Protesters bare all over a proposed San Francisco Law

On Saturday, September 24th, there was a "Nude-in" in San Francisco. They wanted to put a proposed law against nudity in public in the spotlights. The law states that nudity in restaurants should be prohibited and that naked people sitting in public places should use a towel between their body and the material they are sitting on. The law was introduced by Scott Wiener, who states that it was in response to an increase in nakedness in parks, streets and restaurants. He had never expected, that putting attention on nakedness in public would let the number of nudists increase so rapidly. George Davis, a 65 year-old nudist who even ran for mayor in his bare bottom, reacted by saying that "putting a towel between your backside and a seat is a basic nudist etiquette." A lot of nudists agree that the proposed law is pointless, since they already know how to behave naked in an appropriate way in public.

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I think it is a good thing that there is a legislation about nudity in public. Obviously, there are people who know how to behave properly, but still there are a lot of people who don't. In addition, the proposed law suggests that the nudists have to put a towel underneath their bottom in public places. I think that is a good thing as well, because a lot of children are in parks for example, so it will be more hygienic if you oblige the nudists to put something underneath them. Maybe a lot of them do it already, but I can imagine that a lot of others don't. Still, for us Europeans it is still a bit strange that public nakedness is allowed, since we are not used to it because it is prohibited in the most European countries or cities.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/26/us/san-francisco-nudity-restrictions-provoke-the-nakedly-ambitious.html?_r=1&ref=us