Hilary Swank: I Allow a Six Year-Old to See Me Nude

She is hot. It is more of a social problem that people seem to think the world is their bedroom and go around dressing like slobs everywhere.

oh thank you for pointing this out, i was beginning to think i saw the interview wrong. this girl has got some growing up to do, not to mention why the heck this dad is keeping an eye on anything but what is walking naked around his place!

Have you ever seen Hilary Swank and Matt Damon in the same room together?

Think about it.

She isn't naive she is rebeling against her parents who were total squares. You know Daddy was the alpha hard guy and Mom made sure the house was clean and did the socializing and made sure her kids looked nice, had manners. Apparently Hillary felt constrained in learning DISCIPLINE….but I digress…

And I have been wondering about that to John……..could Hillary Swank and Matt Damon be the same person…?

That is matter anti-matter meeting. It would be the end of the universe.

Someone ask the boy if the carpet matches the drapes? Inquiring minds want to know.

She looks like Matt Damon in drag.

Seriously, I don't get the sudden obsession with women who have lantern jaws: Swank, Olivia Wilde … is it the whole metrosexuality thing?

What's the big deal? Kids who grow up in nudist/naturist environments are far healthier than kids who are repressed. It's just the human body, it's no big deal! Nudity does not equal sex!!!

personal freedom taken to the extreme is tyranny. this is a perfect example of that concept.

while i am fond / tolerant of the conservative version of "soft libertarianism" the libertarian movement needs to acknowledge and remember to keep balance in "freedom" issues.

this is why i espouse conservative concepts. freedom cannot survive without virtue. absolute freedom will devolve into tyranny just as the other side of the argument that pushes "equality for all" devolves into a type of marxist tyranny.

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I have to agree with Joe. It really does depend on what is "normal" for kids. In a culture where clothes are optional nudity really isn't sexual. NOW, that said, this isn't *our* culture. And in my experience, with my four kids, they sort of seem to discover modesty for themselves at about age seven. Now…mutual nudity in our household ended about the time the kids outgrew diapers, so we're far from nudist sorts but I still wouldn't start to worry too much about the kids *until* they're somewhere around, yes, six or seven. By then they'll be aware of their own modesty and be aware that the cultural norm is actually for clothes.

At 6, he will find the nude adult female strangely compelling. He won't know why, but he will. He is way too old for her to be naked in front of.

That is a lucky six year old.

And a very niave and self indulgent airhead giving him the peep show. It sounds to me like she does it on purpose (like her comments) for the attention. What a surprise…

Well, it's time to stop walking around nude. If it was okay before, it isn't since he started school. Trust me, he will mention it to a classmate and get the sexuality introduced into it. Learned my first dirty joke in first grade. Sneaking around with a friend's dad's Playboy at second grade. And that was in the much more benign late sixties. Or was it just harder to get exposed to this stuff.

I'm 50/50 on this one. My family owns a sauna, and we often did coeds. However, at about the age 6 – 8 we'd do just boys or just girls, no more coed. People still give me grief about seeing my parents nude. For the life of me I don't even remember anything. It's silly to make a big deal about it.

HOWEVER- this 6 year old boy is not her child. All he sees is a naked woman sleeping with his dad. That to me is pretty damn unacceptable, and pretty gross. Not to mention, unless you're bathing, why are you nude? Ugh, yucky!

If this was her own child or guardian than I feel that she should have the choice in a decision of clothing or not but considering this is her boyfirends child some restraint and ethics should be used here, one would think

I dunno, Patrick Swayze and Keanu Reeves made a movie together. If that "cosmic convergence of cheesiness" (as Mike Nelson called it) didn't end the world I don't think anything man made can.

This the kinda gross i gotta say attactive girl but well i don't know boyfriend mean's nothing these day's in hollywood it's more like boy toy. It just get's worse everyday and so on a bad example for kid's a very bad example.

I suggest she expand her outreach and give the rest of us a peek.

They purposely chose and unflattering picture here. I think she looked good in Million Dollar Baby.

Having "a square go with your dad" reminded me right away of Police Academy 2, when Kirkland's father and brother pounded the crap out of each other. Could only find it in Deutche. Still just as funny and psycho

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8a0plVRiTQ

There are numerous studies done that show that children who are exposed to sexuality at a young age – witnessing or being victim of a sex act, seeing pornography, seeing naked members of the opposite sex, etc. – is really damaging to their future growth. It affects their relationships and their perceptions about all sorts of things. Many of these kids end up as substance abusers or petty criminals.

But I think what is most disconcerting about this whole thing is that the boy's father doesn't seem to see anything wrong with it. At what point does he man up and say, "hey, put some clothes on around my kid"? He's a parent. It's his job to protect his child.

Ok. His dad is sleeping with a woman who is not his mother, and not his diad's wife. She sleeps naked and the little boy sees her naked.

This is American' values, Obama-style. Don't get all wee-wee'd up.

