Nothing Sinful

This is me
This is my body
And there is nothing sinful about it

I took this selfportrat back in 2005 at the nudist resort. I had started going to nudist resorts just about a year before, and I wanted a picture of me nude next to my car, showing the front tag (that is just a smiley face). Of course I missed the tag in the photo!

At the time I didn't know it, but nudism was the way I was starting to deal with a phobia that I had carried for over 26 years. Gymnophobia, the fear of being seen naked.

I wanted to recover my right to walk naked under the sun or the moon, or to swim naked in the ocean or a pool. I wanted to be able to be naked with other people without caring. I wanted to be socially nude. This photo is a reflection of that, and I'm still amazed when I look at it. I still see it and think: "this is me, this is my body... and there is nothing sinful about it".

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