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San Francisco gets classier and classier.  Most city officials, in a far-too-rare display of common sense, wouldn't even allow this kind of thing for "special" events.  The fine folks of Frisco think they should be able to strut around naked in public whenever and wherever they want. From Sister Toldjah

A San Francisco Supervisor has proposed a public nudity ban, with exceptions to be made for sex-themed parades and festivals.  The AP reports:

San Francisco's lawmakers are voting Tuesday on whether to ban nudity in a  city where anything goes, including clothes.

The ordinance would prohibit nudity in most public places. It represents an  escalation of a two-year fight between a group of men who strut their stuff  through the city's famously gay Castro District and the supervisor who  represents the area.

Supervisor Scott Wiener's proposal would make it illegal for a person over  the age of 5 to "expose his or her genitals, perineum or anal region on any  public street, sidewalk, street median, parklet or plaza" or while using public  transit.

"I don't think having some guys taking their clothes off and hanging out  seven days a week at Castro and Market Street is really what San Francisco is  about. I think it's a caricature of what San Francisco is about," Wiener  said.

Exemptions would be made for participants at permitted street fairs and  parades, such as the city's annual gay pride event and the Folsom Street Fair,  which celebrates sadomasochism and other sexual subcultures.

A first offense would carry a maximum penalty of a $100 fine, but prosecutors  would have authority to charge a third violation as a misdemeanor punishable by  up to a $500 fine and a year in jail.

Wiener said he felt compelled to act after constituents complained about the  naked men who gather in a small Castro plaza most days and sometimes walk the  streets au naturel. He persuaded his colleagues last year to pass a law  requiring a cloth to be placed between public seating and bare bottoms, but the  complaints have continued.

The proposed ban predictably has produced outrage, as well as a lawsuit. Last  week, about two dozen people undressed in front of City Hall and marched around  the block to the amusement of gawking tourists.

Stripped down to his sunglasses and hiking boots, McCray Winpsett, 37, said  he understands the disgust of residents who would prefer not to see the body  modifications and sex enhancement devices sported by some of the Castro nudists.  But he thinks Wiener's prohibition goes too far in undermining a tradition "that  keeps San Francisco weird."

"A few lewd exhibitionists are really ruining it for the rest of us," he  said.

No, what's "ruining" things in San Francisco is the "anything goes" mentality of the far left. Really - these morons think a ban on public nudity infringes on their "free speech rights" and because they believe that, a "federal lawsuit" has been filed to block the ordinance proposed by Wiener (assuming it passes).  They seriously believe their "right" to walk around nude in the Castro district trumps the rights of other people living or touring the area who would like to do so without being exposed to what amounts to cheap exhibitionism from so-called "adults" who have never grown up.