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Cenax
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 Posted - 06/13/2007 : 9:37:31 PM
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My family recently found out that I like to be naked.. and that I went to a nude beach.. so they had an intervention with my friends and they are trying to tell me that its not healthy and that they are suggesting I go to a psychiatrist to get help so that I won't want to be a naturist.
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Pete Knight
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Posted - 06/13/2007 : 11:03:28 PM
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Tell them to go see a shrink, the shrink will tell them that naturism is not only socially acceptable but is also a well documented way to unwind, de-stress, relax. Why not join AANR and show them that you are not alone in your desire to enjoy nude recreation, they probably have misconceived ideas about naturism anyway, that needs putting right!
Perhaps you may benefit from reading this, and maybe showing it to your parents and friends.
http://www.naturistsociety.com/resources/PDF/205ARGUE.pdf
Good luck!
Pete Knight
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EuroTim
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Posted - 06/14/2007 : 01:19:12 AM
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Hi Cenax, I think there's something I don't understand here. You're 22 years old and your parents had a meeting with your friends because you like to go naked? Good grief man, you've been an adult for years, what on earth are they doing having a meeting with your 'friends'? Can't they talk with you?
I agree with Pete, they are the ones who need to get some help and I certainly would give them some info on what naturism really is about. Who knows, maybe they'll get to like being naked too!
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thornapplebison
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Posted - 06/14/2007 : 11:12:22 AM
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If they're willing to pay, I say go on and go! I love therapy. It's a chance for me to sit down and really discuss me, and the other person just has to sit there and act interested. What's great, though, is when they help you learn stuff about yourself that you didn't know before.
The chances of a psychotherapist actually counseling you against nude recreation are pretty slim. More than likely, the therapist would help you adjust to living with your choices in a world that isn't always ready to accept them. Also, it sounds like your family could use a few sessions. It's obvious that they really care about you, and maybe don't realize that they are encroaching upon your rights to self-determination and free will.
Tell them that you'll go if they'll pay and go along sometimes, but you all have to agree on the therapist-- after all, there are a few quacks who think it's not only possible, but a good idea to force their beliefs and prejudices upon their patients. If they really care about you, they'll be relieved to find that nudism isn't the sinister pursuit they imagine it to be.
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jeanluc
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Posted - 03/01/2008 : 4:36:05 PM
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I know this thread has been idle for a while, but my wife and I just had a session with a marriage counselor and my nude time came up. (More on this in a new thread). He stated that as a 'mandated reporter' he had to report if I was nude in front of our 3 yr-old grandson.
I think he is one of those overzealous quacks that you mentioned.
Jeanluc.
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jim19452
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Posted - 03/01/2008 : 5:15:20 PM
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Jeanluc,
My oh my, how America has changed. We often stayed with my paternal grandparents during part of the summer. Their house was old and he had rigged up a shower near the drain in the basement. The basement had several small windows at ground level without curtains. My brother, grandfather and I would shower without regard to whom might look in or my grandmother coming down. Then, no one would ever intervene. Now I guess both would have been reported by a 'mandated reporter' aka a rat fink.
When I visit a nudist resort there are often children. Should I turn myself in? Should I fink out on the dozens of evil doers that were there? I don't know about me, I just can't think of myself as evil. Off to the Gulag!
Best Wishes, Jim
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prism2525
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Posted - 03/01/2008 : 5:22:08 PM
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My advice is tell your family to forget about psychiatrists. They are a plague and funnily enough they tend to commit suicide between 5 to 9 times more than the general population (for accuracy, consult Phillip Day's studies).
However your parents need to be more accepting of their own son's ideology. Are you catholic? If so, send them to a priest. They'll get the shock of their lives (granted they don't portray you as a freak) since nowhere in the bible (I'm roman catholic) is written that nudity is inherently bad/evil. It's what you DO while nude. This argument is applicable anywhere; you can cook a man's dinner with electricity but you can also cook the man!
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Tedius
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Posted - 03/06/2008 : 01:33:54 AM
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My parents and brothers do not know that I am nudist. They are so unwilling to accept my ideology, which is closer to the truth. I go to great lengths to keep my status as a nudist a secret from them. I wish I could be nude in the presence of others, but I am currently living in the vicinity of textiles, so I lock the doors (including the top lock on the front door) and go to great lengths to avoid being caught nude.
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newnude1214
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Posted - 08/09/2008 : 12:12:59 AM
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I would only like therapy because it's a chance for someone to try and unravel my concrete ming. As for your problem, I think your parents over-reacted and your life isn't any of their concern anymore seeing as your an adult.
Aaron
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Warmskin
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Posted - 08/28/2008 : 12:55:09 AM
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Queen Victoria is alive and well in America. Why cannot we depose her from her throne, strip her, and air drop her right into a big nudist resort? All we need now are the Family KGBs to raid innocent peoples' homes.
I would welcome the chance for "therapy" from a psychiatrist. I would tell him or her a few things. I can be a Dutch Uncle in debating things near and dear to me. I might end up troubleshooting his or her problem with nudity.
Just some thoughts and feelings on this thread.
That government governs best, which governs least - Thomas Jefferson
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inudist
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Posted - 08/28/2008 : 08:51:50 AM
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It is one thing for your family to want to sit you down and discuss their views on nudism or anything else with you. But to bring your friends into it as well??? Who needs the intervention here?
inudist
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Diger
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Posted - 08/28/2008 : 09:52:05 AM
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Cenax joined two years ago and made a few newbie posts that were a little on the suspicious side. Then with no more word from him we can only wonder about his motives.
I'll have to say we have had some good discusion on the topics he started.
Diger
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JokerCPoC
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Posted - 08/28/2008 : 09:57:20 AM
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Originally posted by Warmskin
Queen Victoria is alive and well in America. Why cannot we depose her from her throne, strip her, and air drop her right into a big nudist resort? All we need now are the Family KGBs to raid innocent peoples' homes.
I would welcome the chance for "therapy" from a psychiatrist. I would tell him or her a few things. I can be a Dutch Uncle in debating things near and dear to me. I might end up troubleshooting his or her problem with nudity.
Just some thoughts and feelings on this thread.
That government governs best, which governs least - Thomas Jefferson
Deposing Her would almost require mass hypnosis those against simple nudity I'd think, My relatives(2 of them at least) are Catholic(converts) and 2 aren't, 1 is against(nephew), another I'm not sure of(I haven't been able to ask(sister in law), She giggled last time I tried mentioning the word), the other two I have no idea. Sometimes though I have to put a shirt on when My shoulders hurt(OA) and I took some Tylenol pills too so as soon they stop hurtin It comes off once again, Otherwise I'm only clothed when practical, If It were possible to convert this place to clothing optional I would and the parks manager wouldn't object, Nor would His GF(She didn't giggle). Even Pope John Paul II said in His book Love and Responsibility (1981), he wrote: Nakedness itself is not immodest...(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_naturism).
As to the original poster They need to see the shrink, not You, As They seem to have Gymnophobia I'd think.
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