msmon:
See Picture Below;

A friend upload a picture on FB and tagged it 'Marriage or Madness', with majority of the people describing it absurd. I promptly searched via google if their is any culture that promote naked marriage.


Google Report:

Ashley Fonda, 27, married her Dating Naked costar
Alika Medeiros, 36, on Aug 6 in a non-traditional
wedding at the botanical gardens in Los Angeles.
Details Here: nymag.com/thecut/2014/08/dating-naked-leads-to-getting-married-naked.html

Questions:
What's your take on this?
Could Nigerians follow suite in future?

I strongly hope to get as many as possible responses, thanks as you share your opinion.

Cc:
maclatunji,
Seun,
Aisha2,
xcelsia,
Khaffi.

francizy:


I don't agree with you on the bolded man.. Seems like you don't use twitter or get stuffs of how Nigerian girls are joining the harsh tags #boobstuesday, #boobsmonday, #boobsthisday and #boobsthatday, and the mofuckerz are getting nude for those shits!
My advice to all men out there, before you get married, get to know all your wife IDs and names to her accounts, then search them up on Google using nuude with your search, if you don't see any nude pics of her on the internet, then go ahead and marry her..

crackhaus:

Really? The internet?

We talking real life n.udity, you talking twitter.

cococandy:

As usual you're going to join the league of those who like to blame every thing they perceive as evil on western influence. Africans are saints and all bad habits are learned from the west, utter bullshiit.

[s]The history of naturism or nudismm can be traced to almost all ancient civilizations. Especially those in the areas where the climate permitted it I.e Africa and all tropical areas. So it makes little or no sense to blame the west for nudism when it is clear their climate couldn't have let them be nudist the way we were even if they wanted to. Nudism in the west is a relatively new concept for them that started in the nineteenth century.[/s]

It just get really irksome when on every thread one stumbles upon, someone is saying the west did this or that to them. When will we take responsibility for what we also did to ourselves? Everything is the west. Eesh.

francizy:
Damn, what's the difference??

crackhaus:

I don't know where your rants are coming from…

rants .

Have I blamed the west for anything here?
Have I said Africans are saints?
Have I said naturism is evil?

yes. You implied nudism has western origins. Accept that you're wrong. Because even though we don't have a name for it or a movement for it,it is part of our culture that we have replaced with the western culture of prim and proper dressing.

Did you miss my first comment on this thread (not the one you quoted)?

I said I want only sexy women to practise naturism and my reference to Nigerian women in the comment you quoted is based on the premise that while copying modern western ideologies/movements, young Nigerian women conveniently left out the one that African men would actually like.

again the only ish I have with your post is that you think nudismm is a western movement/ideology. Which is the only thing I sought to correct.

I'm sorry, but where did you miss my point before going on a tangent about evil, saint, or blame?
You need to slow down yo!

the rest of my post about Africans being saint or whatever is more of a general statement like I did point out. It is so common around nairaland these days for every tom and Jude to ascribe everything to western influence . It is like that's the new cool these days.


Go and do a quick research before coming up with theories off the top of your head - don't rely on what you think.

i had already given you a little lecture that nudism as a movement is a relatively new concept in the west that started in the nineteenth century. But is so not new to Africa. Rather Africans are fighting had to maintain western mode of dressing. So next time you want to ascribe nudismm to the west,remember where they got it from. I think you're the one who needs to go read up in the subject.

Naturism is a movement, it has a historical timeline that has absolutely nothing to do with Africa.

the movement itself has nothing to do with Africa because nudism is already a part of our culture hence no need to begin a movement to try make us more comfortable in our naykeddness..


Come back tomorrow and read this thread from the top - then ask yourself where you got your 'blame the west for the evils of naturism' interpretation.

you may not see it as evil. But you certainly think it is a western influence. Which is not true.

I'm pretty sure you're projecting


hello kettle. How are you .

cococandy:

rants

yes.
You implied nudism has western origins. Accept that you're wrong. Because even though we don't have a name for it or a movement for it, it is part of our culture that we have replaced with the western culture of prim and proper dressing.

again the only ish I have with your post is that you think nudismm is a western movement/ideology. Which is the only thing I sought to correct.

the rest of my post about Africans being saint or whatever is more of a general statement like I did point out. It is so common around nairaland these days for every tom and Jude to ascribe everything to western influence . It is like that's the new cool these days.

i had already given you a little lecture that nudism as a movement is a relatively new concept in the west that started in the nineteenth century. But is so not new to Africa. Rather Africans are fighting had to maintain western mode of dressing. So next time you want to
ascribe nudismm to the west,remember where they got it from. I think you're the one who needs to go read up in the subject.

the movement itself has nothing to do with Africa because nudism is already a part of our culture hence no need to begin a movement to try make us more comfortable in our naykeddness..

you may not see it as evil. But you certainly think it is a western influence. Which is not true.

But not to worry, It can't work in a country like
Nigeria where people (especially women) still see their unclothedness as a price to be won - their modernity from western influence doesn't extend to this.

hello kettle. How are you.

crackhaus:

Absolutely.


Please point us to where crackhaus said Africans are saints, or that naturism is evil.

Now do you understand why I say you're projecting?

It's called naturism and it is a social movement in the west - when was naturism ever part of our culture?
In the old Sokoto Caliphate, Oyo empire, Benin empire, and kingdom of Nri, did people walk around completely n.aked without fabrics to cover up?

Do you even know what naturism entails?


What is naturism, when and where did the movement begin to gain prominence?

Don't correct what you're not certain of yourself - I would like you to answer the above question explicitly.


Then you shouldn't have typed any of that to me, I'm not responsible for what every Tom and Jude ascribes to western influence on Nairaland.

Projecting!


Sorry darling, you need the lecture yourself - naturism did not begin in the nineteenth century.

Like I said before, do a research on it and not guess or assume off the top of your head the reason why/how it started.


Does this even make sense to you?

Like I asked before, when was naturism part of our culture?


Ohh I thought you already answered yes when you claimed I said naturism is evil, or are you losing track of yourself?

This is what I typed:

It is a western ideology/movement that hasn't influenced Africans, ergo, it can become western influence if it does.

How can I think something is a western influence when it hasn't influenced Nigerians?

Naturism is a western movement/ideology because it has it's beginnings in the west.


Hi pot, quote your next response properly so I can respond easily.

cococandy:
No the ideology of naturism wasn't relevant to us because we as a people have nudist traditions. You don't go seeking what you already have. I think I've already answered any questions you have so I'm just gonna give up and save myself some precious time and not go repeating what I already said.

Yay Crackhaus no longer belongs to the "western influence" crew.

Well it won't be long before I catch you again blaming western influence for one more thing.

You're I don't know what naturism entails.

crackhaus:

Don't try to front, I was never part of any western influence crew - that's you projecting and making stuff up.

My argument on that topic by 5minsmadness was on the right versus wrong regarding the lady's dress sense, I never even typed the words western or west once on that thread - you can go confirm.
You won't catch me slipping on this boards by changing goalposts on the same subjects.

BTW Cococandy, you have not answered these questions before;
- What is naturism and where did it begin?

- In the old Sokoto Caliphate, Oyo empire, Benin empire, and kingdom of Nri, did people walk around completely n.aked without fabrics to cover up?

- When was naturism part of Nigerian culture?

By the time you answer these questions, you would realize you didn't know what naturism really entailed.

As a bonus question;
- Name one ethnic group in Nigeria you know of that had no single piece of fabric/clothing on their body, ergo, the grownups walked around completely butt n.aked from head to toe

cococandy:
I've answered your question.