| Title: | Naturism |
| Notice: | Site report index is in topic 7 |
| Moderator: | GENRAL::KILGORE |
| Created: | Tue Jan 26 1988 |
| Last Modified: | Thu May 08 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 457 |
| Total number of notes: | 3687 |
In the last edition of BN (British Naturism) they report that:-
The US National Commision on Mental Health undertook a 6 year study of hundreds
of groups and organisations and rated the mental health of their members.
Who came out on top - Naturists. Quote from a spokesman : "the nudists came out
so far in front that virtually every other group studied looks like a gathering
of lunatics, perverts and criminals in comparison".
One member of the Commission was so impressed that he and his family have
now become converts.
As a group nudists had:
* lowest rate for
crime
suicide
mental breakdowns
divorce
time lost from work because of illness
high school drop outs
* highest number of
university scholarship winners
college graduates
star athletes
* children with much higher than average intelligence
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This sounds just too good to be true. And how come I'm such a tangled mess
of doubts, hangups and inconsistencies. You mean there are people *worse*
than me - jim murray
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| 61.1 | gold pendants - one pound fifty | RDGCSS::MURRAY | Tue Jun 28 1988 07:52 | 12 | |
I was right - it seems it *was* too good to be true. It looks like BN
got the story from the ASA _Bulletin_ . In the next issue of BN they
report that in the following issue of _Bulletin_ the ASA reports it has
been completely unable to verify the story.
Isn't it amazing how gullible you (I) can be if you want to believe
something enough. All critical faculties get put into
suspended/swapped_out mode. I think I'll go up to Oxford St. and
buy a few of those solid gold pendants they sell from the pavement
for about one pound fifty.
jim
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| 61.2 | Counter culture | IOENG::JWILLIAMS | Zeitgeist Zoology | Wed Jul 06 1988 17:43 | 8 |
I wish they WOULD do the study, because I suspect the results are
good enough to be true. It may be a while, though, because naturism
also has a distinct anti-political flavor to it ( it refutes social
categorization ), and not many politicians want it to catch on.
Nudism is part of the counter culture, so I don't expect much help
from the government or other established social institutions.
John.
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| 61.3 | no more anti-nudity | USCTR1::JDUNN | we are all leaves of grass | Thu Jul 23 1992 19:56 | 3 |
If Jerry Brown were a naturist, I'd definitely want him as president of
the U.S. Let's break apart all constricting social institutions!
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