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Atheists and nudists.

http://www.katu.com/outdoors/news/65695657.html

This story started me thinking about atheists and nude sun bathing. Is there any information out there showing a correlation between the two? It seems to me that people who've shed their petty religious morality (not that all religious morality is petty) would be more inclined to bare it all.

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Permalink Reply by The Nerd on October 23, 2009 at 12:21pm

My initial thought is that people are just as likely to say "god made us all beautiful, and we shouldn't be ashamed" as an atheist is to say "if we needed clothes, we would have evolved with them". I can't see where this has been studied. Perhaps you should lead a study yourself! ;)

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Permalink Reply by Rusty Gunn. on October 23, 2009 at 12:23pm

Uh..........at my age, Nerd, they'd probably run me off the beach!

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Permalink Reply by Rusty Gunn. on October 23, 2009 at 12:27pm

Uh..............golly Vince, you're painting with a really broad brush there.

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Permalink Reply by Rusty Gunn. on October 23, 2009 at 12:36pm

No, the "all religious morality is petty". I'm think'n of the Salvation Army who feel they have a moral obligation to help the "down trodden". That's not at all petty in my estimation.

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Permalink Reply by Cara on October 23, 2009 at 12:52pm

I grew up in a non religious family, with hippy parents. I have been bathing nude in the sun since birth. I have always felt that it was a completely natural thing to do. The experience was never sexual for me untill I hit puberty, and I would notice or look at certain body parts more often. As an adult I can easily sunbath nude without thinking sexual thoughts.

I love the feel of the sun on my intire body at once. The feeling you get when you swim through the water and it trickles all over you. The feeling of drops of water running down you when you get out. It's an unbelievably relaxing experience. Like a massage from nature.

I have yet to met someone who was not at least liberal in their religious beliefs, if they had any at all, while sunbathing nude.

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Permalink Reply by Stephen Moore on October 23, 2009 at 10:00pm

If he's guilty of indecent exposure then the woman is guilty of trespass. And since she involved her child in commiting this misdemeanor she is also guilty of contributing to the delinquency of a minor.

BUT THE MAN WAS NUDE!!!11!eleventyone!!1

So all is forgiven her.

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Permalink Reply by Jaume on October 24, 2009 at 3:54am

I can't find a link to it, but I remember reading a similar story about a retired woman in the UK who called the police because her neighbor used to sunbath naked in his own garden. When the cops turned out, they realized the neighbor's house and garden were fenced and about half a kilometer away. She led them to her second floor and handed them her binoculars to check for themselves.

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Permalink Reply by The Nerd on October 23, 2009 at 2:10pm

Haha! Good points. This is why I'm an indoor nudist only. ;)

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Permalink Reply by Kylyssa Shay on October 23, 2009 at 2:20pm

Me, too! I'm half Native American and half Irish - unfortunately I got the Irish pigmentation so I've never been into sunbathing at all. And now that I have lupus, I have to wear heavy sunblock and avoid excess sun exposure or I get a nasty rash. It's bad enough to get it on my face, hands and arms when my sunscreen wears off or I've missed a spot but to get it anywhere delicate - that would be awful.

Nude swimming, sure, that only makes sense. I'm also an indoor nudist whenever practical. I live in Michigan, even indoors it can be too cold to be nude sometimes.

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Permalink Reply by Jaume on October 23, 2009 at 5:05pm

Is there any information out there showing a correlation between the two?

Nudism was extremely popular in East Germany during the Communist (and therefore atheist) era.

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Permalink Reply by Tarquin St John Sh'gn'sty on October 23, 2009 at 7:07pm

We have nude beach here,about a 45 minute drive from the city.

I've never been. From what I've gathered, it's full of people who look like me. Beside,you'd be afraid to flirt;exactly how does one hide an erection when one is nude?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslin_Beach,_South_Australia