Only in San Francisco: City Proposal Would Force Nudists to Cover Up When Sitting Down
- Posted on September 8, 2011 at 1:45am by
Madeleine Morgenstern
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Two men enjoy the weather while in the nude at a parklet in San Francisco. (Photo credit: Michael Macor/The Chronicle)
San Francisco public nudists take note — and cover: A proposal from the city’s board of supervisors could place some new restrictions on the right to bare all.
The legislation, proposed by Supervisor Scott Weiner, would require nudists to place a towel or similar barrier underneath their bottoms when taking a seat in public, and to cover up when inside a restaurant.
Weiner told the San Francisco Chronicle the issue is one of health and sanitation, not about public nudity itself, which is legal in San Francisco.
“What this does do,” he said, “is require that people show some basic courtesy and decency toward their fellow citizens when they are naked.”
Weiner said the idea for the ordinance, which is expected to pass, came after an increased number of constituent complaints about unsanitary behavior in areas where public nudity is popular.
“One would hope we wouldn’t need to legislate this, but people aren’t doing it,” he said.
According to the Chronicle, despite an uptick in complaints, law enforcement has been almost nonexistent on the issue.
A complainant, he said, must make a citizen’s arrest, allowing an officer to charge someone for being a public nuisance. But that’s rarely done. Just walking around naked in San Francisco isn’t against the law, unless the person is aroused. Then the conduct can be considered lewd, which is illegal.
Until Wiener, the city’s elected leaders have largely stayed out of the debate over public nudity, not wanting to run counter to San Francisco’s storied reputation as an anything-goes culture where individual rights and freedom of expression are embraced. But some who live and work in the area say they are fed up with the display of rumps and genitals for all to see.
Under Weiner’s proposal, a first time offense would result in a $100 fine, a second offense would cost $200, and a third offense would elevate the crime from an infraction to a misdemeanor and lead to a $1,000 fine and up to a year in jail.
Weiner said his office has not yet received any complaints from local nudist groups about the proposal.
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Comments (122)
jcizarter
Posted on September 8, 2011 at 6:16amThank goodness I saw that beautiful city sans nudity.
Report Post »welloddyfriggindah
Posted on September 8, 2011 at 6:09amWell, does fecal matter? A resounding yes!
Report Post »Fina Biscotti
Posted on September 8, 2011 at 6:22amSort of Real Funny! Thanks, oddy!
Report Post »scion88
Posted on September 8, 2011 at 6:09amAnd my personal favorite Weinerism: “If you mind your ball sack you’re always welcome back”.
…You gotta love that Weiner
Report Post »maumau
Posted on September 8, 2011 at 7:18amtheres a guy smoking a joint right on camera….
Report Post »scion88
Posted on September 8, 2011 at 5:55amAnother sign that Weiner erected was: ” If your scrotum is touchin‘ you won’t be lunchin’.
Report Post »scion88
Posted on September 8, 2011 at 5:51amAnother sign that Weiner erected was: ” If your scrotum is touchin‘ you won’t be lunchin’”.
Report Post »christianUSA
Posted on September 8, 2011 at 5:44amOpinion: So SF is really has become like Sodom and Gomorra; what morals does sf have?
Report Post »loriann12
Posted on September 8, 2011 at 6:20amI didn’t watch the video (been feeling nausous already this morning, didn’t need to add to it), but the stills look like old hippies…..I just wanted to look for my iron.
Report Post »blue_sky
Posted on September 8, 2011 at 7:09amI will try to see if this glass is half full – the hope is that SF will attract all gays from other parts of the country. Lets them arouse each other, marry & divorce there. I would just remove SF from my traveling points of interest.
So if that produce the vacuum effect to clean up the rest of the country, lets them do it until the big Earth quake strikes….
Report Post »BuzzardSays
Posted on September 8, 2011 at 5:22pmWhen SF goes up in smoke and brimestone we will know that God has had enough. I keep wishing God would send a meteor to strike Californication on one of their major faults and that whole dang state slide off into the ocean. I don’t care if it is by fifty feet it should be given its independent walking papers and we put a fence up to disallow the freaks from coming back.
