Frank Petrexa
Tribune
Years ago there used to be a nudist colony near where I live--only in the summer. People lived in trailers, and the owner said they had a rule that "wives don't have to be naked until the second day". The newspaper, at the time independent and even more hungry for revenue than it is now, printed a photo of an old guy reading the paper and simultaneously using it as a covering. Supposedly everybody carried a towel in case orgasms and erections were visible. The proprietor told of one guy who was playing basketball with some teenage girls. He suddenly had to grab his towel and retreat to his trailer. "The girls didn't realize what they were doing to him." (It seems like a good way to make some money betting on a game.) She apparently was pretty adamant about keeping voyeurs out--it was all about health, after all, not sex. She was a variation on Paul of Tarsus, I guess.I think - Piraland can tell whether I'm right - naturist families and communities
maintain standards of courtesy and mutual respect as well as, probably better than,
people with clothes on. The idea that being naked is bound to arouse - and permit -
others to rampant sexual predation isn't much different from the view
that women who dress to look good are whores and if we get raped we've asked for it.
I read somewhere that "women are more exhibitionist than men" (I don't know what research that is based on.) I would assume most of the humiliation comes from being nude alone or in a despised group, while everyone else is clothed and having fun and making judgments about the quality of your body. I assume most people don't like being sex objects, unless they are well paid for it. I remember one actress saying that she was fine with nude scenes (obviously she was being paid) as long as she wasn't there when they were shown.