The Naktiv Society
The Naktiv Society is here to support and to encourage Naked Activities
everywhere -
Manifesto: This text is intended as a guide for all enthusiastic Naktiv
people and attempts to define the Naktiv community in a meaningful way. Even
the word
manifesto
is appropriate for the Naktiv Society, as it means to make public, in
latin.
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- To support and encourage naked activities everywhere.
- To encourage naked activities.
The Naktiv Society believes strongly that being naked is ok, in all contexts and
thus encourages nakedness in everyday life. This does not mean that everyone
has to be naked if they do not wish to be, or even that naktiv people must
always be naked. This does mean however that those who want to be naked at any
given time can be.
- To facilitate the organising of naked activities.
The Naktiv Society encourages people to take part in naked activities
by providing contact points to groups who meet for naked events.
- To be a reference source for naked activities.
The Naktiv Society will maintain a central and accessible source of reference
material, historical and up-to-date where possible, covering nakedness in
private and in public spheres.
- To inform and educate society concerning the naked human body.
- A responsibility to educate society concerning nakedness.
The Naktiv Society will attempt to clarify the rights of each and every
individual to be naked, or to be clothed, or anything in between, without
prejudice, and believes everyone has the right to look away if they see
something they do not like.
This point is essentially about social freedom.
- To show how healthy and non-shameful the naked human body is.
The Naktiv Society shall demonstrate, using graphic and textual references where
possible, how being naked is a positive action with beneficial mental and
physical aspects for the whole of human society.
- To attempt to disassociate society's automatic linking of sex and violence and the media with nudity.
Nudity is often associated with sex through pornography, linked to selling
goods via advertising in the media, and bound to violence in films and on
television. The Naktiv Society aims to separate plain nudity from all the
violence and sex and commercialism - this may sound like a big target, (and it
is), but every mountain can only be climbed by taking the first step of many.
- To decriminalize the naked human body.
- To formalize the freedom of choice to wear, or not, clothes.
The freedom to wear clothes, or to wear particular clothes, or to wear no
clothes, is an individual and inalienable right of each and every person on the
planet earth, and there should be no law of any land which may be mis-used by
the loud and rightous minority to dictate how anyone else chooses to dress. To
this end the Naktiv Society will work with the legal system to formalize this
situation.
- To offer advice, and to recommend actions, against negative pressure to being naked.
Where people are being pressured to dress, or to dress in a particular manner,
to conform to some arbitrary and so-called standard, the Naktiv Society will
offer advice and recommend ways to resist this pressure where possible. Civil
disobedience and Ghandi's succesful non-violent resistence approach springs to
mind as a starting point.
This is currently a work in progress, and the author/s appreciate your
feedback. Send your comments to: naktivism.manifesto[at]nakedeurope.org .
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