Clothes-Free Adventure C

Andrea Simoneau as many of you know, is a student and topfree activist in Farmington, Maine. She will be rallying with others on April 30, 2010 in an effort to get people exercising their rights and to try to make topfreedom a little more normal. I support her efforts but I’m going to leave those comments to all the other nudist blogs out there. I want to comment on what others have said about her.

Andrea was live on Coast 93.1fm this morning talking about her rally, and she spoke of the reactions she has received from others. And here’s what pissed me off: She says the most negative reactions were from people who consider her actions morally wrong, and those who think her behaviour is bad for the children. As I write this my blood is beginning to boil so let’s hope I can stay on track here.

Let me say that I am a Christian and while I don’t follow a lot of traditional stuff, I still have faith and believe that we should do good as the big guy wants us to. Well my faith is where I turn for the moral grounds on which I practice nudism. And wouldn’t you know it, there’s nowhere in the Bible that mentions the human body should be covered, and nowhere in the Bible that mentions the human body is morally wrong to show off. Instead the Bible refers to human bodies as beautiful and wonderful and nothing to be ashamed of. I mention the Bible because I don’t know where else these people are getting their ‘morals’ from. Yes there’s what your parents teach you, but are you really going to tell me that your parents told you your body is shameful and you should hide it? Did they tell you that the child they created is ugly and should be hidden? I think the confusion lies between morals and societal expectations. If you’re telling me that a woman exposing her breasts is morally wrong, I think what you really mean to say is that it’s societally wrong, and that is a very different thing. Yes that behaviour is societally wrong, but it should not be morally wrong and that’s why people like Andrea are out there trying to change our perceptions and fight for equality. Heck, it’s not even about equality, it’s about people calling human bodies shameful and that societal expectation needs to change. 

And that leads me into the comment about exposing children to toplessness. Are these people seriously going to tell me that seeing a woman’s breasts is going to scar a child emotionally? Really are you going to condemn the human breast to that degree? It’s a part of your body, for crying out loud, it’s like you think you were born with two evil demons on your chest and making reference to them makes them angry. You know what that does to kids? Deep down inside it tells them that their bodies must be hidden, nobody wants to see them, and they should be afraid and ashamed to have people see their bodies. Then comes the negative body concept and then comes another generation of people who hate themselves and their bodies and that leads to a whole host of other problems. Sad. I talk about this time and time again, and I will continue to push this. We are continuing to cater to negative body concepts because we are ashamed of ourselves.