Loren Pechtel

Indecent Exposure: 300 pounds in a bikini.

Personally, I would have no problem with phasing out the indecent exposure laws. For safety's sake I think there should be a period where it's legal only so long as it's not readily visible from a street--get people used to it before drivers have to confront it. (I have seen a naked driver once--attractive female--and she was making quite a mess of traffic. I was nearly hit twice by people paying more attention to her than the road and she caused a traffic jam on a street I had never seen a jam on before.)

Businesses would remain free to impose standards like they do now (consider the very commono "No shirt, no shoes, no service" signs.)

Flashers are a different matter. Flashing is a sexual act directed at another non-consenting individual, not mere exposure.

I see no need for discresion in breast feeding. There should be no more need for privacy in that than in any other eating.

My inclination is that normal sexual activity should be permitted in public although I would have no problem with requiring the obviously kinky stuff to be behind closed doors.

I've seen a couple having sex in public once. I avoided going near them but not out of any repulsion but rather a worry about what they might be on--the place they were doing it (a concrete ridge around a parking lot) seemed quite uncomfortable and there were better locations very close by.


I would also say that businesses get to say what goes on their property--so long as they put up warning signs they could permit the kinky stuff that would otherwise not be acceptable.


Of course the prudes would freak out at these ideas. However, once they realized that they couldn't pretend that sex is something evil anymore then they would have to raise their children with a far more healthy attitude towards sex.

tronvillain

Keith, I was simply saying that I don't see the big deal. How did you interpret that as knocking your fetish?

Glory

Primal,

First, Where do you think women should feed their babies?

Second, breast feeding is a health choice. Almost all main stream doctors believe that it is better for the baby than formula or milk from another source. Pumping mother's milk into a bottle is a possibility but it is a long, difficult and painful process. Try sticking your penis in a vacuum cleaner and you might get an idea of what it feels like. Also, mother's milk is not pastuerized which means that preserving it for transport is problematic.

Third, learn the definition of need. Babies need to be fed. You are confusing your preference with a need.

I find it amazing that in a world where on any given day you might see someone urinating in public, urban blight or yet another add for "American Idol" you find breast feeding so objectionable.

Glory

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99Percent

Agreed with all that Loren Petchel said.

Laws against "indecent exposure" should be phased out. After all what is "indecent" is completely subjective, and laws must be objective.

Glory

Excellent point.

Glory

Monkeybot

As others have pointed out, breastfeeding is a health choice. Numerous studies have pointed out how much better breastmilk is for babies than formula.

For the same reason we send food to starving countries instead of prostitutes.

I sincerely hope this is rhetorical. You are honestly suggesting that babies should go hungry because you can't look away for 5 minutes?

This is why there's a difference. You can choose to ignore a breastfeeding mother. The child cannot ignore its hunger, nor can the mother ignore a screaming child (for long, anyway).

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echidna

I’m afraid I can see this one still see this one around for a long time. Of course when it was an issue for my mother, clinical thinking was that formula was better than breast.

Last week the news was running with a study that breastfed babies were 30% more likely to develop obesity later in life.

In the face of so much conflicting evidence I’m content to remain entirely agnostic. Whatever works for the individual AFAIC.

Jane Bovary

Last week the news was running with a study that breastfed babies were 30% more likely to develop obesity later in life.

I think you've got that the wrong way around echidna...

DarkDruid

How about deficating in public, then? I mean, there has been a couple times when I absolutely HAD to relieve myself. Would I be within my right to just squat down in the lawn and unleash the beast? Would it be acceptable if I brought a scooper and a baggie?

echidna

Ooops you're right. That'll teach me to quote from news I've heard on the radio at 6 in the morning. Oh what the hell, I guess that only leaves baby teeth as a good reason not to breastfeed.