don't see the attraction. I feel more comfortable sitting around at home with clothes on than in the nude or at least as comfortable.
civver_764
Deity
I think nudists are pretty cool.
Definitely not the sort of thing you want to do if you have a vinyl sofa. I've had nudist friends (or rather friends who go to occasional clothing-free pagan rituals) invite me along for a social occasion or two. I was tempted at the time to try it out, until one of them explained the protocols involved in nude men hugging. It's not the sort of thing I want to spend time worrying about.
Holycannoli
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I've noticed that all nudists I've ever seen are not the kind of people you ever want to see nude. There's a nude beach here in NJ and I recommend everyone stay away like it's the plague.
galdre
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we didn't need to know that...
I make especially sure to be nude when I read and reply to your posts.
galdre
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Well duh, it's New Jersey, what do you expect?
Eat_Up_Martha
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I often sleep nude, but I don't think I'll ever swim nude. Well, maybe in a pool. But nowhere that contains carnivorous fish.
SKILORD
Insurgent
1. Symbolism: In the Genesis story clothing represents the fall of man. Self conciousness is sometimes viewed as problematic because although it is what makes life worthwhile, we still have to admit that it is, well, problematic.
2. The G*****N textile Industry: following up on that symbolism, where clothing represents the advent of sin, it is also the first sector of the economy to be industrialized. Because of low access costs to profit potential textile mills were always the first ones built, and ran along the outermost, least regulated sectors of the industrialized world since the industrialized world was Scotland. Textile mills fled regulation from there to Wales to the American Northeast to the American Southeast to a variety of third world countries, always leaving heavier more costly machinery in their wake.
If you look at the history of it, the reason why the Southeast was able to nab those jobs was because traditionally regressive labor practices in the South still to this day preserve anti-labor sentiment there. The most well known of those labor practices was slavery. That slavery was funded off of profits from a crop known as cotton, which was a raw material used in clothing.
Clothing is completely unnecesarry with the exception of providing pockets. It is frequently uncomfortable when compared to the alternative of nudity. When it does make a realistic impact on the lives of human beings, such as it does to this day in sweatshops all over the world, that impact is universally negative.
Now, I'm just making the case. I think it's a strong case, but I still go around wearing clothes and interacting with society and sh*t, but I am a sellout and a hypocrite and confident being either. At least I'm not in Green Day. I'm not trying to be self righteous about labor practices either, whatever, but the point is that the most realistic way to prevent them is to just stop... wearing... clothing.
2. The G*****N textile Industry: following up on that symbolism, where clothing represents the advent of sin, it is also the first sector of the economy to be industrialized. Because of low access costs to profit potential textile mills were always the first ones built, and ran along the outermost, least regulated sectors of the industrialized world since the industrialized world was Scotland. Textile mills fled regulation from there to Wales to the American Northeast to the American Southeast to a variety of third world countries, always leaving heavier more costly machinery in their wake.
If you look at the history of it, the reason why the Southeast was able to nab those jobs was because traditionally regressive labor practices in the South still to this day preserve anti-labor sentiment there. The most well known of those labor practices was slavery. That slavery was funded off of profits from a crop known as cotton, which was a raw material used in clothing.
Clothing is completely unnecesarry with the exception of providing pockets. It is frequently uncomfortable when compared to the alternative of nudity. When it does make a realistic impact on the lives of human beings, such as it does to this day in sweatshops all over the world, that impact is universally negative.
Now, I'm just making the case. I think it's a strong case, but I still go around wearing clothes and interacting with society and sh*t, but I am a sellout and a hypocrite and confident being either. At least I'm not in Green Day. I'm not trying to be self righteous about labor practices either, whatever, but the point is that the most realistic way to prevent them is to just stop... wearing... clothing.
