05-31-2005, 02:18 AM
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Originally Posted by alansmithee
Yup, no Bush bashing here, folks  .
.....Currently in society, exposing children to nudity is considered harmful, You can argue if nudity is harmful or not, but the judge was doing what he felt was right, and was wholly within his rights. You want people to be mad about this decision? Start attacking nudity taboos, not the lawful implementation of them. |
What prompts you to make a blanket statement about what society currently "considers harmful"? At most, there is conflicting opinion from the scientific community.
I am not going to argue if exposing children to nudity is harmful, I'll just provide some opinion from an NIH study, leading psychologists, and from a 1997 medical journal:
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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/q...828&query_hl=2
Lewis RJ, Janda LH.
Department of Psychology, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia 23508.
The relationship between adult sexual functioning and childhood experiences with exposure to nudity, sleeping in the parents' bed, and parental attitudes toward sexuality was examined. Although a variety of experts have provided their opinion on this issue, empirical research on this topic has been lacking. In this study, male and female college students were asked to retrospectively report on the frequency of sleeping in the parental bed as a child, the frequency of seeing others nude during childhood, and parental attitudes regarding sexuality. Information on current sexual functioning and adjustment was also obtained. The results suggest that childhood experiences with exposure to nudity and sleeping in the parental bed are not adversely related to adult sexual functioning and adjustment. In fact, there is modest support that these childhood experiences are positively related to indices of adjustment. Results also suggest that a positive attitude toward sexuality can be beneficial for a child's comfort with his/her sexuality. Finally, examination of gender differences revealed that male and female experience paternal attitudes toward sexuality differently but are similar in their perceptions of maternal attitudes.
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http://www.religioustolerance.org/nudism7.htm
....................The president of the Swiss School for Parent Education is Dr. Marilyn Fithian, a sex therapist and psychiatrist. In her book "Show Me" she says:
"A child who has never been allowed to see his parents and brothers and sisters naked sees nudity as something shocking. Children will only have a sense of their bodies as something 'good' if they receive much tenderness and devotion from their parents from birth. In order to enjoy sex fully, it is necessary to enjoy one's own body naturally."
Dr. Lee Salk has said:
"Being natural and matter-of-fact about nudity prevents your children from developing an attitude of shame or disgust about the human body. If parents are very secretive about their bodies and go to great lengths to prevent their children from ever seeing a buttock or breast, children will wonder what is so unusual, and even alarming, about human nudity."
Dr. Lloyd de Mause, Director of the New York Center for Psychoanalytic Training, said:
"There is no evidence supporting claims that exposure to nudity produces a higher number of psycho sexual problems in either children or adults who were raised in such an environment."..................
...............Health Aspects to Nudism
bullet In 1997, The US Health Service carried an article about sea lice in Florida beaches. These lice are microscopic jellyfish which have become trapped in swimsuits. While struggling to get free, they often sting the person. A severe rash can result. They are the larval form of "Linuche unquiculata", popularly known as a thimble jellyfish. 1
One Journal commented on the article: "We don't know whether it is obedience to social mores or a commercial link to fashion industry that has prevented the authors from suggesting an important preventive strategy for seabather's eruption in an otherwise excellent article. In the interest of good public health research and practice, we feel compelled to note that abandoning swimming garments altogether, usually referred to as "nude bathing" or "skinny dipping" might go a long way to reducing the occurrence of this disease."
The 1997 story was carried in a wide variety of local newspapers including Florida Today (JAN-17), The Miami Herald (JAN-17), The Orlando Sentinel (JAN-17), and the Sun-Sentinel (JAN-16).
Large concentrations appear from March to August each year on Florida's Atlantic Ocean coast. One source estimated that 10,000 people were affected in 1992. 2 A sample of 1433 people who swam near the apparent center of the outbreaks found that one out of every four were bitten. The solutions are obvious: swimming nude or staying out of the ocean.....................
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