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How would you vet participants, criminal background checks for nudist groups?
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Nudist groups will often meet prospective participants beforehand at clothed events where people get to know each other first.
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By fact that they are children they cannot, until 18 years of age it is the parents who choose for their children. I can't imagine a parent forcing a kid who doesn't want to go to a nudist event.
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I already mentioned a friend of mine whose stepfather forbid her from wearing a bathing suit top to European beaches.
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I guess that is the norm in the US and Canada, but certainly it is not here in Europe. This is why so many people keep harping on the prudish angle of this because it seems at the core of people's negative response to this is the long standing puritanical past of the US and Canada, the shame of nudity and sexuality.
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The norm in Canada, the U.S. and the rest of the world outside Northern Europe. It really is Northern Europe that's the outlier here, not North America. Which is fine. But let's not pretend Canada and the U.S. are especially puritanical places, when people are more modest about nudity in China, India, Korea, Nigeria, the Philippines, Mexico, Italy, etc., not to mention the entirety of the Muslim world.
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We still have here in Iceland some pools where changing rooms are co-ed, all our public pools have a must shower first policy where staff are in the area of the showers to ensure everyone washes themselves, its common for kids as old as 5 years old or more to go with whichever parent they are with in to their change room.
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That sounds perfectly fine. And my kids did the same until they were about 7 and could get changed and work the lockers themselves. Never had any issues.
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I even had a guest here from Texas who saw what looked to be a 3 or 4yr girl walk in with her father and he actually said to the kid, oh you are in the wrong change room. I couldn't believe that.
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He sounds like an idiot. And I'd tell him so if he posted in this thread.
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Being nude around children is not weird.
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Getting changed in front of children is not weird. Walking around naked with older children for hours at a time is kinda weird. Which is why I suspect nobody in this thread, including the most ardent defenders of this event, actually does it.
It's also worth noting that the nude culture in Germany, where it has always been strongest, is dying out. The advent of cell phone cameras, along with ugly incidents involving socially conservative immigrants, mean that topless sunbathing and swimming naked at public beaches are increasingly rare. Which is a shame. But it does put lie to the notion that North America is swimming against the tide in a world where public nudity is no big deal.
https://www.citylab.com/life/2017/04...ermany/523710/
https://www.reuters.com/article/germ...76I1N720110720