I've never visited a clothing-optional beach, nor have I ever been to a nudist colony/community. I'd just like to take this time to consider what it would be like if everyone in the entire world were made to not wear clothing. Before I continue I want to acknowledge the obvious and/or silly problems with this scenario:
1) it's not warm enough everywhere to merit going about without clothing.
2) it's not practical/sanitary to go about without clothing, especially when performing certain tasks such as operating machinery or cooking/baking or jogging, etc.
3) you can't make everyone go clothesless. And Fashion Industry Is Powerful.
Having gotten those three broad categories of concern out of the way, here are some of the hypothetical beneefits of my aforementioned scenario:
1) there would be less sexual harassment and rape (the reasoning behind this is that, in many instances, rapists claim that the person/people they raped were "asking for it" due to the way s/he dressed)
2) pornography, as commonly defined today, wouldn't exist
3) there would be more body acceptance and acknowledgement of what the human anatomy looks like without any non-surgical enhancement
4) the world would be more conscious/concerned about cleanliness
5) you get the point?
This is where I would try to make some transition into the argument for letting women walk around topless, just as men are allowed to walk about in public without shirts on. But that is a topic for another day. And this topic would easily transition to the tangentially related issue of bras; alas, a subject for yet another separate post.
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