Natural Is Criminal

Clothes make the man, but nakedness makes the human being.

Kevin Kearney

Something is fundamentally wrong about natural ever being illegal. We were born with an outer protection of natural human skin.  We were not born with a layer of clothing over our bodies.  Society accepts that babies and very young children can be naked in public.  Why then is it unacceptable for slightly older children to appear naked in public and for anyone older than about 5 to 6 years of age it is against the law in many countries?  Children don't care about clothes until they're taught to be ashamed of their body; not until it is instilled in them that their body without clothes is something to feel shame about showing to other people.

Currently people who are nude in public can at any moment be arrested (and usually it happens more swiftly than somebody stealing your car or robbing your house) and be branded a criminal, all because they made a clothing choice.

We are all built with essentially the same components, with slight variations for the male and female of the species, yet we find it uncomfortable or offensive to see someone who is not wearing any clothing.  I'm not saying that everyone should be naked all the time but I don't understand why it is unacceptable to be as natural as the day we were born when we wish to be.  Naturists are people who reject the idea that body parts are more offensive than attitudes.

Why is it that as we grow older and supposedly wiser, we find nudity increasingly difficult to accept, to the point where it becomes illegal to be unclothed in the vicinity of other people?  Why should there be laws preventing us from continuing to be the way we were born?  Is it because as we grow older and become more interested in procreation and sex begins to have a greater influence on our lives that we find it increasingly difficult to comprehend that nudity and sex are two separate things.  It is quite feasible to have sex without being naked, likewise it is just as feasible to be naked without having sex.  Unfortunately society seems to experience great difficulty in accepting those facts.

It is only the human race that is so ashamed of their natural bodies that they feel the compelling need to cover and disguise themselves with artificial materials and coverings.  People who chose to accept their natural bodies and are comfortable in the company of others are discriminated against by society for simply being natural.  It is no shame to be naked, it is just such a shame that so many people cannot or will not experience  the benefits and pleasure of it.  Law makers, politicians and conservatives forget that the nude human body in itself is NOT the criminal act, but it is what you do with it that may be criminal.

It is against the law to discriminate against other ethnic, religious or minority groups practicing their beliefs.  In the case of naturists it is this minority group which is deemed to be illegal when they practice their beliefs.  Why should naturists be singled out as the exception to the general law against discrimination?  There are already laws in place which protect people from other people who want to be trouble makers. Simply being nude anywhere, is not being a nuisance, it is being human.  The very idea that my body in its most natural and  normal state as being criminal, is repugnant to me.