Nudity

My parents were free about nudity, and we are too. I’d like our children to feel unashamed of whatever shape they are. People should worry about other things. — Heidi Klum

If people were meant to run around naked, they wouldn't have been born wearing clothes. —Reverend Loveshade

To me the the coolest thing about having a boyfriend is that you can just stare at his naked body and not have to look away out of politeness. I find the male form so fascinating. I have a few [favorite body parts]. I like that kind of dent [pelvic bone], that V. And I love [men's] butts. There's nothing better than a good butt. —Dana Delany

And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed. —Genesis 2:25 (King James Version)

Nudity is the state of being in which a human is without clothing or specifically not covering the genitals. Partial nudity may be defined as not covering other parts of the body deemed sexual. Nudity is culturally complex due to meanings given various states of undress in differing social situations. In any particular society, these meanings are defined in relation to being properly dressed, not in relation to the specific body parts being exposed. Nakedness and clothing are connected to many cultural categories such as identity, privacy, social status and moral behavior. Although often used interchangeably, "naked" and "nude" are also used in English to distinguish between the various meanings of being unclothed.

Quotes

• Any excuse is good to... get naked.
  • Laura Gemser, Laura Gemser Interview

• I'm so comfortable with nudity, it's difficult for me to keep my clothes on in just my own everyday life. As soon as I walk in the door when I come home, off go the clothes.
  • Marliece Andrada, Marliece Andrada Interview 1998

• And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.
  • Authorized Version (King James Version) of the Bible, Genesis 2:25

• The streaking syndrome started a new feeling about freeing the body.
  • Suzy Chaffee, Suzy Chaffee: The liberated beauty, The Beaver County Times (17 March 1975)

• Do you wish to honor the Body of the Savior? Do not despise it when it is naked. Do not honor it in church with silk vestments while outside it is naked and numb with cold. He who said, “This is my body,” and made it so by his word, is the same that said, “You saw me hungry and you gave me no food. As you did it not to the least of these, you did it not to me.” Honor him then by sharing your property with the poor. For what God needs is not golden chalices but golden souls.
  • John Chrysostom, Homilies on the Gospel of Saint Matthew, Homily L

• To me the the coolest thing about having a boyfriend is that you can just stare at his naked body and not have to look away out of politeness. I find the male form so fascinating. I have a few [favorite body parts]. I like that kind of dent [pelvic bone], that V. And I love [men's] butts. There's nothing better than a good butt.
  • Dana Delany, as quoted in movieline.com Movieline (1 August 1994)

• I think male nudity is wonderful.
  • Sandra Dee, The Palm Beach Post (5 October 1972)

• Narrated Mu'awiyah ibn Haydah: I said: Apostle of Allah, from whom should we conceal our private parts and to whom can we show? He replied: conceal your private parts except from your wife and from whom your right hands possess (slave-girls)...
  • Hadith. Sunan Abu Dawud 31:4006

• A man may view his wife or his slave in any part.—It is lawful for a man to look at his slave girl in any part, provided he be not related him within the prohibited degrees; and also at his wife in any part, even in the pudenda, if he pleases; because the Prophet said, “shut your eyes from all excepting your wives and female slaves.” Nevertheless, it is most becoming that a husband and wife should neither of them look at the genital parts of the other, as the Prophet has said, “when ye copulate with women of your own tribe, you must conceal as much s possible; and be not then naked, as that savours too much of the custom of asses.”
  • The Hidaya p.599. [1] The Hedaya Commentary On Islamic Laws By ShyakhBurhanuddinAbuBakrAlMarghinani

• At the same time the LORD spoke by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, 'Go, and remove the sackcloth from your body, and take your sandals off your feet.' And he did so, walking naked and barefoot. Then the LORD said, 'Just as My servant Isaiah has walked naked and barefoot three years for a sign and a wonder against Egypt and Ethiopia, so shall the king of Assyria lead away the Egyptians as prisoners and the Ethiopians as captives, young and old, naked and barefoot, with their buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.'
  • New King James Version of the Bible, Isaiah 20:2-4

