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[threadfree]

After reading about the relaxed nudity laws in San Fransisco, it got me to wondering how common nudity is there.
Does anybody have any first hand information? I am familiar with Bare to Breakers and WNBR

[David77]

After reading about the relaxed nudity laws in San Fransisco, it got me to wondering how common nudity is there.
Does anybody have any first hand information? I am familiar with Bare to Breakers and WNBR

When we were visiting San Francisco, we went to the Haigh-Asberry district but the streets were relatively vacant and no nudes were seen there nor elswhere in San Francisco.

[naturalmanwa]

After reading about the relaxed nudity laws in San Fransisco, it got me to wondering how common nudity is there.
Does anybody have any first hand information? I am familiar with Bare to Breakers and WNBR

It's been a few years since I was there,but I too went to Haight-ashbury and other spots and saw no nudes of any kind.

[brino]

Nudity is most frequently in the Castro distrct of the city. It is not typically common in other areas. It is a minority of people with usually only 3 or 4 individuals. When "Nude-Ins" are organized there will be maybe 30 or more folks.

[NakedGary]

According to many, nudes gather daily in the Castro district of San Francisco.

After battling the Castro nudists who refused to put a towel down when they sat on public benches, San Francisco District 8 Supervisor Scott Wiener has now told the Bay Area Reporter that he's considering introducing legislation that would ban public nudity altogether. The source of Wiener's ire this time around? A number of them have been wearing **** rings while standing around in the Castro, and this, police say, can cross the line into "lewd." [MORE]

[tiger79]

A number of them have been wearing **** rings while standing around in the Castro, and this, police say, can cross the line into "lewd."

Are they Badoo members, I wonder?

[Safebare]

The article cited is suspect and not balanced. It starts off saying that the issue is with nudist not using towels to sit on, but then slides into a rant about penile rings. There are other references that I consider more reliable (http://blogs.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/..._****_ring.php). The article also refers to Baker Beach as 'a sandy area infamous for public titillation'. This is definitely an exaggeration of fact.
Wearing genital jewelry, by itself, does not seem to be an issue. Blatant sexualization of the nudity leniency is what is targeted.

Castro likes the tourist money brought on by the notoriety of the naked residents.

Just saying,
Safebare

[NakedGary]

Supervisor Scott Wiener Says Drawing Attention to Your Penis in Public Is Obnoxious


By Erin Sherbert Fri., Sep. 14 2012 at 2:37 PM

Categories: Best Practices, Politics, Public Nudity

• Says public erections are not really political

  Last week, SF Weekly told readers about how nudists in the Castro were starting to feel singled out because of their penis rings. They accused police of conducting "penis ring patrols" threatening to arrest nudists who were caught wearing the sex paraphernalia in public.
  
  Cops deny they've been on penis patrol, though if they haven't been inspecting naked penises, they might be soon. Supervisor Scott Wiener, who has already explained his discomfort with naked people, told the Bay Area Reporter that he's considering legislation that would ban all public nudity.
  
  The District 8 supervisor, who represents the penis-flapping Castro, says people aren't just uncomfortable with this lewd look, they're "absolutely repulsed by it." Or at least people who run in Wiener's circle.
  
  He astutely noted that the whole purpose of a penis ring is to 1. maintain an erection, or 2. draw attention to the penis -- both of which are "obnoxious" and "irresponsible," as long as you are in public.
  He's worried that, with the warm weather and all, more men are going to want to strip their pants off and slip on a **** ring before heading to Hot Cookie in the Castro.
  
  Naturally, nudists disagree, arguing that penis rings are no different than any other ornament you put on your body: a headband or earrings perhaps.

"I think people in the city are tired of this being an issue and are tired of seeing the city wasting resources on something that is not really a problem," Local nudist Mitch Hightower told BAR. "Most people I know who like to be naked in the plaza want nothing to do with the police. They want to be naked and left alone."
Don't we all?
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[Centauri4]

It seems like enacting a broadly sweeping law such as one banning all public nudity unfairly impacts those who are not wearing penis rings or otherwise engaging in blatantly obnoxious behavior. An easier law to pass, one which may even pass muster with the more generic nudists, would be one targeting explicit jewelry or the display of sexually-oriented paraphanalia, then Mr. Wiener would have to define what this includes as other laws specifically list items such as knives of a certain length, bullets of certain types, counterfeit money or clothing and so forth.

[NakedGary]

San Francisco male and female public nudity and display of genital jewrey is not only in the Castro District. It's legal to be nude anywhere in the city.