(As posted to my Gazette blog)
Isn’t every day a “nude” day? I mean, you are probably nude at some point each day, yes? And you are naturally naked, i.e. born that way. There’s no debating it. The textiles we wear are not natural.
Still, someone somewhere decided that July 14 would be National Nude Day, “a serious event,” according to Holiday Insights.
And social nudism/naturism is a serious pastime for many people around the world, including me. I frequently write about it in both my blogs. I imagine that whoever dreamt up National Nude Day was trying to raise awareness about the subject. See Wikipedia entry for more information
Though, I confess I had never heard of National Nude Day before CHOM-FM radio host Rob Kemp mentioned it on air this morning (thanks, Rob!).
What do I like most about social nudism?
I like that it promotes body acceptance, no matter your size, shape and fitness. As the Wikipedia entry says, “clothes build social barriers.” Nudity removes those barriers. Social nudism makes us less conscious about our body image, and the images of others. That’s a good thing, because we live in wired world that bombards us with unrealistic and unattainable body images for most people.
Social nudity also helps me to shed my obsession with fashion, if only for the various naturism events I attend. Yes, I am something of a glamour girl when it comes to clothes, footwear and makeup. I know that it might seem like a contradiction for a nudist/naturist . . . which is one of the personal reasons naturism is so good for me. It brings Cinderella back to Earth . . .
And I particularly love the feeling of liberation that comes with an afternoon at the beach, sunbathing and swimming au naturel. To the point now that I simply cannot wear a bathing suit anymore. As Walt Whitman is quoted saying in the Wikipedia article:
Never before did I get so close to Nature; never before did she come so close to me… Nature was naked, and I was also… Sweet, sane, still Nakedness in Nature! – ah if poor, sick, prurient humanity in cities might really know you once more! Is not nakedness indecent? No, not inherently. It is your thought, your sophistication, your fear, your respectability, that is indecent. There come moods when these clothes of ours are not only too irksome to wear, but are themselves indecent.
Not that I don’t have body hangups. I do. Which is one of the reasons I am a nude model for an artists’ workshop on body image — where I am the only naked person. I am not always happy with some of the sketches done of me, as in “Ohmygawd, do I look like that!?” But everybody is so appreciative, so grateful that I shared myself with them. And nobody seems to care if I am not Cinderella. They accept me . . . and ask me to come back and model for them again.
So, if you give any thought to social nudism on National Nude Day, remember that it is a holistic, healing experience, and a way to celebrate your natural-born state.
– Jillian
I will certainly be naked today, as I am everyday. It is really the only natural way to be.
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1. So it’s “natural”, that is irrelevant. Driving cars, cooking food, and living in a house are not “natural,” yet all of us, (including my fav glamour girl, namely YOU , LaJ) do all of those.
2. You are such a good glamour girl, hate to think of your spoiling it with doing something as silly as nudism.
3. Cinderella did become a full time princess in the end.
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I’m blushing (a little bit) . . .
Hugs
La J
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You’re cute when you blush (as well as when you don’t). Just how far down does that blush go?
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Well, if you pay my call girl fee, you can find out . . . winks
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Please post price list and we’ll discuss. Should be scale ranging from: “see how far down I blush” to “spend the entire night having your mind blown,” with several a la carte items for assorted specialties and kinks.
To whom it may concern: This is all an outré joke. As far as I know, La J isn’t actually a call girl (no matter how much I encourage her).
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No problem. I can supply a menu full of delectable treats . . . Smiles . . .
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Yay to that 🙂
Ive been a naturist for about 30 years ish… not all the time of course, as people do frown if you go everywhere in the buff… for me the relief from stress is amazing and very much appreciated, having a big garden helps as I can to a certain extent walk about as I please, weather doesn’t affect my pastime for me, so keep up the good work and maybe next year that will be at least 2 more people that are aware of “national naked day” 🙂
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I hope you’ve enjoyed “National Nude Day” which I assume is a “Canadian” national event. Not sure why whoever it is has set it for a Monday. For me it has been a normal working day, so no opportunity to be naked until about 8pm. As for the person that claims that nudism is “silly”… I will dispute that and say that in general naturists take their enjoyment and relaxation seriously 😉
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WS, please explain what you mean by “as silly as nudism” am I missing something ?
PS, I am not trying to “have a go” just curious 🙂
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Mostly in juxtaposition with our glamor girl, La J, shedding her glad rags. Otherwise it’s harmless, only become silly, like most pastimes, when people try to make of it more than it is.
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Excellent points. I’d like to think with time and awareness (National Nude Day can help to a small degree, maybe?) more people will understand — if not embrace — those ideas.
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Reblogged this on Naturist Holidays in Europe and commented:
Happy National Nude Day by Gillian! Once more she rocks ! 🙂
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It’d be fun to see a nudist Bastille Day in Paris but, somehow, I doubt it’ll ever happen.
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ALOHA JILLIAN….. hope i find u well… came across this article and thought you may find of interest…… love and aloha from the north shore of maui….. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/25/nudism-problems_n_7647806.html?utm_hp_ref=arts
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Thank you, my friend. I’ll check it out a little later today. And, yes, I am due to write some naturism posts!
Cheers
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Reblogged this on MojoNude and commented:
I’d pretty much forgotten that Friday is National Nude Day and that this week is Nude Recreation Week. I really don’t have anything planned for either. I’ll just be nude in just the same way and for the same reasons I am any other day.
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