• My parents were free about nudity, and we are too. I’d like our children to feel unashamed of whatever shape they are. People should worry about other things
  • Heidi Klum, InStyle (September 2007)

• I thoroughly enjoy seeing a beautifully proportioned nude male. So did Michelangelo and Rodin. But if the male is blubbery, he should keep his beer barrel to himself and not be a portly polluter.
  • June Lockhart, The Palm Beach Post (5 October 1972)

• If people were meant to run around naked, they wouldn't have been born wearing clothes.
  • Reverend Loveshade as quoted in Ek-sen-trik-kuh Discordia: The Tales of Shamlicht edited by Reverend Loveshade

• The more a society requires its respectable women to keep their bodies covered, the more likely those women are to be oppressed.
  • Eristotle in Ek-sen-trik-kuh Discordia: The Tales of Shamlicht

• A man who can't eat dinner naked on a leather couch is little better than a slave.
  • Josh Ozersky, Eat Like a Man (29 April 2013)

• In fact, research suggests that children who have seen their parents nude do not grow up to be emotionally scarred, but instead are more likely to be accepting of their own bodies and comfortable with their own sexuality.
  • Holly Robinson, parents.com

• Perhaps the dissenters believe that 'offense to others' ought to be the only reason for restricting nudity in public places generally. [...] The purpose of Indiana's nudity law would be violated, I think, if 60,000 fully consenting adults crowded into the Hoosierdome to display their genitals to one another, even if there were not an offended innocent in the crowd.
  • Antonin Scalia, in Barnes v. Glen Theatre, Inc. (1991)

• The fear that seeing naked people in some way harms children is not supported, however, by academic research. The small handful of studies on this topic in psychology and sociology have shown, instead, that children reared in an atmosphere containing family social nudity may benefit from the practice. If this is true, then proposed laws outlawing either social nudity in the home or children's participation at naturist (or nudist) settings are unjustified.
  • Mark Storey in Children, Social Nudity and Scholarly Study^{[dead link]}

• Yet, the truth is that nudity in the home, when handled in a respectful, matter-of-fact way, is perfectly natural and certainly not harmful.
  • Dennis Sugrue, PhD, clinical associate professor of psychiatry at the University of Michigan Medical School in Sex Matters for Women (2002)

• I honestly don't understand the big fuss made over nudity and sex in films. It's silly. On TV, the children can watch people murdering each other, which is a very unnatural thing, but they can't watch two people in the very natural process of making love. Now, really, that doesn't make any sense, does it?
  • Sharon Tate as quoted in Sharon Tate and the Manson Murders (2000) by Greg King

• Going to have you naked, by the end of this song!
  • Justin Timberlake, "Rock Your Body" (2002), Justified

• One day my girlfriend, her boyfriend and I were sunbathing topless because that's Barabados - you can wear nothing if you want. And the Pepsi guy walks up and with my agent to meet us for lunch. I wondered if I should put on my top because I have a business relationship with him. I didn't want him to get offended because the rest of the beach had seen me with my top off. Meanwhile as he's walking towards me, he's saying to my agent "I hope she puts on her top." He wasn't even being a schmuck, like wanting to see. He wanted to keep our relationship professional. I left it off and it was fine with everyone.
  • Cindy Crawford, Playboy Interview: Cindy Crawford Playboy (September 1995)

• Women who would be dressed but appear to be naked will not enter paradise.
  • Sahih Muslim (5310). Quoted from Ram Swarup, Understanding Islam through Hadis, 1983. [2]

Dialogue

Police Inspector: So your daddy takes his clothes off in front of you, does he?

Nathan: When he's rehearsing.

• The Full Monty

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Anna: What is it about men and nudity? Particularly breasts? How can you be so interested in them?

William: Well...

Anna: I mean seriously: they're just breasts. Every second person has them. They're odd looking, they're for milk from your mother. What's all the fuss about?

• Notting Hill

External links

• Christian Naturism Quotations
• "Why the Nude?" Contemporary artists speak