[Joeaksa]

Originally posted by Superman
Some of you know I am an undercover hippie.

But I like to frolic and I just get back from my beloved Oregon Country Fair where nudity is fairly tolerated. Ladies don't have to wear tops, and many don't. They paint their chests, in fact. The sauna is a place for two or three hundred naked people. Kids too.

But here's the part many of you will not be able to understand. It's a family place. Kids are everywhere and nobody thinks the naked body is ugly or obscene. You have to hide it and surround it with mystery and forbidden-ness to do that. Frankly, the people who make the most sense to me in America are the super-liberal types.

It's a really cool community. Nude bodies are not obscene, they are beautiful. Disemboweled and decapitated humans....now that's obscene. I am happy to submit myself to the former, and will not pollute my psyche with the latter.

Oh, my daughters can see a peepee any time they like. They'd just have to look in the bathroom while I'm shaving. No big deal. And they've been going to the hippie fair since they were little.

Cannot agree more! (this does worry me a bit... actually agreeing with Supe about something, course its not politics! ) There is nothing wrong with nudity or our bodies. Its the uptight religious nuts (my feeling) who have the paranoia about this.

Other thing is that when you have a society that is open about their bodies the incidence of sexual crimes goes down across the board. Why peep in someone's window when you can go down to the beach or park to see someone nude? Rapes and other crimes like this are just not as prevalent either.

Wish it would change but not going to hold my breath either...

JoeA