Another reason, why I have posted this movie is due to the fact that one topic on which the movie seems to focus on is to answer the question if naturism has some sexual aspects or not. Its an old "naturist question" discussed maybe already too often, I know. Nevertheless, because the girl seems to be so concerned about it and I may have some special issues to say about it, I want to post my thoughts in the following:
First of all, I take her concerns very serious. I fully understand her fears, especially if I would be in her age.
I think there are sometimes some historic-caused misunderstandings in the naturist communities. Some say, nudity is normal and natural and thus make the (wrong) conclusion, that it is nothing special to be nude. I have posted more thoughts about this issue already under the following link:
http://internationalyn.org/forum/index.php/topic,8066.msg79833.html#msg79833I think it is the same misunderstanding if you say, nudity is normal and natural and has nothing to do with sexuality. Why it shouln't? We are all human beeings. Sexually is part of us. Our body belongs to us. Thus sexuality belongs to our body as well. It is impossible to separate sexuality and the body and thus the human beeing. It was tried many times, not only in the context of naturism but also in philosophy and religious contexts. Not with great success but with great pain.
So let us speak us out loudly: We are sexual human beeings, full of sexual thoughts, wishes and other aspects in that context. And because we cannot separate these aspects from us, we also cannot separate them from our bodies. And it is ok that it is like that.
BUT: The wonderful thing on human beeing and having a human body is that there are so many aspects of nudity that have in fact nothing to do with sexuality. Instead that have to do with freedom, confidence, reality vs. virtuality, responsibility, respect and hundreds of other keywords. But there is still a very strong historic-caused influence of society and media that reduce the nudity-human-relationship to sexuality. In contrast, naturism means for me to explore all the other aspects of nudity and you agree - it is a great and never ending experience.
However, excluding the sexuality discussion in the context of nudity seems to oversimplify the whole discussion into two parts: the good and the bad one. And sexually oftens seems to be on the wrong, the bad side. And here, I think we are in a situation of a vicious circle (in German we say "the cat eats its tail"). Sexuality comprises a great variety of aspects, some of them you may find good, some of them you may find bad, some of them are definitely good, some of them are definitely bad. For many (historic) reasons having a good relationship to sexuality is not always easy. Having a bad one is the reason for many frustration and vice versa: Beeing sexual frustrated can be the reason for bad sexual behavior. Speaking as a man I think this is especially true for men and I am very, very sad for that.
So why not explicitely say, yes naturism includes sexuality, with some rules in order to respect everybody but nevertheless we do not want to speak about it all the time (but may be more often as we have done so far), just because there are so many other aspects of nudity. And if we speak about sexuality in the context we are seeking for the good aspects (but do not exlude the bad ones in the discussions).
I believe, naturism can contribute a lot to the topic sexuality, if it is not excluded it from the discussion list. It can support a more natural relationship and reduce the amount of frustration in that context. Just one very simply example, seeing naked people may reduce the (sexual-driven) wish of seeing naked people from an obsession to a normal amount. And once somebody has reached that point he or she can - without denying their sexuality - explore the other wonderful aspects of beeing naked.
Let's dream the dream of a human society that fully accepts the human beeing as it is and start to build islands where this dream becomes to be true!
cu,
wartel
PS: Just for some more discussion, which kind of good or bad aspect of nudity is shown in the movie "Point de fuit" posted at
http://internationalyn.org/forum/index.php/topic,10151.0.html;-)