Quotes About Nudity

There is almost no marital problem that can't be helped enormously by taking off your clothes.

Scared the postman by going to the door naked. I'm not sure what scared him more, my naked body or the fact that I knew where he lived.

I never would've thought seeing a hundred naked people around a swimming pool would have been dullsville, but it is.

In Naked Lunch, the emperors not only have no clothes, they prance through the pages as simians and purple-assed baboons.

The modern idea that the female nude implies the existence of a predatory male gaze was not first thought up, as is often imagined, in the feminism of the 1960s. As Part One will explain, what is believed to be the very first life-sized statue of a female nude in classical Greece – a fourth-century BCE image of the goddess Aphrodite – provoked exactly the same kind of debate.

A woman is truly beautiful only when she is naked and she knows it.

in the city, nudity means something; in the wild, it just exists

I couldn't believe it. I had broken the law simply by not wearing clothes.

What it comes down to, you see, is that a naked body is just a naked body. But the possibility of a naked body is something special.

He loved the way women, clothed, had a bosom, a single entity, but when unclothed, it cleaved into two discrete parts, two breasts, like the way you could separate an orange into halves by hooking thumbs into it.

Man is the sole animal whose nudity offends his own companions, and the only one who, in his natural actions, withdraws and hides himself from his own kind.

God damn it, let's take our pants down," Walter told his men, "and show them that we're men, not women. I'm tired of this." Walter stripped off his shirt, pants, and underwear. His men followed suit. They walked around nude for the next several hours while the natives wandered among them, more modestly attired in penis gourds.

Maybe you should release me now and change back to your jaguar form." "Why?" "You're naked." "They'll have brought me clothes. If not, who cares?" "Oh.

La langue anglais fait la distinction entre deux types de nudité: alors que "nude" implique le recul, le regard qui cadre et met à distance, "naked" fait sentir toute la vulnérabilité d'un corps dévêtu, exposé, intime ou intimidé. (p.170)

To live in a culture in which women are routinely naked where men aren't is to learn inequality in little ways all day long. So even if we agree that sexual imagery is in fact a language, it is clearly one that is already heavily edited to protect men's sexual--and hence social--confidence while undermining that of women.

Young actors often don't think of the consequences of doing nudity or sex scenes. They want the role so badly that they agree to be exploited, and then end up embarrassing family, friends, and even strangers.

Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft were written by men.

peau nue contre la sienne, nue aussi, mais hélas ! nue comme sont nus les os.

Se Meaume fosse a natureza, teria feito apenas os relâmpagos ou a Lua ou as vagas cheias de espuma do oceano na tormenta embatendo nos rochedos negros da costa. Ou a nudez desvelada por acaso por baixo de um pano. Ou um osso de animal ou um caroço de sílex encontrado na terra.

Mr. Blank's old friend is acting up again, and because our hero is no longer wearing the cotton trousers and underpants and is quite naked under the pajama bottoms, there is no barrier to prevent Mr. Bigshot from bounding out through the slit and poking his head into the light of day.