Kind of a funny question

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Kind of a funny question
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Sat, 07-31-2004 - 12:00am
This is a really ridiculous question, but I honestly want to know the answer. Could I be arrested for walking down the street in a bikini? Would that be, like, indecent exposure? I've always wondered that. (Don't worry, I wasn't planning on doing it! *hehe*)
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Tue, 08-03-2004 - 1:47am
Let them poke away! I would agree with your points to a degree but remember, this is still a very young nation. We're mere adolescents in a world of very old countries. Let us have the same growing pains and that first thousand years to develop our unique culture, just as every other nation was allowed in their time. That's only fair. Comparing us to other places is ridiculous though.

And sexually speaking, I think what most of us want is NOT to see everyone else's business. Not that we don't want people to have those freedoms, just not to be forced to be witness to it. I could care less if someone wants to fan their breasts in the breeze though.

And as Tally mentioned there are plenty of nude beaches in this country if that's your thing.




Edited 8/3/2004 1:52 am ET ET by katmandoo2001

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Tue, 08-03-2004 - 7:42am
DH went to nude beaches in Europe when he was in the Army. He said after the first OMG! shock of lots of people walking around in the buff, after the first hour of fill-your-eyes discreet staring, it wasn't much. The reality of nekkid people, with bumps and scars and sags and wrinkles and whatever else is just...reality. He said (and I heard this from others who have been on nude beaches too) that even the most beautiful body (naked) isn't a big deal on the beach because it's just....another naked body. So much flesh kind of immures you to it. He said there 'is no erotic on naked beaches', lol. Nudity loses its sexuality when it's there everywhere, in your face.

I agree, America is still a teenager, with all it's contradictory blushes and giggles and flaunting about sex. The *one* thing that I wish we could get over is that nursing in public is a no-no and yet breasts on a marquee for Victoria's Secret or the latest movie is fine. *That* irks me.

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Tue, 08-03-2004 - 11:28am
Yes, I've had men blatantly ogle my cleavage before, when my breasts were very full after childbirth, and then blush and turn away when they realized that I was nursing a baby, as if it's intended purpose is somehow obscene. Kind silly, and once again, very adolescent.

And we've ventured onto a nude beach, overseas,ourselves, quite by accident,...and you're right. Most of the people you'll see there, you wouldn't necessarily CHOOSE to see naked! It's definitely NOT sexy. It's humanity.


Edited 8/3/2004 11:49 am ET ET by katmandoo2001

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Tue, 08-03-2004 - 11:31am
>>The *one* thing that I wish we could get over is that nursing in public is a no-no and yet breasts on a marquee for Victoria's Secret or the latest movie is fine. *That* irks me.<<

Luckiy for me, I'm onto my third nursing child and so far not one problem when out and about and needing to nurse. I have spoken to some who have been accosted though.

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Tue, 08-03-2004 - 12:35pm
I was mainly talking about Southern California. I wouldn't want to go to any nude beaches here. There is a big difference in the way people act here in the U.S. vs. other parts of the country.
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Tue, 08-03-2004 - 12:38pm
I very much agree with you! It seems nudity is just more natural a thing in other countries. More widely accepted and if you don't look model thin with "D" cup boobs - it's okay. Here, people do care. I CARE, because I know how people look at one another. The other side of that though is I keep trying to look my best through excercise, diet and ahem, a little surgery because I enjoy looking my best and feel a lot better than if I were to just let myself go.

But anywho - totally agree with you!

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Tue, 08-03-2004 - 6:00pm
Whatever! lol
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Tue, 08-03-2004 - 7:59pm
I have a close friend who lived in Hawaii for 21 years and that is just not true. Maybe in downtown Honolulu with the suits, but the island is surrounded by beaches, water - tons of people walking around in their bathing suits. Tourists and locals alike. Were you visiting Kalaupapa in Molokai by any chance? Father Damian's burial place and missionary grounds. Maybe there.

Like your cross, by the way!

Edited to add: If you're talking about going into restaurants and shopping malls, yes bikini's, no. Walking around the streets and sidewalks - lots of people are in bathing suits.


Edited 8/3/2004 8:03 pm ET ET by tiana_rose

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Wed, 08-04-2004 - 1:56am
Sorry, "friend" or no friend, I will not debate our experience with you! This was OUR experience. This is what we were told and observed at our resort, and every place, OTHER than the beach. What's more, there were posted signs everywhere, stating as much.






Edited 8/5/2004 11:32 am ET ET by katmandoo2001

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Wed, 08-04-2004 - 3:15am

Tiana, I'm not buying into