"I'm not sure if you are referring to that, or attitudes of nudity, however. Could you clarify. We naturists have a long way to go, but we have seen a great deal of progress in many ways."
I was referring to both. Now, what do you mean by where do I hang out? I'm in my 70s. I don't think I hang out anywhere. But most of those we associate with are in our "age bracket," and most of them are older.
An event that made me think about how far we have supposedly come was the rioting in Charlottesville, Virginia, a few years ago. Well, my wife's cousin, a woman, is legally married to another woman, with whom she has been with longer than her brother was married to his wife. We don't live that close to one another but we socialize at family gatherings and are always happy to be with them. Anyway, Charlottesville is a university town, with all that implies, mainly liberal thinking. Yet, there, of all places, was a serious disturbance in 2017 with one fatality and many injured. In other words, it wasn't such a liberal place after all. Oh, I know, it was all those out of state people who were causing the trouble but the underlying issues are still there. We aren't so liberal after all.
Any mention of rights gets squishy. Where do rights come from? Out of thin air? Do they have to be enumerated in the constitution (where they will be bypassed and ignored)? When do you have these rights? What are other people's rights in relation to anyone else's rights? Comparison with homosexuals is not a great example. In theory, say some, gay people do not choose to be gay. They just are, irrespective of whether they have a right to be or not. Inter-racial marriage might be a better example. Simply put, does one have a right to marry anyone they wish? Or any two?
The AANR has a long history of wanting to keep nudity private, the idea being that doing so was the only way nudists (card-carrying nudist, too) could enjoy any outdoor nudity. Even that has been illegal in some places in the U.S.
