off_world_beings wrote:
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> <mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> , TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
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> <mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> , off_world_beings <no_reply@>
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>> wrote:
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>>> 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
>>>
> <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:>>
>>
>
> I know, and to think that the pruidish Americans have no problem
> murdering 100,000+ children in Iraq, but show a bit of nudity???.....oh
> no no.....that's "Evil".
>
> OffWorld
>
Vermont doesn't need laws against nudity because it's too damn cold
there. :-D So I bet Alaska doesn't have any either. Berkeley OTOH
didn't have any indecent exposure laws either until people started
running around in the nude downtown and on campus about 10 years ago and
then the city council promptly passed one. One Saturday as I was
driving down Channing about at Telegraph this guy is walking down the
street dressed only in sandals and a baseball cap and carrying a
shopping bag. It was actually a bit jarring. :-D
