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[swerve]

Good to know. I just wrote asking OSP if it is true. I am curious if they write me back and what they say.

Since it is seen as freedom of expression to the Oregon State Supreme Court, does that mean the City of Salem can’t have a law against it?

I like to go out sometimes in the morning nude. This could change my life.

Nineofclubs, works for Portland's Mass Transit system as a bus driver, told me that they were told in training: If a naked man or woman boards the bus, you must allow them to ride...

Although, they are not allowed to do anything "sexual"...

 

[Kulindahr]

Actually this was in the Berkshires, where the humidity never gets below about 80% except in the dead of winter (I'm exaggerating only slightly), but more to the point that was the year the pollen was so high that people had to brush the yellow dust off the picnic benches before sitting down, because it collected on them thickly between meals.

Also I was taking Benadryl, which is contraindicated for asthmatics. I didn't know that at the time.

So it's not exactly about the actual safety, or lack of same, of camping. It's about a phobia I've acquired. Now, of course, with your information about the mold, I have yet another thing to be afraid of!

Gack -- I remember laying out on the beach once, in the buff, on a offshore-flow day (wind from the land), and dozen off. I woke up with a pounding headache and noticed I seemed to have turned pale yellow! It didn't brush off, either -- pollen sticks to sunscreen.

Swimming in the surf took off the yellow, and reduced the headache, from which I realized the headache was an allergic thing. Heh -- I took a Benadryl, which would sort of indicate that my last doctor was wrong, and I'm not asthmatic, because it helped.
And as sometimes happens, Benadryl with alcohol made me very happy and buzzed rather quickly, so I went for a long run through dunes and waves, singing as I went.

If you dry your tent before storage, there's no worry about mold. My method has always been to set it up in the living room in front of a roaring fire and "camp" for a day or two indoors.

In fact new tents are nearly mold-proof, due to something put into the weave. Good ones now, if they aren't leaking, you can't make them mold unless you deliberately smear food remanants around inside before storage -- and maybe not even then.

 

[Kulindahr]

Nineofclubs, works for Portland's Mass Transit system as a bus driver, told me that they were told in training: If a naked man or woman boards the bus, you must allow them to ride...

Although, they are not allowed to do anything "sexual"...

Yep.

It's like while I was camping, and tried to explain some things to a high school guy who thought about joining me in naturism: if you're wearing shorts, you can scratch your butt if it itches; if you're bare, it's a no-no... if you're wearing shorts, and a biting fly lands on your crotch, you can swat it; if you're bare, either jump in the water or roll on the ground.

Basically, "sexual" depends on whoever complains and the responding officer -- so it's best to be safe.

Whether getting an erection is "sexual" depends on so many factors it's sad and ridiculous.

Oh -- if they're naked and advertising anything, they can be kicked off the bus and arrested! Long ago Oregon made the use of nudity in advertising against the law.

 

[Kulindahr]

Hey, Kulindahr, you started a new story, a sci-fi one?

What a coincidence. I'd had a dream about you last night. (No, not that kind of dream, guys!)

The way I interpreted the dream was that you'd started some kind of creative endeavor. I was thinking that maybe you were writing a book, or something...

The Undermind at work....


It may as well be a book -- no chapter divisions or anything. And it's in a style I'm not used to -- first-person narrative. I have to keep myself from slipping into the way I write for Fit for Life.

Which reminds me, I'm almost done updating the Compendium Biographicum -- did a lot of work on that while camping (love those inverters!).

 

[Críostóir]

In New Jersey, last I heard, there's no law against mere nudity, but it's illegal to have a visible erection even if you have your clothes on.

 

[Críostóir]

JohannBessler, tell us what you think of FFL when you catch up reading it.

And we'll tell you who won the US Presidential Election, which will be over by then.

 

[TickTockMan]

Nineofclubs, works for Portland's Mass Transit system as a bus driver, told me that they were told in training: If a naked man or woman boards the bus, you must allow them to ride...

Although, they are not allowed to do anything "sexual"...

Yep.

It's like while I was camping, and tried to explain some things to a high school guy who thought about joining me in naturism: if you're wearing shorts, you can scratch your butt if it itches; if you're bare, it's a no-no... if you're wearing shorts, and a biting fly lands on your crotch, you can swat it; if you're bare, either jump in the water or roll on the ground.

Basically, "sexual" depends on whoever complains and the responding officer -- so it's best to be safe.

Whether getting an erection is "sexual" depends on so many factors it's sad and ridiculous.

Oh -- if they're naked and advertising anything, they can be kicked off the bus and arrested! Long ago Oregon made the use of nudity in advertising against the law.

Like I figured OSP didn’t write me back

It does make sense that it would be okay though. The one thing that almost every country in the world has in common is naturists protections.