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Written by Rood at 17 Feb 2003 23:15:59:

As an answer to: Re: Nudism written by AJ at 16 Feb 2003 17:18:56:

>>Justin...I have to hand it to you...reams of material have been written over the past few years attempting to put AJ in his place and to help him realize how shame and embarrassment can screw up a person's mind, prompting him to acquiesce to unnecessary surgery,

>Really? Examples?

You are one example, AJ. I was another.


>...and you do it with one line of two unexpected but telling sentences (corrected for errors): "Your doctors don't give you hand jobs? Poor you!"
No, hand jobs aren't offered to those who are wound up tighter than a drum.

>I may not be a nature-loving nudist like yourself, Rood, but I'm hardly wound
up. I'm quite chilled in fact!

Ah, yes, that's the whole point, you were frozen with fear and shame, hardly able to see a doctor, much less relate openly with your own body. One doesn't mutilate one's body when one has a healthy self-image. I've seen it too many times beginning with my own experience. Most recently a dear friend allowed his self-hatred to ally himself with the erotic stimulation on a pro-circ site to blind himself to a positive self-image and normal, healthy relationships. Instead, he relies for comfort on a person who suffers from serious obsessive/compulsive disorders (not that an expression of sympathy and love should be denied him). His mental confusion resulted in a second, completely unnecessary circumcision. It is all too sad and tragic to relate.

Nudity (never an 'ism') is an expression of a healthy acceptance of one's body. It is when we find shame and embarrassment in ourselves that we consent to the mutilation of our bodies. But you are getting better...self-acceptance is a process, and your growing comfort with stripping before a doctor is an indication of your growth. Keep it 'up', and you, too, may in time be a nudist. Stranger things have happened.


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