I like the idea of cleaning up the roadside naked. Just doing public service
That's quite a thought, Bob.
It occurs to me that the better acceptance and enfranchisement of naturism might be achieved, along the lines of the world naked bike ride events, by groups of naturists who ganged together to do public and voluntary works. In the UK, huge amounts of land maintenance are done by volunteers on canals, preservation railways, people do form litter patrols and so on. If naturist groups sought owners', operators', local authorities' and police permission to do such activities naked, how much good could be done for good causes and for the acceptance of public nudity. If a bunch of nude people were clearing litter from a park, sure there would be people that found it uncomfortable and unacceptable but if the naturists were there by invitation and permission, surely their only recourse would be to choose not to look or go elsewhere. Recourse to law would be inapplicable in that case.
Obviously there are three problems with this idea and ideal - first; the difficulty of getting permission for such an event, second; the probability that the law would not suspend itself just because the police were open minded enough to allow it to proceed and third; are there any or enough nudist groups that want to do this to form a working party/gang?. But, more positively, we have naturist swims in public pools and WNBR. Why not WNVC (World naked vegetation clearing)!? I wonder how many apparent non-naturists would respond to an advert or social media call to arms (and legs!). I bet there is a proportion of people on WNBR events that are completely textile except for the one naked event they attend each year, which gives them the permission and safety to get naked outdoors.
Final thought - naked theatre. Because naturists are relatively few and rather biased towards doing it in the great outdoors or enclosed clubs, homes etc., there may be rather a dearth of people who want to perform plays and stuff in a theatre. But there a LOADS of Shakespeare plays done in modern dress or set in circumstances quite removed from anything Shakespeare could have imagines. So why not naked Hamlet, Julius Caesar or Othello? If the National Theatre did a naked Shakespeare, you can bet that would give rise to a rash of other companies following suit - naked Shaw, Wilde, Ibsen, O'Neill or Miller, perhaps! I've seen ballets where the dancers are all but naked (because they are trying to portray nakedness in the piece) dressed to remain within the law in a few wisps or threads of clothing. In a recent National theatre production of 'Frankenstein' the opening 15-20' was the monster struggling to emerge into life and he was completely naked. Gosh, what other public and cultural events might be naked emancipated, TED, party conferences? Somebody posted, or I read somewhere, that an art exhibition had been opened to naturists for an evening.
John
