supervisor Scott Wiener to propose new legislation requiring naked people to sit on towels when using public facilities, and also to cover their nether regions while eating in restaurants - so that other residents won’t have to come into contact with whatever bodily excretions that might result from sitting down pants-free. You might assume this is illegal, but no - there is no law against public nudity in San Francisco, unless that nudity also involves “lewd thoughts or acts.” (In practice, what that means is that unless you have an erection or are masturbating, it is OK to expose yourself in San Francisco.)īut the ever-escalating recent increase in public nudists spurred S.F.
In recent months it has become increasingly common to see men walking around San Francisco’s Castro District completely naked.