What about the children?

As any parent will say, bringing up children to be healthy, happy and well adjusted members of society is one of the hardest and most important tasks any of us ever undertake. If we bring them up in an atmosphere where life is cheapened or seen as a commodity, they will suffer. If we bring them up in a society where violence is seen as a legitimate means to achieve one's ends, they will suffer. If we bring them up in a world of prudery, pornography and sex for sale, they will suffer. If however, we bring them up with a wholesome knowledge of the world including that of the human body, they will prosper. Prudery leads directly to pornography and its cheapening of life, indeed there is some evidence that the prudes themselves are the largest customers for pornography. An honest and healthy attitude towards sex can only lead to stable, sensible society, unembarrassed nudity is simply a part of that process.

Much is written about child abuse and the need to protect children, but some are confused about exactly what constitutes abuse. Clearly physical and emotional violence, sex with children and deprivation are all forms of abuse and the most vigorous action must be taken to eliminate them. But bringing up children to fear what is not frightening, to believe in myths, fairy tales and superstition is also abuse. To bring them up thinking the body itself is sinful, shameful, something to be hidden at all costs is clearly an abuse leading to prudery. Prudery leads directly to unwanted teenage pregnancy, emotionally damaging sexual relationships and misery. Prudery even plays into the hands of paedophiles, people feeling so shameful about what has happened, they dare not admit it, so the freaks go free for years to perpetrate their perversion on more and more. The naturist way of life fosters an open and honest attitude to bodies and when the right time comes along, i.e. when the child asks, sexual education can begin in a natural safe manner without embarrassment about bodies.