What’s the average reaction in the U.S?

Hey it’s me, back again with a post! It’s been a long time! This time I have a question for those who have encountered other people while nude, In the U.S.A because I know other countries don’t care as much but the U.S is known for being up tight and prudish.

I’ve read lots of stories where no one really cared, or just said hi. How would you say the average American reacts to this sort of stuff.

I am an American but I am biased, if I saw someone nude I wouldn’t treat them any differently or react negatively.

The other day I was contemplating riding my bike to the mailbox (about 2.4mi there and back) nude but I thought that while the risk of someone calling the police or otherwise making a big deal were very low, the consequences of that happening were too bad.

Thank you all for the replies and keep on living life to its fullest!

 

Well, as a USA nudist couple my wife and I would have no problem see you ride your bike nude. After all, you are minding our on business. We have a “to each their own” attitude. Yes, the USA is full of prudes. We keep our nudist lifestyle private and only associate with a few like minded people. We do not flaunt it. However, most of our friends are clothing prudes.

 

You're really not asking a useful question. There's no point in asking about an "average reaction in the U.S" because the USA is an enormous country, with huge divisions between regions. And Panama Jack hasn't offered much--he says "my wife and I would have no problem see you ride your bike nude" and that's a fine thing, but what about your next door neighbor, Jack? I know you're in Texas, and that's not a nude-friendly state. Where I live, in the Northeast, things are pretty liberal, but even here, there's room for a lot of difference. From Vermont where non-sexual nudity is totally legal, to Pennsylvania (if that's the worst, I'm not sure) where you'd never get away with it. It depends totally on where you are.

 

Amen, what is the question? There none.

 

• Amontillado, I do have to agree with you. Texas does not condone public nudity. My frame of reference was purely about living life free to do what you want to do without ridicule.

Here in Texas we rank third in the most nudist and clothing optional campground/resorts with one public lake available for nudist. Nakations are gaining in popularity with seniors.
We will at 2 nudist campgrounds in the coming weeks.

 

Yeah... Its a question to which there is no real answer I hate to say. Perfect example.... I live in a community during the winter that is next door to a nude resort. Many in our community are also members of the resort as we are.
Yet... If I am seen in my backyard, or through a window of my house, which has happened... I will get the lecture from another known nudist that it isn't appropriate, they felt offended upon seeing me and that is what the resorts and nude beaches are for. So to answer your question. Even nudists can be offended by nudity in this great country of cry babies. Everybody feels the need to be offended and raise a stink about something

 

The notion of community standards being defined by what offends the average person dates from an early 70's obscenity case before the Supreme Court. Because of the subjective nature of being offended, dissenters on the court and critics quickly pointed out this standard was meaningless, leaving the producers of adult materials to navigate widely different standards or let the most restrictive community dictate what they could publish. Eventually subsequent cases granted publishers wider 1'st amendment protections. Unfortunately simple or non sexual nudity in the public realm is mired in a byzantine patchwork of (in my opinion outdated) state law, city and country ordinances the cumulative effect of which is to privilege the most prudish and rereactionary. Since we live in a culture in which outrage and being offended have been weaponized as commodity and currency to be used against ones perceived enemies, the chances of someone complaining about simply seeing someone nude even briefly are almost certain and thats all it would take to cause a nudist a big hassle.

 

In the US location is the key to being naked. Some locations it is OK and others you get fined or jailed. Also double standard where a nude male will get arrested over a nude female. The US has no standard about nudity in public or on ones own property.

 

I can tell you from my experience of the WNBR in LA. Most people there were not offended. A lot of cell phones taking pictures, a lot of honking, some supportive comments, but very few negative comments. There were some of course from time to time but not nearly as many as I would have expected.

 

Isnt it strange how on a one on one, a person gets offended by seeing somebody nude and call the police. Yet put them in a crowd as spectators watching something like the WNBR the same person will see it as entertaining and will break a leg to get there to watch.
How can a naked body that we all have be like an assault weapon one time and entertainment the next. How many will watch porn and have crazy sex in their homes, yet are offended just seeing somebody nude.
I'm lost!

 

I agree it is stupid. But as long as we allow religious puritans to have control we will have to put up with this kind of ignorant thinking

 

Yea, same here. I'm in the midwest so I attend the StLouis WNBR (3rd largest US) every year. Thousands there, vast majority having fun or at least taking it in stride. 2015 was interesting, police escort went too fast separating the ride into two groups, faster younger riders in front, slower in a back group. About 2/3 through I ended up totally separated between the two riding with a fully clothed guy and me nude. I thought crap, what now, nobody had been arrested on previous rides but wasn't exactly with the ride now having to stop at all the lights, quite a bit traffic and on our own. From previous rides I reckoned we were on course, the other guy didn't know, so I figured hell with it and we kept on rolling. We passed a police car backed into a parking lot and I thought here we go but the two officers just watched us pedal past. Eventually we met a volunteer from the ride (fully clothed) on a bike. They changed the route slightly this year and we should have jogged south some ways back, rather than back tracking we finished up the last few miles along last years route, just the 3 of us with me still totally nude. I'm assuming the cops notified the ride of us off course. So ended up quite the little social experiment, riding 3 or 4 miles nude through downtown StLouis passing hundreds of cars most probably unaware of the event taking place, nothing happened, a few honks, thats it. After this experience, considering the question at the start of this thread, maybe the average reaction to simple nudity isn't as severe as many of us would imagine. Sure, I realize some of those people had to have called the cops but since they knew of the ride I got a pass that day. Still, I think if the general public were informed that simple nudity was no longer a crime and unless someone was acting inappropriate they were not breaking the law, most people could manage to get on with their lives. I know the prudes would raise hell and unfortunately they still have the laws on their side. So I feel as a nudist being in a sort of no mans land between a puritanical past and a oversexed popular culture, having what I can and can't do determined by whether anyone complains or not.That's why I have a lot of fencing around my house.