#nakedness — Public Fediverse posts

A quotation from Propertius

Dear love, dear life, you do not need adorning —
   hair curled, silk rustling down your slender side.
Not by that heavy scent, those foreign bangles,
   is this your natural beauty magnified.
No. Let that beauty shine in its own brilliance,
   your charm, your grace, transcend what gold can buy.
Believe me, art is needless. You are lovely,
   and love goes naked nor would trick the eye.
   
[Quid iuvat ornato procedere, vita, capillo
   et tenuis Coa veste movere sinus,
aut quid Orontea crines perfundere murra,
   teque peregrinis vendere muneribus,
naturaeque decus mercato perdere cultu,
   nec sinere in propriis membra nitere bonis?
Crede mihi, non ulla tuaest medicina figurae:
   nudus Amor formam non amat artificem.]

Propertius (50-16 BC) Roman elegiac poet [Sextus Propertius]
Elegies, Book 1, Elegy 2, l. 1ff (1.2.1-8) [tr. Carrier (1963)]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/propertius/85262/

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Exploring the harmony between the human form and urban art.

Nude Self-Portrait with Graffiti Backdrop (Front and Back Views)

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It finally happened. body.social is permanently closing down. I feel a little like someone in an Edward Hopper painting — standing at a window in a moment of stillness. I tried to express that feeling in an image inspired by Hopper’s art. It was created using AI tools.

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My latest policy idea for reforming liberal democracy; all Parliamentary business has to be conducted naked. Proving that politicians are meat-based human beings like the rest of us, with nothing to hide. Radical transparency, right down to the short and curlies. If a candidate isn't willing to expose themselves like this, they're not sufficiently motivated by a passion for public service, and we can do better.

#PariamentaryNaturism2030! #transparency #naturism #nudism #nakedness

A quotation from Mark Twain

Clothes make the man, but they do not improve the woman.

Mark Twain (1835-1910) American writer [pseud. of Samuel Clemens]
Inscription (1908-02), Eve’s Diary (1906-06)

More about this quote: wist.info/twain-mark/82391/

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A quotation from Thoreau

It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.

Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American philosopher and writer
Walden; or, Life in the Woods, ch. 1 “Economy” (1854)

More about this quote: wist.info/thoreau-henry-david/…

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A quotation from Mark Twain

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

Mark Twain (1835-1910) American writer [pseud. of Samuel Clemens]
Quoted in Merle Johnson, ed., More Maxims of Mark (1927)

More about this quote: wist.info/twain-mark/3924/

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Would you go to dinner naked with 40 strangers? - @BBCNews https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-us-canada-65420718

I can't help but contrast this scene of #pixelated #nakedness with a report on, say, Americans at a gun show where everyone would be shown with their assault rifles, hand #guns, ammo, etc. No pixelation.

We have things wrong here.

Clothing is stupid. Unless ahm in public, I cannae be arsed wi it. #Nudity #Nakedness #Natural

If I understand their survey & decission pushing in the right way, #pixelfed is doing the #fear jump. "We cannot handle #NSFW. The #nipples threaten us. #Nakedness and s0ftp0rn is the end of all cultural life in the known Fediverse." A survey to decide if NSFW should be allowed or not? Let me tell you a thing i learned on social media through 2 decades of using different plattforms. A survey in face of #nudity and NSFW stuff is always the 1st step of `no nude here´! I thought they were better.

Normalising Nudism

You don't have to be naked to normalize it

You may have heard of it. Or seen it online as #NormalisingNudism.

And yes, the British s in Normalising pops up everywhere.

A great naturist/nudist friend of mine,Nevada Motojicho, wrote: "You don't always have to be naked to normalize it." (Follow the link to find him on MeWe or look for him on Twitter.)

That struck a chord with me that spar

https://zjuzdme.org/2020/01/normalising-nudism/

#nakedness #normal