PHILOSOPHY OF NUDITY AND SEX by Patrick Rotcivz

The human form, bestowed to us by God in his image, is a divine gift to mankind. The essence of the human form in its natural and pure state, as expressed in sexuality, is represented by nudity and sex. Sexuality is a gifted faculty for mankind to propagate love and the human species, and to transend to a higher level of consciousness. It is the most wonderous gift of God to man.

Ancient Sexual Meditation
Nudity and sex is a divine gift to be honoured, appreciated and enjoyed. While the body in its nude form is a physical channel to stimulate the emotions of sexuality, the act of sex, the copuation between the opposite gender, is a divine and spiritual communication and experience. When two devoted individuals join their physical and spiritual bodies together in sexual meditation they attain oneness in essence as they enter into the state of estasy and fulfilment. The attainment of joy and estacy, through the spiritual bonding, is the domain of God-state. The human form, nudity, and the act of coputalion, sex, is human dignity in its purest state of creation. Sex is an act of creation.

Egyptian
Throughout the ages, the beauty and the adoration of the human form of nudity and sex is expressed in many art forms and philosophy of numerous human cultures. The sacredness of sexuality have been ritualised even in ancient religious teachings and cultural practices. The Egyptian heiroglyphics (1) dating back about six thousand years is considered the oldest writings concerning human sexuality. Sexual knowledge blossomed in various ancient civilisations with their sexual practices and secrets that is revealed to us from the classics that we know today as Kama Sutra, Tentra, Taoism, etc.

Sensual
Yet the insensible prevails in our society today. The paradox is that human dignity as expressed in nudity and sex is despised and discriminated at in our society. This negative cultural attribute that we have inherited was born out of religious orthordoxy and ignorance.

It is deplorable that transgression against the very human dignity is perpetrated by the humankind themselves. The self gratifying pursuit of greed, lusts, and profits results in sexual abuses and crimes. The acts of abuse to nudity and sex without love and respect for the individual is a blatant violation of human dignity.

Exploitation, abuse and commercialisation of nudity and sex for lusts and profits gives nudity and sex the vulgarity and indecency it has earned. Resultant from the acts of transgression against the human dignity of nudity and sex and the misconception that grew from such indignation, cultures have evolved to be less open and prohibitive about sexuality.

Obvious extent of abuse to human dignity can be seen from the the norms of cultural values that we have inherited. Sexual discrimination and procecution against the weaker gender, taboos and superstitions, sexual prohibitions and reluctance to openly address matters of nudity and sex, are such manifestations.

Certain virtues were born into our society through religious orthordoxy and cultural inheritance out of the effects of such abuses and serious misconceptions. The practice and acts of celibacy, virginity, genital manupulation through male and female circumcision and gender dichotomy, discrimination and prosecution, are manifestations from patterns of historical abuses and misconceptions of humankind against sexuality.

It is ironical and yet not uncommon to witness in everyday life people shying away on sexual matters openly while secretly gratifying themselved in sexual pursuits, people being discreet and even hyocritical about their sexual preferences and obsessions (sexuality). What is more critical is the sexual prohibitions of cultures and religious sexual discrimination (2). Even the display of materials or talks, culturally done in good taste, on nudity and sex can be offensive to some people. To a serious extent, the exposure of parts of the human body like the hair and limbs are considered obscene, sinful and offensive by some fundamentalist fanatical religious adherants and societies (3). This behaviourial pattern is deeply ingrained in our societal fabrics.How did the problem start?

Humankind is to blame for its own misgivings and shortcommings. In the maze of living life, man has abused and discriminated against sexuality due to deficiency in his own perception of sensibility caused by his ignorance, self gratification and greed.

Generally man fails to recognise and appreciate that sexuality is a divine gift of God to humanity, and that it is part of God's divine plan for his creation. The misconception from religious orthordoxy and cultural heritage that nudity and sex is obscene and dirty grew out of the mind of man's perversiveness.

Secondly: Man fails to truly love his neighbours. Love is a strong affection, devotion, respect and compassion for another; an unselfish, loyal and benevolent concern for the good of another. Love is the highest form of emotion. Love is giving without expectation of receving. Yet man fails to truly love.

When one fails to truly love, one develops expectations and looks at the receiving end from his surroundings. He becomes selfish and sees his own needs and desires to be fulfilled without due regard and respect to others and without concern if he violates upon the the space of others to satisfy his selfish obsession and attachment.

The only cure, from the diagnosis of decay in our societal moral values, is through love and compassion. Only with true love and compassion can we eradicate this age old disease. If there is enough love in the world, in the society we live in, then all man created problems will cease to exist from the surface of the earth. However, the physical world that we live in has always been in a constant warring state of duality since the beginning of man's history.

This ideals will remain a utopia, until humanity as a collective consciousness recognise and accepts its own misgivings and shortcommings, and until enough education and love is given to humankind to evolve from the present state of collective human consciousness to a higher state of consciousness. Then and only then will society at large be able to address sexuality in an intelligent, open and responsible manner and encourage healthy sexual relationships rather than promote guilt about sexuality.