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The Naktiv Society

The Society is here to support the burgeoning Naktiv movement, and to encourage Naked Activities everywhere, in particular via the formation of the Federation. Article 10 (Freedom of Thought, Conscience and Religion) and Article 11 (Freedom of Expression and Information) of the European Commission on Human Rights' implicitly concur with the freedom of choice for citizens to be naked and to be able to express themselves in the public arena - we need to encourage people to realise, and to ensure authorities formally recognise, this point. Here's the relevant paragraph with a little judicious highlighting applied to the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union:

Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion. This right includes freedom to change religion or belief and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or in private, to manifest religion or belief, in worship, teaching, practice and observance.

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 Society, as it means to make public, in latin.

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To support and encourage naked activities everywhere.
1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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 inform and educate society concerning the acceptability of the naked human body.
1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
1. 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.
2. 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 .

...If Man were Meant to be Naked, he would have been Born Naked
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