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BRATTLEBORO, Vt. - Topless women on parade? That was fine. Teenagers loitering in the buff, in a downtown parking lot? No problem. Naked sunbathers at swimming holes? It was just au naturel.

But a senior citizen in his birthday suit, walking through the center of town on a Friday night, wearing only a fanny pack? That’s where Brattleboro draws a fig leaf.

After years of allowing public nudity, the town famous for its strip-and-let-strip attitude is considering banning it in parts of town, saying naked notoriety has begun drawing people here and is offending locals.

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I guess this just proves that you can only push things so far before you’ve crossed the line, even though it’s kind of hard to see what line was crossed. I’m kind of mixed on this. I can understand the concern, but at the same time I feel as though they’re drawing imaginary lines and differences in order to reverse a reputation that, until recently, they never cared about. How is a man strolling through downtown in the late evening in the nude any different than nude teenagers hanging out by their car in a parking lot?

Or is the difference just that one instance was eye candy and the other was more of an eyesore?

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