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Raw Photo Series Asks People To Take Off Their Clothes And Discuss Self-Love
Photographer Anastasia Kuba has learned that although body positivity is important, beauty is much more complex.
Priscilla Frank Arts Writer, The Huffington Post
Photographer Anastasia Kuba grew up feeling beautiful. She had light eyes, blond hair and big breasts, attributes conventionally defined as such. From a young age, she was showered with attention. But Kuba still struggled intensely with self-esteem. “My self-worth was connected to my looks,” the artist explained to The Huffington Post.
Kuba’s self-identification as a beautiful woman shaped many of her life choices growing up. “There was nothing else I thought I had to offer. I was young — I hadn’t really established my identity yet, who I was.” To support herself in her early 20s, after moving from Russia to the United States, Kuba worked as a topless dancer. It wasn’t a defining moment in Kuba’s life, but an affirmation of what she already felt — that her…
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Posted in Body image, Nudism - Naturism
Tagged Body image, Naturism, Nudism, Photography
The Only Place to Escape Body Shaming: A Nude Beach
Natrusim-nudism is not about how your look. It is about freedom and being comfortable in your own skin. My wife also has some concerns about her body but once we are at a nude resort they seem to go away too.
Image is from article on ET Online: http://www.etonline.com/fashion/153293_victoria_secret_slammed_for_perfect_body_campaign_topshop_accused_of_body_shaming/
The only place I know of to escape body shaming is a nude beach, resort or campground. Sounds crazy doesn’t it? The only place to escape the unrealistic and material ideas of the perfect body is a place where your total body is on display. Let me explain.
My wife and I have been going on nude vacations for more than 20 years. We started on our honeymoon to Bora Bora. While there aren’t any recognized nude beaches in French Polynesia, topless sunbathing and swimming is the norm. My wife was in her mid-20s and thoroughly enjoyed swimming, sunning and walking the beach without her bikini top on. I certainly didn’t mind either. To me, she is beautiful and even more so when she isn’t wearing anything to cover up.
From there we have been to many nude beaches, resorts and B&B’s. We’ve learned that…
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Posted in Body image, Nudism - Naturism
Tagged Body Shame, Naturism, Nudism, Social nudity
I Can Feel Bare-Chestedness Normalizing
Couldn’t agree more on your perspective towards normalizing bare-chestedness. I find what your are doing really admirably.
Georgetown University, Washington D.C. December 2015. Who says global climate change isn’t real? 70 degrees on December 13? But it made for a nice normal walk… no negative interactions in three hours.
I walk bare-chested primarily because I enjoy feeling free. My strong secondary reason for walking bare-chested is to normalize female bare-chestedness, so that other women may feel the same way.
The only way to normalize anything is to do it with so much regularity and normality that people stop being afraid of it and start seeing it as conventional behavior. This is my motivation for posting photos and videos of my walks. I want people to see and hear for themselves the reactions (and more importantly the non-reactions) of the public as I walk by.
There exists this misconception that going bare-chested is some disruptive act of revolution and that traffic will stop and babies will cry. Perhaps…
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Posted in Activism, Body image, Top freedom
Tagged #Freethenipple, Activism, Body Freedom, Body Shame, Equality, GoTopless, Top freedom, Topless
Being naked should not be shamed
Why does being naked have to be shamed and something to be reluctant about? Why do we have to live like this?
Governments have created so many laws prohibiting public nudity. We’re told by the media, peer pressure, and society to be ashamed of simple nudity. It has passed down from our parents, grandparents, and so on since humanity became so accustomed to clothing.
We should be allowed to be naked anywhere at any time. No joke, exaggeration, or lie.
From a young age, we’re taught to be ashamed of seeing nudity, either of ours or of others. It’s unfair to require clothing in all times and places. Due to this insanity created by society, we have never-nudes.
Every home should be nude-friendly. In fact, the whole world needs to be nude-friendly.
Shaming nudity is a bad idea. It leads to problems like insecurity about our bodies, a lower self-esteem…
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Tagged Body Acceptance, Body Freedom, Body Shame, Naturism, Nudism, Social nudity
The Naked Yogis
Yoga is great but nude yoga it’s even better!
What a way to celebrate International Yoga Day.
I find myself in a dark room softly illuminated by the glow of candles. Outside there is a wild and wooly storm, the wind and rain lashes against and rattles the window. It’s a stark contrast to the warm, welcoming and cosy environment inside. I am on all fours, running through a cat/cow sequence with 20 other gorgeous women, who like me are all naked. Stark, bare, beautiful, and NAKED.
Tonight I experienced my first ever nude yoga class.
Now let me commence with my original comment when someone told me about Nude Yoga.
“Gross, just GROSS. Nope, no, definitely not!’
In my mind I had a visual of a well lit room, filled with naked bodies in uncompromising yoga positions, a rear view vision of downward dog. Shudder.
However, this idea kept presenting itself and after a girlfriend told me about…
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Tagged Body image, Health, Nude Yoga