Hilary Swank sleeps in the nude. Just ask her boyfriend's 6-year-old son
Hilary Swank -- who plays pioneering aviatrix Amelia Earhart in the new film "Amelia" -- walks around nude in front of her boyfriend's son.
He's 6.
In the new issue of Marie Claire, Hilary admits that she always sleeps in the nude because she tosses and turns too much and gets "all twisted up" in clothes.
"Well, my boyfriend's son is 6 years old, and you wonder at what age you should stop walking around nude," she says. "Every morning he comes into the bedroom, and you're just nude. But he doesn't look twice; he doesn't think about it yet."
Doesn't think about it yet? Hmmm. Really?
Oh, we can see a tell-all book about being forced to see his daddy's girlfriend nude every morning in about 30 years.
What do you think about Hilary's remark that he "doesn't think about it yet?" At what age should parents stop the nudity?
Or should they ever? Tell us your thoughts on the naked truth.
Read the whole Marie Claire article and see a photo gallery here.
Photo credit: Marie Claire
Dear Ms. Swank,
At about 5-7 years old, kids' sexual development is focused on physical differences between the sexes. This is the stage where "playing doctor" or "I'll show you mine if you show me yours" curiosity games are common. So the answer to your question is, yes, this is the age. Because kids are usually taught at age 2 to keep their clothes on. By 5-7, starting to teach kids about "privacy", "privates", "good touch/bad touch" is about the norm. So just lock your bedroom door.
As a naturist who believes in the fundamental wholesomeness of the natural human body, I am sickened by the sleazy tone of this article. Ms. Snead needs to realize that lots of families who have a healthy acceptance of their bodies are often nude at home with none of the sexual overtones that Ms. Snead and Godot assume.
Naturist kids learn to keep their clothes on in public, but home offers another level of freedom. How people choose to dress, or not, in their own homes is nobody's business but their own.
Dear Readers,
As a divorced father of a son living in NYC please let me say that beyond exhibiting bad judgement I can only imagine how the attorney for Ms. Swank's boy friend is cringing while reading this article. Family Court will certainly be the first venue that the child's mother will run to and it is fairly likely that whoever this guy is will find himself with a reduced or supervised visitation schedule. What's wrong with people. Wait until the child's mother hears Ms. Swank is walking around in the nude in front of the child. Just stupid.
The bigger problem children face is the bullies that confront them every day at school. When a kid has to go to school, despite knowing that once again the bully will hunt him / her down ... these are the things that you need to focus on if you sincerely are concerned about what a child's tell all book will show what he was forced to see everyday.
However, when we talk about bullies, articles like this where you attempt to exalt your esteem by belittling Hillary Swank is a junior-high level mentality that you really can grow out of when you choose.
Step being the bully. Leave this family, this household alone.
Nudity: God's sculpture: what can be wrong about it?
The article and some of the comments are a major reason why the USA often seems a haven for self-righteous, bigoted nonsense. They play right into the insupportable agenda of those who see every story about children and nudity as another opportunity to promote groundless fear and loathing.
Yes, let's protect children by declaring every adult a sexual predator. Let's make kids afraid of bodies---adults', their own, everyone's. Let's teach them to grow up with the debilitating body shame and phobia and sexual hypocrisy and crime that we so love to lead the world in.
The comment by Rich Pasco above needs to be reread a few times. Some people understand, fortunately.
Isn't this ILLEGAL??!!! She is NOT this child's parent! I seriously hope Children's Services investigates this father! How dare either of them allow this kind of thing to happen! I just hope someone in this child's life has enough sense to put an end to this before it does major psychological damage!!
Common sense dictates, If there were some possible harm to come to a species that saw its own members in their natural form, unclad by articial means. I doubt that life would still exsist on this planet.
I remember an article in Redbook some years ago whereby psychologists were sureveyed about this issue. American psychologists were split on the issue of a child seeing an adult nude. European psychologists were baffled by the question. Huh? Kids harmed by the sight of nudity? They couldn't understand it as an issue at all. No, they opined, children are not harmed by the sight of nudity. Violence, verbal or physical, inflicted by one adult upon another -- now that causes psychological harm.
One study of children raised as nudists found that they initiate sexual activity at a later age than their textile peers, are far less promiscuous, and tend to develop deeper and healthier relationships as adults.
What are some people afraid of, themselves? If they have problems or fears, do they (e.g. Godot, K Collins, Patricia above) have to cast their ignorance on everyone else?
Ah yes, telling others what to do based on nonsense is so much easier than admitting your error.
America has a serious sex obsession, manifested partly by many people enthusiastically seeking sexual problems where they don't exist.