Is it public nudity?

Dude! Buzzkill! :noway: :fume:
Put your pecker away, you freaking Canookistanian pervert! By the way, if someone was taking your photo, you can be fairly confident that they’re not just adding it to their scrapbook. Expect a call from the cops soon. Expect your landlord to be kicking you out soon.
This isn’t the set of “Friends” and “naked guy” is not just a passing butt of merriment.
You’re a naked man in view of the decent Mazu-fearing burghers of Taipei and their tender offspring and as such, you’re a damn pervert.[/quote]
Yeah. that kind of spoiled the thread for me. I had a totally different picture in my head… :frowning:

I’m sure he did! :howyoudoin:

Again, please, Im just looking for law. But hey if I’m being called a pervert, you are quite prudish. Born naked…

I’m not putting on a show.

Worse, somehow being male makes this less acceptable…

Aiyo! People take pleasure watching people murder each other on television. Is nudity really that disturbing???

I just can’t believe housecat fell for the ol’ nude-photo treatment line. Good to know some are still sucker for that one.

‘Yup, erm, Vitamin D cures everything, and you get it from sunlight but erm only the skin you usually cover up absorbs it, not your face or anything. You live over the road form the surgery, right?’

Erm… you’ve got your danglers out to the extent that someone can take photos of them. I can tell you for a fact that to THAT person, its a show. :laughing:
Seriously, you better just hope they’re only wanting it for their Facebook, Wretch, Blogspot, etc for the merriment of their friends. Otherwise you could indeed be in a spot of bother. There really ARE public indecency laws.

‘Yup, erm, Vitamin D cures everything, and you get it from sunlight but erm only the skin you usually cover up absorbs it, not your face or anything. You live over the road form the surgery, right?’[/quote]

:raspberry: Phototherapy is actually an accepted treatment for psoriasis: webmd.com/skin-problems-and- … ototherapy :raspberry:

All but the most stubborn problem areas (not all of which were on skin that is exposed when dressed, thank you!) had cleared up withing 3 weeks of being back in the less poluted USA. Taiwan’s water, even in Taipei, was the main culprit, but the air didn’t help a bit.

Anyway, I’m certainly not saying you’re being pervy. Maybe I just envy your neighbor her view?

Sure, yep. All my chronic health problems disappeared within two weeks of being back in the UK too. My immune system just went nuts in Taiwan: I think it was just a build up of 10 years of Asia in my system. Dunno, air, water, climate, better quality food, no stress or summin. Eczema, hives through ‘allergies’, etc, etc. I miss the sun, occasionally, but I just have to accept I’m a northern Europeeeun and I’m not genetically disposed to prosper on a subtropical island … Although I miss my friends, I’m glad to be out of it all.

[quote=“ladieswig”]Again, please, Im just looking for law. But hey if I’m being called a pervert, you are quite prudish. Born naked…

I’m not putting on a show.

Worse, somehow being male makes this less acceptable…

Aiyo! People take pleasure watching people murder each other on television. Is nudity really that disturbing???[/quote]

How long have you been in Taiwan, ten minutes?

For fuck sakes.

Great. Another naked foreigner. Thanks, idiot. :doh:

Well, if the cops come a knockin’ you can just use this story:

Police arrest naked ‘Terminator’

[quote]A man found naked at a casino claimed he was a Terminator sent from the future.

19-year-old Sean Stanley Smith was arrested on the Nevada border after he was spotted by a motorist wondering around the highway nude. He was ordered by police to stop but proceeded into a nearby casino - where he was then tasered in front of a group of children.

Smith claims he was a Terminator sent back in time from the future - a reference to the film character made popular by Arnold Schwarznegger in the sci-fi franchise. The films usually start with a naked man being transported to the past.

However, it turned out that Smith was not a time-travelling Terminator but was in fact suffering from the side effects of LSD and marijuana. He was charged with indecent exposure and resisting a police officer.[/quote]

This is what a guy called Lupillus wrote in response to another westerner asking about public nudity. It doesn’t say anything about doing it on your own property, but the ‘proper customs’ bit probably covers all (as it were).

