Posted on 06/29/2009 2:59:42 PM PDT by buccaneer81
Future perfect Can a clothing-optional policy teach her young girls to be comfortable as women? By Jennifer Mattern June 28, 2009
I ain’t what I used to be.
But my daughters don’t know that. They can’t imagine me any other way -- this soft, paunchy creature they have come to refer to as “Mom.” I tell them to take a good look, that someday they are likely to look much like I do now. They laugh. Preposterous!
I grew up in a household where everyone’s jiggly bits were kept under wraps. Only once, when I was very young, do I remember taking a shower with my mother. I recall being shocked at the fullness of her breasts, the curves of her belly and thighs.
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jiggly bits?
Maybe not guilty in the looks dept. but she writes like a Valley Girl.
On Monty Python, they called them "naughty bits."
I suppose that on a homely women they would be “kibbles and bits”.
Does anyone still wonder why newspapers, The Boston Globe in particular, has gone broke? Could it be the writing?
I hate to be the bearer of bad news for the modest among us, however children raised in clothing optional or nudist environments have fewer hangups and a more positive body image. More importantly however the “mystery” is removed about the body and the teenage pregnancy rate is practically zip among girls raised in such environments.
Sex becomes a private thing between two people and simple nudity is not viewed as sexual.
Sorry, that is much too sensible for Free Republic.
I’d hit it.
“jiggly bits “
Good all girl band name!
Whatever happened to good old-fashioned mounds?
“Sometimes you feel like a nut
Sometimes you don’t
Almond Joy’s got nuts
Mounds don’t.”
You are right. Nudity will not harm a child. And I too have read that the rate of teen pregnancies is lower with nudist families as well as the age of losing virginity being higher. However, that may also be because most parents in the nudist lifestyle are well educated and (now brace yourself) many are quite conservative in religion.
“children raised in clothing optional or nudist environments have fewer hangups and a more positive body image”
An old urban legend. Women who live at the beach tend to have better bodies because they show more of them. The actual nudity doesn’t enhance that. A bikini and nudity have the same effect.
What does happen is the pedophile effect. Pedophiles are drawn to child nudity.
User Image Redheaded_Wonder wrote: I'm struggling with this now. I have young boys, and they shower with me for practical reasons - they are afraid of water, and showering with me is *so* much easier for me, and they cry and scream while taking baths but have fun with a shower. When I grew up, it was "Cover your body!! At all times!!" and God forbid someone ever saw you naked... It was a culture of shame. I don't want my guys to experience this. But where is the line? How long can/should boys shower with their mother? 4? 5? 6? 16? Obviously I have to draw the line somewhere... but where? 6/28/2009 10:52 AM EDT Recommend (34)
You would have some issues at 16.
Raised 4 in the same type of environment, including exposure to topless European beaches. None of them were shocked/thrilled by topless - none felt the need to follow suit. None thought ‘nude hiking’ was appealing for all sorts of very good reasons = more than happy to watch the ‘happy dance’ when nude hikers visit New England during the black fly and mosquito season. VERY funny.
The fact that she brings it up tells me she has issues.
Not if it's chilly.
If she has such a strong desire to show her body, she can show it to me.
Nudity in this Owl’s house has a three word policy: “Hide Your Shame”
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I was raised in a very conservative modest environment. Modesty was mandatory. I did not get pregnant, nor did I have “carnal” knowledge before marriage. Why? I knew my Dad would kill me.
I don’t know about that. How big is her butt?
she is Guilty..........
of BEING HOT!
Here's the Jennifer Mattern who wrote the article:
Holy crap!
Eviedence?
Does this explain your screen name?
oh pleeeease have this woman put her clothes back on
oh pleeeease have this woman put her clothes back on - what she NEEDS to do is explain WHY human beings wear clothing especially in the bibilical sense.
My son made his own time to make sure I didn’t see him while he was changing. Around 7, I think. Probably the time they change from Mom, to Dad, in most things.
I don't know anything about the author, but that turn of phrase sounds British.
There will come a time when everybody
Who is lonely will be free
To sing & dance & love
There will come a time when every evil
That we know will be an evil
That we can rise above
Who cares if hair is long or short
or sprayed or partly grayed
We know that hair ain’t where it’s at
There will come a time when you won’t
even be ashamed if you are fat!
WAH WAH-WAH WAH
There will come a time when everybody
Who is lonely will be free
To sing & dance & love (dance and love)
There will come a time when every evil
that we know will be an evil
That we can rise above (rise above)
Who cares if you’re so poor you can’t afford
To buy a pair of Mod-a-Go-Go stretch elastic pants
THERE WILL COME A TIME WHEN YOU CAN EVEN
TAKE YOUR CLOTHES OFF WHEN YOU DANCE
I see that the liberals, libertarians, and progressives are outing themselves on this thread.
So wheres the perfect Can?
“Does this explain your screen name?”
No.. I was tortured as “Flash Gordon” during my childhood..:o)
Is this what women consider to be one of the pressing issues of the day?
Well, it’s certainly true that up through at least the early 1960s, “respectable” women were routinely packed up like sausages in heavy-duty bras and girdles (some of which came up to the bottom of the bra and went down to the tops of the knees) that made sure that no matter how fat and flabby the real woman underneath, NOTHING “jiggled”. That was pretty insane, but I think the writer of this article has pretty much gone insane on the other end of the spectrum.
My wife’s family is from Scandinavia, so she grew up going nude and topless to the beach when they would visit there in summers when she was growing up.
At first, it takes some getting used to going to clothing-optional beaches, but they’re common in Europe and in some of the former European-owned islands in the Carribean. After the first day, you almost forget that everyone around you is not wearing anything.
Nude hikers during bug season? ? ?
Those folks must have thick skins, indeed.
Bleah. I was a kid in the 60s and 70s and my parents had an occasional casual nudity policy, intended to offer us a certain level of comfort with our bodies and those of others. I always experienced discomfort and a sense of unnaturalness, and unwanted memories and influences intruding into sexuality later. At least one of my brothers was even more distressed, and my parents were not the most extreme of their generation.
My kids haven’t seen anything since they were weaned.
Southwest Travel Notes - casting aside the paperwork Spa Resort with more...and nothing at all.
Clothing optional has become a marketing trend in upscale resorts popping up across America . For a growing number of resort goers, the option of checking their clothes at the door has become an attractive way to relax and retreat.
Nestled in the hills of a California desert community and overlooking the Coachella Valley and Palm Springs is Living Waters Spa that has served the clothing optional market for over six years.
By giving its guests the option to stay nude, it is thriving while other area hotels have been pounded by financially challenging times.
Gimme a box of chablis and a bag of pork cracklins and that would be the perfect romantic evening for me to hit that not-guilty lady. In a respectful, clothing-optional environment, of course.
Alas, this court must find her GUILTY.
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