Public Nudity in the Summertime
My self-righteousness rears its ugly head
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Scorching hot, sweaty weather... you have to admit, you just wanna run around naked. Sometimes I wish it was OK to do that. I mean, hey, we all have the same stuff under our clothes, barring some essential differences between males & females. We're all aware of it. So why not run around naked?
Here in Germany there are many nudist places: at the community pools, at beaches, lakes, spa resorts. Of course there is private partitioning to respect those who may not be in the mood for an eyeful of skin. Europeans don't treat nudity as a taboo like Westerners do, but the culture still respects the fact that nudity has its proper time & place, as does modesty.
I think everyone, even men, can be taken off guard and be unwelcomely distracted when they see a bit too much skin...even on the most beautiful person. Women who are less-than-physically-perfect who see gorgeous women baring all but everything...may feel indignant, maybe a little envious, or even a little miffed. The women who dress immodestly surely must not mind the attention they're drawing to themselves. They're beautiful and they know it.
So let's tally up these effects: Fertile girls, fueled by summer heat and vanity, show a bit too much of themselves to the public. Men get distracted and perhaps form crude thoughts in their minds; Innocent women may feel envious and miffed. What good can come of these effects? I can name only one good effect that comes from young women baring their all: These girls have the luxury of feeling the breeze on their skin. As for the underlying mating purposes of scantily clad dressing, these women may very well be missing out on the company of the classiest men who instinctively avert their eyes when faced with immodesty. The classiest men are too respectful and decent to ogle, much less approach an immodest woman.
Wouldn't it be nice if women opted to wear light, white dresses as the summer heat becomes uncomfortable...Then we'd all see angels going about their day in white, cool dresses. Wouldn't that be a simple, lovely thing to see on a regular basis? Like little white butterflies. No one is ashamed to watch a beautiful, white butterfly. And I'm sure that the little white butterflies feel no shame either. Just freedom.
I say to the fat people, the skinny people, the beautiful and the homely alike: cover it up. This ain't an orgy. This is our world; we share this as our home. Let's try to keep world corruption to a minimum.
I may sound like I'm writing from the perspective of an old, curmudgeony, fat, unattractive woman, but I'm not. I'm one of few ladies in my child-bearing years who tries really hard to dress modestly, and it takes a special effort in the summertime. Sometimes I feel tempted to give in to the mainstream; after all, who will notice my body among all the hundreds of other scantily-clad girls? Well, I know as an innocent observer that no one goes unnoticed. It's intrusive to one's decency to be affronted with unsolicited immodesty.
Nudity is natural, but modesty is what separates us from animals.
Here in Germany there are many nudist places: at the community pools, at beaches, lakes, spa resorts. Of course there is private partitioning to respect those who may not be in the mood for an eyeful of skin. Europeans don't treat nudity as a taboo like Westerners do, but the culture still respects the fact that nudity has its proper time & place, as does modesty.
I think everyone, even men, can be taken off guard and be unwelcomely distracted when they see a bit too much skin...even on the most beautiful person. Women who are less-than-physically-perfect who see gorgeous women baring all but everything...may feel indignant, maybe a little envious, or even a little miffed. The women who dress immodestly surely must not mind the attention they're drawing to themselves. They're beautiful and they know it.
So let's tally up these effects: Fertile girls, fueled by summer heat and vanity, show a bit too much of themselves to the public. Men get distracted and perhaps form crude thoughts in their minds; Innocent women may feel envious and miffed. What good can come of these effects? I can name only one good effect that comes from young women baring their all: These girls have the luxury of feeling the breeze on their skin. As for the underlying mating purposes of scantily clad dressing, these women may very well be missing out on the company of the classiest men who instinctively avert their eyes when faced with immodesty. The classiest men are too respectful and decent to ogle, much less approach an immodest woman.
Wouldn't it be nice if women opted to wear light, white dresses as the summer heat becomes uncomfortable...Then we'd all see angels going about their day in white, cool dresses. Wouldn't that be a simple, lovely thing to see on a regular basis? Like little white butterflies. No one is ashamed to watch a beautiful, white butterfly. And I'm sure that the little white butterflies feel no shame either. Just freedom.
I say to the fat people, the skinny people, the beautiful and the homely alike: cover it up. This ain't an orgy. This is our world; we share this as our home. Let's try to keep world corruption to a minimum.
I may sound like I'm writing from the perspective of an old, curmudgeony, fat, unattractive woman, but I'm not. I'm one of few ladies in my child-bearing years who tries really hard to dress modestly, and it takes a special effort in the summertime. Sometimes I feel tempted to give in to the mainstream; after all, who will notice my body among all the hundreds of other scantily-clad girls? Well, I know as an innocent observer that no one goes unnoticed. It's intrusive to one's decency to be affronted with unsolicited immodesty.
Nudity is natural, but modesty is what separates us from animals.
