Public Nudity

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Originally Posted by stlukesguild

Why? Some reasons behind your line of thinking might be of use.

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Public nudity is bad and I'm against it. I don't mean to be crude, but suppose you had to blow your nose or wipe your face? Where would tissues come from in a world without pockets? And that's saying nothing of coupons, boarding passes, or library cards. And what about Swiss Army knives? Sure laugh, but this Brave Nude World is going to open a whole universe of painful and embarrassing splinters. I can hear it now: "Pardon me, Miss, you wouldn't happen to have a tiny pair of tweesers you could let me use for a moment?" "Why no sir, I'm nude." The horror.

Although I support public nudity, I don't think wearing shoes should disallowed. In some neighborhoods, broken glass is common, and we shouldn't persuade nudists to endanger their health, or limit their participation in pick-up basketball games. A nice, new pair of "Air Jordans" would add to (rather than detract from) a state of fashionable dishabille.

The shoes could have a small pouch attached to the outside, convenient for carrying the credit cards, boarding passes, and pocket knives with corkscrews for opening wine bottles, about which, evidently, Pompey is so concerned. Problem solved!!!!

My opinion of public nudity as stated on this very thread is not completely forthcoming. If we can believe Robert Graves (and who doesn't?), it is public "nakedness" for which I am advocating. According to Graves, the nude, "grin a mock-religious grin / Of scorn at those of naked skin." I scorn not nakedness, especially when it goes about well shod.

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Originally Posted by Ecurb

Although I support public nudity, I don't think wearing shoes should disallowed. In some neighborhoods, broken glass is common, and we shouldn't persuade nudists to endanger their health, or limit their participation in pick-up basketball games. A nice, new pair of "Air Jordans" would add to (rather than detract from) a state of fashionable dishabille.

The shoes could have a small pouch attached to the outside, convenient for carrying the credit cards, boarding passes, and pocket knives with corkscrews for opening wine bottles, about which, evidently, Pompey is so concerned. Problem solved!!!!

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I don't want to wipe my face with something that's been in a basketball player's shoe.

I'm for public nudity, but I think the average person is not.

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Originally Posted by Buh4Bee

I'm for public nudity, but I think the average person is not.

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why are you for public nudity?

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Originally Posted by MystyrMystyry

For or against?

Is it a good thing? Or bad?

Is there enough of of it? Too much of it? Not enough of it?

Let's hear what the panel thinks...

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not having clothes on is unattractive.

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Originally Posted by cacian

not having clothes on is unattractive.

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Have you ever seen Michaelangelo's David?

I think it’s fine on certain beaches. I went to one in Spain and went topless until I was grossed out by a troll. But in particular designated areas, I think people have a right to walk around in the nude in public. I think most mature people just enjoy being free and it’s less of an erotic state. I do not believe children should be exposed. It should be for adults only.

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Originally Posted by Ecurb

Have you ever seen Michaelangelo's David?

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no I have not.

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Originally Posted by Buh4Bee

I think it’s fine on certain beaches. I went to one in Spain and went topless until I was grossed out by a troll. But in particular designated areas, I think people have a right to walk around in the nude in public. I think most mature people just enjoy being free and it’s less of an erotic state. I do not believe children should be exposed. It should be for adults only.

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Surely freedom is beyond clothes or nudity. Freedom means something else. May be if we did not take our clothes willy nilly we would spend more time thinking about the environment and what surrounds us. Just because we can does not mean we should.
Nature has a say to believe it or not.
It perhaps does not think it is OK. One has to be sensitive to everything around them including nature and creatures.
Just saying.

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Originally Posted by cacian

no I have not.

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Good statue, small thingy.

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Originally Posted by tonywalt

Good statue, small thingy.

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Oh I see haha.
But then it could that the person behind the statue who had a hand on it must be telling us something.
It is all relative. Whilst the statue does not talk the sculpture does. It helps to bear that in mind me think.;)

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Originally Posted by Ecurb

My opinion of public nudity as stated on this very thread is not completely forthcoming. If we can believe Robert Graves (and who doesn't?), it is public "nakedness" for which I am advocating. According to Graves, the nude, "grin a mock-religious grin / Of scorn at those of naked skin." I scorn not nakedness, especially when it goes about well shod.

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How do you mean?

Per Robert Graves:

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For me, the naked and the nude
(By lexicographers construed
As synonyms that should express
The same deficiency of dress
Or shelter) stand as wide apart
As love from lies, or truth from art.

Lovers without reproach will gaze
On bodies naked and ablaze;
The Hippocratic eye will see
In nakedness, anatomy;
And naked shines the Goddess when
She mounts her lion among men.

The nude are bold, the nude are sly
To hold each treasonable eye.
While draping by a showman's trick
Their dishabille in rhetoric,
They grin a mock-religious grin
Of scorn at those of naked skin.

The naked, therefore, who compete
Against the nude may know defeat;
Yet when they both together tread
The briary pastures of the dead,
By Gorgons with long whips pursued,
How naked go the sometimes nude!

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