“Textilism” is a term meant to replace and improve upon the short comings of the term “
non-nudism”
1.
Noun:
The sexually motivated belief that
people should wear clothes for the purpose of concealing their bodies, especially the genitals, buttocks, and
female breasts.
2.
Noun:
A culturally and/or religiously ingrained fixation on oversexualizing and concealing the
human body, emphasizing the concealment of the genitals, buttocks, and female breasts.
3.
Noun:
The pseudopathological fixation on the concealment of the
human body which is itself a concealed obsession with sexualizing
people, and then trying to avoid all thoughts and feelings about sex, to the extent of structuring society around coercing everyone into living their lives as slaves to society's sexual objectification of them.
Textilist concealment is most often achieved through the use of textiles (clothing). Textilism is most often practiced to the extent of using government-sanction coercion to force all
people to conceal themselves.
1.
Noun:
Textilism enjoys a long history of privileged status as it has been widely accepted as normal, is rarely questioned, has faced minimal opposition, and is widely forced on
people by the threat of government violence.
2.
Noun:
The fight for the rights of breastfeeding mothers and the rights of bare-chested women are two highly publicized examples of challenges that textilism has faced.
3.
Noun:
Textilism encourages
people to oversexualize the
human body, and to project those beliefs and feelings onto non-textilists.
