Originally Posted by Ragdollmaster

So more or less, abolishing laws that penalize people for public nudity. The thing is these exist because the majority of people in any given country, save for maybe the Netherlands and some other liberal European countries, believe public nudity is a breach of common modesty and they're shocked/alarmed/angered when they see it. Maybe it's all based on misconceptions, maybe they're angered for no real reason, but the point stands; they don't want to see it, and until they're convinced otherwise, those laws will remain in place. Just getting rid of those laws won't directly encourage people to run around in the nude; social pressure will keep many people from 'coming out of the closet' so to speak, and there might be outright violence, if not rioting, over the issue.

The point is, regardless of all the underlying scientific facts etc, people in the US and other 'developed' countries usually have negative views on nudity and it's a very controversial topic. At the very best, in our lifetimes, nudist colonies might 'expand' so to say and nudity would be more tolerated in our country while there would still be some restrictive laws, like "You must wear clothes when at work" etc.

Remember, you can't just take the people who want to run around nude into account, there's all those people who don't want to see that. True, you always have two sides in an argument, but public nudity is really a landslide... I'd say 95% of people living in developed countries are against nudity.

Also, to be honest, I can't see where this debate is going...