Are Girls Preventing Each Other From Getting Nude and Practicing Self-Love?

Guest Site by: Patricia Anderson-Peters

Getting Nude and Practicing Self Love:

I'm not a nudist. We'll start there. Not for lack of desire to be really, I'd LOVE to be so free and uninhibited, but I've not arrived there yet. Sad part isI'm 45 years old. I am not young either.

So as a reader you might be wondering why I'm writing an article for the Naturist Portal website. It's really because of the condition that I am.

An article written by Felicity Jones titled Why Women Should See Other Women's Nude Bodies reminded me of the first time that I got naked around other girls.

It was a spiritual initiation weekend in Florida and I had worked myself into a dither for days knowing that I was going to be nakedaround other individuals. Every anxiety I 'd carried around for over thirty years was taunting me and my two-kid-later, gravitation disabled breasts just wanted to forget all about it.

When the time came and the other girls stripped from their clothes, I quite slowly joined them. I was so convinced that each and every eye in the area was surveying my my naked body, my stretch marks, my fat rollsand my not pink and perkies.

Finally, I could not have been more wrong. In that circle, we were all the pretty much the same. We were all just a group of amazingly religious girls who had overcome enormous challenges to get where we were. We body painted one another with colors and symbols that represented our journeys.

If anyone was eyeballing my areolas, wellthey were so covert about it that I simply never knew it.

Becoming Naked From the Heart - Out by Patricia Anderson

Where did this fear of getting naked start?

It appears to me that it can not be natural to be frightened of your lovers seeing you naked. A lot of girls will say their body issues stem in the media and from the irrational desires that guys have for the ideal female form. But looking back, I do not think that's an altogether true appraisal.

Self-image problems and body hatred did not begin with how the guys around me saw meit really started with how the girls in my life saw me. Girls can be the most catty creatures on earth inside their teenager years. We judged one another from the way our hair was combed, to the heels we wore.

Let us be honest, ladies. It was not the men that did this to us. We slammed each other. Sadder still, we did it all to try to obtain the acceptance of one another, not the sexual taste of the men around us. Guys do not buy the magazines they date the women who do.

No two breasts are likewise even on ONE body, even less so on more than one body!

There are perky breasts, saggy breasts, pink and brown nipples, large and little ones also. There are https://www.archive.ece.cmu.edu/~coram/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=http://nudism.name , fat thighs, long and short legs. The anatomical parts and differences list is long and distinguished, but it's still only a list of parts. A woman is more compared to the sum of her parts. She's heart, she's soul, she's experience, she is fluidity and she is dFKKmic.

If we could learn to value one another more than judging one another, the power that we've together is enough to break the negativity that's defined us for much too much time. We have to return to that Red Tent, body-painting Soul-Girl appreciation of who we are when we stand together, rather than ripping each other apart just because we can.

More to the point, maybe it's time to take responsibility for the fact that it's not the men in our world and it is not the media that's driving this poor evaluation system that's cultivated a generation of eating disordered, emotionally violent girls. We did this. We did this to our sisters and we did this to ourselves. Perhaps we must get nude women from your heartsout.

Getting Nude From the Heart was published by - Young Naturists and Naturists America

Tags: body image, body painting, breasts

Class: Body Image Blogs, Feminism and Women's Problems and Human Rights, Naturist Blog

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