{"id":1870,"date":"2015-08-05T12:14:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-05T10:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zjuzdme.org\/?p=1870"},"modified":"2015-07-18T10:18:28","modified_gmt":"2015-07-18T08:18:28","slug":"the-scientific-reasons-why-you-should-just-always-be-naked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zjuzdme.org\/old\/2015\/08\/the-scientific-reasons-why-you-should-just-always-be-naked\/","title":{"rendered":"The Scientific Reasons Why You Should Just Always Be Naked"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is a full repost of a great article. Find the original at http:\/\/elitedaily.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Show a man with a gun\u2026\u00a0it\u2019s called action. Show a man with a dick\u2026\u00a0it\u2019s called indecent.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s something wrong with the way Americans have come to accept almost every aspect of the human condition except for the most natural one. We\u2019ve accepted guns, drugs and violence, yet refuse to accept bare breasts and genitalia.<\/p>\n

Put a man killing and raping women in a movie and it may go on to win an Oscar. Put a naked woman on the screen, and it won\u2019t be allowed a nomination (take \u201cBlue is the Warmest Color\u201d for example).<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve become so desensitized to everything, but the one thing that makes us human. We\u2019ve come to accept almost every negative aspect of human nature, yet refuse to condone the most natural state a human being can be \u2014 the nude.<\/p>\n

With the recent craze of the health benefits of sleeping naked<\/a>, I couldn\u2019t help but wonder if there were more benefits we\u2019re missing out on by always covering up.<\/p>\n

Are nudists colonies onto something? Are we depriving ourselves of essential nutrients and benefits due to our perversion to the human body?<\/p>\n

What would happen if we accepted our bodies the same way we accepted everything else? What would happen if we stopped covering up and started stripping down? What would happen if we all just let our bodies hang out in the open\u00a0and didn\u2019t hide them in dark worlds of porn, indecency and fetishes?<\/p>\n

According to Matthew Westra, a psychology professor<\/a> at Longview Community College in Missouri, \u201cNudity is a taboo in America because we primarily equate nudity or nakedness with sexuality and we have taboos about sexuality.\u201d<\/p>\n

This association between nudity and sex is exacerbated by the use of strip clubs and pornography that have come to represent a wrongful or sinful type of behavior that is only achieved in the nude.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s no denying Americans are prudish by nature. There\u2019s also no denying, however, that if we could get past our childish perversions and accept nudity as a basic and natural human form, there would be a lot less \u201cdeviousness\u201d and fewer obsessions with the human body \u2014 and we could all just stop caring so much about it.<\/p>\n

When clothes come off, so do the stigmas<\/h2>\n

Things are only taboo because we make them that way. People only go searching for something they can\u2019t have because its \u201cillicit\u201d status makes it intriguing.<\/p>\n

If men, however, were exposed to nudity on a normal, everyday basis, they wouldn\u2019t fantasize and obsess over it the way 14-year-olds do at the sight of their first breast.<\/p>\n

According to Dr. Conrad Manning in his paper<\/a>\u00a0\u201cVirtues of Nakedness: Physical & Psychological Health,\u201d \u201cBy making nakedness an ordinary, matter-of-fact, common experience, unassociated with sexuality, the unhealthy prurient interest in pornography would be considerably lessened.\u201d<\/p>\n

Imagine if men were desensitized to the female body. Imagine if they didn\u2019t feel the need to rip a woman\u2019s clothes off to fulfill some fantasy they\u2019ve created in their minds.<\/p>\n

Imagine if men stopped putting all their time and energy into seeing women\u00a0naked and just learned to live side-by-side with them?<\/p>\n

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Fewer clothes, fewer problems<\/h2>\n

Imagine if we lived in a world where bodies weren\u2019t hidden under layers while models with \u201cperfect bodies\u201d ran around half naked? Imagine if we all just looked at each other the way God made us without any implications or idealized notions of the perfect body?<\/p>\n

According to Manning, it\u2019s our clothing that creates our insecurities and inability to accept and love each other the way we should.<\/p>\n

We put materialistic value on the human form and it\u2019s created mental illness along with body dismorphia\u00a0and an undesirable environment for humans to live and communicate within.<\/p>\n

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Early exposure means early acceptance<\/h2>\n

Like anything, most of our neuroses and phobias form during childhood. But what if we\u2019d grown up in a nude household? What if we\u2019d been taught from a young age nudity is natural and the human body is beautiful?<\/p>\n

Studying these effects in their book, \u201cThe Naked Child: Growing Up Without Shame,\u201d Dennis Craig Smith and William Sparks found that children exposed to nudity from a young age became either unfazed by the human body later in life and sometimes, psychologically stronger because of it.<\/p>\n

More studies<\/a> were done on this topic. One study published in the Journal of Social Psychology by Marilyn D. Story examined 264 children and their parents. The results proved children raised around nudity grew up with a higher body self-concept.<\/p>\n

According to Story, \u201ccoming from a nudist family played a more significant role in the children\u2019s positive self body-image than their race, gender, or area of the country in which they lived.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Baring your body means banning bacteria<\/h2>\n

In another paradox, humans donned\u00a0clothing to keep away parasites and filth, yet only created breeding grounds for different types of infections and disease.<\/p>\n

While clothes may seem like a way to keep the dirt off, we\u2019re really only harming ourselves more.<\/p>\n

In the study<\/a> \u201cA Naked Ape Would Have Fewer Parasites\u201d published by the University of Reading, \u201cLyme Disease deer ticks can grab onto our sweaters and sea lice can sneak into our bathing suit crotches.<\/p>\n

Cinched-up belts, ties, and clothes impede breathing. Men\u2019s snug pants raise testicle temperature, lowering sperm count and fertility.\u201d<\/p>\n

Along with infertility rates and Lyme disease, clothes also contribute to yeast infections and UTIs in women. They are creating problems by trying to eradicate them.<\/p>\n

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Naked today, alive tomorrow<\/h2>\n

What if I told you shoes were causing you to lose brain function? What if not wearing shoes meant decreasing your risk for Alzheimer\u2019s? What if stripping down the clothes meant adding up the years?<\/p>\n

According to \u00a0Dr. Norman Doidge, \u201cGoing shoeless is now recognized as an anti-Alzheimer\u2019s, brain-boosting activity because the sole sensation entices your brain into growing extra, efficient neuron connections.\u201d<\/p>\n

It seems arbitrary, but walking around barefoot increases brain flexibility. It doesn\u2019t just make you feel young again, it makes your brain feel young again.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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