NakedSword’s Golden Gate 5 Shoot Cited In Federal Court Case Over SF’s Nudity Ban

This is funny: A gaggle of die-hard nudists have been fighting the City of San Francisco for the past two years over a ban on public nudity that took effect in 2012, and NakedSword’s location shoot in the Castro two years ago for Golden Gate 5 figures into their case.

Nudity, you see, wasn’t really illegal in SF before this ban was voted in, but a few (mostly older) gentlemen started making a bit of a nuisance of themselves in a public plaza near a train station, wearing cock rings in the middle of the afternoon, etc., and the city councilman for the neighborhood (Scott Wiener, who is actually gay) stepped in and put this law in place because he had heard too many complaints.

A lot of uproar ensued, because San Francisco is a liberal place where we like our naked people — even though the law made exceptions for things like Folsom Street Fair — but the law got approved by the rest of the city’s Board of Supervisors and that was that. The topic became one of the main plot points used for the porn spoof that was Golden Gate 5, with Dale Cooper playing the Wiener role (dubbed Supervisor Cox).

Die-hard nudists have been protesting ever since, though, and getting citations from the police and fighting them in court, and now as Courthouse News reports, NakedSword was mentioned in the decision by the federal judge who’s allowing the nudists’ second amended complaint against the city to go to trial.

The issue is, they say, they’re getting unfairly targeted by police, and the “NakedSword film shoot” is brought up as one instance where police were present, people were naked, but no one was cited under the nudity ban.

The judge wrote, “Two of the control groups alleged – participants in Critical Mass and World Naked Bike Ride – engaged in publicly nude bike riding. The third control group – participants in the ‘Naked Sword film shoot’ – was shooting a film involving public nudity, and is not alleged to have been riding bikes.” The judge agreed with the nudists that they’ve been unfairly targeted at their own protests when police haven’t given tickets to people at these other events. But what’s funny is that this courthouse blog, not knowing what NakedSword is, refers to what happened as a “a naked swordfight.”

Anyway, this is actually what happened:



3 thoughts on “NakedSword’s Golden Gate 5 Shoot Cited In Federal Court Case Over SF’s Nudity Ban”

  1. I’m going to totally disagree on a few things here:

    1) There is nothing wrong with public nudity cockrings or no cockrings.

    2) There is nothing wrong with children seeing men and women naked.

    The problem is the sexualization of public nudity. Consider Africa, and many of the nations in Europe where nudity is not even an issue. America would be a lot better of if people got rid of their protestant views. The human body is gorgeous and should be celebrated publicly, just not in a sexualized manner.

    Allow public nudity just enforce harder punishments for those who sexualize it.

  2. Yes these guys were a public nuisance not only wearing cock rings but playing with themselves in public (and it was usually always the same 4-6 older out of shape men). The topper was seeing a group of these nudists deciding to walk down Castro one Saturday afternoon when the Castro Theater was playing Sing along Sound of Music. There were dozens of children in line waiting to get in and they though nothing of parading their semi-erect dicks past the kiddies. Freaks

  3. Uh huh…. What the fuck did these clowns expect the public to do?? Embrace the fact that they were walking around nude in public especially a major foot traffic area such as this particular public plaza where there may have been young children present. If there is a case for public nudity then let it be in designated areas such as the case with nude beaches for example. There shouldn’t be a bias either when it comes to the police laying charges with one aspect of the population being nude in public and turning the other way with others. Let’s not forget either that women have also been targeted for being topless in SF so it’s not only men.

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