Reasons to wear underwear

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bacteria, infection, naked, nudism, nudity, shame, underwear, yeast

I’ve been thinking lately about why people wear underwear. I haven’t worn any for a very long time, except when going to the doctor’s or when I believed I’d have to take my pants off in (non-nudist) public. I don’t plan to start any time soon and failing to find any reasons to do so, except when it’s medically necessary, I asked Google to think for me.

What I found was silly enough to share and debunk.

The first thing I checked out was an article on a well-known men’s web site which I’m not going to advertise because it advertises enough for the lousy content it offers. It made me click through all “top 5” reasons underwear matters only to find that the only reason it matters is because there is the word “buy” on every single page. Even though I didn’t see it, I’m sure each of them is placed right beside an underwear ad which my AdBlock promptly blocked. Oh, that was one of two reasons actually – the other was so that it arouses women who are aroused by fashionable underwear brands when they see them. Maybe it would be enough to just show them, without actually wearing them?

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Teaching the skills: Understand puberty and sex

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body image, boy, girl, nudity, parenting, puberty, sex, shame, trust

Here’s a reblog of one of my posts from my other blog, which I think is relevant to the topic of this blog.

Tatine Mudrolije

Puberty occurs sometime between 10 and 14 years of age in girls and 12 and 16 years for boys. Questions about how they came to be come much sooner. I never intend to hide from the children the fact of being born from their mother’s womb with stories of having been brought by a stork, or worse (if there is worse). The details of how this happens need only be told to the extent of child’s questioning.

I’m quite aware that some children ask questions like scientists and that with this attitude my child will know about intercourse long before age 8, but so be it. I know from experience how incredibly frustrating it is to not get answers to questions which interest you so much and I will not deny my children the knowledge when they ask for it just because society thinks it inappropriate.

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The “Shamedress”

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clothes, dress, fear, naked, naturism, nudism, nudity, shame, undress

Well, here’s a misnomer if there ever was one: The Undress!

Because we really need a complicated way to do simple things, since we’re ashamed of implementing simple solutions. I’ll never understand why people are so eager to circumvent their irrational fears and feelings of shame with their hard earned money which could have been much better spent.

If I ever see someone using this silly thing I don’t think I’ll be able to stop laughing – first at the silly way this whole process looks, then at the sheer foolishness of the person using it.

In support of Stephen Gough

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court, fear, human rights, naked, Naked Rambler, naturism, nudism, nudity, ruling, shame, Stephen Gough

The last time I wrote about current events on this blog, the news was regarding Brian Taylor, former head of public relations of British Naturism and then chairman of the Spectrum Swimming Club for naturists (whose licence to use the public swimming pool has since been suspended).

This time, the news is again bad for people who enjoy nudity.

I mentioned Stephen Gough, also known as the Naked Rambler, in one of my earlier posts. I also wrote about the morality of nudism, concluding that nudism per se is amoral and that it’s the actions one takes while nude that one ought to judge. I have been reading various articles about Stephen Gough and about the number of times he’s been arrested for laws which are increasingly better tailored to “clothe” our society’s fears of nudity. His nudity has always been a victimless crime – victimless, unless you count him as being the victim of these laws.

How to stop being ashamed of your naked body, Part 4

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exam, gardening, health, hygiene, naked, naturism, nudism, nudity, sauna, shame, sleep

This is the fourth parth of the series. I strongly recommend reading parts 1, 2 and 3 if you haven’t done so yet. They can be found at the following links:

• How to stop being ashamed of your naked body, Part 1
• How to stop being ashamed of your naked body, Part 2
• How to stop being ashamed of your naked body, Part 3

Everything I said in the previous posts I mentioned in the context of reaching the goals one wants achieve. There are, however, four essential things which one simply has to be able to do naked, or else they may endanger their – and even somebody else’s – life.

Choosing not to do these things is basically choosing to risk death, getting a disease, or suffering severe injuries and pain, over momentary exposure of one’s body which one should be proud of in the first place. Here I’ll list those things with short explanations:

How to stop being ashamed of your naked body, Part 1

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disease, feedback, naked, nudism, nudity, shame, social

I find it horrifying when I hear stories of individuals who have had some disease and are afraid to report it because of the shame of it manifesting in some manner around the genital area or the anus. One such case happened in my family, no less, where hemorrhoids went unreported until pain was so severe that it was no longer possible to sit down without difficulty and pain.

Luckily, this didn’t have consequences as tragic as those of some more distant acquaintances, where the person in question, who had a case of hernia, failed to visit the doctor until it was too late. They died after surgery, with cause of death being late treatment of hernia due to shame of reporting the situation because the protrusion was so close to the penis – namely shame of one’s own body.

A motivating thought

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inspiration, Metallica, motivation, naked, naturism, nudism, nudity, shame

When I was a kid, one of my friends was challenged by his other pals to run naked in the street for a new Metallica album. He didn’t think twice before stripping the last item of clothing from himself, running full length of the street in either direction, and grabbing the album before putting his clothes back on.