Why is society afraid of public nudity

If public nudity was commonplace, sex crimes and peepers would decrease. No thrill.

What you're talking about is a situation where the puritanical mores create the crime.

If all women walked around nude, I'd have a field day with my camera, although I'd still like to leave something to the imagination, as it's more exciting for me. Sure, making nudity legal would keep the average guy from peeping, but pedophilia isn't caused by puritanical mores. I've talked to pedophiles that said they can't be around children under any circumstances. Having children walk around nude in front of them would be like putting a bottle of Grey Goose in front of an alcohic.

Having children, dressed or not is tempting an addictive person, period. In a society where clothing is unusual, not just women and children, the average human form looses it's simple aphrodisiac quality. This has been studied by sociologists and anthropologists looking at primitive cultures.

One more reason:

Because people with unattractive figures don't want to give up their ability to better compete by wearing enhancing clothes.

Http://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/marie-louise-berneri-wilhelm-reich-and-the-sexual-revolution

I wouldn't want to have the human form lose it's aphrodisiac quality, and I enjoy the thrill nudity provides under the right circumstsnces. I also wouldn't want my children to be around pedophiles delibertly using nudity in order to be provocative. I find clothes quite functional, as they keep me warm in the winter, and they protect my body from the harmful rays of the sun in the summer, so it's doubtful any idealist will ever achieve a fully nude society unless it's far in the future and we're living in a climate controlled biosphere. The same society would have heroin aplenty, as no one would want to shoot up if they had easy access to it, and banks would do away with vaults, as no one would rob them if stacks of bills were just sitting on a shelf. If no one locked their doors, then no one would break into houses either.

Completely spurious arguments.

I'm out of the debate once anarchism is mentioned, as I can't debate rationally with someone who subscribes to anarchism or nihilism. Life isn't black or white, there is good and bad in everything, and full nudity wouldn't be any utopia. I wish nudity was more acceptable in certain circumstances, but I wouldn't want to live in an all nude society.

http://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/marie-louise-berneri-wilhelm-reich-and-the-sexual-revolution

Oh my, nostalgia strikes. Feels like I'm back at the university again ... 😃 Reich was the flavor of the year back then, an almost perfect companion to the flower children and peace and love thinking that permeated those (long ago) years.

Ah, I miss the sixties too Agracier. However I didn't enjoy worrying about being drafted to go to Vietnam.

It's sad that someone would discount an academic article based on the name of the website.

Lots of great articles in the "Anarchist Library", one called "Why Break Windows" which advocates damaging property, another called "An Interview with Ted Kaczinsky". I'm sure jihadi and racist websites also have some "interesting" articles, but I won't be perusing them anytime soon.

So, I guess by your logic, you wouldn't want to benefit from any scientific or medical advances that came from unpalatable political environments? Nothing from the Nazi or Soviet eras? There were brilliant people who happened to be born on the other side of the border.

Many of the medical advances during the Nazi era came from tortuous experiments on concentration camp inmates. I could do without those advances, whether or not they were significant.

I'm just here to have fun, so I'm not going to get into an ongoing debate. You may view the world from the far left, however I'm more centrist and moderate in my views. There is no right or wrong, as long as your beliefs make you happy. Thankfully we have that luxury in this country.

Ah, I miss the sixties too Agracier. However I didn't enjoy worrying about being drafted to go to Vietnam.

I was literally the only person in my whole high school with a draft card. A-1, though no one there in Belgium understood what it meant, not really. It was fun showing off on occasion and pretending I might end up patrolling rice paddies some day. But in reality I was a wimp and would have failed an induction exam anyway. 😃

I was an H-1, unclassified as they drew numbers but never called my year - no physical, no draft. My father, who was a WWII volunteer and later a physician, was so set against the Vietnam War that he vowed to do everything in his power, medically or financially (support me in the great white north), to keep me from that fiasco.

. . . .I'm just here to have fun, so I'm not going to get into an ongoing debate. You may view the world from the far left, however I'm more centrist and moderate in my views. . . .

Politically, I'm an extreme moderate.

The best medical advances were from the Vietnam war. Tremendous advances in surgery came about in that era.

The best medical advances were from the Vietnam war. Tremendous advances in surgery came about in that era.

The same with the Great War of 1914-18 for that matter. Medical science before and after was a tremendous difference ... from reconstructing faces with plastic surgery and tissue transplants, to bone and metal implants, preventive hygienic measures against infectious disease and countless other things.

With some 9 million dead and about twice that wounded, it gave surgeons an incredible amount of patients to work on and learn from. It was the first major war in which battlefield dead outnumbered those dead from non combat related disease. In previous conflicts one could expect 2 to 3 times the death toll from disease than from combat.

Unfortunately, all war leads to medical advances, but the cost....

Politically, I'm all over the place. I'm a gun totin' Republican fiscally conservative socially liberal atheist. So there.

I'm a Roosevelt democrat atheist and I love to shoot at targets and cantaloupes

I'm not going into detail as far as my political views, however shoot at lots of targets as well...

Americans wouldn't understand the nuances of European politics anyway. 😃

I'm a Roosevelt democrat atheist and I love to shoot at targets and cantalopes

Do cantaloupes explode as nicely as a water mellons when you shoot them with a 12 gauge shot gun?

Susie, cantaloupes explode when hit by a hollow point 22LR. A good size water mellon will bulge and split but it take a 30-30 to make it explode properly.

A cantaloupe and a Mini 14 is really fun. Kaboom!

Sigh... sad waste of such yummy fruit to eat.

12 ga slugs

Shotgun Slugfest Chapter 2: http://youtu.be/ZyIggSRNP3A

You get the green ones and when they're on sale. It is rather stupid and simpleminded. My fav is fireworks. I'm a closet pyro.

That guy's a real maniac! I loved it, thanks.

Now that would be a lot of fun! 😁