Things that make you go “YARRGGHHHH” and “YUUCCCKKK”. Naked qu33rs makes me want to puke.
Report Post »biohazard23
Posted on September 8, 2011 at 5:32amAt the restaurants, do they ask if you would like discharge or secretions with your order?
I think I just threw up a little…….
Report Post »Detroit paperboy
Posted on September 8, 2011 at 4:06amReally BLAZE ? the world is on fire, republican
Report Post »debates , depression like econmy, and we get
Reese witherspoom , hotel safe stories and sanfran nudists ?
REALLY ?
Dustyluv
Posted on September 8, 2011 at 4:48amYou will more likely die from an infection than a bullet in a war or an economy collapse..Think about it for a moment….Bare ass on a picnic table…it is news to me!
Report Post »decendentof56
Posted on September 8, 2011 at 5:03amDetroit and Dusty,
Report Post »See you two opened to read.
PoliticalJunkieToo
Posted on September 8, 2011 at 3:41amSo sitting on a park bench or a restaurant chair is the SAME AS sitting on a public toilet seat. GROSS!!
Report Post »PoliticalJunkieToo
Posted on September 8, 2011 at 3:56amNext San Fransisco will force taxpayers to pay for toilet seat paper covers in a dispensary boxes to be placed around the city in any public area so the “people wearing clothes” can use them and be safe from the germs and feces/urine of the naked people around them who infect the public seating areas.
Report Post »UlyssesP
Posted on September 8, 2011 at 8:36amPaper!?!!?
Report Post »No no…
Toilet seat PLASTIC covers! No Wait plastic is NOT GOOD! Ok Paper…wait, the TREES!!!! Damn!
Gypsy123
Posted on September 8, 2011 at 3:39amDo they not wipe their butts? Then sit on the bench? What a nasty group of people. gross.
Report Post »Some women in Asheville NC are wanting to walk around without tops on as a normal every day thing. I say if you want to see cows on parade go to the barn. In SF they just let the monkeys throw poop at you . What are we coming too>
M 4 Colt
Posted on September 8, 2011 at 5:19amTo answer your question “a modern day Soddem and Gamora” (Not sure if i spelled the names right but you get the point) i feel we are truly living in the end days so the end must be near. Now i know if God tried to find 10 rightist men in San Francisco to save that city from God’s raft he would be out of luck.
Report Post »Fina Biscotti
Posted on September 8, 2011 at 6:26amSoddom and Gomorrah
Report Post »BuzzardSays
Posted on September 8, 2011 at 5:26pmTo M4 Colt, Holy cow! You write your stuff from a self correcting Droid or what???
Report Post »KickinBack
Posted on September 8, 2011 at 3:34amI have absolutely no desire to ever visit SanFran.
Report Post »decendentof56
Posted on September 8, 2011 at 5:11amWith ya, Kickin
Report Post »SF is outta control, and anyone who would sit their dirty a$$ on anything the public would be exposed to is filthy. I did not know this sanctuary city for illegals allowed public nudity.
Lets see: Vt; SF; Chicago; Philly; NY; ect, ect. My list of no-go places is growing.
Jim in Houston
Posted on September 8, 2011 at 3:23pmAh, come on now, after all it is the home of Nazi Pufloozi. There must be something like a huge moron magnet in the earth out there that keeps pulling all the loonies of the world to their door step. The place gets sicker every day.
Report Post »mrbuff1959
Posted on September 8, 2011 at 3:30amJust another reason i have not left Texas in the last 10 yrs.
Report Post »Gypsy123
Posted on September 8, 2011 at 3:34amLove it
Report Post »Dustyluv
Posted on September 8, 2011 at 4:49amI left once for a couple of years…NEVER again!
Report Post »sissykatz
Posted on September 8, 2011 at 3:15amI think this is just disgusting. You would really think no one would have to tell anyone to do this.
