“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.
