--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, off_world_beings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > In Vermont nudity is public right and exercised downtown en-masse > every year. > > While Republican Florida tries to ban shirt tails hanging out... > > http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080916/od_afp/usfashionjusticeoffbeat
And just to provide a further contrast, in France and Spain you seen nudity in adver- tisements in magazines and on Metro walls, and all beaches are topless. Sitges has a separate nude beach for those who want to lose the bottoms. In Barcelona, walking along the main board- walk by the beach there, I encountered a guy walking along with his Rollster (the rolling carts you use to go grocery shopping in a city in Europe, since no one would drive to a market) stark naked. I was somewhat taken aback, because it's a major Metropolitan city, but the friends who we were with said, "Oh him...he's a local, and a nudist, and no one even notices him any more. He actually goes to the market like that." And now compare sex crime statistics, the big buggaboo that prudish Americans claim would be the result of such permissiveness. Spain and France have half the rapes per capita that the United States does: http://www.scribd.com/doc/21672/Crime-Statistics-Rapes And other sex-related (in reality, prudishness- and repression-related crimes) are also much lower. The Puritans did you guys a terrible disservice by being ashamed of having physical bodies. So do the prudes from India whose fears have permeated the New Age and so-called "spiritual" movements. If you're looking for a "law of nature," forget all that crap that the TMO teaches and consider this one -- "Ban something and make it illegal, and you are encouraging its growth."
