You’re trying some appeal to emotion angle, where you align not restricting people’s choices with the act of sexual assault. Something you also admit people are already doing today, with such restrictions in place.
I think we as a society can never be better unless we make every step that we can. Freeing up the most natural thing we all have is one of a thousand we must make.
I am not trying to “appeal some emotional angle”. I am trying to say what I believe will realistically happen if you were to right now allow people to be nude in public.
You haven’t been to any nude beaches have you? They are exactly the same as clothed beaches just without the swimwear. You have to understand that in most places in Europe nudity is not something sexual. Acts are. Tbis is a cultural difference with the USA, where nudity itself is considered sexual. Hence films with bodily mutilation can be watched by children because no female nipple can be seen.
I totally get why this might be strange or even hard to believe. Just try to keep an open mind and be tolerant is all I ask.
I’ve grown up in a country with nudity a common and normal occurrence. There are places in parks were people were (and are) partially naked, my family was often naked at home, I have no trouble at all with nudist beaches or tanning naked etc.
But I was reacting to someone suggesting that showing up nude in public anywhere you want should never be seen as an offence.
And I am convinced this would lead to an increase in sexual harassment. Because it is very different to be naked at the beach, in the park or even walking naked down the streets from, for example, having your gymnast teacher teach you while they are being naked, or allowing people to be naked in public transportation and similar situations.
I believe that in our current society (I am not talking about an ideal world, but the actual, current world) this would cause overall more harm than promoting freedom. The way people are completely naive, in my opinion, how some people will actually use this opportunity to harass others is honestly baffling to me. I can only imagine that people underestimate how common harassment is in everyday life and that they don’t automatically assume all the consequences this would have (probably a good thing).
Things that would happen when you would pass such a new law:
People will block your way in narrow areas to make you have to touch them to get past or move.
People will touch you with various body parts with the goal of making you feel uncomfortable.
People will show off their sexual arousal to you with the goal of making you feel uncomfortable.
People will seek opportunities to hold their erect penis / their breasts / whatever in your face.
People will smear their bodily fluids onto you and your stuff on purpose.
Just a hole bunch of new situations that you can’t defend against and that regularly won’t be able to proof.
If that’s not immediately what comes to your mind, you’re probably a man and / or very lucky.
And the notion of “well harassment is already illegal” is completely worthless because you are already pretty much powerless to defend yourself from harassment since it’s near to impossible to proof in the majority of cases. Do we really want to even increase this problem when we haven’t really made any progress yet, as a society, to battle the problems we already have in this regard?
That’s specious reasoning.
You’re trying some appeal to emotion angle, where you align not restricting people’s choices with the act of sexual assault. Something you also admit people are already doing today, with such restrictions in place.
I think we as a society can never be better unless we make every step that we can. Freeing up the most natural thing we all have is one of a thousand we must make.
I am not trying to “appeal some emotional angle”. I am trying to say what I believe will realistically happen if you were to right now allow people to be nude in public.
You haven’t been to any nude beaches have you? They are exactly the same as clothed beaches just without the swimwear. You have to understand that in most places in Europe nudity is not something sexual. Acts are. Tbis is a cultural difference with the USA, where nudity itself is considered sexual. Hence films with bodily mutilation can be watched by children because no female nipple can be seen.
I totally get why this might be strange or even hard to believe. Just try to keep an open mind and be tolerant is all I ask.
I’ve grown up in a country with nudity a common and normal occurrence. There are places in parks were people were (and are) partially naked, my family was often naked at home, I have no trouble at all with nudist beaches or tanning naked etc.
But I was reacting to someone suggesting that showing up nude in public anywhere you want should never be seen as an offence.
And I am convinced this would lead to an increase in sexual harassment. Because it is very different to be naked at the beach, in the park or even walking naked down the streets from, for example, having your gymnast teacher teach you while they are being naked, or allowing people to be naked in public transportation and similar situations.
I believe that in our current society (I am not talking about an ideal world, but the actual, current world) this would cause overall more harm than promoting freedom. The way people are completely naive, in my opinion, how some people will actually use this opportunity to harass others is honestly baffling to me. I can only imagine that people underestimate how common harassment is in everyday life and that they don’t automatically assume all the consequences this would have (probably a good thing).
Things that would happen when you would pass such a new law:
Just a hole bunch of new situations that you can’t defend against and that regularly won’t be able to proof.
If that’s not immediately what comes to your mind, you’re probably a man and / or very lucky.
And the notion of “well harassment is already illegal” is completely worthless because you are already pretty much powerless to defend yourself from harassment since it’s near to impossible to proof in the majority of cases. Do we really want to even increase this problem when we haven’t really made any progress yet, as a society, to battle the problems we already have in this regard?
Is this GPT-3 talking?
No, but maybe you can ask an AI if you struggle to understand opinions that differ from yours?