Editor,
I love living naked at home and nearly naked elsewhere, when I am warm enough.
My naked, lean, healthy, well-tanned body is my favorite suit. Living naked connects me to the earth. Most humans are the only animals who feel ashamed of their naked bodies and feel compelled to cover their genitals.
Why be more ashamed of our genitals than our noses? Why be more ashamed of our ass cheeks than our face cheeks?
I am a humble agnostic aiming to live truth as best I see it. But I ask those who believe God created our bodies — how can any inch of our bodies be indecent or obscene? Most religious people suffer from body shame and clothes addiction. Most religious people act as if God created the head, arms and legs, but the devil slapped on the genitals and possibly even the torso and the legs.
For thousands of years, many native peoples worldwide had the good sense to take off most or all clothes when warm enough, and to put clothes on when cold.
Most U.S. jobs require covering most of the body in the summer — business suits, uniforms, etc. Most U.S. jobs enforce rigid conformity and reject body freedom, natural comfort and environmental sanity.
Consider the horrendous consequences of wearing clothes not needed in warm weather: massive electricity squandered on indoor cooling and more poisoned air from power plants, the vast farmland and toxic pesticides used to grow more cotton, the petrochemicals for synthetic fabrics, grueling sweatshop labor, tons of deodorant, billions of dollars wasted, etc.
The U.S. uses more electricity for air cooling than India uses for all purposes. India has more than one billion people — more than three times the U.S. population.
I would never want to spend summers imprisoned in sweaty clothes covering most of my skin. I strongly support equal rights for a woman to be top-free in public as I am — if she wants to be.
When my mother and my father were alive, I was often naked as an adult in their presence. For many years I posed naked for hundreds of artists at UNM, Illinois colleges and art groups in Santa Fe and Albuquerque.
Living naked keeps me devoted every day to eating only raw plant foods and to exercising vigorously. Fancy clothes often hide body abuse, neglect and fat.
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Living naked helps me to be honest and open about who I am — baring both body and soul.
Living naked helps me to live simply — free from material crap I do not need. Sadly, many USA-ans are more at home with their cars, computers, cell phones, mansions, luxury toys and nuclear bombs than they are with their naked bodies and affectionate sex.
Living naked helps me feel whole — both sexually and spiritually, confident and humble.
I use no swamp cooler and no air conditioner in my home. Sometimes I use a small fan. I open my door and windows — especially at night.
I enjoy living as naked as the law and weather allow.
Don Schrader
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