Blancmange's Rantings

The primary purpose of a personal web page is to rant to the world about sex, politics and religion. This section should be full of subcategories and stuff, but I'm kinda busy. I'll just write down the bits I think are really important right now…

The Right to be Naked

I really have a bee in the bonnet about this.

It's amazing that being naked is still illegal in our supposedly enlightened society. Isn't it a bit odd that humans are supposedly harmed just by the sight of other members of their own species?

Prudes often claim that since there exist a few special camps in the country where people are permitted (or even required) to be naked, anyone who wants to be naked should be satisfied with driving hundreds of kilometres and spending some time at a nudist camp. Going to a nudist camp in order to be naked is a bit like going to a hat camp to wear a hat. In a hat camp, hats are a way of life. You'll meet lots of keen hat-wearing strangers who are really just friends you haven't yet met. There's lots of hat-activities to keep you entertained such as hat volleyball, hat painting and hat dancing. Sometimes, though, you just want to wear a hat and not have to travel long distances and pay someone money in order to wear one.

There's the tired old ‘no one wants to see nudity’ argument. If that argument is to have any credibility, then we should have saggy and corpulent busnessmen, mimes, Jo Hos and a great many prudes arrested, fined and/or imprisoned. Nudity in public is demonstrably far more popular than saggy and corpulent businessmen, Elvis impersonators or even flared trousers.