thoughts on nudity and nakedness

these are just a few highlights from this incredibly profound blog post on nudity and nakedness (thank you Jared and Andrew):

"Nudity only requires the removal of clothes, but nakedness requires the removal of much more: our personal shields, our walls of solitude, the barriers we put up to keep others at a safe distance.

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We’re living in the most clothed period of time history has ever seen, but are we any more modest? Are we any more moral? Are family values any more protected?

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Surely all of who you who are married have been nude with your spouse, but how often are you genuinely naked with each other? How often do you deeply, humanly connect with the essence of who your spouse is?

And beyond marriage, how often do we as people deeply, humanly connect with each other? As friends, couples, even family, how often do we let ourselves be truly vulnerable with each other?"

I know I talk about this stuff a lot, but it's so important.


Actually connecting with each other is so important.

And in almost all of my relationships, even my super important ones, I feel like I lack a connectedness.


But I guess sometimes, in order to understand and desire a connectedness, we need to tangibly experience what we lack.