An Essay - Nudity

"AN ESSAY!  NUDE, NUDITY, NAKED vs. SEXUALITY?"

SUBMITTED FOR YOUR THOUGHTFUL CONSIDERATION BY CATMAN

 

"Nudity is not sex, nor pornography.  It is the human form, reduced visually into it's purest state: visually and untainted"

That is a message I recently read on the Internet.   It pretty much sums up how I feel about living my life totally nude.  It opens a major debate about the difference between:  nude, naked, naturist, sex, sexuality and what is defined by some people as lewd.
 

 

For centuries the great artistic masterpieces depicted the naked male form as the very epitomy of beauty.  The ancient Greeks and Romans  left the modern world lasting impressions of their appreciation of men!  The great artistic genius, Michelangelo, painted nudes on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican and gave us the iconic image of the statue of "David".

 

In the tradition of artistic perfection, even today, nude male models are used as a teaching technique in art classes.  In art classes all around the globe, men are recruited to pose naked in front of art students.

 

There are photographic artistic images that fill the internet with nude images.   (I'm not even referring to the plethora of porn sites that post photos.)  There are numerous gay sites today that celebrate the "beauty of the male form".  Nude pictures of men naked in their natural state:

 

I have always felt that being nude with others, reduces you to the least common denominator,   without All of the acumen's of clothes, jewelry and accessories, being naked reduces everyone to the same level in our species.  Appearing totally naked in a common space, there can't be any immediate judgements made pertaining to:  social status, ethnic profiling, religious prejudice or assumptions of sexual preference.   

MAN is the only mammal that wears clothes!

 

The legendary American author and philosopher,  Mark Twain once said, "As humans, we are the only species that blushes, or needs too!"  I am sure it was in reference to how we behave, and not how we look to each other.

I think the problem in this country started when the Pilgrims landed on Plymouth Rock.  They were actually a sect trying to find religious freedom in the new world.  (How did they discover America since the Indians were already here?)  The Pilgrims were aghast to find the naked "savages" who already lived here.

The puritanical people who came here to escape prosecution, immediately imposed their strict morale's on this country.  Religion has always dictated what is morally acceptable.

I find that is an ambiguous and funny concept, because if GOD had wanted us to be clothed:  he would have devised his divine plan to have us born wearing clothes.  We come into the world naked!  We are all legions with the innocents that are sent to this earth.  Just like the angels before us, we have a simple, yet naive, space that we can occupy in this world.

 

Society dictates through arcane laws that we need to cover what we were born with. If morality is the issue,  I find it funny that the states have developed laws which allow you to marry a cousin in 27 states, have sex with a farm animal in 23 states, only marry a man in 5 states, but public nudity is considered unlawful in all 50 states.

GO FIGURE!

(This Blogsite is entitled "Horny Fiction" and I appologize for straying away from the the concept.  In this politically charged year of rheroric when issues of morality are often discussed  in the public forum, I thought it was important to initiate a discussion.)