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To the Editor:
I strongly support equal rights for any woman to be TOP-FREE in public as I am when warm enough—if she wants to be.
Imagine we went to a town where everyone always wore cloth covering their EARS even in hot weather. We never saw anyone with bare ears in public. You could get fired, thrown in jail, laughed at, beaten up, branded as a dangerous pervert if you showed your naked ears in public! Why are these people ashamed and afraid of seeing bare EARS in public! Why this weird taboo?
In our society the same is true of naked cocks, balls, asses, vaginas and female breasts. Why the crazy, sick hang-ups about these precious, pleasurable parts of our bodies? Why is it legal to show rifles, shotguns, revolvers and nuclear missiles in public but not our naked whole bodies?
I enjoy living as naked in public as the law and weather allow. I do NOT want to be cold or to risk getting arrested or beaten up.
I treasure sunbathing naked on many winter days when there are no clouds and no wind. I have two private spots in our backyard.
When my mother and father were alive, I was often naked as an adult in their presence. I have photos my mother took of me naked.
SADLY most religious people suffer from body shame and clothes addiction. Most religious people act as if God created the head, arms and hands, but the devil slapped on the genitals and possibly even the torso and legs! If you believe God created the human body, how can any inch be indecent or obscene?
SADLY most U.S. jobs require covering most of the body even in the summer—business suits, uniforms, etc. Most U.S. jobs enforce rigid conformity. Most U.S. jobs reject body freedom, natural comfort and environmental sanity. The horrendous consequences? Massive electricity squandered on air conditioning—worsening the climate crisis, the vast farmland and poison pesticides to grow more cotton, the petrochemicals for synthetic fabrics, grueling sweatshop labor, tons of deodorant, billions of dollars wasted… Is this PROGRESS?
For thousands of years many native peoples had the GOOD sense to put clothes on when cold and to take off most or all clothes when warm enough.