Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site cuuxa.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxj!mhuxn!ihnp4!nwuxg!cuuxc!cuuxa!frye From: frye@cuuxa.UUCP (frye) Newsgroups: net.kids Subject: nudity and kids Message-ID: <219@cuuxa.UUCP> Date: Tue, 9-Jul-85 04:03:47 EDT Article-I.D.: cuuxa.219 Posted: Tue Jul 9 04:03:47 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 3-Jul-85 20:29:08 EDT Distribution: net Organization: AT&T Technologies CSD, Lisle, Il. Lines: 43 This is in responce to Charlie Perkins' posting requesting information on nudity and its affects on kids. All I know on the subject I read from Doctor Spock. I believe he tends to overdramatize the situation a little. (He doesn't believe in exposing kids to nude adults at all. Ever.) He says that the only nudity a child should be exposed to is other nude children. My personal belief is this: Don't let a child see anything he/she will have questions about regarding sex 'til such a time as the child can ask those questions an under- stand the answers. Here's something I'll throw in just for humor value. When I was about "tricycle motor" size many women wore slacks that zipped and buttoned at the side. Now that made me a little curious since I unzipped in front to go to the can. How in the heck did they build women anyway? Add to that the fact that some of those slacks zip up on the left and some on the right... I finally asked my dad. He told me women weren't built like us guys and weren't supposed to be. He said that it didn't matter where the zipper was just so long as they could get the pants down. Some even close up in the back. He told me he'd explain more when I was a little older and more apt to understand. I ended up learning in other ways (books, friends, the usual) and got him off the hook. I look back on these wonderings with a bit of humor now but, back then I was scratching my head and wondering what was going on. Now back to the question. I am no authority on the subject, I just believe in the KISS theory. (Keep It Simple, Stupid) I don't believe in creating questions in a child intention- ally unless they can ask them and get an answer. Thanks for indulging my ramblings, T. R. Frye