I respect all of you for your own personal reasons and beliefs given, and agree that we all should have the right to have respect and control regarding our own bodies. If you don't like having your kilt lifted, it's well within your rights to not have your wishes violated.

I just have a more liberal feeling about nudity. Body parts are just that, body parts. I'm naked when the weather and conditions warrant it and if the laws allow it, and wearing the kilt is about as close to being naked that I can be in our society. It feels good.

While in a large outdoor group, some people wondered out loud what I wore under my kilt. A good and female friend slid her hand up my backside under my kilt to announce that indeed, I was regimental. She's seen me naked on canude trips before, so it was no big deal to her.

Another time recently, as I was heading out to pay for a meal at a restaurant, the waitress who had been serving me, asked if it was true that people don't wear anything under the kilt. I offered that indeed I didn't, and added the question, "What are you wearing under your pants?" She answered that she had on underwear at that time, but at other times, it did feel good to not wear any. If I had been single, I'm sure the conversation could have been longer and more personal. ;)
...but during the same time as this conversation was going on, another male friend beside me, who had not been drinking, lifted up my apron unexpectedly exposing me. I was a little flustered, as I was not expecting this. My concern wasn't about being naked, but being exposed against my wishes in a public restaurant.

I've been naked on board a cruise ship with about 2500 other naked passengers, so it's not the nakedness of the situation...it's about being in control of my own body.