You can be charged with obscenity charges and sentenced to less than a year in prison or less than three thousand NT for “obscene behaviour done in public so people can watch.”
第 一六 章之一 妨害風化罪
第 234 條
意圖供人觀覽,公然為猥褻之行為者,處一年以下有期徒刑、拘役或三千
元以下罰金。
意圖營利犯前項之罪者,處二年以下有期徒刑、拘役或科或併科一萬元以
下罰金。

If you’re just sitting naked on the side of the street without being obscene, but still refusing to put clothes on, you can be charged with breaking the laws which maintain social order, and sentenced to a fine of less than six thousand NT “after refusing to listen to admonition and being nude or in a slutty postition in a public area or a place where the public can enter, and interfering with proper customs.”
單純裸露且不聽勸阻者,僅得依社會秩序維護法第83條第二款裁處新台幣6000元以下罰鍰。
社會秩序維護法 第83條
有左列各款行為之一者,處新台幣六千元以下罰鍰:
一 故意窺視他人臥室、浴室、廁所、更衣室,足以妨害其隱私者。
二 於公共場所或公眾得出入之場所,任意裸體或為放蕩之姿勢,而有妨害善良風俗,不聽勸阻者。
三 以猥褻之言語、舉動或其他方法,調戲異性者。

Hey, I know that guy!!

He’s the mod on the dating section. I guess nudity falls under his jurisdiction, although usually with two people involved.

Oh, unless he’s a she. As usual my sexist hard-wiring lets me down.

It sounds like the second one of those laws because he was just sitting there. And he hadn’t refused to get dressed, coz no one asked him too yet. It seems like the worse you can get now is a warning. And in future, find a better way to cut your hair.

Sitting on the balcony, cutting your own hair, in the nud. Doesn’t that sound a tiny bit odd, even to a Canadian?

[quote=“Big Fluffy Matthew”]
Sitting on the balcony, cutting your own hair, in the nud. Doesn’t that sound a tiny bit odd, even to a Canadian?[/quote]
If indeed your Canookistanniannesse precludes you from finding the above scenario even a tiny bit odd, juxtapose a 65-year-old overweight obasan doing the same on HER balcony, naked dude. OK, your geographic origins might mean that you don’t find such a sight offensive, but it would be a bit odd, no?

Yup I love the fact that my GF likes to walk around topless and/or bottomless now and then, specially between getting in and out of the shower :slight_smile: at home.

And Iv had neighbors across a small alley (back to back bedroom windows on the 4th floor ) that ran around their apts just wearing undies on those hot summer days (they were young ladies too). I never complained or called the cops on em :slight_smile: Occasionally they also changed into and out of those said undies as well.

DId u know that if u saw that with ur nakkid eyes, its legal but if you used binoculars (not admitting anything here) its not legaL? And its not legal to take pics of em either.

So long as they were in their apts even if in full view of you.

Which reminds me of that case recently where some taiwan guy wrote a little note to his 20 something lady neighbor across the alley and dropped it off in her mailbox identifying that he could see her everyday in her undies and at times in the nude from his window. And wondered if they could go out sometimes…he also mentioned that her tits are a bit small but that he doesnt mind…really.

Well surprise surprise, instead of a date he got himself hauled off to court by her. But I believe the judge ruled that no laws were broken as he didnt use binoculars and she had a habit of not drawing the blinds . Case dismissed.

I wonder what happened next ?

Thank you tomthorne. :slight_smile: That gives me a good hint about what can happen.

In response to how I would feel about seeing a naked 65 year old, I would see nothing wrong with that. Seeing people driving huge SUVs in night markets would offend me a million times more.

[quote=“tomthorne”]He’s the mod on the dating section. I guess nudity falls under his jurisdiction, although usually with two people involved.[/quote]TWO people?

[quote=“sandman”][quote=“Big Fluffy Matthew”]
Sitting on the balcony, cutting your own hair, in the nud. Doesn’t that sound a tiny bit odd, even to a Canadian?[/quote]
If indeed your Canookistanniannesse precludes you from finding the above scenario even a tiny bit odd, juxtapose a 65-year-old overweight obasan doing the same on HER balcony, naked dude. OK, your geographic origins might mean that you don’t find such a sight offensive, but it would be a bit odd, no?[/quote]
I’d definitely get the camera out for that.