not amused by the missionary zeal that prompts us to press our notions of decency upon them while being

colonial administrators were blissfully blind to their own religious, cultural and sexual prejudices, and to the
symbolism in their particular tribal adornments--their tight-laced corsets, powdered wigs, constricting shoes as well as styles of
outer garments absolutely unsuited to colonial life. These missionaries and administrators still took it upon
themselves to expunge all those 'pagan, barbaric and savage kinds of body packaging' which did not conform to
their body covering standards. . . . So the social and symbolic meaning of the traditional types of body
decoration which had evolved over countless generations were, in many cases, destroyed forever." 38
Congo. . . . from 1847 to 1877 . . . wandered across Africa suffering every adversity but when he went back to
England he acquired a famous speech to the Manchester Chamber of Commerce. He explained to the crowd how
many natives there were in the Congo, and also the truth that they lived nude. He told the audience that their responsibility as
Christians was to convert these misguided nude savages to Christianity and also to the wearing of clothes. And when
this missionary work had progressed enough to convince the natives of the importance of wearing clothes on Sunday,
that could mean three hundred and twenty million yards of Manchester cotton cloth annual. Forthwith the crowd
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25. Most anthropologists consider modesty an improbable basis for the development of clothes.
"The vast bulk of scholars . . . have unhesitatingly regarded decoration as the
motive that led, in the first place, to the adoption of clothes, and consider the heat- and modesty-sustaining
functions of dress, however significant they might later on become, were only found once the wearing of clothing
had become habitual for other reasons. . . . The anthropological evidence consists chiefly in the truth that among the
most primitive races there exist unclothed although not undecorated individuals." 40 Anthropologists agree nearly
unanimously on this point.41
26.
result of wearing clothes, rather than its cause.42
27. It is intriguing to note that it is only possible to be immodest once an accepted form of modesty has
been created.43
28. Modesty regarding nudity is a social phenomenon, not biologically instinctive. That is evidenced
From the fact that nudity is venerated in art.44
Naturism boosts sexual health.
29. Nudity is not, by itself, sensual, and nudity in mixed groups is not inherently sexual.
propagated by a clothing-obsessed society. Sexuality is a question of objective instead of state of clothing.
In our culture, a person who exhibits their sexual parts for just about any reason is thought of as an exhibitionist. It
is supposed that they stripped to attract attention and result in a sexual reaction in others. This is viewed as a perversion.
Hypocritically, if a person dresses specifically to arouse sexual attraction, they may be thought to have pride in their
appearance. Even if they get great sexual gratification from the attention others give, there's no idea of
30. Nudists, as a group, are fitter sexually compared to overall public.
Nudists are, usually, far more comfortable with their bodies compared to the public, and this leads to
a more relaxed and comfortable attitude toward sexuality in general.
31. Sexual satisfaction in married couples shows a correlation for their level of relaxation with nudity.45
33.
and abortion speeds.47
34. Clothing improve sexual puzzle and also the possibility of unhealthy sexual fantasies.
http://jeffheotzler.com/Guestbook/admin/panel_info.php?a[]= says, "our arbitrary demarcations [between garments and nudity, sexual and
America sells
everything with sex and after that recoils when presented together with the realities of natural process."
writes: "We need to thank the Early Fathers for having, albeit unwillingly, established a mode of thinking from
which men and women have developed an art that has furnished . . . so many novel means of exciting the sexual
Hunger. Prudery, it seems, provides world with never-ending aphrodisiacs, hence, without doubt, the reluctance to abandon
it." 49