Good Morning and welcome to America.
The land of censorship.
THE LAND OF THE FREE???????
More like the land of judgment
the land of well lets see....... the prude.
Ever notice that in other countries being a woman and being topless on a beach is ok?
or how other countries have artistic nude statues in public.
When did being naked become so Taboo?
The other day i visited a nude beach.
One of the only places in the state i reside in where Being naked is accepted.
A place my mother took me where i was younger
The place she taught me to love my body
Regardless of what ever i thought my flaws were.
She used to tell me she would rather see a 300 lb woman walking around the beach
with her tampon string hanging out
VS seeing her squeeze herself into a bathing suit
she was bubbling out of.
My mother always told me as long as you respect your body and your self
there is no harm in being naked.
Being able to shed your clothes is just a way of showing you are comfortable in your own skin.
If you stripped everyone in America from their expensive designer clothing, jewelry, and belongings.
Then there would be no way to tell the rich from the poor apart.
As i set up my towel on the beach i took a glance around and felt at home.
NAKED, FREE, AND AT EASE.
Its strange that if i was to go to a regular beach
Wearing a bikini
The men there tend to hoot holler and think they have the right to treat you like you are a piece of meat on display for their enjoyment
They tend to walk up and try having a conversation with you while staring at you breasts VS staring into your eyes.
I think it is beyond Bizarre but very comforting
That i can walk around the Nude beach completely naked
And no one hoots, hollers, and the people you meet there are very respectful
and hold a conversation with you while looking right at your face.
In the chair next to was a young mother sitting naked reading a book
with an infant feeding from her breast.
The men that walked by did not GWAK, They did not comment
You could tell by the way she sat in content
that she did not feel threatened and knew she was doing something natural.
This made me very happy.
I can remember a time when i was with a friend out west who was shopping
and her infant began to cry cause she was hungry
so my friend held her baby up to her breast and tried to conceal the fact that she had a baby feeding on her boob
as we walked through the mall.
Men stared, Commented, and even stopped her just to GWAK and be perverted.
I wanted to say to them
HAVE YOU EVER SEEN A BREAST BEFORE?
HAVE YOU EVER SEEN A WOMAN FEED HER CHILD BEFORE?
These men had to be kidding me.
But sadly they weren't .
Here in america if you are seen walking around in public wearing something lets say skimpy,
Or sheer, or even a bit revealing you are doing something wrong.
Some say that you are inviting negative attention,
You are inviting Rape,
You are inviting the rude comments and shouldn't be shocked by it.
I do not understand this.
Just cause i am comfortable in my own skin and feel like wearing something that better vents my body
or contains less cloth on a hot day
And have no quarrels with my body
I am inviting negative attention?
ONCE AGAIN YOU HAVE TO BE KIDDING ME!
I was once told that the fact that i was modeling nude for a college class made me a whore.
Cause i was being paid to shed my clothes.
To stand still fully exposed for students to learn shapes, figures, and proportion.
I was doing something wrong?
I honestly thought i was helping create art, donating my body to a higher purpose, training the artists of the future .
Heck so does that mean the statue of david was a Whore too?
shit someone should have told the great museums of the world to stop displaying the pornography
of so many great legendary artists that we learn about in ART HISTORY.
When did being naked become so taboo?
why is it such a big deal here in america?
Yet to no surprise these people who preach that Nudity is such a big bad thing.
Hide behind their computers , And the locked doors of their homes.
And search the internet for sexual images to drool over,
they have the dirtiest of minds, Probably have the biggest collections of porn,
I wouldn't be surprised if these people frequented prostitutes, strip clubs, and had multiple lovers that don't know about each other.
Yet i am doing something wrong?
Yet being comfortable in my own skin is such a dirty idea.
When i was 12 my mom didn't have a lot of $$
and halloween was coming up and we couldn't afford a costume for me.
This was in the 1980's
I decided i wanted to be a punk rocker like JEM n Holograms
REMEMBER THEM?????
Take a second and think back to more fashion icons of the 80's both popular Pop stars such as Madonna, Cindi Lauper
Rock icons siouxsie sioux and the banshees , Joan Jett amongst many others
I figured easy cheap costume
My mom found me a black leather jacket, a black skirt, some fishnets, black boots, and a black 1 piece bathing suit.
She sprayed my hair multi colors, put my hair in a very popular side pony tail and frizzed it out.
even drew designs on my face to be like JEM and the Holograms.
She sent me to school that day
and the feed back from the parents was shocking
They all asked me a 12 year old girl if my mom dressed me up as a hooker.
Being 12 i had no clue what a hooker was.
i just knew these music icons dressed this way my m favorite childhood cartoons dressed in such a fashion
so what was so wrong with it?
Turns out they thought my skirt was too short and didn't approve of the amount of flesh that i was showing.
Its funny cause the mom who made the biggest stink about my outfit
was the parent in the home where i saw my first playboy magazine a few months before.
her daughter had found it in the moms bedroom.
This parent forbid her child from hanging out with me and started a town boycott against me and my mom
it was a rumor that i would be the first kid pregnant on drugs and in jail.
To her surprise her daughter was the first of all of those things.
And quite a handful in the years to follow.
People are so judgmental in todays society like they all have some golden rod up their ass behind closed doors.
and that makes them better cause they live a lie
and as WENDY O from the band the PLASMATICS said
A PIG IS A PIG AND THATS THAT
These people hide behind their lies of respectability.
Im still searching for the reason why these people think they are so much better
Than everyone else.
A lot of house holds define nudity as the time between the shower and your towel.
Im still trying to figure out why most of america likes to look down on the people who are comfortable in their own skin.
Why they talk down about people who use their bodies and freedom of sexual expression to make a living.
Yet use their services.
I can go on for hours but I will leave you with this one quote i found online.
"I think on-stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all things AMERICAN.
But if i was 22 with a great body , it would be artistic, tasteful, patriotic, and a progressive religious experience."
~Shelley Winters
WHAT IS WRONG WITH AMERICA????????
bootlegspm:
I'm with you. We glorify violence in this country, and teach people to be ashamed of their bodies. And then we wonder why we have mass shootings. Go figure.
jersey:
@bootlegspm it really is sad.