I did not know it was legal in SF to walk around naked.
I have no problem if someone wants to live in a nudist colony, I would never do it, and thankfully do not know of anyone else that would either. But they could at least all be nasty together.lol
To sit where someone else has been naked is indeed a health issue. It makes me sick to think about it.lol
Report Post »UlyssesP
Posted on September 8, 2011 at 8:42amYou all have it backwards. They are the ones susceptible to infection and disease. Let them sit naked.
Report Post »I’ll be glad to play with my dog in the yard and go sit where they frequent with my dirty dog slobbered jeans.
bkfirvine
Posted on September 8, 2011 at 3:14amSupervisor Scott Weiner – or Super Weiner for short.
Report Post »welovetheUSA
Posted on September 8, 2011 at 3:04amThis place…….gee……disgusting town.
Report Post »Captain Crunch
Posted on September 8, 2011 at 2:43amPeople who like to go around naked are mentally ill. God gave Adam and Eve clothes to wear. Anyone who has a fetish for public nudity needs to put some clothes on. If I saw a naked person coming my direction I would probably go off on them. I’d probably want to assault them if my my wife or daughter were with me. Sick people.
Report Post »Charb
Posted on September 8, 2011 at 6:52amI’m with ya, Cap’n. I’d want my daughter or wife with me, too so they could take care of the slap-fest. (I certainly don’t want to touch that). ;)
Report Post »Rational Man
Posted on September 8, 2011 at 2:28amThats just nasty!
Report Post »Whimcycle
Posted on September 8, 2011 at 2:26amHummm,
Quote Until Wiener, the city’s elected leaders have largely stayed out of the debate over public nudity, not wanting to run counter to San Francisco’s storied reputation as an anything-goes culture where individual rights and freedom of expression are embraced. Unquote
No, someone actually wrote this about San Franciso? The city that regulates almost everything that anyone does?! Do toyless Happy Meals ring a bell? Anyone remember the no fish for sale story? Individual rights my tokus!
Report Post »paperpushermj
Posted on September 8, 2011 at 2:10amStay out of California there are other nice places to visit or have a conference, meeting, fair although the pot from Northern Cali is good.
Report Post »scrapman
Posted on September 8, 2011 at 9:42amYep!!
Report Post »plunderpower
Posted on September 8, 2011 at 2:09amThe women don’t have a problem because their armpit fur and hairy legs cover their saggy bodies pretty much. Most of them burned their bras in the 60′s, and no one gets near the non-bathers enough to see much anyway. Now the Hippie guys all let their hair grow long and they hide behind their facial fur. No one gets near these non-bathers either. Nothing like flaunting your loser status. Also they all voted for Pelosi.
Report Post »Marci
Posted on September 8, 2011 at 2:05amOnly in San Fransicko. They want this kind of “freedom” while demanding the government mandate near perfect socialism in their bankrupt state. I just realized that Nancy Pelosi could freely walk naked in her district. Ugh. I mean…..UGH.
Report Post »Jim in Houston
Posted on September 8, 2011 at 3:32pmWhat a frightening thought. I just threw up.
Report Post »olddog
Posted on September 8, 2011 at 2:05amCalifornia Broke Again and want us to bail them out.. You just can’t fix Stupid.
Report Post »pschlentz
Posted on September 8, 2011 at 2:03amNothing like a leaking scab and an oozing lesion on the bench that you want to eat your sack lunch on.
Report Post »banjarmon
Posted on September 8, 2011 at 2:02amUnder Weiners……Kinda Says it ALL!!!
Report Post »doctroprint
Posted on September 8, 2011 at 1:58amI dont even want to comment on this. I actually didnt want to click on it. It’s kinda like a car wreck, just had to read and then this guy’s name would be weinner. Nuff said.
Report Post »bkfirvine
Posted on September 8, 2011 at 3:11amDOCTROPRINT, are you glad you read the article now?
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