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.
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