{"id":644,"date":"2013-10-01T09:09:46","date_gmt":"2013-10-01T07:09:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zjuzdme.org\/?p=644"},"modified":"2013-08-25T13:11:52","modified_gmt":"2013-08-25T11:11:52","slug":"good-advice-for-all-please-take-a-towel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zjuzdme.org\/old\/2013\/10\/good-advice-for-all-please-take-a-towel\/","title":{"rendered":"Good advice for all: Please Take a Towel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As found on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibtimes.co.uk\/articles\/490511\/20130715\/uk-nudism-naturism-rules-etiquette.htm\" target=\"_blank\">ibtimes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>Growing numbers of people getting the urge to strip naked and walk around in only their birthday suit should follow one piece of advice: be ready to take something to cover up &#8211; a naturism expert has cautioned.<\/p>\n<p>Throwing off the shackles of society by striding around with the sun on your bare skin is a primeval sensation which up to four million people enjoy &#8211; or wish they could, claims the group British Naturism.<\/p>\n<p>But it most definitely is not a passion shared by all, meaning there is plenty of room for serious misunderstandings between nudists and non-nudists.<\/p>\n<p>When serious confusion does occur then the consequences can be serious, with police or even the courts involved.<\/p>\n<p>So a legitimate nudist runs the risk of being caught with their pants down and facing the prospect of explaining their hobby to a judge.<\/p>\n<p>This pitfalls of nudism have been illustrated starkly in France recently &#8211; a country very comfortable with citizens de-robing and walking about in the nip.<\/p>\n<p>A nudist out on a naked stroll spotted a mother and child walking towards him on the same path.To avoid embarrassment, he leapt behind some bushes to stay out of sight while they passed.<\/p>\n<p>This noble act had the opposite effect, unfortunately. The woman spotted a fully naked male trying to conceal himself behind a bush and raised the alarm: he now faces a charge of indecent exposure.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, Britain and France have different laws governing nudity, but the incident does illustrate how very badly wrong unexpected meetings between nudists and non-nudists can go.<\/p>\n<p>In the UK, there is no law against being naked in public, but courts have public order and sexual offences laws available to them.<\/p>\n<p>So how can naturists in Britain avoid a potential dressing down from a judge should they encounter a fully clothed young family in a beauty spot?<\/p>\n<p>And why do it at all?<\/p>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"389292\" title=\"Born naked, then clothed\" alt=\"Born naked, then clothed\" src=\"http:\/\/img.ibtimes.com\/www\/data\/images\/full\/2013\/07\/15\/389292.jpg\" width=\"441\" height=\"285\" \/><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>More of this article at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibtimes.co.uk\/articles\/490511\/20130715\/uk-nudism-naturism-rules-etiquette.htm\" target=\"_blank\">ibtimes<\/a>.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As found on ibtimes: Growing numbers of people getting the urge to strip naked and walk around in only their birthday suit should follow one piece of advice: be ready to take something to cover up &#8211; a naturism expert has cautioned. Throwing off the shackles of society by striding around with the sun on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/zjuzdme.org\/old\/2013\/10\/good-advice-for-all-please-take-a-towel\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Good advice for all: Please Take a Towel&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[129,130,3],"class_list":["post-644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nudism-2","tag-cover-up","tag-know-where-your-towel-is","tag-nudism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zjuzdme.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zjuzdme.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zjuzdme.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zjuzdme.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zjuzdme.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=644"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/zjuzdme.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":700,"href":"https:\/\/zjuzdme.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644\/revisions\/700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zjuzdme.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zjuzdme.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zjuzdme.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}