Intruding Prudes

[Rebel]

I don't understand why anyone needs to be outside nude to judge the weather.

Unless you use your nipples as a barometer.

Her right nipple is used to regulate body temperature, while the left nipple is used mainly to pick up shortwave radio transmissions.

[Mikkel]

I don't understand why anyone needs to be outside nude to judge the weather.

Unless you use your nipples as a barometer.

I'll agree to that, I judge the weather quite easily by looking out the window and at the thermometer. I don't need to prance around outside in the nude, luckily, for in the Danish climate it would freeze my balls off half the year .

[Boozy]

Nothing's wrong with stepping outside to see what the weather's like. I do it all the time. I just take a split second to put on a top before doing so.

To put Red Panda's argument into perspective: My husband used to live across the street from an elementary school. Should he have been allowed to step out buck naked onto his front porch, in full view of the playground?

And when confronted about it, say "The children will just have to look away"?

I'm sure I'll get told it's a different situation, but the same logic applies, does it not?

[blas87]

Boozy, it's different if you go out to check the weather in a top and shorts or even a light robe, but totally naked? Not unless you live out in the boondocks.

[Red Panda]

Does it forgive everyone else though?
I've yet to see you make a rant against smokers and how they raise healthcare costs or how they smell.
I've yet to see you make a rant against anorexics who are equally unhealthy and quite unappealing to look at in their own right.
I've yet to see you make a rant against undocumented immigrants for raising government costs.

Nearly everyone does something that negatively affects others, yet you seem to have singled out only fat people.

I have discussed illegal immigrants and also anorexics. Its just that these things don't come up as often in discussions.

[kiwi]

You could open the balcony door to get a feel of the weather. Once you are in public view, you are in public.

You should not be in public topless unless you are in a place like a topless beach or nudist resort where it is acceptable. You are lucky the woman was polite enough to come and talk to you about it first. If you had responded to me in the way you did to her, I would be going to complain to the building manager and the police every single time I saw you naked in public view.

I am not a prude by any stretch, I just don't want to see your tits while I eat my Wheaties.

[Red Panda]

As far as being topless goes I think a woman has the right to be topless anywhere a man can be topless. Ive seen plenty of guys with bigger boobs then mine, what makes mine so horrible they shouldn't be seen?

[KnitShoni]

Just because you think women should have that right does not change the fact that we don't in most places. You excersizing a right you think you should have but don't in view of people who you know are offended by it is rude.

[Amanita]

If you don't like the nudity laws, campaign to have them changed. In some locales, it IS legal for women to be topless if they choose to. But even in a topless-legal area, you still could get busted for being visible to the public with no underpants on.

[Plaidman]

Legal in Portland to walk around topless.

Been plenty of police that got in trouble and sued for attempting to arrest a women for being topless.

[RavenStarr]

Legal in Portland to walk around topless.

Been plenty of police that got in trouble and sued for attempting to arrest a women for being topless.

There ya go Panda just move to Portland. Problem solved.

[Amanita]

It's also legal in Toronto, and I am not sure but NYC might be legal as well.

[HYHYBT]

One thing I don't think has *quite* been addressed: the "if they don't want to see then they don't have to look" argument doesn't wash, if for no other reason than they don't know not to look until it's too late.

Unless you're going to say that everyone, whether they know already that you do this or not, should avoid looking in the general direction of your balcony just in case.

[Mikkel]

It's legal to be topless most places in Denmark too, and legal to be naked at the beach ! Still, I think it is rude to flaunt your beauty at someone who have asked you politely to stop. A robe isn't that expensive and shouldn't get to much in the way of checking the weather.

[telecom_goddess]

There ya go Panda just move to Portland. Problem solved.

no not quite.

The only time you see women topless around here is during pride when dykes on bikes are in town