To Be Naked

To be naked is to be known. To be naked not in the physicality of seeing skin or to be gazed upon but rather naked inwardly, a disrobing of the soul. A soul, a human, a person without fig leaves or loin clothes to hide behind in judgment and shame. To be naked is to be vulnerable and to be vulnerable is to accept worthiness, accept love, accept acceptance. To be, rather than not be; vulnerable, loved and accepted is our birthright because we are alive.

These three gifts are are always present, patiently waiting to be believed in. True nakedness is subversive. It reveals the folly of a puritanical obsession with the prohibition of physical nudity. It is easier to cover or legislate the covering of skin than to do the psychological and spiritual work of uncovering true naked authenticity. With the manifestation of authentic nakedness - physical nakedness would loose its taboo. Even in a strip club where ample skin is available to be gazed upon, "... nudity is a costume. Some of the quest for authenticity that the customers were on was a result of this — they wanted to see that final costume drop away" (Virginia Vitzthum, G-strings and Ph.D.s, http://www.salon.com/2003/06/12/frank_7/%0A).

Is that not what we all want from our friends, lovers, family? All the costumes to drop away so our true selfs can breathe.