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Sex Offender Label?

Posted Jan 15, 2010

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ME
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Jan 15, 2010

Someone recently told me that being caught driving nude in the US will result in you being charges with a felony offence and a label for life as a sex offender.
Is this really true? I just did a long cross country drive last summer, and the majority of the time I was nude and enjoying the sunshine, so this comes as a huge surprise to me.
Is this a fact or is it just another urban myth?

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    DesertRat
    DesertRat
    Jun 30, 2014
    Heck, I'm concerned about being labeled a sex offender if the neighbor kids see me nude in my own back yard.
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    scotsnudist
    Jun 30, 2014
    [quote]The main reason why the laws are as strict and stringent as they are about nudity is because those laws were written by people in political office who unfortunately have the false conception that for some reason even they can't understand that somehow nudity of ANY kind or form had to have a direct and inseparable corealation with sex, and Congress bought that theory so as to make the actual laws that dictates that anyone caught in their birthday suit for whatever reason, would be charged and tried in court and the judge will likely go along with State prosecution to place the defendant on the National Sex Offender Registry.
    But you see, folks, it's that false conception that too many folks in today's mixed-up society have and that mainly comes from an improper education on the subject and that faulty education comes from religion, schools and even parents who lack the truth that natural nudity has no direct correlation with sex or any act of sex.Heck, when we all were born we came into this world completely nude so does that mean that some law has to be passed through Congress that dictates we all will be tried for indecent exposure the very second we emerge from the womb? I'm afraid that if lawmakers could have their way we would because lawmakers and prosecuters want to find every justification for indicting and convicting as many people as possible, get them into the legal system to the degree that those sucked into the system will have to pay into the Government under those legal conditions and there's no way out. They keep the defendant in, even long after any sentence has been served because the Sex Offender lable is for at least 20 years from the date of completition of sentence and in most cases the lable is for life. Even in instances where there was no sex or act of sex involved nor implied.This is wrong but we are unfortunately at the mercy of sick law enforcement agencies who have the false conception that nudity had to be correlated directly with sex when we know it is not. There is no direct correlation.[/quote]That may well be true, but I tend to ascribe to the view that lawmakers tend to be more lazy and incompetent than malicious. I suspect that the laws are written the way they are because the law likes to deal in absolutes rather than dealing with subtlety. So it's easier to make nudity illegal because that's easily defined and you don't need to try to understand the motivation or intentions of the naked person. Sadly a significant proportion of the people who get naked or semi naked in public are doing it for sexual purposes and are not nudists. Since the law finds it difficult to distinguish these groups and the latter are a genuine threat to the public the simplest course of action is followed.
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