For me nudity is not bad or wrong. It's how we are born and ultimately how we return to the earth. Clothing is necessary in many aspects of life such as for protection from the elements or even just the chill of the produce isle. So that we can focus and function in our day jobs without the distractions of seeing all the delicate bits of the other beings around us. Sometimes just for art and the beautification of our bodies! (I have a white silk dress with red flowers that makes me feel like a beautiful butterfly when I wear it. 🤗) But often our layers of clothing are just being used as psychological protection. As a shield to protect and hide our raw vulnerable selves from being fully exposed and revealed...and judged.
Also for me, sex is not bad or wrong. It is the single strongest biological desire of all living creatures. We all want it and want to be wanted. It's how the species continues!
And yet so many humans spend much of their lives denying, hiding or trying to tame away this aspect of their being! And then the issue of what we teach our children about sex... they LITERALLY come from it and yet many of us attempt to "shelter" our kids from knowledge of sexuality as long as it's feasibly possible. We try and avoid those "awkward" conversations about where babies come from by tidying it up with nonsense statements like "only after a man and woman are married will god bless them with a child."
How do those folks 👆🏼deal with it then when their kids' teenaged baby sitter shows up pregnant?! (Seriously, I have a friend who told her kids the nonsense about god only granting pregnancy after marriage, like it was from magic dust or something, and then their 16 YO babysitter later shows up knocked up and tells the kids while she is watching them for my sweet but crazy friend, the parent. 😳😂)
This feels a little bit like a rant, and I'm sorry about that. I've just been wanting to write about this subject for a long time and I don't know where to start. So I'm starting here with my statements of what's true for me. 🙏🏽