# Quasi-public nudity and kids **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 21, 2006, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quasi-public-nudity-and-kids/373553 "2006-09-21T13:30:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![E.Thorp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@E.Thorp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E.Thorp)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2006, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quasi-public-nudity-and-kids/373553/21 "2006-09-22T04:08:49Z")
[QUOTE=sinjin] Why is nudity such a big deal in the USA? [/QUOTE] Surely this question deserves (and has probably received) its own thread. I remember as a wee lad in the USA in the 1970s, seeing a naked man in the locker room from time to time. So what? (Naked girls or women, now that would have been interesting, but I guess they were…in the other room or something.) ---
**Author:** ![FormerMarineGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/65b543/32.png) [@FormerMarineGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FormerMarineGuy)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2006, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quasi-public-nudity-and-kids/373553/22 "2006-09-22T12:44:55Z")
[QUOTE=sinjin] Why is nudity such a big deal in the USA? [/QUOTE] I don’t think it really is, it was a question for opinions about public nudity and when it basically becomes borderline illegal, and it could basically pertain in any country, where children are involved. ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2006, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quasi-public-nudity-and-kids/373553/23 "2006-09-22T12:48:35Z")
[QUOTE=FormerMarineGuy] I don’t think it really is, it was a question for opinions about public nudity and when it basically becomes borderline illegal, and it could basically pertain in any country, where children are involved. [/QUOTE] Yeah, it’s the double standard that interested me. Seeing a naked guy here is OK, seeing him there is not OK. I agree with everybody about how nudity shouldn’t be a big thing. I was just wondering how a court would recognize the difference. ---
**Author:** ![FormerMarineGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/65b543/32.png) [@FormerMarineGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FormerMarineGuy)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2006, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quasi-public-nudity-and-kids/373553/24 "2006-09-22T13:05:17Z")
[QUOTE=Hypno-Toad] Yeah, it’s the double standard that interested me. Seeing a naked guy here is OK, seeing him there is not OK. I agree with everybody about how nudity shouldn’t be a big thing. I was just wondering how a court would recognize the difference. [/QUOTE] I understand what you are saying 100%, but I don’t think it is about the naked guy (or I could be dead wrong). I think it is about the exposing part, or is there a comparison able to be made to a guy who walks up to a kid and flashes himself to the guy who is just innocently changing. What you are talking about (and correct me if I am incorrect) is a place where it is basically accepted to be nude, such as a beach/pool where it is customary for people to be nude. And I have been to many places like that. Me, personally, I am okay with my son seeing guys naked in the locker room. Hell, he can see women naked in the locker room if he had to. If I were to take him to a place where nudity is accepted, it is what I did as a parent and it makes it okay (according to laws, etc.). But if I bring him to the local public park to play on his scooter, I don’t thing it is acceptable for some guy to be there naked making hamburgers on the BBQ. There are certain areas for everything, and this is in every country. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quasi-public-nudity-and-kids/373553.md?page=1)