Natural Humanists celebrate all the physical variations and contrasts that make up human-kind, and its natural beauty. They usually prefer to maintain their bodies in a natural state, avoiding all unnatural body-modifications, including plastic surgery, Botox®, tattoos, hair-colouring, piercings, circumcision and female genital mutilation or modification.
However, they acknowledge and celebrate the fact that Natural Humanists come from every type of background, lifestyle, culture, religious tradition and belief, and they welcome anybody with such body changes, with love, acceptance and absolute respect, as they do all other human beings, including those who were born intersex, or who are trans-gender, whose bodies they consider to be beautiful, whether or not they’ve chosen to have surgery, or to take hormone supplements, and also those born with a physical difference, or whose body has been affected by a genetic condition, birth trauma, injury, surgery, amputation or disease. They always value diversity hugely more than uniformity, and believe that variety, and individuality, adds very significantly to the world’s beauty.
Natural Humanists celebrate all the natural differences between human beings, seeing this as part of the rich variety of nature, and they also celebrate the natural changes that occur to the body over time, from puberty, to pregnancy, to childbirth and eventually to the gradual, natural ageing of the body.
They believe that the human body is a ‘gift of nature’, and they seek to respect their own, and other people’s bodies, and to take care of their physical and mental health, and ideally to eat healthily, although they celebrate the fact that all human beings are born free, and so are free to eat and drink whatever they choose, and in whatever quantities they choose, without judgement.
However, they acknowledge that, for the first time in human history, capitalism and unnecessary wealth, has resulted in a major change, from most people in the world being of a healthy weight, to most people today being overweight or obese.
They believe that all human beings should be fully aware of the effects of their choices to over-consume on their body shape, health, mobility and lifespan, and that they should acknowledge their moral responsibility to teach their children to eat and live healthily, and in moderation, not least because of the negative effects of over-consumption on the planet, the environment and other species.
They acknowledge that over-consumption leads to the irresponsible use of potentially wild biodiverse land, and wastes the limited supply of natural fresh water, to grow unnecessary food that’s not required for their healthy balanced nutrition, and, at the same time, it increases their carbon footprint and causes unnecessary pollution, including from any fertilisers and pesticides.
Natural Humanists acknowledge how much happiness the sight of a healthy human body can bring to other human beings, particularly in its natural naked state. Because of this, and the fact that they consider their own body to be a beautiful ‘gift of nature’, they believe they have a lifelong duty to share its beauty with every other human being who wishes to see, experience and enjoy it, in the same way that every human being is free to see, experience and enjoy every other beautiful form of nature, throughout their life.
They believe they have a lifelong duty to maintain this ‘gift’ in its most healthy, natural and beautiful state, for their own, and for every other human being’s benefit, and that this can be achieved through frequent meaningful physical activity, which is also highly beneficial for their health and longevity, while maximising their body’s physical beauty and their own and other people’s happiness.