Public nudity - yes or no?

[My Oh My]

If this world were populated entirely by adults, then I'd happily join in on the push to ban clothing and I'd drive to work every day with my junk flapping in the wind. I've been nude here and there and it's really nifty.

You'd be surprised just how quickly one becomes desensitized to the sight of nakedness. But you have to try it to know. I do dislike the pervs who occasionally spoil the fun and freedom with their tacky displays. I saw a video on YouTube once of a naked bike ride and as everyone was getting into their b-day suits, this one old, nasty, gross, sicko perv can be seen putting some strange kink thing on his HUGE dick. It was huge because it was hard. And he was all, whatev, with a pervy smirk on his face. Ewww.

Not that public nudity is never sexual, but it isn't usually about that. But I do admit to getting nervous when some hot dude was standing next to me once and you're both wearing nada. You begin to frantically think ugly thoughts, ugly thoughts, ugly thought.

[Jane2]

"7. Why is rape/murder/violence acceptable on TV (regular television) but we are all offended by the human body?"

For me this comparison doesn't make sense. rape/murder/violence on tv are crimes which are meant to be horrific to see.

I'm not offended by the human body, I just don't find it very attractive. It's a matter of aesthetics and nothing more.

[StockardFan]

Thanks, Reg!!!!!

[Brian07663NJ]

Jane 2 - the meaning of that comparison is that (for example) when Janet Jackson had a wardrobe malfunction it was a horrific event that created hysteria. Those same people just got finished watching a half dozen episodes of prime time television with gored, decapitated bodies while they munched their popcorn. So...violence is entertainment but if a tit flashes on screen it is worthy of a pitchforked uprising? That is what I meant specifically.

[Jane2]

Hi Brian, my point is all about fact vs. fiction. People watch gore and violence on tv with no problem because they know it isn't really happening. It's acting and as you said, entertainment. They aren't repulsed because they know there are cameras, directors and a craft service table a few feet away.

They were horrified at Janet Jackson's wardrobe malfunction because in our society, we see the naked body in our own personal lives but not on primetime network tv. I don't think people are horrified by the human body. They were horrified that they saw it on tv during halftime-when we're not supposed to see that and also "children may be watching."



Edited to add-people sit and laugh hilariously at the blood and gore and violence in horror movies. They wouldn't do that if they saw it in real live. They'd be repulsed.

I don't think people were repulsed by the aesthetics of Janet Jackson's breast-it wasn't there long enough to make a judgment. It's where and when they saw it.

[Brian07663NJ]

People becoming numb that violence isn't really happening and considering it entertainment I personally find quite sad. Of course it isn't real but it does happen. That movie or television episode is trying to mimic reality in its presentation of what actually happens in real life. Becoming numb to it because it is entertainment is unfortunate.

A person nude in a movie walking from the shower to the bedroom - even if the scene is gratuitous - mimics life without violence, pain, torture, etc

LOL - don't get me started on "but the children" - the children DON'T care! They only know what you teach them. I'd prefer to teach them - big deal a nude person and that violence is not normal and is not entertainment.

[Jane2]

well, as the saying goes - "let's agree to disagree......"

[Brian07663NJ]

Jane2 - I agree lol and respect you

[Reginald Tresilian]

Brian, I don't disagree with what I think is the basic point you're making, but I disagree that nudity and violence are two equating options and we have to chose which one we object to most.

Jane can say she objects to public nudity without having to be in favor of gratuitous violence.

[Jane2]

Brian, I didn't know we were agreeing, lol!

[Reginald Tresilian]

When I arrive in San Francisco in a couple of weeks, I'm going to be so disappointed if there isn't some naked dude holding a sign with my name on it outside of baggage claim.

[SNAFU]

If there is Reg, take a pic and postit.... better yet make a GIF!

[Jungle Red]

Another friend posted this and I have to share it.

[Playbilly]

And scene!

[Scripps2]

He looks to have acquired some tattoos as he's walked down the beach.

He also looks as if he's lost something.

Which seems proves the point about the water being very cold.

[Jungle Red]

Different person but same beach.

Coincidentally, both work at the same bar.

[Reginald Tresilian]

You astonish me.

[bobs3]

The problem with public nudity is the people who walk/stand/sit around nude have no business being naked. The ones you wouldn't mind seeing naked are dressed head to toe.

[Scripps2]

Well, the anti-troll thread and its sequel may have gone but we still have the public nudity thread.