*sigh* I get so sad when I hear people talk about how they had to have the Talk About Nakedness with their kid. How they have to tell their adorable three or four-year-old, "Sorry, sweetie, but you can't run around bare any more." Sorry, darlin', you have to start being afraid of people now. Sorry, love, you have to start hiding from people now. It's just ugly beyond belief that this kind of thing is the norm in our culture, and I honestly think that kind of indoctrination borders on child abuse. Deliberate twisting of a kid's psyche like that is just as damaging as whatever harm adults may fear, and it works on the entire population, rather than just some, so it's worse for humanity as a whole, eventually.
That is a damn cute story about the little girl. Little wee naked people are so damn cute - all that energy and innocence is so inspiring. Back in my Santa Cruz days, I used to hang out with a pagan couple and their kids. They were old-fashioned Northern California pagans, and we did a lot of hanaing around naked in that forest house. The kids, two boys, were typical little dudes, running around with that little dude energy, and I often found myself forgetting that nobody had any clothes on. It was quite simply irrelevant. And I often wonder just why people choose to believe such strange and unpleasant things about sex, and bodies, and life.
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*sigh* I get so sad when I hear people talk about how they had to have the Talk About Nakedness with their kid. How they have to tell their adorable three or four-year-old, "Sorry, sweetie, but you can't run around bare any more." Sorry, darlin', you have to start being afraid of people now. Sorry, love, you have to start hiding from people now. It's just ugly beyond belief that this kind of thing is the norm in our culture, and I honestly think that kind of indoctrination borders on child abuse. Deliberate twisting of a kid's psyche like that is just as damaging as whatever harm adults may fear, and it works on the entire population, rather than just some, so it's worse for humanity as a whole, eventually.
That is a damn cute story about the little girl. Little wee naked people are so damn cute - all that energy and innocence is so inspiring. Back in my Santa Cruz days, I used to hang out with a pagan couple and their kids. They were old-fashioned Northern California pagans, and we did a lot of hanaing around naked in that forest house. The kids, two boys, were typical little dudes, running around with that little dude energy, and I often found myself forgetting that nobody had any clothes on. It was quite simply irrelevant. And I often wonder just why people choose to believe such strange and unpleasant things about sex, and bodies, and life.