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Peter Stokes's avatar

This may be a bit off-topic, but I offer it as a sign of hope for naked living. It comes from an item on the BBC website regarding some upcoming elections and the perils facing candidates:

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Forget about the politics for a second - I've heard some pretty hair-raising stories about what can go wrong in that encounter. And the most common way in which the chat on the doorstep goes awry?

"It's naked people," says one MP. "There's an awful lot of naked", says a long-time political activist. A former cabinet minister remarks in a quintessentially British way that the voter's state of undress always goes unmentioned, "even when they are doing their best to take it to the limits of parental guidance".

Another MP told me he was so flummoxed when a woman in her 50s opened the door leaving little to the imagination that he blurted out, "Is your mum in?", while his fellow campaigner ran off screaming

One of their colleagues said they had to cover the eyes of their seven-year-old daughter, who was helping with door-knocking, because a man "opened the door stark naked with his dangly bits out". Another recalls, when walking up a drive one evening, "a fully naked man emerged from the garden shed and calmly said hello. I just ran off!"

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Gerald Austin's avatar

Unfortunately, and sadly, I see 'anti-nudity' becoming the big thing, at least here in the United States. I see some really sick attitudes about this. The mental health of the populace is going DOWN, DOWN, DOWN!!

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