Nude teens raise eyebrows [!-- END HEADLINE --] [DIV id=ynmain][!-- BEGIN STORY BODY --] [DIV id=storybody] [DIV class=storyhdr] Fri Aug 25, 10:10 AM
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By Scott Christianson
BRATTLEBORO, Vermont (Reuters) - Some have appeared naked in a downtown parking lot. Others rode their bicycles or simply strolled the streets in the nude.
Teenagers in the quaint Vermont town of Brattleboro are raising eyebrows this summer with brazen displays of nudity.
So far they haven't been arrested or ticketed: public nudity isn't illegal in the town of 13,000 people, unless it's done to arouse sexual gratification.
Vermont has a live-and-let-live tradition, allowing skinny-dipping and nude sunbathing. Brattleboro, the first permanent English settlement in the state in 1724, is home to a community of writers, artists and musicians as well as transplanted entrepreneurs from Boston and New York.
When the weather grew hot this year, a couple of dozen teens took to holding hula hoop contests, riding bikes and parading past the shops wearing only their birthday suits.
Nobody, including the police, seemed to take offense until one local, Theresa Toney, went before the town government in August to complain about a group of youngsters naked in a parking lot.
"The parking lot is not a strip club," she said. "What about children seeing this?"
Town officials asked their attorney to draft an ordinance to ban such displays for the Select Board to vote on in September. When the teens heard about it, some staged a nude sit-in.
"I don't see why it's such a big deal," said Alec McPherson, a recent high school graduate as he sat at a coffee shop table, browsing a thick volume of artwork from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Everyone's naked in this book."
His companion, Jeremiah Compton, a high school junior who plays in a local metal-and-punk band, agreed. "It's just that we're bored and expressing our right," he said.
"We have a nuclear power plant a few miles away and a ridiculous war in the Middle East, countries getting bombed," said Ian Bigelow, a 23-year-old who had gathered with some of his friends outside a bookstore. "So why's it such a big problem if we chose to get nude?"
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(//vny!://discoverseattle.net/forums/richedit/smileys/Happy/8.gif) LOL!
LOL is my generation hysterical.
Sportsdude wrote:
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"We have a nuclear power plant a few miles away and a ridiculous war in the Middle East, countries getting bombed," said Ian Bigelow, a 23-year-old who had gathered with some of his friends outside a bookstore. "So why's it such a big problem if we chose to get nude?"
[FONT color=#0000bf]These are legitimate concerns. I'm undecided on whether nuclear power plants are bad per se (lacking adequate knowledge on this point). I do agree that an unnecessary war (started by murderous war profiteers whose figurehead is sociopathic US president Bush, who likely attained his position through a rigged election), killing tens of thousands of innocent Iraqi civilians ought to be a more immediate concern to Americans than mere nudity.[/FONT]
[FONT color=#0000bf]Americans, overall, have always been more accepting of extreme violence than nudity[/FONT]
Of course America is more accepting of extreme violence have you turn on the tv lately. People blowing up in dramas: Good. (While I was working out I saw a fox show where a kid was blown up. And Nudity: Hide the kids, cover there eyes.
I've nothing against nudity.............. unless you're named Sportsdude. *just kidding*
hey!
*fluttering innocent eyelids*
lol. kids today. and to think i would love to be able to go for a bike ride and go shopping in the nude. all i can say is a open mind is a open book. nothing beats the ability to free expression and i say good on them. if it iswhat they wish to do and if they are not breaking any laws all i can say to the nay sayers is use your imagination here folks to hear the rasberry thhhhhbpppppppppppppppppppppp
Sportsdude wrote:
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I don't see what's wrong with that ... :)