The businesses that complain forget that the law as stands can bring in people to the city. Somehow they believe the naked human body is sinful and meant to be hidden.
This backward thinking is a pushback on our mission for freedom from clothes.
This doesn’t seem to be an actual problem for Burlington. There was one guy last year who made the news (and is shown on the B roll loop) but I think that was it.
I've been a nudest practically all my life even as a small child. We were taught that the human body to nothing to be ashamed of.
The businesses that are complaining should realize that their is a possibility of a higher trade volume being brought into the city by tourist who do not have to go to nudest campgrounds to participate in the naturalest, nude way of life.
I think the situation in Burlington, is much like the other towns in Vermont which have put limits on public nudity, it's about dealing with exhibitionists, not about nudists. I lived in the Burlington area for over 40 years, grew up there, and despite nudity not being illegal, you don't find people walking around nude, there, or most of the rest of Vermont, except in designated, or isolated, areas. Public nudity is legal, or not illegal, but it's not at all common. And, the situation in Vermont isn't that nudity was ever actually legalized through any process, or deliberations, it's that it just isn't made illegal by anything existing in state law.
Burlington is a fairly liberal city, Bernie Sanders was mayor, and started the Vermont Progressive Party, there, back in the 1980's, and the current mayor is a member of the Progressive Party. It's worth following what happens as this moves through the ordinance process, but I don't think this will be part of the anti-nudism movement we're seeing in other places, increasingly, lately. I believe Burlington already does have some restrictions on nudity in at least some city parks, due to similar concerns from several years ago.
This situation in Burlington isn't helpful for normalizing nudity, but that's truly the fault of the exhibitionists, more than anyone. If we want to normalize nudity, it is probably much better to do so in an organized way, which involves more people who understand what nudism is about, not just showing-off, taking selfies, etc.
The businesses that complain forget that the law as stands can bring in people to the city. Somehow they believe the naked human body is sinful and meant to be hidden.
This backward thinking is a pushback on our mission for freedom from clothes.
This doesn’t seem to be an actual problem for Burlington. There was one guy last year who made the news (and is shown on the B roll loop) but I think that was it.
1 guy made news, but 5 people complained. Politics is a numbers game.
Looks like the random content-creator-with-a-selfie-stick strategy isn't improving acceptance.
1. Find ANY city/town/village/hamlet in Vermont that is "nude friendly"
2. Flood with nudists (and money) every summer
3. Generate positive PR
I've been a nudest practically all my life even as a small child. We were taught that the human body to nothing to be ashamed of.
The businesses that are complaining should realize that their is a possibility of a higher trade volume being brought into the city by tourist who do not have to go to nudest campgrounds to participate in the naturalest, nude way of life.
I think the situation in Burlington, is much like the other towns in Vermont which have put limits on public nudity, it's about dealing with exhibitionists, not about nudists. I lived in the Burlington area for over 40 years, grew up there, and despite nudity not being illegal, you don't find people walking around nude, there, or most of the rest of Vermont, except in designated, or isolated, areas. Public nudity is legal, or not illegal, but it's not at all common. And, the situation in Vermont isn't that nudity was ever actually legalized through any process, or deliberations, it's that it just isn't made illegal by anything existing in state law.
Burlington is a fairly liberal city, Bernie Sanders was mayor, and started the Vermont Progressive Party, there, back in the 1980's, and the current mayor is a member of the Progressive Party. It's worth following what happens as this moves through the ordinance process, but I don't think this will be part of the anti-nudism movement we're seeing in other places, increasingly, lately. I believe Burlington already does have some restrictions on nudity in at least some city parks, due to similar concerns from several years ago.
This situation in Burlington isn't helpful for normalizing nudity, but that's truly the fault of the exhibitionists, more than anyone. If we want to normalize nudity, it is probably much better to do so in an organized way, which involves more people who understand what nudism is about, not just showing-off, taking selfies, etc.