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[stonemonkey]

It would appear you're not allowed to be naked, even in your own house:

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/5/20091022/tod ... 0a197.html

[Rivelution]

After seeing that picture I'm also going to add hygiene to the list of reasons for not legalising public nudity

Never made love on a kitchen table?


Neither have I, sure would like to though.

It's one thing choosing to have umpalumpa on a kitchen table and quite another having to use furniture that a random stranger has been sat on naked. I'd have to go around with a bag of baby wipes

I dont blame ya. Imagine if that person farted on the chair, there would be no clothes to filter it out.

[Jabberwocky]

I'd have to go around with a bag of baby wipes

so would I but probably for another reason

[headless]

I'd have to go around with a bag of baby wipes

so would I but probably for another reason

Ohh no!!

[Hanwombat]

Baby wipes are handy

[FerrariFan63]

Has anyone got any evidence that people sitting nude on furniture is a health hazard? Or is it just another unreasoning prejudice against nudity?

[Amanda]

Has anyone got any evidence that people sitting nude on furniture is a health hazard? Or is it just another unreasoning prejudice against nudity?

I don't think it's unreasonable at all. In fact, I do believe that even in nudist clubs residents are required to take extra care with hygiene.

EDITl: I did a little digging on Nudist etiquette and it's seems the common practice is for people to either use a dry towel, when sitting on furniture, or to bring their own seating. Clearly there is an issue with nudity and hygiene.

May I also suggest that people in enclosed spaces (eg. the tube) might feel rather uncomfortable being forced into physical contact with a naked body. It's bad enough when someone is fully clothed. I feel this applies particularly to children.

[Jabberwocky]

I think with kids on the tube, their head hight might be an issue.

I think they issue with furniture would be skid marks or other type marks/fluids left behind.

at nudist colony's I would hope they still use safety clothing

[Amanda]

I think with kids on the tube, their head hight might be an issue.

I think they issue with furniture would be skid marks or other type marks/fluids left behind.

at nudist colony's I would hope they still use safety clothing

Thank you for that visual Jabberwocky!

I realise I'm being quite specific with these scenarios but you can gaurantee that, if public nudity was legalised, they would happen. I think that my right not to be exposed to those situations is greater than someone's right to be naked.

We can argue all day about why people find nudity inappropriate(whether that's related to sexual intimidation, moral ambiguity, hygiene issues etc.), but the fact is that most people do find it inappropriate, and insensitive. Maybe we shouldn't, but we do and I don't see that changing anytime soon. Quite frankly, I don't want it to either.

[f1ea]

Is there something wrong with nudity??
Maybe not. But there is something wrong with going around without clothes.
Forget about morals. Its just dirty and impractical.

I wouldnt imagine walking around without shoes... not only because it is dangerous (imagine yourself at a construction site without shoes), but also dirty.

I wouldnt go around without a pair of pants..... not only because if everyone was not wearing any, then nobody would sit at public places, but its also dangerous. (who would ride bicycles, or how dagerous it would be to get the fellas caught as sometimes your jeans are? ouch!). You dont place your mouth on every surface you sit on. The mouth is a cavity just like the others are....

I wouldnt go around without a shirt... if i lived in england. Its just too cold. And since you're already wearing shoes and pants, what's wrong with a shirt?

Just because everyone has one, doesnt mean i want to see it. I dont go around asking to see people's tonsils. I also dont want to see Angelina Jolie's pancreas.

[darwin dali]

Watch out for free-dangling bits:

[f1ea]

Watch out for free-dangling bits:

LOL

Wouldnt wanna be a Mailman in a nude world!

[FerrariFan63]

I don't think it's unreasonable at all. In fact, I do believe that even in nudist clubs residents are required to take extra care with hygiene.

EDITl: I did a little digging on Nudist etiquette and it's seems the common practice is for people to either use a dry towel, when sitting on furniture, or to bring their own seating. Clearly there is an issue with nudity and hygiene.

There is etiquette, but that's very different from there being a known issue with nudity and hygiene. There might be a perceived issue, but that's far from establishing it as fact.

Has anyone ever caught a disease from sitting on the same furniture as someone nude? Given the number of nudists, if there was a significant problem, you'd think there would be lots of known cases. And with beachwear (and swimwear) being so minimal, is there really any real difference between sitting on chairs recently occupied by nudists, and sitting on chairs occupied by people wearing thong bikinis?

This catching diseases from nude people looks a bit of an emotional, not a factual, response to me.

May I also suggest that people in enclosed spaces (eg. the tube) might feel rather uncomfortable being forced into physical contact with a naked body. It's bad enough when someone is fully clothed. I feel this applies particularly to children.

That's because people have old-fashioned attitudes. Some people don't like sitting beside big "tough looking" hairy men, gossiping teenagers, people with large numbers of piercings in odd places, etc.. That's their own issue and no reason to ban big "tough looking" hairy men, gossiping teenagers, and people with piercings from public locations.

My first experience of public nudity was attending a music festival in my early teens. It only took days before it become completely natural to see people wandering around in the buff.

[FerrariFan63]

Is there something wrong with nudity??
Maybe not. But there is something wrong with going around without clothes.
Forget about morals. Its just dirty and impractical.

I wouldnt imagine walking around without shoes... not only because it is dangerous (imagine yourself at a construction site without shoes), but also dirty.

I wouldnt go around without a pair of pants..... not only because if everyone was not wearing any, then nobody would sit at public places, but its also dangerous. (who would ride bicycles, or how dagerous it would be to get the fellas caught as sometimes your jeans are? ouch!). You dont place your mouth on every surface you sit on. The mouth is a cavity just like the others are....

I wouldnt go around without a shirt... if i lived in england. Its just too cold. And since you're already wearing shoes and pants, what's wrong with a shirt?

Just because everyone has one, doesnt mean i want to see it. I dont go around asking to see people's tonsils. I also dont want to see Angelina Jolie's pancreas.

But this misses the whole point of the discussion. Clearly there are reasons for wearing clothes. No-one is suggesting or even discussing the situation where people are forced to go nude against their will and/or common sense. The riding of cycles one seems an odd choice of activity, since nude cycle rides are quite frequent and I haven't heard of mass injuries from these.

It's more sensible to discuss, e.g. going to the beach. Why should people getting changed on the beach be required to cover their "naughty bits"? Why can't they just go strip off, or lie naked on a towel on the beach? Why should anyone care?

It's easy to come up with situations where nudity doesn't work for some reason. But why are these relevant? What's at issue is the social and legal requirement to wear clothes at all times.

[bud]

hippy