Public Nudity, why is it so dangerous?

[SeaCat]

Yep Im asking this question once agin.

Why is public nudity so dangerous? Why does it make people so uncomfortable?

I have seen people freak out over a woman in the nude. I have also seen people freak out over the sight of a five year old naked on the beach. Why?

Cat

 

[Tom Collins]

Because the sight of ding-a-lings makes Right-winger’s brains hurt. You'd think these spazes would read the damned Bible, instead of just thumping it, and realize that it was shame of their unclothed state that got Adam & Eve kicked out of the garden. If they'd've just gone about, business as usual, they'd've been fine, but noooooooo! They had to put on those damned fig leaves and look how that's turned out.

 

[Corylea]

I think my very favorite idiocy in the nudity-is-bad vein is when people claim that seeing someone nude, even half nude, is bad for children. Children can't possibly see a woman's breasts because nipples are obscene.

What are nipples for, people? They're for FEEDING CHILDREN. They have some auxiliary uses, but their primary function is feeding children. That means that nipples should be one of the first things that a child ever sees and something that they should see several times a day during their first year of life.

 

[3113]

I have seen people freak out over a woman in the nude. I have also seen people freak out over the sight of a five year old naked on the beach. Why?

Now come on, Cat. Remember that woman on the plane you had to sit next to. Wouldn't you have freaked if she'd been naked?

 

[Elenia26]

Lewis Black says it's way worse for a kid to see us freaking out over the sight of a tit rather than the tit itself, and I happen to agree with him.

Besides, I like penises and would like to see more. I'm always curious about a man.

 

[john-the-author]

I agree that it's just something that makes right-wing fuckwaffles wig out, which is a good and worthy goal by itself.

I also like the idea that if people started going naked just because, then it'd represent a segment of the population thinking for itself and figuring out that there are a lot of rules that Just Don't Matter.

 

[rengadeirishman]

because nudity equals sexual deviance, duh.

 

[Belegon]

Lewis Black says it's way worse for a kid to see us freaking out over the sight of a tit rather than the tit itself, and I happen to agree with him.

I agree, too...

 

[Zeb_Carter]

I agree that it's just something that makes right-wing fuckwaffles wig out, which is a good and worthy goal by itself.

I also like the idea that if people started going naked just because, then it'd represent a segment of the population thinking for itself and figuring out that there are a lot of rules that Just Don't Matter.

Hey, I resent that...it's not us right-wing fuckwaffles, it's those right-wing bible thumping fuckwaffles. Get it straight would you. I'm all for nudity. Everywhere. Everyone.

 

[DeeZire]

It's because a segment of conservatives (not Zeb's segment) base their ideology on ignorance and fear.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

It's because a segment of conservatives (not Zeb's segment) base their ideology on ignorance and fear.

That's not really true. It because they think they know what's right and good and if the rest of us don't abide by what they think is right we're evil. And anything that's evil should be put asunder.

 

[Liar]

Right-wing bible thumpers my ass.

Why does people, no matter what climate and culture, wear some kind of clothes? Decorum about what part of the body we should leave to the imagination varies from place to place, but decorum seems to be a part of human nature.

Is public nudity dangerous? No. And I don't think that most people who object to it think it's dangerous. But it's something that pokes decorum in the eye. Like shouting in the library.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Right-wing bible thumpers my ass.

Why does people, no matter what climate and culture, wear some kind of clothes? Decorum about what part of the body we should leave to the imagination varies from place to place, but decorum seems to be a part of human nature.

Clothing should be worn only to provide protection from the elements, not because someone thinks a naked body is dirty.

 

[SEVERUSMAX]

I must admit that I think that clothing is one of the most overrated inventions in history. Not just because I believe that nudity is natural and beautiful, but also because clothing is a waste of time, resources, and energy...and it also created things like fashion, which I believe to be evil.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Gimme a fucking break, libbies.

You try and arrest anyone who smiles at you, now, and you couldnt handle a friendly erection. You'd foam at the mouth if you saw an erection. You know you would.

Clothing laws exist to keep libbie anxiety manageable.

 

[Liar]

Clothing should be worn only to provide protection from the elements, not because someone thinks a naked body is dirty.

Then why isn't it?

Are you telling me that in every culture in history, the naked body has been seen as dirty?

Look at ancient Greece and the all nude Olympics. The naked body was pretty much celebrated. But in everyday life, the people of Athens still walked around in their togas and whatnot. Why? Protection from the elements? It's pretty warm aned cozy down in the Aegean Sea.

Look, I'm all for everyone dressing or not dressing the way they want to. But just becase people don't wish to look at cocks all day, or have their own dangling around on public display, doesn't mean they're repressed bible thumpers.

 

[impressive]

Clothing should be worn only to provide protection from the elements, not because someone thinks a naked body is dirty.

Well, those "elements" are gonna have to include other people's junk. 'Cause I really don't wanna be sitting my bare bits down in a taxi where someone else's bare bits have just been unless I know their bare bits are not infected with something I don't particularly want. Y'know?

 

[john-the-author]

Hey, I resent that...it's not us right-wing fuckwaffles, it's those right-wing bible thumping fuckwaffles. Get it straight would you. I'm all for nudity. Everywhere. Everyone.

Sorry, Zeb, I was imprecise.

 

[where]

if everyone walked around naked then I'd have no need for expensive frilly knickers!

Nudity isn't deviant, it's boring and un-sexy.

 

[oggbashan]

Because you're not in Europe.

Og

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Well, those "elements" are gonna have to include other people's junk. 'Cause I really don't wanna be sitting my bare bits down in a taxi where someone else's bare bits have just been unless I know their bare bits are not infected with something I don't particularly want. Y'know?

That's why I used the word elements instead of weather. Y'know?

 

[Varian P]

Lewis Black says it's way worse for a kid to see us freaking out over the sight of a tit rather than the tit itself, and I happen to agree with him.

There's a great scene in a mediocre movie, The Door in the Floor, where a little girl of, I don't know, four to six years of age, wanders into her dad's bedroom and finds him asleep, naked. She wakes him up for some unrelated reason, but they have this conversation:

"Daddy. Your penis looks funny."

"Well, my penis is funny."

Cut to the dad (Jeff Bridges), still nude, carrying his daughter down the hallway. T

Zero drama, zero trauma.

 

[Carnevil9]

Yet another thread proving that prejudice and generalization are okay when they are directed at right-wingers. You people really think you are open-minded, don't you?

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Most people look like shit naked.

 

[Varian P]

You'd foam at the mouth if you saw an erection. You know you would.

Well, I might drool a little, but it would all depend on whose erection it was.