Early America, Sex, Marriage, family #21


 Religions > Atheism > Early America, Sex, Marriage, family #21

LINK TO THIS PAGE  


rating :  0   |  0


  Page 1 of 1

1
 
Topic: Religions > Atheism
User: ""
Date: 15 Oct 2006 07:06:13 AM
Object: Early America, Sex, Marriage, family #21
PART 21
EARLY AMERICA
SEX, MARRIAGE, CHILDREN, GAYS, LESBIANS, BOYS AS GIRLS, ABORTION,
BREECHING, FAMILY AND OTHER MYTHS
NUDITY
Northern Europeans generally wore their shirts and shifts or more during
sex. Full nudity was uncommon until much after the colonial period. Full
nudity was described as "from nature," while a person wearing a shift was
"naked in [his, her] shift." "Undressed" was a state between nakedness and
dress.
SOURCE: The Writer's Guide, Everyday Life in Colonial America From 1607 -
1783. Dale Taylor. Weiter's Digest Books (1997) p. 125
*****************************************************************************
History of Nudism in Modern America
http://www.roadandtravel.com/adventuretravel/historyofnudism.htm
[excerpt]
Early New England settlers -- 16th century Puritans -- with their
non-pleasure, morality-enforcing ways were so afraid of nudity, and the
lust it could foster, that they refrained from bathing. Long forgotten were
the robust ways of the ancient Greeks, who performed feats of strength and
skill during the first Olympics, which of course was the earliest
documented form of nude recreation.
However, as the colonial era gave way to a free and independent United
States of America, "radical thinkers," including Benjamin Franklin and
Henry David Thoreau, publicity lauded the benefits in daily naked walks, or
as they were called, "air baths." Other nudists of note included President
John Quncy Adams, who regularly bathed nude in the Potomac, as did the much
beloved fictional characters of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn who skinny dipped
with joy and abandon.
But these so-called radicals continued to remain a very small minority of
the population until the dawn of the 20th century brought more formal
nudism to America.
[end excerpt]
******************************************************************************
Nudity
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nudity
[excerpt]
Native Americans of southern California, men were usually naked, and women
were often topless. Native Americans of the Amazon Basin, usually went nude
or nearly nude; in many tribes, the only clothing worn was some device worn
by men to clamp the foreskin shut. However, other similar cultures have had
different standards. For example, other native North Americans generally
avoided total nudity, and the Native Americans of the mountains and west of
South America, such as the Quechua, kept quite covered.
[end excedrpt]
****************************************************************************
Young America' at UNC's Ackland to trace colonies' march to nationhood
By ANDY BERNER
Ackland Art Museum
http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/dec01/amer120301.htm
[excerpt]
The exhibition also features one bronze and seven marble sculptures,
including Hiram Powers’s famous "Greek Slave" (modeled 1841-43, carved ca.
1873), a work that summarizes the complicated situation of America’s
aspiring artists.
Powers was eager to demonstrate his command of the nude figure, which
European academies taught as the highest expression of art, but America’s
Puritan and Calvinist background made nudity controversial. By showing an
idealized figure of a woman enslaved and disrobed by barbarians against her
will, Powers avoided hinting at wanton sensuality. And by invoking the
subject of slavery, he alluded to Americans’ mounting concerns about an
issue that threatened their government's stability.
[end excerpt]
********************************************************************************
American Art
III From Independence to Civil War: 1783-1861
http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761563773_2/American_Art.html
[excerpt]
Hiram Powers, a sculptor from Vermont, also settled in Florence. His Greek
Slave (modeled 1841-1843, Smithsonian Institution) was the most admired
American sculpture produced before the Civil War. The nude manacled woman
has the posture of a classical Roman sculpture of Venus and represents
virtue or chastity. Nudity was acceptable in art if it represented a higher
ideal rather than a specific woman. In this case the figure represented a
Greek woman taken captive by the Turks, thus calling attention to
widespread fear of Ottoman (hence non-European) victory in the Greek War of
Independence in the 1820s.
[end excerpt]
*************************************************************************************
Quotes & things to think about..
http://clothesfree.com/quotes.html
Bathing led to nudity. Nudity led to promiscuity. So believed the colonial
lawmakers of Pennsylvania and Virginia. Philadelphia was especially strict
in those early years. You could be jailed there bathing more than once a
month.
********************************************************************************
Ablutions or Bathing, Historical Perspectives
http://www.wordinfo.info/words/index/info/view_unit/2701/?letter=A&spage=1
# Colonial America’s leaders deemed bathing impure, since it promoted
nudity, which could only lead to promiscuity.
# Laws in Pennsylvania and Virginia either banned or limited bathing. For a
time in Philadelphia, anyone who bathed more than once a month faced jail.
***************************************************************
You are invited to check out the following:
The Rise of the Theocratic States of America
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/theocracy.htm
American Theocrats - Past and Present
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/theocrats.htm
The Constitutional Principle: Separation of Church and State
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/index.html
[and to join the discussion group for the above site and/or Separation of
Church and State in general, listed below]
HRSepCnS · Hampton Roads [Virginia] SepChurch&State
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HRSepCnS/
[Its not just Hampton Roads folks who are members, there are members from
all over the US and a couple from overseas as well]
***************************************************************
.. . . You can't understand a phrase such as "Congress shall make no law
respecting an establishment of religion" by syllogistic reasoning. Words
take their meaning from social as well as textual contexts, which is why "a
page of history is worth a volume of logic." New York Trust Co. v. Eisner,
256 U.S. 345, 349, 41 S.Ct. 506, 507, 65 L.Ed. 963 (1921) (Holmes, J.).
Sherman v. Community Consol. Dist. 21, 980 F.2d 437, 445 (7th Cir. 1992)
.. . .
****************************************************************
USAF LT. COL (Ret) Buffman (Glen P. Goffin) wrote
"You pilot always into an unknown future;
facts are your only clue. Get the facts!"
That philosophy 'snipit' helped to get me, and my crew, through a good
many combat missions and far too many scary, inflight, emergencies.
It has also played a significant role in helping me to expose the
plethora of radical Christian propaganda and lies that we find at
almost every media turn.
*****************************************************************
THE CONSTITUTIONAL PRINCIPLE:
SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE

http://members.tripod.com/~candst/index.html
****************************************************************
.

User: "Christopher A. Lee"

Title: Re: Early America, Sex, Marriage, family #21 15 Oct 2006 07:12:34 AM
On Sun, 15 Oct 2006 08:06:13 -0400,
wrote:

PART 21
EARLY AMERICA
SEX, MARRIAGE, CHILDREN, GAYS, LESBIANS, BOYS AS GIRLS, ABORTION,
BREECHING, FAMILY AND OTHER MYTHS


NUDITY

Northern Europeans generally wore their shirts and shifts or more during
sex. Full nudity was uncommon until much after the colonial period. Full
nudity was described as "from nature," while a person wearing a shift was
"naked in [his, her] shift." "Undressed" was a state between nakedness and
dress.

Northern Europe was cold. The house's main room had a fire but not the
bedrooms.
.


  Page 1 of 1

1
 


Related Articles
 

NEWER
pg.3585     pg.2749     pg.2106     pg.1612     pg.1232     pg.940     pg.716     pg.544     pg.412     pg.311     pg.234     pg.175     pg.130     pg.96     pg.70     pg.50     pg.35     pg.24     pg.16     pg.10     pg.6     pg.3     pg.1

OLDER