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Full nakedness! All my joys are due to thee, as souls unbodied, bodies unclothed must be, to taste whole joys.
John Donne
Pornography is the instruction. Rape is the practice, battered women are the practice, and battered children are the practice.
Gloria Steinem
If God had meant us to walk around naked, he would never have invented the wicker chair.
Erma Bombeck
We shift and bedeck and bedrape us, thou art noble and nude and antique.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
The laws against public nudity make no sense. The idea that Jerry Falwell can go topless while Cindy Crawford cannot is an absolute affront to logic, common sense and the 5000 year human struggle for aesthetic taste.
Peter McWilliams
There once was a sculptor called PhidiasWho had a distaste for the hideous.So he sculpt AphroditeWithout any nightieWhich shocked the ultra-fastidious.
Anon.
Twenty-five years ago, while an undergraduate at Stanford, I got a job on campus as a lifeguard, deepening a love of swimming and water that has lasted throughout my life. I took the duties seriously and studied the swimmers with professional vigilance, relieved at the end of each day that no emergency rescue had been required. But the greatest challenge of the job was standing poolside in a bathing suit with my body on display.Work began in the locker room, where I changed into my Speedo and surveyed my reflection, assessing what would be on view for the next few hours. I was plagued by self-criticism. I imagined the swimmers judging my shape, until I made myself remember that I was there to guard their lives, not their fantasies. Later I performed my variation of the same ablutions everyone else did, showering and hair washing, the application of lotion and makeup -- preparations for re-entering the other world of walking upright on solid land.
Elizabeth Rosner, "The New York
But for me, being naked out of doors and in the water is one of the best ways I have ever found to restore my sense of blissful innocence. It takes me back to that place of my almost forgotten childhood, where I got to run around undressed without anyone telling me I had to cover up or be embarrassed.
Elizabeth Rosner, Notes on NudeB
Now that nude-beach season is in full, um, swing, taking things off is once again a public matter. It comes with the additional difficulty of hot sand under one's feet and the unavoidable, inescapable truth that gravity always wins.
Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.
William Blake
They say a lot of women would like to see me naked, but there's not a lens long enough for that.
Andy Garcia
To see you naked is to recall the Earth.
Federico Garcia Lorca
You know, it's just like being a peddler. You want two breasts? Well, here you are -- two breasts. We must see to it that the man looking at the picture has at hand everything he needs to paint a nude. If you really give him everything he needs -- and the best -- he'll put everything where it belongs, with his own eyes. Each person will make for himself the kind of nude he wants, with the nude that I will have made for him.
Pablo Picasso
Pornography tells lies about women. But pornography tells the truth about men.
John Stoltenberg
My advice to those who think they have to take off their clothes to be a star is, once you're boned, what's left to create the illusion? Let em wonder. I never believed in giving them too much of me.
Mae West
When you get the personality, you don't need the nudity.
Being naked approaches being revolutionary; going barefoot is mere populism.
John Updike, In Hugging the Shor
Nudity is the uniform of the other side... nudity is a shroud.
Milan Kundera
There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.
Francis H. Bradley
A man who publishes his letters becomes a nudist--nothing shields him from the world's gaze except his bare skin. A writer, writing away, can always fix himself up to make himself more presentable, but a man who has written a letter is stuck with it for all time.
E.B. (Elwyn Brooks) White
