Nudity ban passed in San Francisco

[Herr-Berbunch]

Originally Posted by Vendor

Frisco,is a relaxing city

Unless you're a naked female . . .

[Gerald]

^Those I have encountered have been happily proved. what they carry

[Armistead]

I support female nudity.

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Armistead

I support female nudity.

I can see the positivity in that

[Gerald]

Originally Posted by Armistead

I support female nudity.

I agree!

[Gerald]

Civil liberties campaigners are preparing to legally fight San Francisco's ban on public nudity. Does the US Constitution guarantee the right to walk the streets naked?

No sooner had San Francisco's lawmakers voted to ban nakedness in public places than a lawsuit was filed. It argued that the free speech of nudists was being restricted.

They do not give up, now used megaphone in extension,


Note: Update record, 22 November 2012 Last updated at 01:18 GMT

[Skybird]

It'S very simple. In our culture, public nudity simply is banned. Call it education, call it habit, call it what you want, but that's how it is. Taboos have the characteristic of causing feelings of being offended, confronted, challenged, attacked when being broken. No surprise there.

Personally, if in public space somebody confronts me in all his nature-given nudity, I feel offended for sure, and I rate it as a form of attack and intrusion of my private sphere and an assault on my shamefacedness (->Schamhaftigkeit). I react accordingly: angrily, aggressive, once I even attacked. And I do not plan to ever apologize for that.

A culture of arbitrariness is no culture at all. A culture is defined last but not least by rules, agreed consensus on certain habits, and so on. If all that gets declared as arbitrary and meaningless, you lose the sense of self-identity of that culture, because own identity has something to do with marking borderlines between what you are and what you are not.

If you want nudist culture, whatever value you see in that, do it in your private sphere. In your cabin, in your garden, or in those areas of some beaches in Europe or in Saunas that to the great surprise and shock of some American tourists are reserved for nudist. But if you think you must force me to witness your nudity in public, maybe even you copulating with somebody in public, all you can expect from me is a reaction that you will feel sorry over having become the target of it.

As a matter of fact, such a story already has happened to me, in summer 2000, in Berlin.

Well, Berlin.

[Gerald]

^So to be naked in Berlin is thus quite alright,