I’m not really interested in starting @NaturistVintage over on a “more open” social media site. We have a real problem on our hands with how these sites censor and distort simple human nudity and I don’t believe retreating to niche, nudist-only social networks solves the problem.
I don’t know the right answer. It feels like all the petitions and tweets to @TwitterSupport go roundly ignored. If there’s anything I’d like to see it would be an 𝘰𝘳𝘨𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘻𝘦𝘥 movement opposing the practice of banning simple nonsexual nudity from social media sites.
It seems to me that the organizations could play a roll here. Release a press release. Drum up some attention. Not for my account, but because they are also being unfairly sidelined, and the results of these puritanical policies against the human body are damaging to society.
1. If orgs were more vocal about this problem, at worst they drum up a little press, at best they bring some actual attention to the issue and relevance to the orgs themselves. Also 2. There’s no way for nudists to organize around this fight without the existing organizations
It’s not enough to normalize nudity, Something can be normal and still be stigmatized or criminalized. We should want to 𝘭𝘦𝘨𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘪𝘻𝘦 nudity. That requires a more aggressive and organized effort. There’s a long way to go.
I’m using a lot more 𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘴 with this account you guys. Get ready for it.
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Anthony Comstock was an anti-vice activist and United States Postal Inspector who opposed obscene literature, abortion, contraception, gambling, prostitution, and nudism.
He is responsible for the Comstock Laws, a set of federal acts passed in 1873, which criminalized the use of the USPS to distribute obscenity.
Famous texts that were suppressed as obscene under the Comstock Laws included Ulysses, Lady Chatterly’s Lover, The Decameron, For Whom the Bell Tolls, and many more.