Family Nudity Most People, Who

Family Nudity

Most people, who oppose Family Nudity, do so as an extension of their own conservative views on sexuality or simply as a knee-jerk reaction and do not have valid scientific reasons for such opposition. In my opinion there is no harm in family nudity, especially if it is practiced in the privacy of one's home and does not have any sexual overtones to it.

Whatever little research is available on the issue indicates that children who grow up in nudist families are much more comfortable with their bodies and their sexuality as adults. They are apt to exhibit higher levels of self-esteem and self-confidence. On the other hand, children who have been brought up without any exposure to family nudity at home are more likely to suffer from feelings of shame about their genitalia as children and from sexual anxiety as adults. Such feelings of shame about sex may adversely affect their adult sexual relationships too. To my mind, anything which helps children to develop normally with a healthy attitude about sex should be welcomed rather than condemned.

Although I fully support the concept of a certain amount of family nudity at home, I do have my reservations regarding unrestrained "social" nudity whereby people practice a "nudist lifestyle" in the company of others, such as at beaches, clubs, or gatherings outside the privacy of their homes. The reason why I support "at home nudism" is because I am convinced about its positive effects on the normal development of children. I do not consider "Social Nudity" appropriate because I believe that it does not serve any useful purpose apart from enabling the "nudists" to make a political statement about their beliefs. Such public display of nudity also tends to create a backlash against more moderate forms of family nudity and gives credence to the view about nudists being "odd."