Patrons of a New Orleans gay bar called The Country Club are demanding the club reinstate its recently defunct clothing optional policy, flooding Twitter with the pro-nudity hashtag #Nudenotlewd.

Situated in a sprawling mansion in the city's Bywater neighborhood, The Country Club boasts a "lushly landscaped saltwater pool," several cabana bars, hot tubs, a restaurant, and up until last year, a clothing optional policy that led to a number of sexual assault complaints being taken to management.

Last fall, a woman who claimed she had been drugged and sexually assaulted by several men during her time at the club, and then later sexually assaulted by a man who drove her home and stole her car, was all local bureaucracy needed to force the club to end the decades-long policy.

But the mounting complaints and allegations are "almost irrelevant" to the policy, local patron Dillon Henderson told ABC affiliate WGNO. "We should be able to read, smoke weed, swim and drink naked," he told the channel.

Henderson, who is not a nudist, says he's been to the bar dozens of times since moving to the city four years ago, and has enjoyed the club in his birthday suit on a handful of occasions.

"It's just nudity," he said. "It's just nakedness. Chill out! That's a social construct to think that being naked is dirty."

In an effort to reinstate the club's clothing-optional policy, he started a petition and began encouraging people to support him with the hashtag #Nudenotlewd.

"This is not about sex or hookups," the petition reads in part. "This is about freedom and the disentangling of nudity from sex and hookups." You can check it out in full here.