A lot more people certainly would adopt your philosophy of working out to “look good naked!”

On a philosophical note I think prohibitions against public nudity are a sad vestige of a time when we allowed churches to authoritatively dictate how we should lead our lives. As humans we don’t force any other species to wear clothing, thinking the nudity of our pets “natural” and even mocking people who dress their pets. There is nothing natural about clothing. It is a social construct that our society has adopted largely because of a story about a couple eating an apple and strapping some fig leaves to their junk. I think it hypocritical and hilarious that religious sorts would have me locked up for walking around “as god made me.”

The only legitimate rationale for clothing has a basis in hygiene, after all who wants to sit in a bus seat after some fat guy has been sweating and rubbing his unwashed ass all over things. But this is a justification for a regulation requiring clothing in certain situations. It is not sufficient to justify an all out ban.

And let’s be honest, even if nudity were legal most people would wear clothing most of the year, because it’s cold a lot of the time. Another sizable portion would choose to wear clothing for fashion purposes, even when weather was suitable for nudity.

Who knows, maybe allowing public nudity would encourage people to take more pride in their physical conditions, or help limit body type issues by demonstrating to young people that most people are not perfect as most public images of bodies suggest. At the least it could do no more harm than teaching our children that their bodies are shameful.