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Do you believe Americans are prudes when it comes to social nudity? Read details please.? |
We have many events in many cities that allow or encourage casual nudity: 1. San Francsisco's Folsom Street Fair 2. Dore Alley Fair (SF) 3. Bare 2 Breakers Bike Ride (SF) 4. Burning Man Festival in the desert 5. Testicle Festival in Montana 6. Biker's Week -Myrtle Beach, South Carolina 7. Key West's Fantasy Fest 8. Mardi Gras in New Oreans, Galveston, and other cities 9. Halstead Days in Chicago Also, in San Francisco and other cities, atheletes and performance actors are routinely tolerated by police. Skinny dipping and nude college traditions are also generally tolerated by most folks. i'm100% in favor of total nudity. it's great that the police dept. is somewhat tolerant. i have belonged to a nudist resort for 23 years. my wife and i spend our summer weekends there. at home, we live in a rural section of ny, our back yard is completely surrounded by a loced privacy fence. our nearest neighbor is about a mile away. consequently, i spend late spring, all summer, and early fall----totally in the nude while in the house or yard. we have a pool where we unwind with a drink or two. i enjoy do the yard work and sunning in the nude. it brings me inner peace and tranquility. society still needs to build tolerance for us nudies. at the resort we frequent, the motto is----IT'S NOT RUDE OR CRUDE TO BE NUDE. atp however, this resort does not permit the wearing of any body piercings in the genital region. that's 5 of my piercings and i'm fighting for their acceptance. personally i encourage it. it gives people lots of great stuff to post on the Internet, good for lots of laughs. i say get naked!!!! Actually, the key difference between European social nudity and American social nudity is that in Europe, it is very widely accepted in natural settings, like beaches and parks, whereas in America, the natural setting nudity is usually limited to designated areas. But you have a good point - we in the States are not all prudes, and you have developed quite the list there to illustrate that. I think the people in the USA just lack exposure to it. Mind you even in Europe people don't go around doing everything naked, you don't go shopping buck naked for instance. It's the same in the US, I don't think they're prudes, they just don't want to see it everywhere. Here in Canada we have a law that says women can go around topless if they like, most women still don't, we're still not prudes, we just don't want everyone gawking. I think we (in the U.S.) are slowly becoming more tolerant of public nudity at beaches, even where there is no sign that says "nude beach." For example, I have been nude at a non-nude public beach in Galveston in the evening, and people were around and saw me. Nothing bad happened. I think also that here most parents for some reason equate nudity with sex, and I probably get away with nudity at non-nude beaches because I am there when there are fewer people, and they are adults. This is an interesting observation. Unfortunately, I believe that most Americans are definitely more prudish than not when it comes to social, non-sexual nudity. The examples you cite are wonderful, and there are more of them taking place every year. However, they're only a small portion of the events that tolerate absolutely no nudity at all. I love being naked in appropriate places, whether indoors or out, alone or with others (whether they're naked or not, guys or girls, etc.) I spend many summer days at the nude beach here on Long Island, swim naked in friends' pools, and lie out naked on my parent's deck (when they're not at home...they're truly conservative and definitely not comfortable with nudity). I truly feel that it's up to those of us who enjoy social nudity in appropriate places and for appropriate reasons to take advantage of every opportunity to get naked and demonstrate that simple nudity has nothing to do with sexuality, isn't perverted or obscene, and that our society needs to become more tolerant of such activities. My daughter and were discussing this very subject this morning, and comparing the US' attitudes towards sex and nudity to Europe's. If we could ever get over our Puritanical ideology here in the States, we'd be so much better off, and there'd be so fewer problems with nudity and sexuality. Sex crimes would fall off, and just think how nice it would be to look at a magazine and see people of all sizes, colors and persuasions enjoying healthy sex. Great post! We also have a Testicle festival here in New Mexico and some of my friends cross the border into AZ every year for the "Burning Man". Good luck. |
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