| Author | Message | ||
     Anonymous |
I believe that social nudism is a cult. Not that someone might enjoy social nudism by skinny dipping in a creek or being nude around home. But the organized nudist movement is sort of a cult with lingo, forced conformity, and often secret activity. Nudists often segregate from "textiles" or non-nudists. I used to attend a nudist club in Ohio but I soon saw the cultish aspects of that organization. I think every club is different. http://www.netnude.com (see the message board). These people seem to be at war with textiles and often espouse a politically correct mindset. | ||
| Yaakov |
]the organized nudist movement is sort of a cult with lingo, forced conformity, and often secret activity. Nudists often segregate from "textiles" or non-nudists. Special lingo, conformity, and political causes are not indicators of a cult. This broad of a net would include any professional organization, such an Engineers' Association. The homepage of this website list some common properties of Potentially Destructive and Dangerous Cults 1) The cult is authoritarian in its power structure. 2) The cult's leaders tend to be charismatic, determined, and domineering. They persuade followers to drop their families, jobs, careers, and friends to follow them. They (not the individual) then take over control of their followers' possessions, money, lives. 3) The cult's leaders are self-appointed, messianic persons who claim to have a special mission in life. 4) The cult's leaders center the veneration of members upon themselves. 5) The cult tends to be totalitarian in its control of the behavior of its members. 6) The cult tends to have a double set of ethics. 7) The cult has basically only two purposes, recruiting new members and fund-raising. 8) The cult appears to be innovative and exclusive. | ||
| Anonymous |
yes, but some destructive groups, like the Rainbow Family of Living Light (please see the thread on this board about them)use nudism as a form of social conformity. In a Rainbow Gathering I attended in the 1990's, a bunch of ADULT MEN humiliated a 12 year old girl who didn't want to take off her clothes in public in front of about 50 people. That is not an isolated incident. The girl's parents took her away from Rainbow Family Gatherings after that. Does this also happen at strictly naturist/nudist groups too? | ||
| getagrip Intermediate Member Username: getagrip Post Number: 443 Registered: 6-2005 Posted From: 72.77.188.86 |
One thing I hate about Nudist cults is how, when you are around them, you always wind up looking at people who you would really rather not see naked. |
