Needless to say,while chatting in the living room on the second night of our 3 night stay,I brought up the nekkid teen controversy. The opinons they expressed were,they told me,typical of the locals.

“It wasent a damn controversy untill the media and CNN and Dr. Phil and everybody started making a big deal out of it! That was going on for a while and NOBODY CARED! All of a sudden,the media turned it into a circus!” They went on to say that they felt bad about the enacting of the law because of an older gentleman-a local retiree-who likes riding his bike nude in the horrifically brief summer.The LOCALS never had a problem with him,but the new anti-nudity ordinance meant that he couldn’t ride his bike within city limits anymore if he wasen’t wearing anything. They felt bad for the old codger and they resented the media for making a national frenzy out of something that the locals just shrugged off.

The people I’m talking about here(man and wife,mid-30s,16 yo daughter,9 yo son) are NOT nudists! In fact,my wonderful hosts took us all to a lake in New Hampshire the next day,and mother and daughter wore the most UNFLATTERING and ULTRA-COVERING bathing suits you’ve ever seen! They’re NOT into it,but they had NO PROB with anyone who WAS. Sounds to me like it was perfect harmony ’till it exploded in the media,and people who had NEVER BEEN THERE started formulating opinions(I was one,granted). According to life-long Brattlesboro residents,everything was fine until the rest of the country who had never been there started having an opinion.

Our social taboo on nudity only serves to inflame a curiosity in young minds, and provoke asocial behavior in adults (e.g. righteous indignation, leering, gossip, etc.) Children brought up in a nudist environment are some of the best adjusted and least neurotic. And nudist parents don’t usually suffer angst over talking to their children about “the birds and the bees.”

I think you’re right that if folks would only try losing their clothes for a weekend, they’d get hooked. That’s what happened to me. In my early twenties i learned, quite by accident, that one of our local parks had a designated clothing optional zone. That sparked my voyeuristic curiosity. But i told myself: When in Rome, do as the Romans do. So when i got to the nude beach, i walked its length, found a sparsely occupied area, and stripped. I think i was naked for only five or ten minutes when i had decided i’d had enough “sun” for one day. But i was back the next weekend, and spent several hours this time. I was hooked. I had no idea how wonderful it would feel to have the sun and the wind caress all of my body. Nor how freeing and joyful being nude outdoors was. It didn’t take long to lose all the inhibitions which had been instilled in me my entire life. I felt perfectly comfortable being nude in a mixed-gender public environment, and enjoyed socializing with others who felt the same. I quickly realized how silly and artificial those inhibitions were; i had no more use for them. Over the years since then, i introduced many people to social nudism. All, except for one, embraced it and became hooked. Many, perhaps most, were curious, but none ever expected to become hooked.

I think it just comes down to this: There is nothing in the world more natural than being naked. We are all born that way. We have to be taught to feel shameful of our nakedness. And that shame is an invisible burden. Once lifted, we see just how contrived it really is, and few of us are willing to put its shackles on ever again.

The downside of this emancipation is the realization of just how truly insane our society is. We may even begin to realize just how dangerous that madness can be. I could only shake my head in disbelief over the Janet Jackson “wardrobe malfunction” debacle. It is chilling that grown people could become so upset and work themselves into a tizzy over that. Truly scary.

As for the fear of sagging, the irony is that wearing bras will actually accelerate it, not slow it. The breast has a built-in support structure which exercise and movement strengthens, but external immobilization (e.g. wearing a bra) will weaken. So wearing a bra is not unlike wearing a cast or sling, which leads to atrophied muscles. After a cast comes off, one needs to exercise to strengthen their muscles.

Some women complain that “they are too large” and their breasts hurt when they take their bras off; they can’t imagine going braless all the time. But this pain is usually the result of an atrophied breast. Their bras are actually the cause of the pain! If they begin to go braless and build back up their internal support structure, their pain will go away in time.

I know a middle-aged – and very busty – woman who has the unusual habit of running a few miles buck naked each morning. When she runs, her breasts are bouncing all over the place. She says they never hurt, neither while she runs, nor at any other time. She never wears a bra, yet her figure is still very fit and nice. Conventional thinking would have her nipples knocking against her knees by now, or dragging on the ground. Of course “conventional thinking” says one should be ashamed of their nakedness too.

As for the book and after reading it all my bras and underwear went to the trash and now I look and feel much better. If a woman is worried about sagging that is taken care of with good exercising and as for sweating it has become very light. Also flip flops have taken the place of enclosed shoes and at the end of the day my feet are not tired or cramped.

If more people would try loosing their clothing for one weekend at home I think they would be hooked.

Yes, i know about “Dressed to Kill.” Wearing a bra all the time increases a woman’s chances of getting breast cancer by something like a factor of 200:1 (i.e. 20,000%). It all makes sense when you think about it: Breast cancer is a cancer of the lymph nodes. The lymphatic system, the body’s other circulatory system, is responsible for draining toxins from the body. Unlike the cardiovascular system, it has no central pump. The lymphatic system depends on body movement for its pumping action. It is also near the skin, since it excretes its toxins via sweat glands, so the slightest pressure on the skin (e.g. from an elastic band) will constrict its flow. Bras are a double whammy because they not only employ tightly fitting bands which severely constrict lymphatic flow, they also immobilize the breasts, the natural bounce and sway of which would create a substantial lymphatic pumping action. As if that weren’t enough, most women wear antiperspirants under their arms, which plug up the majority of the sweat glands around the breasts. The end result is that toxins build up in the lymph nodes of the breasts.

By going naked, or at least topless, and using deodorants instead of antiperspirants, a woman substantially decreases her risk of breast cancer. The breasts are moving freely, swaying, bouncing and jiggling as nature intended, pumping the toxins out, and her skin is receiving sunlight and converting cholesterol into vitamin D, all of which will help to prevent cancer.

So stay naked, and stay healthy!