Should public nudity and public sex be legal?

[Cincinnatus]

Well guess what my friends? That's censorship. Nobody has a right not to be offended and even if you did, my right to free speech trumps that.

The courts wouldn't agree with you on that. 

As for the debate;  I'm not opposed to nude beaches, or topless women/men.  However, I can't say I support complete nudity permitted anywhere.  If people want to join some nude club, or a spa, or whatever it is they do to shed their clothes out of public view, that's cool.  If they own beachfront property, and want to enclose some of it for sunbathing, awesome.  I won't deny their right to enjoy their nudity in privacy, or with those who openly welcome it and join in.  As for sex in public anywhere?  No, sorry.  In the words of one forumite, I'm far to prude to accept such an idea..

[Cincinnatus]

Wherever did you get the idea that censorship was inherently wrong?

Government censorship is pretty much only justified when it comes to things like child pornography or national security and even then you can go too far (thinking of military secrets that the public should know about like torture/secret prisons or stupid laws that define pictures of anybody under 18 as child pornography so somebody gets thrown in jail for years for having pictures of a 17 year-old).

Yes, and letting children run around nude is somehow justified...

[Cincinnatus]

Wherever did you get the idea that censorship was inherently wrong?

Government censorship is pretty much only justified when it comes to things like child pornography or national security and even then you can go too far (thinking of military secrets that the public should know about like torture/secret prisons or stupid laws that define pictures of anybody under 18 as child pornography so somebody gets thrown in jail for years for having pictures of a 17 year-old).

Yes, and letting children run around nude is somehow justified...

You understand the difference between nudity and sex right? Children can't consent to sex and that wouldn't change even if public nudity and public sex were legal. The justification for banning/censoring child pornography is that, if it's legal, people will have a financial incentive/market to create more.

Pornography doesn't consist of only sex.  I'd imagine a pedophile would have no problem walking out of his door to take a glimpse at Johnny across the street whose letting it hang out because public nudity is "Ok, and not the same as sex".

[Cincinnatus]

The first post ever on this forum complimenting me! I am honored.

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