Douglas Whole Nude World

Why You Should Come Join Us Today!
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-6678-0763-8
Verlag: BookBaby
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 162 Seiten

When you think of a naturist or nudist resort, you might tell yourself, 'I could never do that!' You might feel embarrassed, a lack of self-esteem, or even hesitation of judgement. But 'A Whole Nude World' is here to change your mind! This book is your personal invitation into the naturist community, answering basic questions on the lifestyle, providing confidence, and leaving you with key guidance for your first naturist experience. Once you try it, you will experience the joy and freedom like so many others have!

Autoren/Hrsg.

Douglas, Michael

Leseproben

Naturist history 4. EVERY BODY HAS AN EXCLUSIVE BACKSTORY32
Every body33 has a backstory which includes both points of greatness with widespread public support and some low points, like external persecution, internal division and harsh rules. On an individual level, points of greatness manifest as graduating college, getting married and having children, becoming wealthy and financially free. Individual low points include involuntarily losing income, suffering abuse from a loved one or drug addiction. Corporate high points include stellar sales and leading the industry. Corporate low points include selling faulty products, poor customer service and employee dissatisfaction. One point of greatness common to individuals and corporations is becoming a household name. One low point that can be common to both individuals and corporations is bankruptcy, which starts with poor money management. While the past can hurt, honest and accurate recognition of the low points is necessary because although we can’t change the past, we must learn the right lessons from history to avoid repeating the sins of the past, and becoming resentful about things that we can’t change or obscuring progress achieved. History humanizes people and knowing a person’s story makes individuals more relatable because it shows people are complex individuals. That fact allows us to realize that great figures in the past had the same victories and obstacles like people do today; yet they still achieved great things, so we can overcome problems even today. Nudism has those high and low points too like any other individual, business or organization. Dates are included because some of your direct familial ancestors were alive during these events. Your grandfather may have been skinny-dipping at the local YMCA without a second thought; your parents may have pictures that were taken at the age or taken photos of you when nudity was seen as cute. In the beginning, humans were created by God as described in the Bible. In the Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve were naked and unashamed until they sinned. Adam and Eve tried to hide that they had disobeyed God’s command by covering themselves with fig leaves they had sewn together, but they could not cover their sin. God didn’t speak negatively about nudity in the Garden. In fact, Adam brought up his nakedness as a problem. God questioned Adam after Adam brought it up. God gave them clothes after He cursed the earth with thorns and thistles as punishment for Adam’s sin; the clothes were not a statement about the morality of nudity or clothes, but were only about practicality for our sin-cursed world.34 When God killed an innocent animal to cover Adam and Eve’s sin, He provided a great display for what Jesus Christ would do for all individual human beings thousands of years after the Garden of Eden on the cross as Jesus died to cover our sin because He too was innocent. Different clothing styles developed for men and women and changed with time and place around the world. During Biblical times and for years thereafter, nudity was a common sight as people used the Roman baths35 and even Christians were nude in public as they followed in the footsteps of Christ himself and were baptized nude.36 Elsewhere around the world, people wore clothes as the weather dictated and some tribes and cultures closer to the equator went nude and did not dress until missionaries insisted the natives dress.37 Once the natives dressed, curiosity around the covered parts increased, instead of decreasing as the missionaries intended and expected.38 As a result of the environment, including weather concerns and questionable appeals to authority, many modern Americans dress daily and expect others to be clothed without giving a second thought about why, but it was not always this way. Early in American history, even people that conservative individuals praise, as examples today, practiced what we would call nudism today or skinnydipped. Ben Franklin notably took air baths and John Quincy Adams was the first among many US presidents who embraced the practice of skinnydipping.39 Some groups unconnected to later modern nudism practiced social nudity in America; they were little known and didn’t do much advocacy for their way of life,40 as mere advocacy for nudism during this time period resulted in criminal conviction in accordance with state law.41 Various cultures around the world had different rules about different parts of the body. In China, smaller feet on women were deemed better and foot binding became a widespread cultural practice.42 In Europe, a smaller waist on a woman was highly valued, so corsets developed to shrink her chest, which led to her organs shifting and causing lower oxygen intake.43 Both foot-binding and corsets caused problems as later research showed and those practices were ended on a widespread basis. As societies experimented with how much clothes are acceptable in various situations, authors wrote books advocating for taking off all clothes in many situations. Books are more than paper and glue and ink. They are more than digital imprints. They are sparks. Sparks that ignite fires. Sparks that ignite revolutions. Every major revolution began with a book.... Every major religious revolution started with a book. Billions of people have followed a specific life path because of a book. Every political revolution began with a book. Every cultural and societal revolution began with a book.44 In 1901, modern social naturism had its beginning as German sociologist Heinrich Pudor, sometimes referred to as the “Father of nudism” and wrote “The Cult of the Nude”45 promoting naturism.46 Other people date the origins of the nudist movement to the booklet published in 1903 authored by Richard Ungewitter titled Wieder nacktgewordene Menschen (People naked again) in Germany and his more famous book Die Nacktheit (Nudity) in 1906. In these works, Ungewitter advocated a society in which men and women would live together nude. To nearly everyone’s surprise, the publications were widely read and nudist publications began to spark a fire for naturist places. That fire for naturist places was first filled by Paul Zimmerman when he opened the world’s first naturist resort, Frielichtpark, in Klingberg, Germany.47 Frielichtpark did not just permit nudity in public, but also required that guests exercise and provided only vegetarian meals and prohibited smoking and alcoholic beverages. Other nudist parks opened and had similar requirements for exercise and dietary strictness because at the time, the health benefits were heavily touted as people were seeking ways to deal with the rise of the health concerns related to the city and pollution that cities caused.48 In 1926, Maurice Parmelee first published The New Gymnosophy; it named many of the benefits of practicing naturism.49 The spark of nudism found its way to America when Kurt Barthel started the American League for Physical Culture (ALPC) in 1929. Kurt Barthel was an immigrant from Germany and learned about nudism in Germany.50 The group first gathered on Labor Day 1929 in New York; the gathering was not in New York City, but was near the Peekskill Mountains and it was a mix of people, both men and women. Back then, it was a very big deal for men to go topfree; even at the beach, men could be arrested in New York. In the 1930s, nudist films were produced. Among the first was This Nude World (1932), a documentary about early nudism in America and Europe. Elysia: Valley of the Nude was released in 1933 and Unashamed was released in 1938. In 1931, Parmelee’s book was reprinted and by then was renamed Nudism in Modern Life and it took off. Between 1931 and 1936, the ALPC and International Nudist League separated due to a dispute. The International Nudist League, founded in 1931, changed names first to the International Nudist Conference and later to the American Sunbathing Association (ASA) in 1936 as Rev. Ilsley Boone51 joined the board and although the organization tried to avoid the term nudist because the erotic connotations the term had carried over from Europe, the term nudist had started to stick in America. When Boone used “nudist”, he distinguished it from the European naturist because his term included specific behavioral guidelines in addition to being nude. His definition was: “A nudist is one who believes and practices that one may freely go without clothing unless for some specific reason — such as bodily comfort or social requirements — it is essential to wear them.”52 One of Boone’s rules meant no alcoholic beverages...