But Texas is advertised as “you can do all you want” or “it is the land of freedom bro”…
I have family there, and that my be the law, but there is more than a little open land in TX. My grandparents lived in a rural part of texas. Visiting there as a kid, before the internet was anything, it was a wild place. “Wild” being an appropriate word. But anyway. Very unlikely your neighbors would say anything if they caught you naked in thd back yard.
Im pissed im red here in virginia. I wanna walk around naked too
I want to hear a strong eastern Massachusetts accent say,
“It is the duty as a citizen of these Commonwealth and State of Massachusetts to hereby decree the fundamental illegality of being in the nude per the confines of an individuals backyard. Whether visible or not to neighbors and or the greater public, it is the sworn duty to uphold any type of nudity outside the home or establishment that is permitted to allow a visible display of said nudeness to persons of an age that is either 18 or 21. Furthermore any attempts to show any nakedly graphic pictures of the human anatomical form sans articles of clothing to be a direct affront to the values deemed appropriate by the officials Oveh theh in Baustin.
Just wear a hat.
Lock me up.
I used to go outside at like 2 or 3am for a sprint around my backyard nude a few times when I was like a teenager.
I think “being nude” is similar to “being honest”. You reveal what’s inside you without any kind of concealing mask.
Really, the US not wanting people to be nude at any cost makes me think that the US does not want the people to think honest thoughts either.
Land of the free, bitches
Oregon and Vermont, yeah, that tracks.
Colorado and New Mexico: “In this weather? It’s your funeral.”
Hey guys, do you have the same for Europe? But shift the scale one notch up:
Green: yes
Red: only if not visible from the street
Orange: in your backyard or in nudist spots
Europe has backyards?
…or balconies :3
texas, california and florida agree on something
I don’t understand why people like being naked in the first place. It’s always confused me. The only time I’m naked is if I’m showering or having sex.
I look great naked. The world deserves to see.
Swimming nude is far superior. Nude sunbathing feels great.
To me being naked just feels exposing. No hate to people who like being naked I just don’t.
I like the feeling that I’m being judged. Being naked is thrilling. I’ll never understand people who wear clothes even when they’re alone. The only time I wear clothes is when I’m forced to.
Going nude in your backyard in November in Oregon sounds like a standard thing. We got naked bike rides so, yeah, this checks.
Idk, sounds cold. I’d rather do ot in the summer
Miskitos.
Duct tape some citronella candles to your butt. Problem solved!
Lol nine-tailed fox
Can you imagine being a mosquito and encountering a 900,000 you tall naked monster that you used to feed on but now emits a cloud of blinding death from its butt?
You’ve got to watch out for those Lovecraftian universities.
Seattle also allows nudity in public! We also do a big naked bike ride every summer solstice!
i would think it’d be those weeks in july/august where everyone regrets their lack of air conditioning.
I imagine Alaska being red is more about dying from the cold than the law.
Alaska ain’t much about rules. :)
Well apparently they are since you can’t be naked in your backyard!
yeah i’ve come to understand there is “law as on paper” and “law in practice”. In theory, many things are illegal in the country i live, in practice nobody gives a shit.
Classical example: alcohol and minors.
The Finns would like a word with you.
On saunan aika!
or the mosquitoes
Can you watch ultra-violent movies with profanity and scantily clad men and women?
- all green.
People are weird.
Movie ratings are kinda bullshit anyway.
Airport, one of the movies Airplane! spoofs, features an almost explicit scene of a suicide bombing aboard an airliner in flight. A pregnant woman is injured in the explosion, and a plane load of people spend the entire third act in immediate mortal danger. This movie is rated G.
Ice Age, the Disney (somehow not Pixar) movie whose plot boils down to “Three Men And A Baby, Except Animals” is rated PG for “Mild Peril.”
Raiders of the Lost Ark features explicit scenes of people being shot including blood flowing from a bullet hole, and the climax of the film features a shot of three characters’ faces melting. This movie is also PG.
Caddyshack is a comedy movie about wacky characters around a golf course. A couple women get topless, so this movie is rated R.
The MPAA has been a rather corrupt organization for a very long time. They don’t even bother following their own standards. They also exercise leverage over film content. Many movies live or die by their rating, so “parent’s” groups often lobby them or find their way onto the various boards to exert their will and censor content.
The one that comes to mind for me there is Army of Darkness. Army of Darkness came out in 1992 and is rated R. Why? Its content is similar to a lot of PG-13 movies, including Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, which came out 3 years earlier. Army of Darkness is appropriate for the same audience as Indiana Jones. It’s rated R because it’s a sequel to Evil Dead.
Saving Private Ryan features some pretty realistic scenes of combat wounds. Not 10 minutes in, we get a shot of a man’s guts hanging out of his torso while he’s calling for his mama. That movie came out in 1998 and is rated R. Showgirls came out in 1995, and is rated NC-17 because it’s a skinemax movie. This isn’t an original thought by any means, but…are those backwards? Why are we more comfortable showing children war than sex?
I mean you’re comparing movies that are 22 years apart and for entirely different demographics. It’s to be expected that the criteria changes based on how cultural norms change.
What stands out to me is that they got more strict as time went on and depending on who the target demographic is.
It’s funny that movies intended for kids had much higher standards than movies intended for adults.
I think MPAA/RIAA censorship it peaked in the early 2000’s and since then those agencies have become increasingly irrelevant.
Raiders of the Lost Ark being PG is a bad (or good depending on your perspective) example, because the sequel (Temple of Doom) was one of the main reasons the PG-13 rating was created.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_Picture_Association_film_rating_system#History
My point is, the comedy movie that features nudity and consentual sex acts is considered less acceptable for young people than the movie with graphic violence, murder and body horror.
you’ve gotta keep your comparisons in the same time period when you’re talking about movie ratings/public morals.
This argument really only holds water if the purpose of film and television ratings were to make commentaries on social moral trends.
Unfortunately they have an explicit and expressed purpose that is not that. They are a tool which is intended to inform and guide consumers on the content of a product ahead of purchase so they can make an informed decision. They should be locked to a standard which does not change, or all previous ratings should be reevaluated when the standard is changed. The media does not go away. And all ratings should be directly comparable, regardless of: when they were rated, who the “intended” audiences are, or what genres they belong to.
As a slightly hyperbolic example (pardon the minor straw man), imagine you are a Christo-Facist who, among other things, believes that nudity is a sin and you never want your children exposed to the evils of a bare breast. So you set your TV to only show G or PG movies. Then you find your child watching the 1984 rom-com Splash and boom, tiddies in a fish tank. It is PG because the PG standard allows for brief nudity (https://www.filmratings.com/).
They don’t apply the standards they have. They routinely make decisions based on backlash from Christo-Facist “Parent’s” groups which means that film ratings increasingly do not reflect the overall moralistic stance of the greater society.
Further evidence that the rating system is bullshit.
just because you don’t understand something doesn’t make it bullshit
I understand it just fine, but as implemented it’s useless for the purpose its supposed to serve.
Ice Age isn’t a Disney movie; it was animated by Blue Sky Studios and distributed by 20th Century Fox.
And Disney owns 20th Century Fox. Granted they didn’t when the movie was released.
Yes if there was a game that depicted that you can guarantee there would be moral panic from the self-declared religious pearl clutches.
That is a terrible map.
It seems to be quite wrong.
Go on…
I know of at least two states marked as a no where its perfectly legal as long as there is a reasonable expectation that its private (appropriate fencing or shrubbery for example).
Not personal experience, but because a lawyer friend was explaining reasonable expectations of privacy for a completely unrelated context (filming and photography in public).
Sorry, nothing fun.
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