San Francisco lawmakers set to vote on nudity ban
Source: Associated Press
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Associated Press/Marcio Jose Sanchez - Demonstrators gather outside of City Hall in San Francisco for a protest against a proposed city-wide nudity ban, Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2012
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) San Francisco lawmakers are getting ready to bare their decision on a proposed ban on public nakedness that has sparked indignation in a city known for flouting convention and flaunting its counter-culture image.
The 11-member Board of Supervisors is scheduled to vote Tuesday on the ordinance, which would prohibit exposed genitals in most public places, including streets, sidewalks and public transit.
Scott Wiener, the supervisor who represents San Francisco's predominantly gay Castro District, introduced the measure in response to escalating complaints about a group of men whose dishabille is an almost daily occurrence.
"Some people have tried to paint this issue as some sort of a gay rights issue, and it really isn't," Wiener, who is gay, said. "It has nothing to do with gay rights. This is about behavior in our neighborhoods and trying to be respectful of one another."
A federal lawsuit claiming the ban would violate the free speech rights of people who prefer to make a statement by going au naturel was filed last week in case the ordinance passes.
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Live and Learn
(12,769 posts)I have no desire to run around nude, nor to see most other members of the human race nude but there seems to be something totally wrong about outlawing our natural state of being.
Egalitarian Thug
(12,448 posts)GermanSmoker
(91 posts)One step more towards prudery.
lbrtbell
(2,389 posts)People have different tastes. Just because I don't want to see some hairy, middle-aged dude nekkid doesn't mean I'm a prude. It just means I have a weak stomach.
Throd
(7,208 posts)Franker65
(299 posts)Maybe develop nude quarters/camps/spas where these people can go to be happy without offending anyone...
Javaman
(62,534 posts)onehandle
(51,122 posts)Above the belt, no problem. Below the belt? On public seats and near sidewalk cafes?
No thanks.
dipsydoodle
(42,239 posts)Last edited Tue Nov 20, 2012, 05:01 PM - Edit history (1)
Egalitarian Thug
(12,448 posts)Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)Pants are a good invention.
Throd
(7,208 posts)I agree. Pants are a good thing.
Egalitarian Thug
(12,448 posts)had any clue of the reality of the soup of biological excrement you live in right now, you would have some kind of breakdown and become agoraphobic. wondering around your abode with Kleenex boxes on your feet and eight inch fingernails, muttering some mantra about keeping the germs away. And sex? Fuggedaboutit.
We have these wonderful mechanisms known as immune system that protect you from all the gross, creepy-crawlies that you are literally coated in, right now, as you're reading this. Your keyboard is a veritable petri dish of contaminants.
XemaSab
(60,212 posts)hunter
(38,339 posts)dipsydoodle
(42,239 posts)San Francisco lawmakers have voted to ban nudity in public places, ending a bitter dispute with a group of nudists.
City officials voted 6-5 in favour of banning anyone over five from exposing "his or her genitals, perineum or anal region" in most public locations.
"Freedom, expression and acceptance does not mean anything goes under any circumstances," district supervisor Scott Wiener said.
The ruling allows exceptions for certain street fairs and events.
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