Nakedness

Nakedness is not something to be celebrated or flaunted -- it is to be pitied.

Protecting Our Daughters 2009

The stories are full of striking passages – the eroticism and awkwardness of Joan's undressing in front of her husband long after the sex has seeped out of their relationship in "Nakedness"; the vulnerabilities that are exposed in "Giving Blood"; the uneasy heat of "Wife-Wooing" – and Updike's rich prose, his rhythmic, acute, fertile and, at times, even somewhat glutting use of language.

The Maples Stories by John Updike 2010

"Marching Through Boston" and "Nakedness" most directly chronicle the Maple marriage in conflict with social change, in the former case the civil rights movement and in the latter the sexual revolution.

Updike, John 2010

Nakedness actually is everything to be respected, admired, appreciated and even a touch of thankfulness for the opportunity of being alive - all these are intrinsic values and not any of them focus on the outwared and so-called "nudity."

Bill Henson Nude Teen Controversy 2008

Nakedness focuses on intrinsic elements such as: purity and as one gent already shared earlier, innocence, beauty, health, peace, safety, calm, serenity and mostly being comfortable within ones own skin.

Bill Henson Nude Teen Controversy 2008

Full of passionate daring and personal hutzpa, only a poet could have written The Nakedness of the Fathers.

Alicia Suskin Ostriker. 2009

There is a Cuddle License that is easier to get, and a Seeing the House/Me Without Me Spending 5 Hours Cleaning It License, a Safe Nakedness Space License for people with whom nudity without expectations or weirdness is possible, a Hearing Me Sing License, a Gentle Human License, for people I am deeply comfortable around, whose simple presence doesn't cost me extrovert energy--harder to get, but possible.

Tweets for Today yuki_onna 2009

Nakedness does not always arouse the baser instincts.

Archive 2009-06-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2009

As she had in The Nakedness of the Fathers, Ostriker once again engages the Bible as both a source and an object of her creativity.

Alicia Suskin Ostriker. 2009

Eight years later, in The Nakedness of the Fathers, subtitled Biblical Visions and Revisions, she extends her passionate inquiry to the situation of the Jewish woman, who for thousands of years has been denied her selfhood and forbidden to speculate about the meaning of biblical myth and legend.

Alicia Suskin Ostriker. 2009