Legalise nudity in Canada

Given that:1) There is nothing inherently wrong with any part of the human body, nor is there anything inherently sexual about it,2) All belief that there is something wrong or sexual with it is a result of brainwashing, by families, schools, literature, TV, movies, and society as a whole,3) Many first world countries, including Germany and Sweden, allow for full nudity in public and yet have lower violent crime rates and teenage pregnancy than those which don’t,4) There are at least 205 reasons why nudity is a good thing (see www.naturist.com/resources/PDF/205ARGUE.pdf for the fully notated list),5) The laws in Canada regarding public nudity are overly broad, describing it as “so clad as to offend against public decency or order”,6) Something such as a person wearing a Christian cross into a synagogue or a mosque, while possibly causing offense and probably shouldn’t be done, can be seen as “offending against the public order” in such places according to such a law, and such a person is therefore “nude”, even if said person is fully covered up,7) The law, as written, can prevent people from being naked ON THEIR OWN PROPERTY,8) Nudity can be seen as falling under “freedom of expression”, as people can choose to express who they are and/or their beliefs via the clothes they wear, or lack of same, the same way that people can use their “freedom of religion” to chose any religion or no religion at all,9) No harm is done to anyone simply by seeing anyone naked,10) Any shock by seeing people naked is simply due to lack of exposure (for lack of a better word) to people in such a state of undress,11) When exposed to non-sexual nudity for any amount of time, the “shock value” can disappear rapidly (often in 10 minutes or less),12) When people try public nudity for themselves (when they want to, not when they feel they have to), they feel comfortable with it extremely rapidly (again, often in 10 minutes or less) and end up wondering what all the fuss was about,We the undersigned hereby request that the laws regarding public nudity in Canada be struck down (currently section 174 of the Criminal Code), and that all sections involving any form of indecency, including, but not necessarily limited to, sections 163(2)(b), 167, 168 and 173 (current Code numbers as of September 19th, 2011) be modified to state that nudity is not to be considered an “indecent act”.