Article: Naturism - Family & Children

For this post, I have added a copy of an article I wrote for the 'Australian Sun and Health'(ASH) magazine. ASH is an Australian naturist magazine which I find is best for family naturists which is why I sent the article to them. It was published in their magazine; Issue 10(Summer 2008) - page 12.




Naturism - Family & Children


Growing up as a child, it was a common to see children up to 8 years old playing at the beach naked. Nobody cared then as it was seen as natural for children to run about the beach minus their cotton wrappings. Even as a teenager in the 1980’s this was still a common sight to see but sadly, not any more.


Social conservatism has taken such a stranglehold on society that nudity has become something to be feared. Even the vision of a dog’s genitalia captured by camera is censored for television. I never realised just how insanely conservative we as a nation have become until I saw a warning of sex scenes before an animal documentary began.


As a parent, I would like to see my children grow up understanding that life around them is natural, including nudity and sex. We allow our four young children to be clothed or naked as they wish so that they learn not only that their body is natural and something to be cherished, but also to develop an ownership of their body. Forcing a child to be undressed is equally dangerous as forcing a child to keep all their gear on. Allowing a child to have this decision making process is the very tool a child needs to acquire in order to see that they, and only they, are in charge of their bodies. Not the churches, not the governments, not the parents, or fashion industries. Only they own their body and hold ownership of the decision making about what they do with their body.


I also believe that by instilling such a private ownership of the body amongst children from a young age, the market forces of fashion, entertainment industry and others have little control over the emotions of children. Both my 11 and 7 year old daughters are a living example of this as they see children in their own age groups being ashamed of their bodies. When my second eldest was in grade 1 last year, they were being a read a story about a man who loses his pants. This made all but a few children cover their eyes at just the thought of nudity.


My eldest is currently in grade 6 here in Queensland. She told me that she is glad that she and her siblings are raised in a nudist household. When I asked her why, she had two reasons. One being sad about those around her at the tender ages of 10 and 11 years old are ashamed of their bodies for they believe that they are ugly and fat. Only those on the tv, magazines and movies are attractive. With these bags of bones being the “standard” of good looking bodies, the natural bodies these children have are felt as ugly, unattractive and unhealthy. Seriously folks, what are we doing to our children when they come home from school, holding fears of dying from eating a piece of cake?


Unfortunately we don’t have any legal nudist beaches in Central Queensland. At the time of writing, Queensland has no legal beaches, which is a shame, as taking children to such a beach would be good for them. I once took my eldest child to a nudist beach near Byron Bay while driving from Sydney to Brisbane. She was 8 years old then and asked me if I could take her to one, so I did. She loved it and wants to go again. My second eldest, who is now 7, has also asked me to take her to a nudist beach or somewhere nudist families gather. There is no such place here in Rockhampton. On talking with other parents who raise their children in a clothing optional household, I found that we nudists have also fallen for the fear of pedophilia. We as a society have decided that instead of correctly punishing child sex offenders, we should cover up our children, denying them the development of self ownership. As a society, and sadly many of us in the naturist communities, we are ignoring the growing violence and sexualised nudity in our media.


It is my belief that we, as Australia’s naturist communities, must take charge of correcting such an evil outlook on life. Yes, I said ‘evil’, for society is twisting the minds of children to grow up in angst, to be scared of life around them, and to feel ashamed of themselves. I place a large share of the blame for this mentality on organised religion for brainwashing people into being fearful of the body, of sex, and of the natural states of life in general, so they could control us. Religions do it. Governments do it. It is our role to first teach our children how to use their own mind, to own their self and take responsibility for their own actions in life.


We must take the lead in teaching that the body is not wrong, just as it is wrong to portray the body solely as the vessel of sex. We must teach by example that the body is good that it is natural, and it is to be loved.



Journey of a Naked Wombat




Were you one of those people who discovered the pleasure of no clothing as a child?

I grew up as one of those latch key kids where there was nobody around to help you get ready for school and being there for you when after school. Get up and prepare for school from eating breakfast to making school lunch and getting myself off from the age of 9 or 10 years old. While this is not for most children, it was something which I preferred as I was never a child who liked most people. I preferred socialising with the pet dog and cat as well as the ants, trees and so on.

My typical after school routine was to come home, have a shower and an afternoon snack while watching the tv. Possibly do some homework, get myself dinner that was in the crockpot(slow cooker), watch tv shows like Benny Hill which I understood the context of then off to bed. It was on one particular day that my routine changed.


On one afternoon, I had my shower and felt too tired to get dressed so I rested on the lounge with my snack and watched tv minus any clothing. After my Warner Brother Cartoons or whatever it was I watched, I realised that I really enjoyed being naked so I opted for a swim in our pool to see if I liked doing that while naked too. In I went and I loved it. This very quickly became my after school routine.


My mother came home early one day to find me laying about naked and asked me if that was what I usually did so I explained everything to her as well as the swimming. From that time on, the only time I wore swimmers in the pool at home was if we had guests at my mother's request.


When I was in high school, I got a mate to try out skinny dipping. It took a little negotiation with him to try it out by saying that I would stay away from him to settle his fear of homosexual sex. Once he settled in and enjoyed it, he came over regularly to enjoy the benefits of swimming naked and being around the house naked fully knowing that nudity and sex did not always have to go together. He wasn't surprised when on Grade 9 camp which was an actual camp with tents that I walked through the camping ground naked and in the river for a swim. I did get in trouble but by the end of the day, 6 or so of us boys were all soaking in the river while our swimmers were in the bamboo reeds, unknown to the teachers.

When I was in my first year of high school, my mother did suggest going to a nudist resort for a holiday but I refused because I was paranoid that I would be walking around all those lovely females, new to my mind while sporting an uncontrolled erection. If only I knew better. LOL


Now I have a family which is a Clothing Optional household and the children love being allowed to choose if they are dressed or not. Only recently we allowed them to choose if they are dressed or not when we have visitors over who we know and trust.


The benefits for the children have been immense when we look at our 12 and 8 year olds, the eldest two, for they look at the rubbish pushed in the media and they shake their heads instead of feeling pressured to look like an air brushed model. They look at how those of their age at school respond to their bodies and see just how insecure these children, as young as 6 years old feel about their bodies. To feel shame at that age - just what has society done to our children. A commercialised society where even clothing for children as young as 2 if they're female, consists of sexy g-strings, high cut skirts that hugs the hips and more.

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