Following up on this previous entry (about Florida), it looks like Virginia is cracking down on nudist camps for minors.
I wrote before:
On one hand, I can't see how the government could possibly outlaw nudity on private property, and on the other hand I can't see how the government can allow child nudist camps but then enforce laws that make it illegal to take photographs of the camps. How can it be legal to go to a nudist camp and see naked children everywhere, but be illegal to take pictures?The new Virginia law prohibits nudist camps from admitting children without a parent or guardian on the premises.
The one camp affected by the new law claims it's unconstitutional, but I'm not sure why. Would a law requiring parents to always have their children with them everywhere be unconstitutional? I think it would be a stupid law, but I don't think it would violate the Constitution.
I don't know what effect this law is supposed to have. Is child abuse common at these camps? Will requiring that parents be on the premises mitigate that problem, if it exists? Or is the idea simply to place burdens on the camps in order to discourage their existence?
If the former, why not just prosecute the child abuse as in every other situation. Children are abused in other settings when their parents are nearby, often by their parents.
If the latter, I don't think it's appropriate to use laws to influence social behavior in such a round-about way. Virginia can't just outlaw nudist camps (or any number of other undesirable businesses) because such a prohibition would be unconstitutional, so it may be burdening the camps with regulations in an attempt to stifle them. That's not a good motivation for laws, however, because under such a doctrine the government could regulate anything it doesn't like out of existence.
Eh, it's a messy issue.
It only happens in this communist country, called the USA. All over Europe, people are welcome with their children of all ages, boys and girls, to hundreds of nudists camps there. Why this paranoia about naked minors? What is wrong about being naked in public, people of all age, male or female? Come guys, grow up nd stop behaving like idiots, based or these stupid american laws.
When I read comments from USA haters like you I know there is something wrong with YOU! You talk about the freedom to take kids to nudists colonies all over Europe but you fail to mention that when pedophiles grab our young girls and boys that is exactly where they take them to rape them on film to see to perverts who want to watch it. Maybe you are one of the perverts, if so, go to Europe and stay there.
g'day
i agree with ben,people like gilson are the core to evil.
I how can a decent normal human take a child to a nudist beach WHAT THE HELL IS THE POINT?,are you sexually arousing your self or letting others arousing them self you dirty human and your people were ever yous a preforming this EVIL act.
I wonder why the bloody popes cardinalls and archbishops and so on are pedophiles.
Dirty Dirty Dirty people whats going on in the world.
Gilson do you belive in hell,i hope you do.
concernd australian about the welfare of these innocent children.
Amer
the u.s.a is fairly ignorent and closeminded about most things involving youth sexuality.everone has a differant opinion about these things,&it,s mostly up to the individual to decide what to do young or old when it comes to sex..
well i am a nudist in canada and i am 17 and if i new that there were places like this i would of went a long time ago because i never ware clothes even when friends are at my house and i will never change this
I do not think that there is anything wrong with a parent (Parents) taking children to a nudist resort. If there is something going on that the child shouldn't be around, the parents most likely shouldn't be there either. This way the children are taught the proper view of going to and being a part of the nudist community. The parents should closely supervise the children because even with the best of screening, there are a few perdators that manage to slip through the cracks. No, this type of people are not just at nudist resorts, but unfortunately happen to be included here as well as in every other phase of life. As in every day life, parents should caution their children not to talk to or go anywhere with a stranger. Just because the person may be nude doesn't mean that he or she is ok.