Discrimination for Simply Being

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about not being able to walk around in my neighborhood, or do my grocery shopping, or do any of the things I do on a day-to-day basis, unless I first get dressed. To many, perhaps most people, this wouldn’t pose a problem, but to some people in our society, certainly to me, it does. It means I have to sacrifice my most basis beliefs, the very core of who I am, just to I can restock my food supply or go out for a few minutes and enjoy the fresh air and sunshine, perhaps take my precious puppies for a run through the neighborhood we’ve been living in this past year.

And then I thought about something a friend said recently, “We are all nude to start with. It’s how we are born, how we are every day before we choose to get dressed. The nude human body is the original intent for our life on Earth. Clothing is the perversion. You have to choose to get dressed, to cover the nude body that is the true norm.”

That’s an extremely provoking thought. And it’s perfectly true. The nude human body IS the original intent, otherwise we wouldn’t all continue to be born nude constantly. Each and every baby that has ever been born and that continues to be born constantly on this planet, no matter the race, the gender, the nation of origin, the society or culture, or the religious beliefs of the parents or lack thereof, each and every baby continues to be born nude.

Whatever happened to evolution? If people were evolving, shouldn’t we have begun being born with some sort of covering over our skin? Certainly at least over certain parts of our anatomy, right? But that doesn’t happen. For all the millions of years scientists claim humans have been on this planet in one form or another we have always been born completely nude. So we can only conclude that this is how it is going to be until such time as the human race ceases to exist, right? That means that nude bodies are the norm and wearing clothes is the perversion, the choice, the lifestyle decision that each person makes each day when deciding what to wear, effectively deciding who to be that day when facing the world.

It is the issue, however, of nudity being the actual state of being that I want to really focus on in this blog this time around, so let’s get back to that.

The laws that exist here in America, and I would suggest everywhere else as well, though I have not looked at most laws in other countries that affect being publicly nude, are all written based upon bigotry and discrimination against our simply BEING. That’s right. This is what we all need to wrap our heads around and get firmly rooted into our minds, not that our rights are being infringed upon by not being able to live the lifestyle we choose, but that we are being prevented from BEING. To those of us who are so firmly rooted in our nudity, our naturism or nudism, it is not a choice we make to be nude, it is simply who we ARE. We cannot change the fact that we are nude. It is a given fact that we are nude as evidenced by what I already pointed out. There is nothing in this world that can change our being nude. We simple ARE NUDE. So these “laws” prevent us from BEING, and no law can do that to a human being.

I think we need to change our strategy. We need to file grievances against the cities, counties, and states we live in for preventing us from BEING. As Americans we are guaranteed the “pursuit of happiness,” but how can we when the most basic right of all, that of BEING is denied us? It is inhumane. It HAS to be stopped and we are the only ones who can do it. Will you?