I have a son and all I can say is ewwwwwww! Not something I would have wanted in his memory bank as a grown up

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Ever see the billboard that shows kids on a bus. It has the caption, "This bus driver knows who your child has a crush on. Do you?" or something like that. As an elementary school bus driver, I overhear LOTS. I can tell you that they are thinking sexually. It may be immature and silly…but they ARE thinking it. Just a couple of days ago, I had one kid tell me that another kid was talking about "hunching pillows". A couple of months ago, I had a PRE-K child telling other kids she wanted to have sex with them. She was a bit more graphic than I care to share here. When I reported it to the vice-principal, we both were wondering just what in the world has this kid been exposed to.

You may be the progenitor of three, but you have no idea how to be a father, nor have you an understanding of children.

There is nothing inherently wrong with nudity. In this modern USA culture we seem to make a big thing about it. The more perverted and sensational the better for the media likes it! Everyday nudiity gets rather boring over time. Anyone who lives in or visits a nudist park will tell you that. Also, consider that societies have been naked or nude for centuries, all with few problems, if any. It isn't so much the state of our dress, as it is the state of our minds. Doesn't it say in the bible that God created Adam and Eve in his own image? It must have been good because women keep having babies and most of them are born naked. Is there any truth to the saying that "If God wanted mankind to run around naked, he would have made him that way!"

I'm in my 40s but I vividly remember quite a bit from my childhood quite vividly, not only what I did and what happened to me but what people told me and what I was thinking at the time. If you want, I can go on for pages writing the things I remember so it's not just really notable experiences but I remember very mundane stuff like realizing I could ask for water from my crib, really hearing the crickets for the first time and wondering what they were, sitting with my parents watching Star Trek and wishing they'd change that boring show to watch something more fun (the episode was That Which Survives and I was 3 at the time it aired on NBC), and negotiating with my parents to get rid of my bottle by the time I was 4 because big boys didn't use bottles (I didn't want to switch to cups because cups could spill and I'd get yelled at for that — kids today get sippy cups). These aren't things my parents told me after the fact (my mother died before I turned 7) and the memories are so specific I can tell you where people and things were in the room and what things looked like (that's how I know which Star Trek episode it was — that episode has a very distinct look to it).

Other things I remember vividly? I remember being potty trained. I remember not wanting to wipe myself and trying to keep getting my parents to do it because they seemed to have an easier time cleaning me than I did cleaning myself. My mother tried to teach me to wipe front to back from behind, which I never understood at the time now I do understand it. I remember the white plastic seat that my parents bought for the toilet and the removable shield, which I also remember being told that it came off because little girls didn't need it and wondering about that. I remember a little girl peeking in on me through the vent slats on the door as I used the single user bathroom in my kindergarten class the first and only time (we normally used to big bathroom across the hall several times a day), because I had developed diarrhea. The name Hillary comes to mind when I picture her face. I also remember a younger neighbor girl using our bathroom with the door open and me struggling simultaneously with the a compelling (as Buck_Turgidson described it well) curiosity to watch her and guilt over wanting to watch her because I knew it was naughty that worked out in my little 4 or 5 year old brain into awkwardly telling my mother and her mother that she shouldn't leave the door open because it was attracting me to watch (heck, it's still feel the same uncomfortable awkwardness writing about it here, but I think it's too relevant and important to the topic at hand avoid).

In other words, I can not only remember things I did back to when I was 2 or 3 but I can even remember what I was thinking at the time and I know for certain that I had rudimentary sexual awareness and curiosity certainly by the time I was 6. Heck, one of the first words I learned was the name of another neighbors youngest daughter who would come over and play with me and I'd call her name because I had a crush on her. And based on what I remember other children saying and doing before and during kindergarten, I'm fairly certain I wasn't a one-off freak in that regard. And then there was Jimmy in second grade, the great artistic kid who was able to draw (what I realize now were) anatomically correct adult genitalia on the cute little naked cherubic valentine couple popular in the early 1970s. He must have been 7 or 8 at the time. How do you think he learned that and when? Do you really think little boys change that much in a year or two from 6 to 7 or 8?

There was a segment on 20/20 several years ago where they took a bunch of young boys pretty young (maybe 6-8) whose parents let them watch movies with sexually suggestive jokes who fervently believed that the adult jokes would go over their heads, much as Hillary Swank thinks her nudity goes over the boy's head, and they put the boys in a room alone with a hidden camera with the movie Ace Ventura: Pet Detective on a TV and when the parents heard what their sweet little boys were saying with no adults in the room their jaws dropped to the floor. The children got a lot of it. I don't know what leads adults to believe that children are so naive and oblivious (perhaps extreme discomfort at the idea of children thinking sexually) but I clearly remember having a great deal of curiosity and picked up on a great many things by the time I was 6, even if I didn't fully understand what I was seeing or feeling all of the time and got some things very wrong. At 1 or 2, it's reasonable to assume that children won't notice or understand things because their brains aren't fully wired yet (few people remember anything before they are 2). But at 6? You can't just assume it's going over their heads.

