Kudos to Battleboro for voting down a permanent ban on non-lewd public nakedness in your town. I'm not saying people should be going to work/church/school naked but if someone wants to hang out in their backyard and skinnydip then more power to them. What is even more frightening than seeing a 90 year old obese woman skinny dipping though are the arguments used in favor of the ban. One guy talked about a mother who was upset because a merchant was changing the clothes on a mannequin and her kids saw a naked
mannequin. Okay, someone get that lad a burqa and some Prozac stat! If you are concerned that your kids are seeing a piece of plastic naked then you are either seriously mentally unbalanced or you get up to some seriously freaky sh*t and you are trying to overcompensate. It makes me wonder how old those kids are? Lady, if they are over seven then they have already raided the back issues of National Geographic and seen boobies.
There was also the preacher who said that young men are visually stimulated so why put something in front of them to promote sin. Hmmmm, I thought that was what the internet was for. . .to see the seriously freaky sh*t and not some people hanging out on the lawn doing nothing.
You can read all the comments made at the
Smoking Gun and see for yourself what people have to say.
p.s.
If you remember all this furor started last summer (or was it this one) when a bunch of kids stated to hang out in a parking lot naked. It wasn't some great conspiracy where a brigade of naked porn stars waltzed through town in only six inch spike heels.