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https://kdvr.com/2019/09/05/fort-collins-agrees-to-remove-topless-ban-from-public-code/
Colorado city officials have removed a topless ban from city law that inspired a Free the Nipple lawsuit.
The Coloradoan reported that Fort Collins City Council agreed Tuesday to remove language in the public nudity code that barred women and girls over age 10 from exposing their breasts in public.
City officials say the ban is expected to be removed Sept. 17.
Officials say a district court judge and a federal appeals court have ruled against the policy in the past two years.
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by Nuke on Saturday September 21 2019, @09:26AM (8 children)
You have obviously not seen many naked men/women/porn. One reason people wear clothes, even primitive people in hot countries, is that they are not all the same and therefore many feel inferior if fully exposed, rightly or wrongly. Leaving the head and hands (or at least the eyes) is a bit unavoidable though.
For example I don't want to see my boss' dick or even his bare torso, nor him mine, even if I look the better. Nor do I want to see his secretary's tits, at least not in the office environment - too distracting.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 21 2019, @02:17PM (5 children)
I am not sure you're right on the reasons for wearing clothes even in hot climates. There is a protective function to clothing after all.
Also I am sure seeing someone naked would be a lot less distracting if it was just normal.
Not that I am in favour of running around all naked, but I am not convinced by many of the arguments.
And I seem to remember that there were studies that suggested since it has been become less acceptable for men to walk around without a shirt there are actually more people getting sick during heat waves.
So there is at the very least one good reason to question whether it is good for society to be this worried about nakedness.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Saturday September 21 2019, @02:53PM (4 children)
Citation needed. Absorbent cotton T-shirts will keep you cooler than exposed flesh, by reason that sweat runs off of exposed flesh. More - equatorial people have long known that clothing protects from the sun. You run around naked or near naked in the hot summer sun, letting the sweat run off of you in rivulets, and allowing the sun to burn you, then get back to me. I'll stay covered up with a Stetson (or some such straw hat) and a T, and my year 'round denim jeans and Wolvering boots. And, if I don't have to be out in the sun, I'll stay under a shade tree or something.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 21 2019, @07:00PM (1 child)
Yeah, I don't think I'll manage to find the article, and I will admit I may have mis-remembered.
For what it's worth, I remember the article to be about Sweden.
Which means "hot" being maybe 30 degrees C, people might not have clothes quite suitable (linen shirts have become quite hard to find for example) and high likelihood of some wind at least. I don't have any actual data on cooling effect of shirt vs. not, but there definitely is a climate range (guess from experience: 25-32 degrees, shade, very light breeze) where no shirt definitely FEELS a lot better at least.
I was stupid enough to go snorkeling without T-shirt in Australia once, and got the sunburn I ought to have anticipated, so I am quite aware that running around naked can be really stupid in some areas of the world.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Saturday September 21 2019, @07:32PM
I can get onboard with THAT! Yeah, if you are careful, and get past those first couple weeks of sunburn season, it would feel good to run around near nekkid. Or, completely nekkid, for that matter.
(Score: 2) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Saturday September 21 2019, @11:46PM (1 child)
Better reason: Melanoma.
This sig for rent.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 22 2019, @02:32AM
Who's that? Trump's wife or his daughter?
(Score: 4, Informative) by Common Joe on Saturday September 21 2019, @03:23PM
That's culturally ingrained whether something like that is distracting or not. Not all cultures care about that kind of thing. Our goal should be to be a bit more enlightened and not mind the petty stuff like this.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 21 2019, @05:07PM
AC you replied to here. I've seen plenty of naked people and watched plenty of porn. While there is variation in people, most of us fit into the middle of the range in those sorts of measurements.
I don't necessarily want to see people naked all the time, which is why I'm not a nudist/naturist. You see how that works?
But we do all have the same stuff. There's skin, there's breasts (we don't call them that on men, but they are there), there are penises and testicles and vaginas and buttocks. And there are (gasp!) navels too. So yes, it's all the same stuff. And no one is forcing you to go naked.
The point of all this is not that we should all be naked all the time. The point is that the law discussed in TFA means that women in Fort Collins, CO are no longer being discriminated against. And less discrimination and more equality is A Good Thing™