Proof that celebs have mental disorders

This column couldn't possibly be more right on. As an adult (or even as a teenager), I couldn't wish for anything more than a nude Hillary Swank walking around my house (especially not related to me). As a child, such a thing interferes with your natural development. We tend to look at these things too much from our adult perspective, but the fact is that it alters the way that child will view sexuality in perpetuity. It will alter the way he treats little girls in his pre-pubescent years, and it will probably alter the way he views girls as a teenager (like we need any more encouragement to look at women as sex objects?). If this was a 35 year-old man parading in front of a 6 year-old girl naked (one who wasn't related to him), the cops would be there in 15 minutes and we'd all applaud them. At some point we have to stop acting like sexualizing boys is a good thing, even if we remember back to those days of emerging sexuality fondly ourselves.

Of course if Hillary wants to parade around my house naked, I agree to take full responsibility for the consequences to my psyche.

Really, would you expect anything less from another piece of hollywood shit ?

Swank? I think you meant "skank".

LOL come to think of it, I haven't.

I think that you are correct, in that, that is NOT her son. Hell I've seen my mother nude while growing up, I mean who hasn't. But it wasn't an every day thing, and again it is my mother, not my dad's ole lady. Sounds to me that she, Swank, is going for Hollywood shock cred.

It's not sudden for me. I've always found such women attractive. I'll ignore the inferred slight to my masculinity.

I don't get why big-breasted blondes like Pamela Anderson are so obsessed over. But some folks obviously do. No skin off my nose.

Joe, let me pose this question – if you divorced and your exwife had a boyfriend who slept over. How would you feel if your 6 year old daughter entered the bedroom and the boyfriend's, excuse me, franks and beans were all out in the open? Would you be so open that it is okay she sees that? Would you let yourself be seen naked by a friend's 6 year old boy or girl?

She's not the boy's mother and they are not a family. She is merely boffing the boy's father and shame on HIM for 1) parading daddy's latest conquest around, which has got to confuse the heck out of his son and for 2) not telling Hills to cover up around his child.

There's a psychotherapist in Beverly Hills who's going to get rich off of that kid.

The kid will get confused and maybe belligerent when he expects all other women/girls to give him a free peep show.

We *are* racists when we are born. At least we do have, inherently, a mistrust of the "other" because that is a survival instinct that works and has worked for a million years. So it would be more accurate to say that we are to some extent, by nature, xenophobic. We are also, by nature, and for the same reason, fascinated and drawn to the "other" because that also has significant survival advantages.

This is just a nit, you understand.

And modesty is far different from shame.

BTW, it's a terrible, horrible thing if a child is sexually abused, but equating the secret, don't-tell-anyone-or-else, shame of sexual abuse with a casual acceptance of social nudity is ridiculous.

If it's family or public bathing in Japan or topless beaches in Europe, it's not going to scar a child for life any more than if they've grown up in tribal Africa and all the women go topless.

My ick factor in Swank's situation kicks in just because she's sleeping with her "boyfriend" with his kid around. That would be the same if she wore flannel jammies with feet.

To make your visual stronger–think about the level of the 6-year old eyes in relation to an adult body.

What do you mean 'I would certainly take advantage of it if that's what turned her on!.' Being nude in front of a 6-year-old is a turn on now and that's ok as long as you're there to take advantage of it?

I'm sure your mom (or dad) didn't blab it out to the local press that you saw them in the buff.

I THINK SHE IS GIVING TOO MUCH OF A SHOW TO THE 6 YEAR OLD IF HE WAS 2 IT MIGHT BE A DIFFERENT THING .BELIEVE ME KIDS UNDERSTAND ALOT MORE AT YOUNGER AGES THAN WE DID AS KIDS . THEY LEARN AN AWEFUL LOT FROM FREINDS WHO'S PARENTS LET THEM SEE A LITTLE TOO MUCH GROWN UP STUFF . SHE BETTER START WEARING A LITTLE NIGHT GOWN AND DAD BETTER START WEARING HIS JOCKEYS AROUND THE HOUSE .

While Russ might be sincere and I think a kid won't be scarred by seeing nudity if they're not taught to feel guilty about it, it's such a wide open area for misunderstanding and exploitation that there should be some real taboo on nudity. For instance communes that featured nudity often as part of their experience in hindsight often turned out to be havens for child molesters. Once again even if nudity is harmless it's liberals who will find a way to make it dangerous or go terribly wrong.

I really didn't mean it as a slight, I just can't imagine why a man would be attracted to a manly feature like a big jaw (or why some perfectly straight men like women with cleft chins).

And I'll agree on Pam Anderson, but that's largely because she's entirely plastic and her features are exaggerated.

"Hes just not letting on, out of fear that youll put some clothes on. In fact, he cant believe his luck.

I'd agree with this except that Hilary Swank looks like a 6 year-old boy herself.

Seriously, I find nothing attractive about her and I don't understand the fuss over her acting. -shrug-