"You're the only 'natural man' I've ever met"

[undeterred]

Ok I just saw a woman (Sandra Knight) say this to a man (Robert Mitchum) in the 1958 movie Thunder Road. I don't have a clue what a 'natural man' is...

Anybody?

[cyberswede]

1. Maybe she meant he's authentic, not pretentious?

[undeterred]

4. Maybe...Its really funny how the word 'natural'

is extremely negative in a religious context, but extremely positive in other contexts...

Googling it I am coming up with all kinds of things for natural man (from the Bible, Rousseau, and Lou Rawls) but nothing for why a woman would say it to a man.

[ohiosmith]

2. Mitchum never bathed! It's a fact!

[undeterred]

8. Maybe thats because his deodorant worked so well.

[ohiosmith]

10. Touché!

[Sekhmets Daughter]

16. Unless you were his valet, how would you know?

Do not spread vicious rumors about my first crush!

[ohiosmith]

17. Look it up!

[Sekhmets Daughter]

18. My heart is broken...my muse has fled...

Only Jack can console me now!

[pinboy3niner]

3. Well, there's also this...

[undeterred]

5. That was a reply to this:

[Major Nikon]

6. Lou Rawls explains in depth

[undeterred]

15. Wow. Its so Seventies.

[In_The_Wind]

7. One that isn't afraid of feeling all there is.

[undeterred]

9. Well thats a high compliment to give a man.

Thanks for the insight.

[In_The_Wind]

11. imo: They do exist.

[dawg]

12. Uncircumcised?

Would they be that naughty back then?

[In_The_Wind]

13. I don't think that was discussed openly until recently.

The purity police ... ya know how they were.

[undeterred]

14. In the movie context that wouldn't have made sense...

She was telling him something about him as a person. But the phrase is so foreign I couldn't quite figure it. I think we all know what it means when someone says a woman is very natural, or at least we have more of an idea. But its less obvious when someone says it about a man, although being uncircumcised certainly is more natural.