From c7eb284ed3fa973cbe869b4832f04039f17afd8c67b23dce4cd4a0eaceceb2a5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nicholas Johnson Date: Sun, 6 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Subject: New entry: re-the-right-to-be-publicly-naked-a-defense-of-nudism --- .../re-the-right-to-be-publicly-naked-a-defense-of-nudism.md | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) create mode 100644 content/entry/re-the-right-to-be-publicly-naked-a-defense-of-nudism.md (limited to 'content') diff --git a/content/entry/re-the-right-to-be-publicly-naked-a-defense-of-nudism.md b/content/entry/re-the-right-to-be-publicly-naked-a-defense-of-nudism.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9db3c3d --- /dev/null +++ b/content/entry/re-the-right-to-be-publicly-naked-a-defense-of-nudism.md @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +--- +title: "Re: The Right to be Publicly Naked: A Defense of Nudism" +date: 2023-08-05T00:00:00 +draft: false +--- +I've been wanting to write about the legalization of public nudity for a while now. It's one of those things that's a moral no-brainer for me as a social progressive, but society just hasn't caught up yet. + +I found [a publication](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11158-018-09406-z) from September of 2018 defending the right to be publicly naked that more or less says all I had planned to say about the topic and more. It was written by Bouke de Vries, and published by Res Publica, a peer-reviewed Journal of Moral, Legal, and Political Philosophy. I read the publication in its entirety. Legal and political philosophy certainly aren't my areas of expertise, but I agree with the thrust of the publication and decided it was worth sharing. + +To boil it down in my own words, the publication argues that the right to be publicly nude when it does not pose a health risk serves important purposes and that any offense public nudity may cause isn't reason enough to ban it since the nature of the offense taken isn't inherent, but rooted in harmful prejudices against nudists. -- cgit v1.2.3