The City That Knows How, which is how long-time San Francisco columnist Herb Caen viewed his beloved adopted city, is at it again, this time with proposed legislation saying you can’t enter restaurants nude, nor can you, as a nude person, sit down in a public space without putting something under yourself first. How about something completely different? In the interests of decency and healthy sexuality, how about, you don’t let people wander around naked in public!
The human body is a wondrous thing. To that end, I prefer to keep some of that wonder alive by seeing less of most people’s bodies, rather than more. Economics 101 holds that, the rarer a commodity is, the more precious it is. When you have wrinkled old hippies (link is not NSFW) and emaciated drug addicts wandering the streets showing their all, it tends to cheapen the premium we in the West have traditionally placed on God’s (or Nature’s) special design.
In a question and answer he set out in Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex, Woody Allen pretty much sums it up: “Is sex dirty? Only if it’s done right.” Trying to make the human body as ordinary as yesterday’s newspaper is definitely doing it wrong.
(Cross-posted at Bookworm Room.)
Most of do not qualify as “nude” when we’re nekkid. That alone is reason enough to discourage rampant nudity anywhere but the upper Amazon.
Even there, you’re talking about some serious bug bite problems.
As a friend of mine says, people at the nude beach are NEVER the people you want to see nude. And I don’t want to see anyone nude when I’m trying to eat.
Interesting article recently in WSJ about how ‘traditional’ type nudists (not these people) are having trouble with membership because younger folks are not much interested.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703856704576285653184636030.html
Like sex on the beach (sand! salt water!) nudity in an ordinary public city environment has nothing to do with personal comfort. Despite their wrinkles, these people are emotional children enduring discomfort for the sole purpose of annoying or upsetting other people.
I am not a nudist. I dont want to see nude people in public. While I agree with every sentiment expressed here, as a Libertarian I have a problem with legislating dress codes. I dont want armed police arresting people to save my sensibilities or to enforce my ideas about what preserves the wondrousness of the human body with the gun, club or manacles.
I just what to garden Nude, Peace. Nude resorts already ask you to keep your sitting towel with you at all times.