This month’s Playboy has been scanned and sent to me. Of course I only read it for the cartoons, but nonetheless, some naked woman on page 138 states (in her own handwriting) “In Norway you can go to the mall naked and not get arrested.”
Of course everything I know of Scandinavia I have learned from Playboy, still, I have to wonder if this is actually true.
I suppose you might avoid an actual arrest, but you’d certainly run afoul of the penal code, § 201:
Also relevant is the general instruction to the police § 8:
Going naked to the mall is still considered indecent, so even if you might avoid an actual arrest, a police officer is obliged to, at least, make you put some clothes on.
Or so I interpret the underlying laws. I can’t find any material relating to actual practice.
I’m not sure of the official wording, but in New York state, a woman is allowed to be topless in public everywhere a man is allowed to be topless in public.
In Tennessee, I, a straight male, can go to the mall naked.
Once.
Thank you all. I suppose playmates do not make the excellent legal advisors I had thought.
Interestingly, as I am reading this I am sitting (so far fully dressed) in my office in Bergen, Norway, not two blocks away from a mall. Although I should probably feel obliged to conduct an experiment in the interest of fighting ignorance, there is one block between where I am and the aforementioned mall, and that block consists solely of the city’s central police station. I have a firm hypothesis concerning the outcome of such an experiment, and with that in mind, I don’t think parading past a crowd of uniformed, baton-wielding lawmen with my own baton unconcealed, so to speak, would be a wise step - careerwise or in general.
I otherwise agree - the cartoons are excellent.
But where would you keep your wallet? :dubious:
You don’t want to know.
One of my patients had an ‘out of clothing’ experience in a mall.
That’s one of the reasons he’s my patient now.
Up your ass, I suppose.
Are these the ones designated as strip malls?
Thanks for that laugh, I really needed it!
Reading this prompts me to ask 3 questions:
Paul in Qatar - Are the rules for internet use considerably different from when you were Paul in Saudi? I assumed that access would be similarly monitored in most mid-east states. Poor assumption?
Eivind - excellent post. Prior to your experiment, could you stop on the way to inquire on the veracity of the demonstrators claims? If they say no, tell them that you’ll go back to work before you sneak off to test the reactions of the local populace.
Can you believe any writing in the pictorials?
“A pretty woman doesn’t need money.” Roy Orbison’s wife told him that, when she said she was going shopping. A few minutes later, he began to write his big hit Pretty Woman.
It’s possible that a Playboy playmate strolling naked through a mall would generate a different reaction than Eivind or most of the other humble denizens of this Board. When she says, “In Norway you can go to the mall naked and not get arrested”, she may mean that in Norway she can go to the mall naked and not get arrested!
That’s my take on it also.
It’s the kind of incident that often passes into urban legend. An attractive woman goes naked into a mall and nobody arrests her. She tells all her friends about it but, people being people, the tale gets embellished step by step. By the time the naked woman on page 138 gets hold of the story, it’s enshrined under Norwegian law that nakedness in malls is now legal, and that the practice may indeed become totally compulsory by next Tuesday afternoon.
I once read in a Playboy that is was healthy to make a carrot cake out of a carrot previously peeled and washed, then inserted in a male’s anus.
It doesn’t specify how clean the male’s anus needs to be, but I’m sure a couple of germ-killing enemas would be necessary.
Playboy hardly ever specifies such details.
Maybe they meant “naked under your clothes”
Is nudity considered “indecent” or “sexually offensive” in Norway?
Maybe if they are ugly? I’m not sure, but I remember hearing something about vanity and image being huge in Norway, and those being noticably beautiful were also treated better.
Kind of like racism, but with image. Is there a word for that other then just basic judgement based on appearance?
This has been proven to be true in almost every society on the planet, from tiny tribes in Papua New Guinea to the United States, and in children as young as 5 (there are experiments with infants too, but those are hard to interpret). People are hardwired to like attractive people better.
I don’t know a pithy term for it (other than attraction bias), but a certain radio host coined the term Uglo-Americans to make fun of other “fake minorities”, yet was actually on to one of the most prevalent forms of prejudice in the world.