“Clothing, by nature practical, can be used unnaturally as a perpetual sexual covering for the body, thereby creating unrealistic ideas and immoral imaginations about nakedness, but God still lets a frank, nonsexual sight of the real thing cleanse the mind and restore sanity.”
David L. Hatton
“By viewing people incarnationally---sacred embodiments of God's image, physical temples for the Holy Spirit, fleshly expressions of the souls Christ died for---our contemplation of the human body, naked or clothed, will become so devotionally pure that any thought of misusing its beauty for selfish gratification would repulse us. This alone is the measure of true freedom from porno-prudery.”
“We will never save our children from the filthy pig-pen of pornography by feeding them on the ungodly slop of body shame.”
“Addiction to pornography thrives on 'body shame,' the inevitable product of prudery's ridiculously dysfunctional imaginations about human anatomy; only by rediscovering the 'body acceptance' we were created and born with can we cleanse our minds from the unwholesome, insane, and ungodly view and treatment of the body we grew up with.”
“What can free our society from a porno-prudish view of the body is what has already liberated most health-care workers: a frank, natural, non-sexual display of the divine glory and creative goodness in the unclad temple of God's image.”
“Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.”
Stendhal
“The peculiarity of prudery is to multiply sentinels, in proportion as the fortress is less threatened”
Victor Hugo
