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which are openly tolerated and even promoted on public land. A study by Dr. Steven D. Moore of the University of Arizona demonstrated that seeing naked bathers on public property is five times more acceptable to the public than encountering hunters.205 142. Naturists certainly deserve at least as much consideration by land management agencies as resourcedamaging activities such as off-road vehicle use. As Pat O'Brien points out, "avoiding http://view.samurajdata.se/psview.php?id=80c2a0b2&page=1 in places where they're anticipated to be is simple. That's not Accurate as it pertains to other sanctioned uses of our public lands and waterways. The roar and stink of a snowmobile or other off-road vehicles can't be dismissed, and you'd best not look out on a jetskier in the water near you. Why then is it so objectionable for us to request to utilize a tiny amount of space on a non-exclusive basis, in ways that do not pollute and do not drive others away?" 206 143. The Wilderness Act of 1963 defined wilderness areas as "lands designated for preservation and protection within their natural condition." http://www.filedropper.com/thedominantthoughtthatclothingisimportantforreasonsofmodestyisaculturalpremiseitisanbntvy are to be managed in a way that keeps them in as natural a state as potential. It follows that person should be able to enjoy wilderness areas within their own most natural state, free from http://www.docspal.com/viewer?id=itqtjpko-9831510 of clothing. 144. Public wilderness areas need to be places where human freedoms, including naked diversion, are Found more freely than elsewhere. Wilds ought to be http://member.thinkfree.com/myoffice/show.se?f=dba965533027b049fce212c43cddb3af of carefully managed anarchy, our refuge free of any but the most essential intrusions by government rules and regulations. Do we not go to Wilds for these very reasons, and would it not be undermined by undue external interference, such as Unneeded clothes regulations? 145. Recreation managers regrettably frequently "solve" the issue of naked diversion, not by managing it, but by discounting it. Hence supervisors "enable" nudity on remote shores without facilities or lifeguards, then point to trash, drug use, and other issues as a result of the nudity instead of the dearth of active management. 146. If public bare diversion could be broadly accepted in societies considered repressive by Americans (for Case, formerly-socialist Yugoslavia, once-communist East Germany, Orthodox Greece, or Catholic France), it ought to be allowed in democratic Europe and in America, "the land of the free." 207 Lee Baxandall has reported that "nearly every town [on East Germany's shore] has an FKK [bare] seashore, some 90 sites serving 200,000 campers/lodgers annually; more FKK than fabric shores. A GDR survey found 57% of the population approving of nude diversion, 30% had no opinion, and only 13% opposed." 208 Sadly, with the reunification of Germany, the West has exported to the East both porn and beach limitations: now that East Germany is "free," many of its own beaches are not. A June 1992 UPI dispatch from Ahlbeck noted that "the controversy comes from the introduction of western German-style regulations on traditionally nude eastern German Seashores." 209 Ironically, authority for the brand new prohibitions of nudity stems from a Nazi-era regulation carrying the signature of Heinrich Himmler.210 147. Anti-nudity laws are demeaning since they replace individual responsibility with state control. 148. It's inappropriate to use police resources to crack down on peaceful bathers at a seashore just because They're bare, while taking valuable resources away from other more urgent needs. 149. This is a cruel reversal of justice when the law frowns on innocent skinnydippers, while gawkers on the fringe of the nude beach, who pervert and fetishize the body, are accepted as "ordinary." Historic support for Naturism. 150. Social nudity is portion of a long historical tradition.211 Recent Western civilization stands nearly alone, in the entire known history of humankind, in its repressive code against nudity. 151. Nudity was commonplace in the ancient Greek culture, particularly for guys.212 By the Classical Period of early Greece, bare exercise and athletic competition had become part of the way of life for Greek men, as well as a practice which separated "modern" Greeks both from other, "barbarian" cultures and from their very own past. The original Olympic games were conducted in the nude. Plato described nudity in exercise as a practical, useful, and rational initiation; Thucydides marketed it as easier, freer, and much more democratic, a cultural differentiation between the Greek soldier who must be in shape, slender and muscular, not portly and affluent, and the "barbarians" who announced their status and wealth by wearing high-priced garments that gave a bogus impression of elegance and power.213 152. Old Testament ceremonial washings, including baptism, were performed in the bare.214 Christ, also, was probably baptized nude--as depicted in numerous early works of art.215 153. Roman citizens, including early Christians, bathed communally in the nude in the public baths