Women In Berlin Allowed To Go Topless At Public Pools

[Debater Slayer]

If you want to work in rheology
Then emphasize your methodology
The pyschology of flowology
Gets you going without apology

I don't see that making much dough, but it could help a Joe Schmoe who drinks Kool-Aid with a straw. Such a shame, though!

 

[Shadow Wolf]

I don't see that making much dough, but it could help a Joe Schmoe who drinks Kool-Aid with a straw. Such a shame, though!

When it comes to making paper stacks
I'm alright Jack, keep your hands off my stack
Because if you touch it I will attack
With a hatchet that I use to slash 'n hack

 

[Father Heathen]

The whole idea is disgusting. It can only lead to sickness.

But wait. Weren't you the one crying about public smoking bans?

 

[exchemist]

Or the bananas in their hammocks.

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I thought that an old time spoiler was more appropriate.

Ugh. That really was uncalled for.

 

[Shaul]

But wait. Weren't you the one crying about public smoking bands?

What are "public smoking bands"? Are they some sort of punk rockers that chain smoke?

 

[Shaul]

So, you can provide resources that show this is actually a health risk, right?
Are you aware that unless you have something like an UTI that urine is sterile. Some people even drink it.
And what's with the "'leaking'"? Why a euphemism during an adult discussion?

I acknowledge that you find swimming in urine acceptable.

 

[Shaul]

I agree.
He should've used grown-up terms like "wee wee" or "tinkle".

Spoken like a wee tinkler.

 

[Sgt. Pepper]

Ugh. That really was uncalled for.

Some things cannot be unseen.

 

[Subduction Zone]

Ugh. That really was uncalled for.

You were warned. I did not even want to use the new spoiler that merely blurs the image.

 

[Revoltingest]

Spoken like a wee tinkler.

Been do'n if for nigh on tah 70 years.

 

[Father Heathen]

What are "public smoking bands"? Are they some sort of punk rockers that chain smoke?

Now that our fun with typos is out of the way, how about answering the question? How is nudity a public health concern but secondhand smoke is not?

 

[Evangelicalhumanist]

Can men go bottomless?

Totally irrelevant to the question, unless you think that women can, and there is therefore some unfairness.

 

[Evangelicalhumanist]

There are some men we don’t even want to see topless.

At 75, I'm one of them. I am a kind person, however, so I always make sure to be fully covered.

 

[Shaul]

Now that our fun with typos is out of the way, how about answering the question? How is nudity a public health concern but secondhand smoke is not?

I never said public nudity is a health concern. I said that using public swimming pools is. So, you have no point.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

I acknowledge that you find swimming in urine acceptable.

Where did I say that?
But, if you must pry (because I didn't actually say that), I prefer to swim in a lake with all that fish pee.

 

[Twilight Hue]

I never said public nudity is a health concern. I said that using public swimming pools is. So, you have no point.

I would never swim in a public pool.

 

[Valjean]

Totally irrelevant to the question, unless you think that women can, and there is therefore some unfairness.

Women already do. I've seen plenty of string bikini bottoms -- both senses -- on Daytona beach.

 

[Valjean]

I feel that way about all nudity. Once it becomes commonplace to see nude people all the time, nudity itself will lose all sexual connotation. It will just be normal and natural. (Which it is anyway.)

An excellent point.
What's considered provocative or prurient changes. Dress that wouldn't raise an eyebrow today would be considered shocking to our grandparents. Legs, breasts, arms or buttocks may be titillating at one time and place, and mundane in another. If exposure of a given body part becomes a commonplace, it ceases to be provocative.

About Germany: My impression is that Germans are embarrassed about being embarrassed. Being shocked by nudity is embarrassing to a German.

You can see Germans sunbathing nude in city parks. You'll occasionally meet nude hikers or campers in mountain or forested areas. This has been going on for a hundred years.
Have any of you ever been to a German sauna? Clothing verboten. Sexual segregation verboten. Toddlers, teens, parents and grandparents all together; a family affair.
...And what's with the honey? @Heyo?

Have you watched German TV? Toplessness in prime time is normal, and it gets even more risqué later in the evening.
Frankly, I'm surprised toplessness in public pools was even an issue.

 

[Valjean]

Nudists have known that for quite a while. There's nothing less sexy than total nudity, after you get over the initial shock reaction.

You can also see it in fashion. Women;s fashion reveals (or emphasises) one part of the body after another. When people get used to and stop reacting to one part they move on to another.

Agreed. Fashion seeks to tease and tittillate, actual nudity quickly becomes a yawn.

 

[Stevicus]

An excellent point.
What's considered provocative or prurient changes. Dress that wouldn't raise an eyebrow today would be considered shocking to our grandparents. Legs, breasts, arms or buttocks may be titillating at one time and place, and mundane in another. If exposure of a given body part becomes a commonplace, it ceases to be provocative.

About Germany: My impression is that Germans are embarrassed about being embarrassed. Being shocked by nudity is embarrassing to a German.

You can see Germans sunbathing nude in city parks. You'll occasionally meet nude hikers or campers in mountain or forested areas. This has been going on for a hundred years.
Have any of you ever been to a German sauna? Clothing verboten. Sexual segregation verboten. Toddlers, teens, parents and grandparents all together; a family affair.
...And what's with the honey? @Heyo?

Have you watched German TV? Toplessness in prime time is normal, and it gets even more risqué later in the evening.
Frankly, I'm surprised toplessness in public pools was even an issue.