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Manifesto: This text is intended as a guide for all enthusiastic Naktivpeople and attempts to define the Naktiv community in a meaningful way.
Even the word manifesto is appropriate for the 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 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 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 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 educate society that the naked human body is acceptable in all contexts.
- A responsibility to educate society concerning nakedness.
The 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 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 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 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 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: naktiv.manifesto[at]naktiv.net .
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