Body Image: Did You Grow Up in a "Naked House"?
Anna
article itself.
http://www.glamour.com/health-fitness/blogs/vitamin-g/2009/04/body-image-did-you-grow-up-in.html
Did you ever see your parents walk around naked when you were growing
up? When I was in high school, one of my friends' lived in a naked
house--you know, mom, dad, kids who often walked around sans clothing
like it was no big deal. I don't think they considered themselves
nudists; I just don't think they liked clothes. It made me wonder
about you--and the whole nudity/body image debate...
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My old friend's clothes-optional family always kind of freaked me out.
Whenever I'd drop by, I was never quite certain of the degree of
nakedness in which I might find them in. I was especially worried
about walking in and finding her dad nude on the couch (um,
nightmare!). Fortunately that never happened.
But I hear from others that naked houses aren't too unusual, even
though it's hard for me to relate to. For the record: I grew up in a
home where everyone wore clothes all the time--thank goodness.
So, I was wondering: Do naked houses scar kids for life, or help them
along in accepting their body? Parents magazine had an interesting
excerpt on the topic of family nudity and what it may mean for body
image later in life:
"You'd probably never see this question in a European magazine, muses
sex therapist Dennis Sugrue, PhD, clinical associate professor of
psychiatry at the University of Michigan Medical School and coauthor
of Sex Matters for Women (Guilford Press). Despite our culture's
constant barrage of sexy media images, 'here in the United States, we
get pretty uptight when it comes to baring it all,' he observes. 'Yet,
the truth is that nudity in the home, when handled in a respectful,
matter-of-fact way, is perfectly natural and certainly not harmful.'
In fact, research suggests that children who have seen their parents
nude do not grow up to be emotionally scarred, but instead are more
likely to be accepting of their own bodies and comfortable with their
own sexuality."
Zee
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this article could easily have been written by a high school girl that
is pleading for help....when her father goes through the living room
naked and goes in the bath room to piss and does not close the
door....and the bathroom is visible where your friends are sitting in
the living room.....now we do not imagine anyone offering any retorts
on body image....but body image is aways a defense for such behavior
if the person is in someone elses home....body image is never an
excuse for public display of nudity....jz
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drink coffee at the front window and door and wave to the neighbors either.
They slept naked and `we did too. Sometimes on the weekends we kids would
be up before they were, and we'd caught them on the way to the bathroom.
When we had a bad dream, we could climb in to bed with them for a while but
they would return us to our rooms without bothering to fetch a robe. We
were given the option to wear pajamas in the summer and if we ventured out
of our rooms naked, we had to dress before breakfast or going to the
basement to play because it was cooler down there, but sitting on the floor
watching morning cartoons while naked was normal. No one in my family went
naked when other people were at the house. It was not generally discussed
outside the family; we had a rule that NOTHING about the family was
mentioned to neighbors or friends, NOTHING! Its a New York thing.
Bill S in AZ
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