Let’s say in a fit of insanity, the United States makes the entire country “Clothing Optional”. Anyone who wants to be nude can be nude anywhere, schools, churches, wherever. To object is to discriminate against the nudists.
Are you upset? Even if there’s support in society for this new law?
First thing that came to mind for me is sitting where someone’s nekkid, sweaty butt had sat. Will restaurants include washing down chairs as part of bussing a table? What about the subway? The benches in a shoe store? The bleachers at a school ball field? The desk at the university?
I suppose we could require everyone to carry a seat cushion.
Beyond that, be naked if you want to be.
Actually, that’s sort of covered in nudist culture: they carry towels to sit on.
For me, I’m totally in favor. I might or might not participate, but I believe that it should be a civil right.
Just to begin with, it’s an “unfunded mandate!” If the law says we have to wear clothes, the government ought to provide them!
Also, if anyone wants to argue from “natural rights,” being nekkid is just about as natural as something can be!
I would not be upset (and I’m not sure why I would/should be), but I’d keep my own clothes on. I just can’t give up having pockets.
I’m not sure I would join in, but, yes, I’d be in favor of public nudity as a civil right.
There would be exceptions though for people performing functions such that being nude would create risks, say athletic and sporting events, cleaning services, plumbing repair, emergency response, food service, and operation of heavy machinery, just as a few examples.
I don’t want to witness my barista suffering critical burns on her naked body in case of an espresso machine malfunction.
There’s a time and place for nudity. And I think the decision about what those times and places are should generally be left to the individual, save for situations where public safety needs supercede.
And all good nudists are hoopy froods who really know where their towel is.
As for myself, no, I wouldn’t be pleased because I ride public transportation.
I think such a law would at least make me look forward to winter more than I do now.
You parents okay with naked teachers?
Were nudity commonplace in public, why do you think this should represent an exceptional case?
Have you heard how some people react about anything in the least controversial and their kids?
You asked if we’d be upset, not how we’d react to other people being upset.
Just what do you want to get out of this thread?
Wouldn’t bother me as not much would change. The vast majority of the time people would choose clothing as it is practical and comfortable. The various people who choose to go nude would be viewed as the equivalent of someone going shoeless or wearing a funky hat, eccentric but no worse. Overall the link between nudity and sex would be weakened and that’s probably a healthy thing.
I holiday regularly in a culture where men and women, unknown to each other, sauna together naked and I’ve yet to be scandalised. At the swimming pools women and men strip off naked in front of everyone else and put on their bathing costumes, they then do the reverse at the end of the day. Of course they don’t wave their bits in everyone’s face but nor do they hide the fact. No-one bats an eyelid, it is purely practical. Anyone who has ever struggled in a tiny changing room with clothes and wet costumes will appreciate how much of a pain it is. How much easier to have infinite space to work in?
Hell, many, many societies walk around buck naked all the time and they don’t dissolve into frenzied animal lust.
This brings up a point for modern civilized society. Sometimes public transportation is very crowded. I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t want to rub up against naked strangers with no way to get clear. It would be less uncomfortable if I were clothed, but still. Then there are the pervs who would welcome the opportunity to make themselves disagreeable to their desired victims.
So I guess it boils down to no moral objection but perhaps some practical concerns.
So, would that be the end to any and all dress codes?
Your workplace required you to wear a tie: is that now optional? Or do you still have to wear a tie, even if you’re wearing nothing else?
Will NBA games become “shirts vs. skins”?
It would be more comfortable to wear at least a jockstrap. Flopping bits can be
uncomfortable.
Sliding into base in baseball would be ill-advised. Especially headfirst. :eek:
My problem with the idea is that it will be the people who should keep their clothes on that will be the most likely to take them off.
Not how would you react to other people being upset. If you were a parent would you be okay with this?
Yup. Any and all dress codes. Gone.
Perhaps dress codes could be modified to ‘No jeans, no flip flops, no yoga pants. Business casual or totally starkers. No exceptions.’
^ This!
I watched (but did not participate) in one of the Naked Bike Rides. My experience there was the ones who were naked I wished were wearing more & the ones I wouldn’t mind seeing naked were all clothed.
The majority of people don’t look like models; do you really want to see more of them?
At first it would be “look, a penis!” and “look, boobs!” and “look, an anus!” but I imagine it would become boring extremely quickly. As long as they have their “nekkid sittin’ towels” I wouldn’t care.
I am a parent, I’m fine with it. Parts is parts, and responsible parents make sure their kids are educated about said parts. Better to see realistic views of actual parts than the glamourized ones they see on TV, magazines, the net.