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Most commentators say that it's the circumstance in which family nudity occurs, not the nudity itself, that determines whether it's debatable. Kids react far more to parents' attitudes toward nudity than to the nudity itself, and nudity is only a problem when it's treated as one.97 73. Many psychologists argue that the implicit message conveyed by a lack of nudity in the home is that the body is basically unacceptable or scandalous--an attitude that might carry over into distress about nudity in the context of mature sexual relationships.98 74. Kids of "primitive" tribes, encircled by http://raopezin.livejournal.com/173428.html of all forms, suffer no ill effects. Neither do Kids who grow up in other societies which are more open about nudity than our own.99 Presumptions that exposure to nudity will lead to problems for kids grow out of the preconceptions of our culture. Paul Ableman writes: "It's interesting to speculate as to what type of model of the human head Sigmund Freud would have built if he had based it not on clothed Europeans but on, say, a study of the naked Nuer of the Sudan. Almost all the procedures which he identifies as formative for the adult mind would have been lacking. Freud presumes that kids will not normally see each other naked and that, if they do occur to, the result will be traumatic. This isn't true of naked cultures. . . . Consequently great provinces of Freud's thoughts-empire would simply be missing. There would be no Oedipus complex (or not much, anyhow), no penis envy or castration complex, probably no clearcut stages of sexual development. We are appearing rapidly from the era of Freudian gospel . . . and can now perceive the extent to which he himself was the victim of holding ideas and biases." 100 75. Kids who grow up in a nudist environment witness the natural body changes brought on by adolescence, pregnancy, and aging. They've far less stress about these natural processes than kids who are never exposed to them except through layers of clothes. 76. Studies have shown that states with fewer reservations about nudity (and sexuality in general) also have lower teen pregnancy and abortion rates.101 A 1985 study by the Guttmacher Institute found rates of pregnancy and abortion among teenage girls in America to be more than twice those of Canada, France, Sweden, England, and also The Netherlands. The disparity Could not be explained by differences in sexual activity, race, welfare policies, or the availability of abortion, but merely in cultural attitudes toward nudity and sexuality. The study found American youth to be particularly ignorant of biology and sexuality, partly due to a climate of ethical disapproval for seeking such knowledge. It found that lower levels of unwanted pregnancy correlated with variables such as the amount of female nudity presented by public media and the extent of http://acuff-pansypp70pl7.tumblr.com/post/155363969963/breastfeeding-decline-sexualizing-the-female on public seashores.102 77. Clothing-compulsion intimidates millions of mothers from breastfeeding their kids, even though Breast feeding is healthier and frequently more convenient for both the child and also the mommy.103 In the U.S., barely half of all mothers breast-feed; only 20% do so for a full 6 months, and just 6% for the Surgeon General's advocated 12 months.104 Breastfeeding is also dropping in developing countries.105 Gabrielle Palmer writes: "In Victorian England, well-known for its prudery, a good girl could feed openly in church, yet in modern industrialized society where women's bodies and especially breasts are used to sell papers, autos and peanuts, public breast-feeding induces cries of protest from both guys and women." 106 Lisa Demauro notes that "our society is much more at home together with the idea of alluring breasts than practical ones." 107 "Millions of boys and girls have grown up never having seen a mom breast-feeding her infant," adds Marsha Pearlman, the Florida Health Department coordinator for breast feeding. "This is a sad comment on our culture." 108 Naturism is particularly consistent with feminism and the battle for women's freedom. 78. The repression of healthy nudity, particularly for females, has been one of the chief way of mind and destiny control by the patriarchy. Breaking this routine shatters the invisible bonds of an inherited sex purpose.109 79. Constraints on women's nudity, an approval of porn, and demanding fashion demands may, separately, look like minor issues. Taken as a whole, yet, they form a pattern of repressive maleoriented Anticipations. Marilyn Frye describes: "Consider a birdcage. If you look very closely at only one wire in the cage, you cannot see the other wires. If your conception of what's before you is determined by this myopic focus, you could look at that one wire, up and down the length of it, and be not able to see why a bird would not just fly around the wire any time it wanted to go somewhere. . . . There is absolutely no physical property of any one wire, nothing that the closest