Let's Do Away With These 5 Body Shaming Remarks

Inspired by body favorable activist Virgie Tovar and also this recent article on Mic, "5 Body Shaming Opinions That Everyone Should Quit Saying This Summer" I determined to write my own list of body shaming comments that naturists are tired of hearing. This list is about how individuals shame the nude body, notably the female body.

1. Why are people at the unclothed beach never the folks you want to see naked?

I brought up this remark in our 10 common myths about naturism, but here it is again, as it's everything to do with body shaming.

Naturism is not about looking pretty for anyone. Nobody (unless they're exhibitionists) goes to the unclothed beach to be your eye candy. If you go to a bare beach or naturist resort just to look at bodies you find attractive, in that case your creepy behavior is called voyeurism.

For quite a long time, marketers have now been using the notion of the beach body or "bikini body" to encourage particular beauty standards and sell products. Those products are somehow supposed to make that certain body type seem attainable to consumers.

The female plage body is slender, toned and tanned with perky breasts and a curvy, solid butt. The male plage body equivalent is slender, tan and muscle.

The notion that people have to pursue and attain a particular body to see and enjoy the beach is absolute bullshit.

Plage body weight decrease advertisement attempting to benefit from body shaming

While the playa body is about looking attractive in a swimsuit, the media and marketing are just as effective at telling people what they should look like to be naked in public. Whether it's implied nudity or full frontal, it is usually a female model with the best body" and flawless skin trying to sell us something or get the male gaze.

Sexualized nudity is utilized to sell. But in marketing there is just one variation of sexy and once more , it is nobody's job or obligation to fit someone else's or society's notion of sexy!

We all just need to appreciate the fucking plage.

2. http://elite-sweets.info/__media__/js/netsoltrademark.php?d=naturism.buzz/contents/54106471/5.html are heavy and thus boosting an unhealthy lifestyle.

In a recent blog post, I explained how well-being anxieties about strangers are really just another kind of fat-shaming.

Someone's weight does not define health. Being fat does http://sexyitaly.com/__media__/js/netsoltrademark.php?d=macgallery.net/posts/beach-couple-1.php require someone to divulge their health dilemmas to anyone. Most naturists understand and respect others' right to privacy in regards to well-being as well as the right to do what you desire with your own body.

Being fat or unhealthy isn't a failure.

Body Positivity is for ALL bodies!

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At some point, female attractiveness standards began dictating that women must be hairless. While men's hair can be an indication of manliness or maleness, female body hair is considered disgusting, dirty and unfeminine.

In the past few years there is undoubtedly been a growth in body-favorable / feminist activism encouraging women to grow their hair out (IF they need to) and to not feel embarrassed about it.

Body positive drawing saying pubic hair is entirely acceptable

Still, some people feel the need to visit their own tastes or shame others for having hair.

This really is the FKK naturist philosophy on body hair: Everyone has the right to do whatever the fuck they want with their body hair, whether it is on their armpits, genitals, legs, arms, whatever.

Got a personal view on body hair?

4. Nude people? Genitals? Ew, I don't need to see that.

Body shame continues to be a big issue as it pertains to particular body parts and their natural functions. We still have those old puritan religious values that declared the body to be obscene.

This issue is also tied up with sexual shame. Individuals are instructed to hide their sex organs. In schools, most are still taught to dismiss their sexual urges with abstinence-only sex education. They may be left to imagine what actual naked bodies look like. Or they get a completely unrealistic idea from Internet porn.

There is an easy solution for those who don't desire to see: Only. Do not. Look.

5. Women's breasts are sexual, so girls should not be walking around topless.

Women's breasts are not sex organs. Their primary function is always to feed infants.

Do some individuals derive sexual pleasure from their breasts? http://www.katiefreudenschuss.de/termin.php?veranstaltung=frau+jahnke+hat+eingeladen&tag=fr&datum=30.08&zeit=20.00h&location=zfr&stadt=bochum&info=katie+ist+zu+gast+bei+frau+jahnke+zusammen+mit+vielen+tollen+kolleginnen.+ruhr+zeltfestival,+wir+kommen!&url=macgallery.net/posts/fem-teen-nudism-girl.php . Lots of people also derive sexual pleasure from their feet.

Women's breasts are continually sexualized and objectified for profit. Policemen arrest and shame girls for trying to appreciate a park while topfree the same way guys do. Individuals sexualize and shame the bodies of little girls by making them cover up from a young age.

Breastfeeding and Sexualized Breasts in Advertisements

The real reason women can't walk around topfree like guys, in most areas, is pure sexism.

The Free the Nipple movement has drawn a massive amount of focus to the equality issue. Nonetheless the law still lags behind, and approaches still should shift.

Here's an insightful quotation from Laura Dodsworth, author of Bare Reality, about the female body getting censored and shamed: It Is not what we should reveal of our bodies, but who gets to decide what may be revealed, in what way and where, that is ultimately revealing of women's place in the world.

So that's my short list! Please share in the comments.

Young Naturists & Naturists America