Jul 21, 2023·edited Jul 21, 2023Liked by Charles Daney
very nice & detailed article. the ways & the means to outreach society about the naturism are very much valid ones. Besides it, what I feel is that there should be one consolidated book about the naturism which collects & include the evidences from the history-religion-literature-quotes of famous personalities across all cultures from the globe which favors the naturism. This will provide a tool & moral strength to all naturists to outreach the society about the naturism. However who will complete this huge task is another question..
My first thought is that the book could be a collection of essays by various people. Some Substack naturist writers know a lot of history. Then there's Victoria Bateman, who just published a book entitled "Naked Feminism". British Naturism also has some articulate voices.
I think that one thing that needs to be done, something nobody is really mentioning, is a new study on the effects that naturism has on children. There hasn't been one since the 90s, and this will help counter the myth that nudity and children is a form of abuse. Which is not true, but is spread through the media, so parents believe it, raising a generation of kids that believe nudity is only sexual.
Studies on the effects naturism has on children would be most welcome. You're probably correct that such studies, at least in the U.S., are rare or nonexistent since the 1990s. Here's an article by Mark Storey printed in the TNS magazine in 2004: https://www.bareoaks.ca/files/Children-Nudity-and-Academic-Research.pdf. It doesn't cite anything later than 1998, and even in that case the issue of nudity is conflated with parental sexuality. One or more contemporary studies that don't link naturism and parental sexuality are sorely needed. But academic studies of naturism itself are very few and far between. Probably any scientific studies of naturist family nudity - or anything related to naturism at all - aren't considered worthy of serious study - if not actually detrimental to one's career.
very nice & detailed article. the ways & the means to outreach society about the naturism are very much valid ones. Besides it, what I feel is that there should be one consolidated book about the naturism which collects & include the evidences from the history-religion-literature-quotes of famous personalities across all cultures from the globe which favors the naturism. This will provide a tool & moral strength to all naturists to outreach the society about the naturism. However who will complete this huge task is another question..
My first thought is that the book could be a collection of essays by various people. Some Substack naturist writers know a lot of history. Then there's Victoria Bateman, who just published a book entitled "Naked Feminism". British Naturism also has some articulate voices.
I think that one thing that needs to be done, something nobody is really mentioning, is a new study on the effects that naturism has on children. There hasn't been one since the 90s, and this will help counter the myth that nudity and children is a form of abuse. Which is not true, but is spread through the media, so parents believe it, raising a generation of kids that believe nudity is only sexual.
Studies on the effects naturism has on children would be most welcome. You're probably correct that such studies, at least in the U.S., are rare or nonexistent since the 1990s. Here's an article by Mark Storey printed in the TNS magazine in 2004: https://www.bareoaks.ca/files/Children-Nudity-and-Academic-Research.pdf. It doesn't cite anything later than 1998, and even in that case the issue of nudity is conflated with parental sexuality. One or more contemporary studies that don't link naturism and parental sexuality are sorely needed. But academic studies of naturism itself are very few and far between. Probably any scientific studies of naturist family nudity - or anything related to naturism at all - aren't considered worthy of serious study - if not actually detrimental to one's career.
I had more to say about this issue in a comment to my Substack post from yesterday: https://naturistplace.substack.com/p/the-disappearing-opportunities-for