this sounds fantastic at first, but most people who publicly clamor for "clothing-optional" anything, should almost always be fully clothed. even in the privacy of their own homes, while bathing, while fornicating, these people should be fully, fucking clothed

I know where you're coming from steamingpile. When I lived in Rhode Island I went to a nudist beach on the ocean near Charleston and I thought I had wandered into a Neanderthal fat farm.

Maybe in 2012.

Whatsa matter JoeLabey they won't let your dog vote? Have your significant other knit him a coat.

So glad I don't live in Florida.

Just pounch out the hole.

Push in the box

There is a very pleasant clothing-optional beach at Haulover Beach, just North of Miami Beach in a State park. It has no problems, no litter and no noisy children. I am all for it. Bathing and swimming naked feels great.

Don't pull that lever!!

Seriously though - nude beaches? Fine, you can just avoid them if you're not into that. But nude polling sites? Unless you gerrymandered the districts enough so only nudists would vote in that one district (which would be highly illegal), you'd be forcing people who aren't nudists to "put up or shut up."

There's accomodating alternate lifestyles, and then there's just common freaking decency. And common decency says "if you're going to be around people who aren't nudists, put on some goddamn clothing."

I have actually been to th particular nudist community. It's outside of Tampa. There was some nice scenery and like you say, some people just need to put on some clothes.

I wonder if the candidates with campaign nude there also?

Florida Nudists Want Nude Polling

Uhm.... NO!

I agree with Kinger at #11.

Everyone wants their own special stuff. SHIT!

"Bathing and swimming naked feels great."

Do you normally bathe with clothes on?

I guess that would be one way to save on energy and water.

Ahhhh...Thank you Sitdown!

I did enjoy that!!

Between this and a college football playoff system, I think we've covered the most important issues of the day.

Sounds like a pork barrel issue that will need to be ad-dressed!

Do you normally bathe with clothes on?

#15 | Posted by Lisa

What does that haved to do with voting?

Kinger wrote:

And common decency says "if you're going to be around people who aren't nudists, put on some goddamn clothing."

On the other hand, in my misspent youth (in the 1960s) I lived on a commune in Vermont where casual nudity was common. We all used to swim in a local beaver (no pun intended) pond that, unbeknown to us was actually on the property of our neighbor's summer cottage. One day, the neighbor, a middle-aged professor from England teaching at Princeton, came walking up all properly dressed for a swim, with a terrycloth robe, flipflops, bathing suit, towel, and rather modest swimsuit.

Seeing a bunch of naked counterculture types lolling around the pond, he quietly slipped off his robe, dropped the towel, kicked of his flipflops and, as if he had intended to do it all along, took off his swim trunks. He dove stark naked into the pond and became our friend forever.

The English seem to have a knack of being comfortable in any environment. But too many Americans are still caught up in the prudish puritanism that molded so much of "American values."

An Aussie friend insists that the UK sent all of its criminals to Australia and all of its religious nuts to the Colonies. He figures Australia got by far the better of the deal.

I really don't see the connection between your story of exposing (pun very much intended) a stranger to nudism and my point, which is that there's no reason I should have to stare at a random stranger's fat hairy ass when I go to vote.

It's not a "prudish puritan" thing either, before you call me out on that.

Wouldn't only 50% of the nudists be "pole-ing"?

Ugh.

Just put on your clothes and vote.

You can go back to walking around with your wrinkly winky and your tube sock titties hanging out right after you're done.