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Regarding the 66 yo "nudist" that mysteriously showed up in Ashland back in 2009, walked around naked for awhile, and thus figured prominently in the town's nudity ban as a result - I seem to recall hearing a similar story about an older nudist or nudists from out of town (parts unknown) showing up in Brattleboro Vt during their nudity wars and doing more or less the same thing- Walking around town naked. This occurred shortly after the news about the local naked teens went viral on the internet. So what is going on? Brattleboro also wrestled with a ban, and the reason went beyond the teens, focusing on those mysterious outsiders who it was feared would give the town a bad reputation. So who were these out of towners? Was the Ashland naked guy secretly paid by fundamentalist religious groups, as hinted by Eric Navickas? What about the Brattleboro "nudists"? Same thing?

This would be fascinating to research. Using public nudity as a weapon against, well......public nudity! It is well known among conspiracy buffs that ultra right wing groups have used similar tactics in the past to heighten negative public attitudes towards fringe groups on the left. THey also do it to create a little fear, but I wouldn't speculate much more on this regarding public nudity without looking into it more. And one could certainly make the case that naked people on the left do enough damage to themselves in the eyes of the "silent majority" that they really don't need any help from the right. After all, Earth Friend Gen was in all likelihood a genuine liberal. And the type of shenanigans that sometimes go on at nude beaches causing political trouble for them is often perpetrated by gays. So I don't know..BTW, I was never that enthusiastic about Gen and even ranted over at Coccozellas about her exactly for this reason - that she could become a political liability to those that support public nudity. She was at Coccos promoting her "causes", which I quickly tried to point out were not peace, love and environment awareness, but, simply put - her body!

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