How can a body part be immoral? ACTIONS are immoral. Touching someone without consent? Definitely immoral. Trying to seduce a minor? That’s something that should bring back the pillory. Showing your penis or vagina? Now you’re just being ridiculous banning that and sending people to jail. For what? Being in your birthday suit which, as the name implies, is what you were born in? That doesn’t seem like a crime to me. Not even if there’s arousal. IMO it can only be a crime if you’re inflicting some kind of harm. Otherwise it’s just stupid.
I’ve always tended to agree with Heinlein’s opinions on such matters
The idea that someone’s body could be construed as any offence is ridiculous, it just is what it is..
The idea that someone’s idea of some deities idea of offensive counts for anything id worse, being invented to begin with…
To get it absolutely right. Q: “What should you make a point to try exposing whenever convenient? Answer:”The stuff traditionally covered by ‘minimalist’ bathing suits”.
Bathing suits being the second most ridiculous invention of mankind after “blasphemy”.
Of all the strange “crimes” that human beings have legislated out of nothing, “blasphemy” is the most amazing — with “obscenity” and “indecent exposure” fighting it out for second and third place.
— Notebooks of Lazarus Long (by Robert A. Heinlein)
I think of blasphemy as insulting The Deity™, and heresy as daring to disagree with the humans who have appointed themselves His (or Her) spokespersons.
How can a body part be immoral? ACTIONS are immoral. Touching someone without consent? Definitely immoral. Trying to seduce a minor? That’s something that should bring back the pillory. Showing your penis or vagina? Now you’re just being ridiculous banning that and sending people to jail. For what? Being in your birthday suit which, as the name implies, is what you were born in? That doesn’t seem like a crime to me. Not even if there’s arousal. IMO it can only be a crime if you’re inflicting some kind of harm. Otherwise it’s just stupid.
I’ve always tended to agree with Heinlein’s opinions on such matters
The idea that someone’s body could be construed as any offence is ridiculous, it just is what it is..
The idea that someone’s idea of some deities idea of offensive counts for anything id worse, being invented to begin with…
To get it absolutely right. Q: “What should you make a point to try exposing whenever convenient? Answer:”The stuff traditionally covered by ‘minimalist’ bathing suits”.
Bathing suits being the second most ridiculous invention of mankind after “blasphemy”.
Or in other words :
Of all the strange “crimes” that human beings have legislated out of nothing, “blasphemy” is the most amazing — with “obscenity” and “indecent exposure” fighting it out for second and third place.
— Notebooks of Lazarus Long (by Robert A. Heinlein)
I think of blasphemy as insulting The Deity™, and heresy as daring to disagree with the humans who have appointed themselves His (or Her) spokespersons.