I intend to make quick work of this third part of the present series, because I have already written quite a lot on the subject of our natural, but severely repressed, nudity. See my Gymniad series, published in this blog in 73 parts from 4 August 2017 to 22February 2018; Gymnós series, 36 parts, from 14 March 2018 to 29 May 2018; and Gymnosophia series, published in 72 parts, from 8 June 2018 to 12 October 2018. Nevertheless, I have to say something about it now, for several reasons.
"If God had wanted us to run around naked, we would have been born that way." Sometimes I think we forget that we WERE born that way. Most human societies, at least the Western, non-primitive ones, severely restrict our ability to exist in our natural state. This restriction, it seems to me, has seriously harmful effects on us, both physically (e.g. Vitamin D deficiency and vulnerability to heat- and humidity-related fungi), and psychologically (body-acceptance issues, unnatural attitudes toward the opposite sex, and sexual hang-ups). We can solve all these problems by simply dispensing with clothing when and where the weather permits.
So why are we, generally speaking, not allowed to do so? Is it to better meet the needs of industry? Is it just another way of reminding us that we are property, the workers and consumers, the wage-slaves, of materialistic nation-states?
We are not only bodies; we are souls that inhabit bodies. The autonomy of these souls is beset and usurped by governments all over this world. Why? I have never understood it.
If we are not free to exist in our natural state, we are not truly free. Period.
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