Sign the petition here:
https://www.change.org/p/normalize-nudity

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Ironically... that is one of my first works in which I deliberately censor the nudity.

The reason for that is because I wanted to avoid having to set this post as “Mature Content”, and reach more people other than my usual audience.

That said, I guess I should probably explain better what this is all about...

We live in a world where, from the very beginning of our life, we are taught that we are supposed to cover and hide our bodies.As we grow, we are taught that the human body is offensive, weird, ugly, disgusting, something to laugh at, or a mere object of “carnal” gratification.And to complement that, every single time nudity is mentioned or used in conversations, in the internet or in any media content, it is in a way that reinforces these negative perspectives.

The world forgot that, before any of that, our body is just... well... our body!It is the “recipient” of our existence in this world. What allow us to be here, in contact with everything that exists.Why would that be supposed to be offensive, or seen in so many offensive ways?Why would humanity be ashamed of that?If anything, we should be grateful for our bodies, and accept that they are part of who we are!Besides, that makes no sense at all to simply feel so many negative emotions towards the natural state of existence of anything.

Literally every single know life form in the planet lives without clothes, and none of them have problems with that.And suddenly, the species that considers itself to be the “superior species” dares to say that, if we didn’t use clothes, we wouldn’t be able to control our instincts and live properly as a society.

That not only makes no actual sense, but also is effectively wrong, as so many completely functional nudist and naturist societies can prove.

Some could argue that we need clothes, to protect ourselves from the climate and from the world.But that is not what I am talking about, and that is also not all of the reasons why people use clothes.If that was true, when
the climate was good, when people were at their homes, or maybe swimming, no one would see anything wrong with getting nude, or with seeing someone else doing so.

The reason why people have these negative impression is because, as mentioned before, every time nudity appears to us, it has one of those negative connotations.That is why our subconscious mind always associates the nudity to them.

However, once people gets used to seeing nudity in a more casual, normal and/or natural contexts and settings, those perceptions starts to fade away, and it starts to be more clear the distinction of when the nudity is nothing but the natural state of the body, or when it indeed means something else.

In fact, the contact with a more casual nudity in our life have several positive effects for us.

The world we live in, that teaches us to hide our body, and at the same time glorifies the image of “the perfect body”, causes several damages to the self-esteem of the individual, who will always try to reach this idealistic idea of perfection, and never be happy or satisfied with who they are.At the same time, it creates a society where people constantly judge each other by their appearance, by what they look like, and what they wear.

On the other hand, people who grow having more freedom to be nude, and have more contact with nudity, lives with a higher self-esteem, self-acceptance and confidence.They also grow happier, once being nude is more comfortable, we are capable of feeling better the world around us and spending time nude is scientifically proved to induce happiness in the individual... and also have several positive effects for one’s skin! The contact with other people nude also helps us to break that perception of the perfect body. We learn to understand that everyone have flaws, and that is ok.We learn to accept each other the way we are, and for who we are, and not be so judgmental.And for some reason, social nudity also induces our subcontinent to be more honest and open about our feelings, to ourselves and to the others, what helps people to have closer, more open and more honest relationships.

Finally...There is the perception of identity for us nudists and naturists.It is a way of self expression.The same way people uses what represents their feelings and personality, and feels like an extension of who they are, and not being able to use these types of clothes can cause low self-esteem to many people, depression or even the constant thought that there is something wrong with them, or the feeling of being caged...Some people just feels like that “clothe” that represents them is, well, their own skin.And simply forbidding these people to express themselves is unfair.

Also, the same way any community likes to see anything that they feel like represents them in media content, getting this boost of personal identity, we nudists also have that feeling when we see nudity being depicted as something natural in media or any other kind of content.So it is also pretty unfair to try to ban every kind if content depicting nudity, no matter the context or intend of it.

That is the purpose of this petition.Have a world where people go beyond all of the taboos surrounding nudity, and be able to see it as what it is: as something normal; as something natural; as something that is, basically,
just who we are!

#normalizenudity