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From: pvl@houxh.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.rec.nude
Subject: Children and Social Nudity Revisited
Message-ID: <202@houxh.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 12-Aug-83 14:30:36 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 12 14:30:36 1983
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  I was suddenly struck that the question of child/parent nude
interaction may be related to the social nudity question in an
different way than I had assumed.  A few more thoughts on the subject
follow.
  The studies and expert opinions are really mostly geared to the
subject of casual nudity in the *family*.  WARNING: the following
discussion is logic (as opposed to data) based so is subject to the
same questions as the logic of the experts.  END WARNING.  I can
convince myself that family nudity would be more potentially damaging
when practiced in isolation as opposed to making it a part of general
social nudity.  If nudity is observed *only* in the family, it could
give rise to problems more readily than if social nudity is included
in family activities so that there would be nothing special about
observing parents/siblings nude per se.
  What about it?  Am I rationalizing since I like social nudity?
For what it's worth, I was raised in a family where family nudity
was casual, but social nudity was never even considered.  How about
others on the net?
   Pete LaMaster NJ