Aug 27, 2025 07:33 PM
(This post was last modified: Aug 27, 2025 07:50 PM by C C.)
Given the Asian location, apparently it's not just Americans that have a hang-up with public nudity. Whereas Europeans -- if you go by Survival Lilly's response after she appeared in Naked and Afraid (along with the narrative of others) -- are accustomed to mixed-gender nudity on beaches, at hotels, in saunas, in restrooms, restaurants, camping spots, etc. The continent is just one great big nudist resort in ubiquitous context, if you go by the haughty Euro citizenry replies to North American questions.
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Nepal court naked ruling celebrated by Hindu holy men
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/afp/ar...y-men.html
INTRO: Nepal's Supreme Court has ruled that naked Hindu holy men need not wear clothes to attend a revered temple, declaring that their age-old tradition of nudity is not obscenity.
The ash-smeared and dreadlocked ascetics known as Naga sadhus -- devotees of the Hindu deity Shiva who renounce their family and worldly possessions, including clothing -- said on Wednesday that they welcomed the top court decision.
"I want to thank the Supreme Court," said 45-year-old Eakadasa Baba, who had walked from neighbouring India on a pilgrimage to the Pashupatinath temple, among the most sacred sites for Shiva followers.
"It does not mean we roam around the city or villages without clothes. We remain unclothed only in our own place, within the temple," the Naga sadhu said.
The ruling dismissed a petition seeking to bar them from the temple in Nepal's capital Kathmandu that argued their public nudity disturbed other devotees.
"Nudity and obscenity are not the same," the court said in its ruling, which was made last year but only published this week, according to court spokesperson Nirajan Pandey.
"Nudity, when practised as part of religious or cultural tradition, cannot automatically be considered offensive." (MORE - details)
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Nepal court naked ruling celebrated by Hindu holy men
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/afp/ar...y-men.html
INTRO: Nepal's Supreme Court has ruled that naked Hindu holy men need not wear clothes to attend a revered temple, declaring that their age-old tradition of nudity is not obscenity.
The ash-smeared and dreadlocked ascetics known as Naga sadhus -- devotees of the Hindu deity Shiva who renounce their family and worldly possessions, including clothing -- said on Wednesday that they welcomed the top court decision.
"I want to thank the Supreme Court," said 45-year-old Eakadasa Baba, who had walked from neighbouring India on a pilgrimage to the Pashupatinath temple, among the most sacred sites for Shiva followers.
"It does not mean we roam around the city or villages without clothes. We remain unclothed only in our own place, within the temple," the Naga sadhu said.
The ruling dismissed a petition seeking to bar them from the temple in Nepal's capital Kathmandu that argued their public nudity disturbed other devotees.
"Nudity and obscenity are not the same," the court said in its ruling, which was made last year but only published this week, according to court spokesperson Nirajan Pandey.
"Nudity, when practised as part of religious or cultural tradition, cannot automatically be considered offensive." (MORE - details)