Do you support the legalization of public nudity?

Rockbird wrote:I feel like we're too far in to the society we've become. You can't just take off the clothes in public and expect there not to be rape, sexual assault and harassment. A nudist society has to be from the beginning if it wants to function. They do exist, and they do just fine.

And some modern countries, like Germany, do allow for some public nudity at parks. For instance, if you're a woman, you can sunbath with your top off.

I have seen pictorials in Nudist magazines from Europe that show ppl sunbathing in the parks nude, and some Dutch cities walking on the sidewalks.

But the Dutch ran the Puritans out hundreds of years ago - guess where they went?

Rockbird wrote:I feel like we're too far in to the society we've become. You can't just take off the clothes in public and expect there not to be rape, sexual assault and harassment. A nudist society has to be from the beginning if it wants to function. They do exist, and they do just fine.

And some modern countries, like Germany, do allow for some public nudity at parks. For instance, if you're a woman, you can sunbath with your top off.

alan smithee wrote: ... But 2xy does have a point about hygiene.

Shale wrote:

alan smithee wrote: ... But 2xy does have a point about hygiene.

Yeah, if you're ever invited to a nudist party, bring a towel (to sit on). It is expected courtesy.

Butt, that is because everyone will be sitting on the furniture bare assed.

In a public venue our own clothing would give at least half the protection with ppl sitting on benches naked. And, when you consider the uncleanliness of some ppl's clothes it can't be much worse healthwise if they were naked.

Forgiveness Man wrote:It is hardly Puritanical to mandate clothes in public. lol

2xy wrote:I do not support nudity in public, but that has nothing to do with rape and harassment. I don't think public nudity would increase those things, because those things are about power rather than sex.

I simply don't like the idea of sitting on a park bench or bus seat that someone's naked ass or crotch was up against.

alan smithee wrote:
What people are supposed to do and what they actually do are two different things. It's small comfort to me if I sit on a bench that 99 nudists sat on before me but the 100th neither used a towel nor did a proper job of wiping their ass whether I'm wearing pants or not. A skid mark is a skid mark. The 101st nudist might not be too keen about it either.