Public nudity ban eyed in fed-up San Francisco

[Luminous Animal]

122. I see it as a non problem. It is a dozen or so people hanging out in a mini-park for the most

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part. Usually 2-4 at any one time. There have been nudes in the Castro for decades. Straight families have, to an increasing level, started buying units here and all of a sudden it's "Ooh the gays!" I once joked to my daughter when she was 7 or younger, "You've seen more naked men in your lifetime than I saw in 30 years (the age I was when I moved to the Castro.)."

The problem isn't naked people, the problem is newcomers having no respect for a subculture of our neighborhood. Body freedom. Pantless chaps. Topiary of naked men with large schlongs. Sexy Jesus. Pantless Santa. The Sisters (who, by the way, have an amazing Halloween party for kids).

Scott Weiner has designs for higher office... his campaign was backed by corporate and commercial interests. He understands that taking action on "sexy" issues gets him more press and gives the appearance that he is taking charge. I could call his office tomorrow about the naked guys and I would get a response. On the other hand, I have called his office about services for homeless gay youth, the illegal evictions of elderly and often sick residents in his district, the loss of locally owned businesses due to gross rent increases that open the door for corporate franchises (and landlords sit on those empty properties then funding campaigns for candidates, like Weiner, in order to open that door) and it is crickets. He has nothing to say in regards the poor to middle income that are struggling to stay in this neighborhood.

It's always some idiot issue that is "f-o-o-o-r-r-r-r the ch-i-i-i-l-l-l-l-dren.

Well, every family that I know that raised their children in the Castro (and 23 years ago, there was only a handful of us) and every family that I know that has lived here and started a family within the last 10 years, we have a message for the interlopers... Take a flying fuck at the mooooon. Your corporate pet, Weiner, may try to build a national reputation on an easy issue (OMG! Naked people! In public! Ban them Weiner! Ban them!) and have little doubt he'll succeed - shiny things are appealing to the general public - but it's going to take another couple of decades until you take over and, in the meantime, there will be (gasp) blatant not main street Missouri standards in your face.

So, the naked people will be banned. And next it will be the naked mannequin window displays. (Already complaints.) And next it will be the sexual suggestive window displays. (Already complaints.) And next it will be sexually suggestive text.