Survey Results: The Naked Fear by AnthonyT

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Survey Results: The Naked Fear

POSTED BY: ANTHONYT
UPDATED: Saturday, May 22, 2010 07:04
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Friday, May 21, 2010 3:31 PM

Freedom is Important because People are Important

Hello,

I think clothing has a healthy role in pretecting the skin from the elements. Be it heat, or sunlight, or cold air, or rain, or casual cuts and abrasions. However, it is clear to me that some cultures get on quite well without shirts or pants or shoes. Being that some people find clothing useful, and others get on quite well without it, I'm of the opinion that the choice of what to wear (if anything at all) can be left to the individual.

But others have disagreed on the concept of public nudity, finding it offensive or potentially harmful.

I invite folks to expound on their personal viewpoints here.

--Anthony

"Liberty must not be purchased at the cost of Humanity." --Captain Robert Henner

"You can lose a quark you don't girth." -Dreamtrove's words to live by, translated by Ipad

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Friday, May 21, 2010 3:41 PM

FREMDFIRMA

I could care less either way, my reasons for it are (in order) vanity, concealment of various "toys" and pockets to put all the crap I carry around in.

Besides, I look ridiculous without em, like a pint sized cross between frankensteins creation and the terminator, what with all the scars and mechanical bits, although I've pondered a few times deliberately messing with folks heads that way - while smokin a big cuban havana for style points, yanno ?

-F

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Friday, May 21, 2010 3:41 PM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)

I don't go nude or even shirtless in public. And generally for the same reasons Frem listed. People run, screaming, from Frankenstein's monster. Remember, humongous size plus many, many, many broken bones, lots of surgeries, lots of scars. Parts of me look like they're zipped on, badly.

However, when I get home, I'm in my underwear only. Soon as I walk in the door, I start shucking clothes. I'm most comfortable in boxer-briefs.

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Saturday, May 22, 2010 5:22 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...

I wear shorts and a halter top virtually all Summer, and shorts and a t-shirt the rest of the year, removing the t-shirt when I hike and get warm.

As I said before, my ranger friend hikes naked from the waist up and feels it is ridiculous that the law allows men to go naked from the waist up and not women. Her response was "anyone who encounters me hiking, it's THEIR problem if they mind!" I agree, and have joined her in the practice.

I HATE shoes with a passion. Right now, because of the tendon, I am locked into tenny runners whenever I walk; prior to that, I was barefoot whenever possible (and have been told to leave stores because of it, for legal reasons)--my husband says that by the end of Summer the soles of my feet look like that of an indian. I compromise on the motorcycle and in most stores with sandals, but kick them off the minute I get home, except in Winter or when hiking.

I wish most of all that we didn't have the stricture about clothing and it WAS left up to the individual. Unfortunately it's not; it's the LAW and you get arrested for indecent exposure if you don't wear what society considers proper clothing. I hate the halter tops, they constrict and sometimes make my back ache, but I'm forced to wear them.

The discussion in the other thread is pertinent and I think Rose has covered all the reasons I feel the way I do about nudity clearly and better than I could, so I'll leave it at that. I'll let it suffice with the two most cogent points she made: Societies not influenced by "civilization" wear minimal clothing, and children are the best example that clothing is a societal thing put upon us, not the state in which we are born and which our instincts dictate. And the religion thing.

"I'm just right. Kinda like the sun rising in the east and the world being round...its not a need its just the way it is." The Delusional "Hero", 3/1/10

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Saturday, May 22, 2010 6:30 AM

AGENTROUKA

I sometimes wonder if people are afraid to lose a form of eroticism that comes from covering and uncovering if clothes were made optional or obsolete and people were accordingly desensitized.

Taboos create excitement, after all. Merely seeing someone naked can create a sexally charged atmosphere, even if there is not much affection or respect or attraction involved. (Unless the sight is truly off-putting, or something.)

If you are comfortable sitting naked next to a person (of your target gender) without any sexual connotations (even subtle ones) how much more honest and direct would we have to be about wanting greater intimacy or contact? Right now, we sort of fetishize nudity where it becomes a synonym for intimacy itself.

I think it would be interesting to examine differences in sexuality and sexual pleasure in societies with strict modesty and those with more relaxed attitudes.

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Saturday, May 22, 2010 6:43 AM

BYTEMITE

I think no clothing makes it a bit easier for someone to be raped. Clothing can be torn to get away, I wouldn't recommend the same for skin.

I'm a prude, but hell, if I had to, I could just look at the sky and whistle my alma mater or something. But I'd still wear clothes, thanks, for the reason I said above.

Besides, I can blind people in daylight. My torso and legs haven't seen the sun probably for almost fifteen years.

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Saturday, May 22, 2010 7:04 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...

What you said, Agent, closely matches what Rose said and I believe. Forbidding things will always make them exciting to some, in my opinion. I, too, would like to see the study you mentioned.

"I'm just right. Kinda like the sun rising in the east and the world being round...its not a need its just the way it is." The Delusional "Hero", 3/1/10

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