Police in Victoria, British Columbia, took a man to a hospital for a mental evaulation because he was nude. According to published reports, a man was seen walking down the 900 block of Bay Street Monday in Vancouver Island's largest city, Victoria. Apparently a concerned woman attempted to cover the man's midsection with a towel, but it didn't stay long.Police officers approached the man and asked why he was naked. In reply, the man simply asked the officers why they were wearing clothes. "Point taken," the officers wrote in the Victoria Police blog. The officers then proceeded to take the man to a hospital for a mental health assessment.
Published reports don't say whether the man exhibited any signs of mental illness. But apparently in a society so terrified of the exposed human body, simply being naked is taken as a sign of mental imbalance.
In Nakedism's opinion, it is anti-nudity laws and society's body phobia that should be evaluated, not the simple desire to enjoy a walk without clothing.
(Editor's note: The accompanying photo, found on Flickr, is for illustration purposes only and does not depict the incident described here.)
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