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From: laura@utcsstat.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.rec.nude
Subject: Re: Children and Social Nudity Revisited
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Date: Sat, 13-Aug-83 05:32:43 EDT
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Posted: Sat Aug 13 05:32:43 1983
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The world is a strange place, with funny rules. Children seem to
understand this rather well. Nudity was not practiced in our house
but I had to learn that no pressing religious question was important
enough to be mentioned in front of non-immediate relatives. (My
parents have different faiths, and that is a good way to start a
small war).  In the same way, I learned that evoltionary theory
was not to be mentioned in the school I was attending (I mentioned
it anyway, all the time, but I *knew* that it was frowned upon),
and that on the whole, the world was a pretty queer place. I
see no reason why public attitudes towards nudity should be any
different.

For me the bottom line is that I know no evidence that the anti-nudes
are correct in their fear of nudity. Sweden doesnt seem to be falling apart
due to moral decay, for instance. Everyone has got to learn what to
do when public opinion is WRONG sometime. If you believe that nudity
is not wrong, but still prevent your children from being nudists, you
are in effect saying that one must bend to public opinion, even when it
is wrong. I would not want to encourage this in my children.

laura creighton
utzoo!utcsstat!laura

ps - in net.politics a discussion is raging entitled 'Societal
consensus as a basis for law'. I am rather vocal in saying that it
is NOT. If you want to discuss this question, and do not read
net.politics, please move the discussion there so that there
is less duplication of effort. I am already holding down net.flame
and net.politics and may have to move to net.philosophy as well,
but this is about my limit.		laura