About it so they disfellowshipped him for conduct unbecoming a member

Another good buddy of mine was excommunicated because
the whole ward assumed things about him based on the fact
that he enjoyed being innocently nude.
But not all reactions from Church leaders are negative.
There's no way to predict how a local leader will respond to the
One participated
couple I know ran afoul of the BYU Honor Code because they
had skinny dipped jointly and were barred from the university.
When their response was no, he promptly interceded and got
them readmitted.
Reactions of local leaders are unpredictable because there is
no official Church stand on nudism.
Nudism is one of those problems where members should do
their own study and prayer and seek their own responses from
the Spirit. Really, if you speak with many Mormon naturists,
You'll discover that they've received powerful religious witnesses about their practice.

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HIS IS WHAT I 've discovered from my past eight years of
being a naturist: Nudism is small in the correct settings. It cultivates trust and acceptance
among individuals. It educates a healthy attitude toward the individual
body and cures body shame. It educates children and helps
them develop healthier perspectives in their relationships with the
opposite gender. It even shields them from predators because
they are more open about their bodies and are more prone to
report suspicious behaviour.
I have seen nudism help individuals heal from pornography addictions . bate the material by pounding dung into the skin or soaking the skin in a supplies positive, wholesome pictures of the body. Naturist kids have their curiosity
about the human body satisfied in safe, controlled surroundings under adult supervision instead of stealing peeks at
Porn with their pals. Grownups who finally experience
the difference between pornographic pictures of the person
body and innocent images accessible through naturism can see
the ugliness in the pornographic image. It starts to lose its appeal.
These are the things I Have learned in the eight years I've been
a Mormon nudist.
Yet I can not share these discoveries with my fellow Saints. As
Modesty, Body Image & Why I am Joining NYC Bodypainting Day sat in never-ending lesson after lesson, sermon after sermon on
the ills of pornography and watched the efforts of Church
leaders to battle this difficulty mostly fail, I anguish to know I
have a simple option that can help many people heal, but I
have to make sure that it remains to myself.


THE MODESTY SITE
By Paul Swenson
Modesty's the hottest
Subject in the Bloggernacle.
The body is a tabernacle
by a sack or tent,
an old girl's ankle.
If you are female,
what you're wearing
the lust of Mormon males,
whose lonely struggle
with testosterone entails
that they avert their eyes,
or disguise knowledge of
a woman's breasts or thighs.
Not only men are penitent
about forbidden ideas
Which will appear from
tight, revealing clothing.
"Heterosexual Married
Woman" writes that she
"Will not notice breasts of


Girls clad in modest tees,"
she says. "But please avoid
a clingy shift---particularly
if it's cold. Catch my drift?"

When slogging through
the product of male websites,
observe a certain reticence
to gauge appropriateness
of manly dress---except
the rightness of white shirts
and ties. Which leaves men
free to consider indecent
penchants of their partners.
Tim scathingly whines
he can not envision why their
mothers can't refrain from
Another
Dim galoot alludes to
a distressing preponderance
of "non---wife nudity."
Forgive my rudeness,
if I see beauty in the human
form---and don't look away.
Show me the marbled limbs
and---pray---the-fullblown
Maleness of David
by Michelangelo. Nudity should at no time be an offence or a crime. Nudity came first and we are all born naked. There is a peculiar taboo outside being offensive about walking around naked, that society propagates, yet it hurts no one. There's a difference between loving being an exhibitionist and being naked. and Goddess may discover
idolatrous and pat, fixation
on false modesty. Blog that.

Some bloggers hasten
to admit a secret
or self-consciously reveal
as liberated girls do.
A few still grieve they
Purchased the obligation
Place on the Mormon
1. The URL for LDS Skinny-Dippers Connection is WWW.LDSSDC.INFO.
Further information on naturism are available at: www.naturistsociety.com/.

JULY 2008

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The Source of Nudity
in Greek Sport*
John Mouratidis
Some scholars who've written on the topic of nudity in Greek athletics
have neglected to inquire the ancient period and fairly understandably