Hmm. I went a different route with the story I wrote. I made a tax break for permanudes quite substantial as a way to 1. encourage people to register and 2. thank them for supporting the program. It also scales up in relation to how long the voluntary term is for.
Just to be clear, this was a submission, but the reason I never wrote anything about significant government programs to encourage permanent nudity is that I can’t really figure out why they’d want to.
Obviously nude sentences, are a useful tool for the government, it lets them punish criminals in a way that’s more serious than a fine, but while allowing them to keep working and paying taxes, instead having them as a burden in prison. But if anything, it seems like voluntary nudity tends to weaken that somewhat. There could be reasons the government wants to promote nudity in general, but since I chose to leave the origins of the whole thing mysterious it never really made sense to get into that.
Probably the closest thing I have is that some schools use nudity not as a punishment, but to encourage body acceptance and so forth. That’s kind of borrowed from the Naked in School universe I suppose (but without all the sex).
I have always assumed that the government was against voluntary permanude status. In fact, my take on it was that they set up the punishments but NOT the voluntary system. However, so many people were deliberately getting caught in minor offenses that they added voluntary registration to reduce the strain on the courts. This distaste is why registration is only by yearly increments (and in some places a multi-year beginning), while a sentence may be any length.
The switch to bottomless as a form of punishment came later to distinguish the voluntary from the court imposed, but by this time voluntary permanude status was too widespread for them to be able to rescind it.
The excellent Japanese website, Zenra, claims its enforced nudity at school and work as a means to fight the severely declining Japanese birth rate. In the news a few days ago was the declining US Birth Rate. Lowest since 1987. Perhaps the US Government is taking a lesson from the Japanese and encouraging voluntary Permanent Nudity as a way to reverse the decline in birth rate.
Someone contacted me on Tumblr suggesting that the government tax non-permanudes. This seems to imply that the government is specifically interested in encouraging people to register for permanent nudity, which really isn’t how I ever imagined it.
But I did remember an old caption somewhat along those lines. When I originally posted this, I speculated that maybe it was snuck into a bill with a variety of credits for environmentally friendly choices. You know, Energy Star fridge, hybrid car, that kind of stuff.
Hmm. I went a different route with the story I wrote. I made a tax break for permanudes quite substantial as a way to 1. encourage people to register and 2. thank them for supporting the program. It also scales up in relation to how long the voluntary term is for.
Just to be clear, this was a submission, but the reason I never wrote anything about significant government programs to encourage permanent nudity is that I can’t really figure out why they’d want to.
Obviously nude sentences, are a useful tool for the government, it lets them punish criminals in a way that’s more serious than a fine, but while allowing them to keep working and paying taxes, instead having them as a burden in prison. But if anything, it seems like voluntary nudity tends to weaken that somewhat. There could be reasons the government wants to promote nudity in general, but since I chose to leave the origins of the whole thing mysterious it never really made sense to get into that.
Probably the closest thing I have is that some schools use nudity not as a punishment, but to encourage body acceptance and so forth. That’s kind of borrowed from the Naked in School universe I suppose (but without all the sex).
I have always assumed that the government was against voluntary permanude status. In fact, my take on it was that they set up the punishments but NOT the voluntary system. However, so many people were deliberately getting caught in minor offenses that they added voluntary registration to reduce the strain on the courts. This distaste is why registration is only by yearly increments (and in some places a multi-year beginning), while a sentence may be any length.
The switch to bottomless as a form of punishment came later to distinguish the voluntary from the court imposed, but by this time voluntary permanude status was too widespread for them to be able to rescind it.
The excellent Japanese website, Zenra, claims its enforced nudity at school and work as a means to fight the severely declining Japanese birth rate. In the news a few days ago was the declining US Birth Rate. Lowest since 1987. Perhaps the US Government is taking a lesson from the Japanese and encouraging voluntary Permanent Nudity as a way to reverse the decline in birth rate.
Someone contacted me on Tumblr suggesting that the government tax non-permanudes. This seems to imply that the government is specifically interested in encouraging people to register for permanent nudity, which really isn’t how I ever imagined it.
But I did remember an old caption somewhat along those lines. When I originally posted this, I speculated that maybe it was snuck into a bill with a variety of credits for environmentally friendly choices. You know, Energy Star fridge, hybrid car, that kind of stuff.